Category Archives: Music

North, Teaching-Learning, 1948-1960

Briefly on Teaching Style of Jamini Ganguly

Told by Jharna Bandyapadhyay
Obtained by Surojato  Roy
Date 15th January 2016
Place Bhawanipore, South Kolkata
About  the speaker Smt. Jharna Bandyapadhyay is a daughter of famous  vocalist and pedagogue  Pandit Jamini Nath Ganguly.
Tags Girija Shankar Chakraborty, Dabir Khan, Dhrupad, Dhamar, Bhajan,  Bangla Ragpradhan, Satya Gopal  Dev, Pannalal  Bhattacharya, Dhananjay  Bhattacharya, Bhobesh da, Shivpur, Uttarpara Music Competition, Notation, Recording, Bandish, Sthayi, Loreto,  Performer, Guru, teacher, Nikhil Bandyopadhyay, Jamini Nath Ganguly
Language Bengali

 Smt. Jharna  Bandyapadhyay  speaks

Verbatim:

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Verbatim by: Dr. Suranjita Paul

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Performance, 1921-1947, Central

Madhyam-Shadaj Confusion—An incident at All India Radio Studio

Told by Vidushi  Jharna Bandyapadhyay
Obtained by Surojato  Roy
Date 15th January 2016
Place Bhawanipore, South Kolkata
About  the speaker Vidushi Jharna Bandyapadhyay is a daughter of famous  vocalist and pedagogue  Pandit Jamini Nath Ganguly.
Tags  1940-41, All India Radio, Sailendra Nath Chattopadhyay, broadcast, Madhyam, Sadja, Girija  Shankar  Chakraborty,  Malkaunsh, Jamini Nath Ganguly
Language Bengali

 Vidushi  Jharna  Bandyapadhyay  speaks :

 

Verbatim:

?????? ?? ??? ??? ????? ??? ????? ????-??? ?????? ?? ????? ???? ????? ?????? ?????? ????? ??? ???? ??????? ??? ??? ??????? ??? ????? ???? ??? ????? ???????? ?????? ???? ????? ???? ??? ???????? ?? ????? ???????? ??? ?? ?? ??? ???? ?????? ???? ???? ???? ??? ??????? ???? ????? ??? ?? ???????? ????? ?????, ??? ?????, ????? ?? ????? ?? ?????? ?? ?? ?????? ???? ???? ?????? ??? ?? ???? ?? ?????? ?? ?????? ??? ?? ‘??? ??? ???’ ??? ?????? ????? ????? ???, ??????-?? ??? ??????? ??, ?????? ????? ????? ????? ??? ?? ????? ??? ?? ??? ????????? ???? ?????????

               Pt. Jamini Nath Ganguly

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 Verbatim by: Dr. Suranjita Paul 

Translation:

This was in 1940-41. By that time Baba (Pandit Jamini nath Ganguly) had made quite a name for himself as a vocalist and pedagogue in musical circles. He performed at many places and on the radio too. Let me tell you an amusing incident relating to radio.  At that time sometimes it so happened that someone had known or heard a man ( or a woman, rarely ) sing well and made him sit in front of the microphone and sing. No recording, a direct broadcast.

Shailendra nath Chattopadhyay, a Gurubhai of my father, was to sing on the radio. Father and Girijababu (Pt.Girija Shankar Chakraborty ) were present too. Two minutes before the programme went on air, Shailenbabu was seated before the mike. He was singing Malkauns. Father remembered that for some unknown reason, he had confused the “Ma” with the ‘Sa’.

         Pt. Girija Shankar Chakraborty

He took the madhyam as the Shadaj and began singing Malkauns. Girijababu was standing beside him, father some distance away. Girijababu was pretty much annoyed at this – “How can he go to the higher notes, to the ‘Tara’?” He noticed that Shailenbabu was singing everything between the Mandra Saptak and Madhya Saptak. He had difficulty in reaching the Tar Saptak, naturally. So Girijababu told Baba gently – “Go and fix the problem.” Baba reminisced, “I ran to him, moved him away holding him by his shoulder and put my mouth before the microphone and continued the song by taking the Shadaj at the right scale.”

Incidents like these seem unimaginable and fantastic to us now.

Translated by: Arundhati Banerjee

 Picture Courtesy: Google

https://www.anandabazar.com/topic/girija-shankar-chakraborty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-RxXQizAw

Edited & Designed: Dr. Suranjita Paul

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North, Teaching-Learning, 1921-1947

EARLY MUSICAL LIFE OF JAMINI GANGULY

Told by Vidushi Jharna Bandyapadhyay
Obtained by Surojato Roy
Date 15th January 2016
Place Bhawanipore, South Kolkata
About  the speaker Vidushi Jharna Bandyapadhyay is a daughter of famous  vocalist and pedagogue  Pandit Jamini Nath Ganguly.
Tags Kishoregunge, 13th July 1907, Jamini Ganguly, Bhupendra Bhushan Ganguly, Girija Shankar Chakraborty, Baharampur, Sitar, Tabla, South Kolkata, Harrison Road,  Stock Exchange,   1927, 1928, Taalim, Shamlal Kshetri, Inayat  Hussain Khan, Dhrupad, Badal Khan,  Thumri,  Majuddin Khan, Girija Shankar gharana, Sukhendu Goswami, Nutu Goswami, A.T. Kanan, Sailen Chatterjee
Language Bengali

Vidushi  Jharna  Bandyapadhyay  speaks :

 

 

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Teaching-Learning, South, 1975-2000

Sangeet Research Academy My Turning Point—Vidushi Subhra Guha

Told by Vidushi Subhra Guha
Obtained by Suranjita Paul
Date 5th December 2016
Place Aasha Co-Operative Housing Society Ltd .93, Deshapran Sashmal Road
Flat-III / D-10.  Kolkata -700033
About the speaker Vidushi Subhra Guha is a leading female vocalist of Agra gharana. She was a scholar of ITC Sangeet Research Academy in Kolkata and later she was nominated as a Guru in the Sangeet Research Academy.
Tags 1981, Sangeet Research Academy, Riyaz, Guru, Sishya, Agra gharana, Atta Hussain Khan, Faiyaz Khan, Sunil Bose, 1978, Music Scholar, 1975 – 79, Taalim, Nisar Hussain Khan, Nivrutibua Sarnaik, Latafat Khan, Hirabai Barodekar, Yunus Hussain Khan, Girija Devi, A.T Kanan, Malabika Kanan, 1993, K.G Ginde, Vijay Kichlu
Language Bengali

Vidushi Subhra Guha speaks:

Verbatim:

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Verbatim by: Dr. Suranjita Paul

 

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Performance, North, 1921-1947, #Press Reports

Amrita Bazar Patrika | 25 december, 1940 | Page 7

Amrita Bazar Patrika | 25 december, 1940 | Page 7

Amrita Bazar Patrika | 25 december, 1940 | Page 7                                

Coming Calcutta Attraction

Music Festival

All Bengal Music Confce

At First Empire

The seventh session of the All-Bengal Music Conference sits on board the First Empire on and from Sunday the 29th December next and lasts till Wednesday the 1st January – 1941. There will be in all eight sittings.

The following famous artists will demonstrate classical music and dance at the Conference: –

  1. Khan Saheb Mustaque Hossain Khan of Rampur State, the famous Kheyaliya who belongs to the Gharowana (School) of Enayet Hossain of Rampur.
  2. Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, Sangit-Martanda of the School of Late Pandit Vishnu Digambar, (Kheyal and Bhajan).
  3. Khan Saheb Golam Ali Khan, famous Kheyaliya and son of Ali Bux of Lahore.
  4. Srimati Hirabai Barodekar, a disciple of the late Khan Saheb Abdul Karim Khan of Bombay, (Khayal and Thumri).
  5. Srimati Saraswati Bai of Bombay (Kheyal).
  6. Khan Saheb Ziauddin, son of Taksuddin Khan brother of Late Ustad Alabande Khan (Dhrupad and Alap).
  7. Khan Saheb Bhai Lal Muhammad Rababi, a disciple of famous Hindu musician Bhaskar Rao.
  8. Magan Lal, a disciple of Lachmi Narayan, of Panchgachia, Bhagalpur.
  9. Vilayatoo’s Sahnai Party of Benares.
  10. Anokhelal of Benares (Tabla).
  11. Miss Menaka Bai of Bombay, (Dance).
  12. Master Madan, 14 – year – old musician of Delhi Radio.
  13. Sundaram Aiyar, renowened violinist of Madras.
  14. Hiralal, famous dancer of Jaipur.
  15. Khan Saheb Samsuddin of Bombay, (Tabla).

Some of the famous Calcutta musicians will also demonstrate.

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Source:

“Amrita Bazar Patrika [Daily]. Vol: 72; Issue:355 (25 December 1940).” Accessed December 16, 2016. http://eap.bl.uk/database/large_image.a4d?digrec=4266590;catid=226947;r=26962.

 

Identified by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee, Research Fellow

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Teaching-Learning, South, Listening, Music Allied, 1975-2000

Remembering Pt. K.G. Ginde—the extraordinary devotion and his final departure

Told by Vidushi Subhra Guha
Obtained by Suranjita Paul
Date 5th December 2016
Place Aasha Co-Operative Housing Society Ltd .93, Deshapran Sashmal Road
Flat-III / D-10.  Kolkata -700033
About the speaker Vidushi Subhra Guha is a leading female vocalist of Agra gharana. She was a scholar of ITC Sangeet Research Academy in Kolkata and later she was nominated as a Guru in the Sangeet Research Academy.
Tags Guru-Sishya parampara, K. G Ginde, Srikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar, Bandish, Bhatkhande Music college, Faiyaz khan, Lucknow, Raag Viyog-Barari, Sunil Basu, Sangeet Research Academy, Raga Chayanat, 1994
Language Bengali

Vidushi Subhra Guha speaks:

Hand-written Notation of Pt. K.G. Ginde. [Courtesy Subhra Guha]

Verbatim:

I believe in ‘guru-sishyaparampara’. Pt.K.G.Ginde was the disciple of Sri krishna Narayan Ratanjankar, S.N.Ratanjankar. He was an ocean of learning, how can I describe him, he could see the bandishes differently. When I sing a bandish I can feel it clearly. Gindeji started his learning at the age of ten, his father had left him with Ratanjankarji and told him to raise him up as he sees fit. So, he passed class ten from Lucknow and for twenty-eight years he lived with Ratanjankarji, never leaving his side. I saw Gindeji very closely; he had few demands in life, bare minimum things without luxury. He had a simple cot to sleep on, a wooden table-chair for his studies, no fancy things. He had a very poor income as the principal of Vatkhande college, I think now it would be a large sum compared to then. Anyway, I want to depict two incidents here to remember him.

Pt. S.N. Ratanjhankar

Gindeji knew every bandishes of Ratanjankarji and he wanted to publish it. It would be a great help for everyone, but when he asked the publishers they demanded a large sum which he didn’t have, so he started to write them down. I want to show you the book; it was unbelievable that it was handwritten. He used a simple scale and pencil to write down the bandishes. He spent days in a table with a pen, pencil and rubber and produced six of this.  We can imagine how much reverence and dedication to his guruji can made him do this. You have to see it to believe the different swar were written using scales and eraser. His entire being was dedicated to this job, to immortalize the work of his guruji. Sunil Basu also learnt from Ratanjankarji and whenever they met they used to discuss their guruji. Every time my guru Gindeji came over to my place they used to remember his guruji and Ustad Faiyaz Khan and they would cry with all the emotions. We were quite novice then and my fellow disciples would laugh behind his back and asked me whether I got bored with the same topic every day. I too, was quite young then but now I can understand that the love behind this.  They didn’t discuss the same incident every day, but the same topics would come up after some time. The gandhar his guruji sang in some programme, or some other songs and they used to cry over these. I was so overwhelmed to see them crying that I joined, I never heard any of the discussed persons and I never knew them personally but still emotions were high and I flowed through it. I now understand that to achieve proper leaning from a perfect guru is a boon and the devotion would come automatically.

After twenty-eight years Ratanjankarji asked Gindeji to live on his own, to start a life and career. The day he left his guru’s house in Lucknow he went to return all bank passbooks and other documents of Ratanjankarji which he always kept and maintained. Ratanjankarji was furious, you want me to keep a tab on you? And he tore them up, he was so upset himself. He then gave Gindeji a new composition, a new raga named Viyog  Barari. He never sang this raga, he would get so emotional. I heard from Sunil uncle that Ratanjankarji was a very strict man. He was almost devoid of emotions. It’s rare to see him smile and they never seen him crying. But that day as Gindeji was leaving he was singing this raga and crying. All the people present there were crying helplessly. This is the ideal relation between guru-shishya which I am talking about.

The story I was talking about, the hand-in written notations of the bandishes of Ratanjankarji. Gindeji wrote them himself with such meticulous perfection and then he came here in Sangeet Research Academy and presented the six volumes to them.

Hand-written Notation of Pt. K.G. Ginde.

He then said that I would be ever indebted to my guruji. If I reborn ten times and he wear his chappals made by my skin, I would still be indebted to him. But I have tried to give back a little bit and this is my humble offering. These six parts of the compilation of his bandishes are all here and I am quite content to leave this world. I think my job is done here.

Pt. K.G.Ginde

Within seven days, he had a little anomaly in his heart. Then suddenly within a month of his submission of his life’s work he passed away suddenly. He was eating and humming raga chhayanat, suddenly the spoon slipped and he fell too. No chance for a doctor to do anything. I think a proper sadhak (monk) could only achieve such level.

 

Translated by:  Arundhati Banerjee

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North, Teaching-Learning, 1961-1974

Ustad Vishmadev Chattopadhyay teaching his son, Talim started with Bageshri Bahar—Tradition Continues

Told by Sri Jayanta Chattopadhyay
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 6th December, 2016
Place S.A.P. Lab, Instrumental Department, Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker Renowned Vocalist and Musicologist, Son of Legendary Musician Ustad Vishmadev Chattopadhyay.
Tags Vishmadev Chattopadhyay, Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Haren Guha, Talim, Diptikana Chattopadhya, Harmonium, Bageshri Bahar, Jhaptal, Desi Todi, Swara, Dulal Chakroborty, Lily Chakroborty, Ganda, Tabla, Ektal,Bol, Bandish, Vilambit, Boltaan, Drut, 1968, 30  Sarkar Lane
Language Bengali

Sri Jayanta Chattopadhyay speaks :

 

 

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North, 1921-1947, Teaching-Learning, Music Allied

Music Teaching is important, not the fees—Ustad Vishmadev Chattopadhyay

Told by Sri Jayanta Chattopadhyay
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 6th December, 2016
Place S.A.P. Lab, Instrumental Department, Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker Renowned Vocalist and Musicologist, Son of Legendary Musician Ustad Vishmadev Chattopadhyay.
Tags Vishmadev Chattopadhyay, Bimal Chattopadhyay, Bimal Majumdar, 1935, 1936, Bhupali, Swara, Gurudakshina, Prabhabati Devi, Megaphone
Language Bengali

Sri Jayanta Chattopadhyay speaks :

 

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1921-1947, Teaching-Learning, Central

The ‘Ni’ of Shankara—Vishmadev teaching during a long walk at gaRer mAth

Told by Sri Jayanta Chattopadhyay
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 6th December, 2016
Place S.A.P. Lab, Instrumental Department, Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker Renowned Vocalist and Musicologist, Son of Legendary Musician Ustad Vishmadev Chattopadhyay.
Tags Vishmadev Chattopadhyay, Robin Chattopadhyah, Bimal Chattopadhyay, Shankara, Talim, Ni, Behug, A.I.R, Rashbehari  Avenue, S.D.Burman, Garer Math, Gader, gaRer mAth, Kolkata Maidan, Guru, Talim, 1935, 1936
Language Bengali

Sri Jayanta Chattopadhyay speaks :

 

 

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North, Teaching-Learning, 1921-1947

Lessons during Kite Flying—Khalifa Badal Khan teaching boy Vishmadev

Told by Sri Jayanta Chattopadhyay
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 6th December, 2016
Place S.A.P. Lab, Instrumental Department, Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker Renowned Vocalist and Musicologist, Son of Legendary Musician Ustad Vishmadev Chattopadhyay.
Tags Vishmadev Chattopadhyay, Badal Khan, 1924, kite flying, lessons, Moizuddin Khan, Amiya Nath Sanyal, Don-Baithak, exercise
Language Bengali, Hindi

Sri Jayanta Chattopadhyay speaks :

Verbatim:

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Ustad Badal Khan

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Verbatim by: Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee

Translation:

All artists are known to be a bit moody. Musicians are no exception, as they are always within their Sadhana. Since they cannot see the music and have to attain it through the feeling, they are called Sangeet Sadhaks. So they are moody by nature. Badal Khan was moody and short-tempered too. And all the more was Vishmadeb.

One day, in 1924-25, Badal Khan saheb had come to teach and learned that his disciple was up on the roof, flying a kite. He said, “Don’t call him, I’ll go there myself.” He knew his student’s mood. He went up gently and found Vishmadev’s eyes on the kite in the sky. He took the kite’s spool from his hand .Viishmadev, finding his guru there, was taken a back, but Badal Kahan saheb told him, you go on flying the kite. He kept the kite’s spool  in his hands, and started to hum a lesson from there, and his student, with his kite in the sky, was learning , singing along. These ways of imparting lessons were there in those days, but now we have become too much methodical.

Ustad Vishmadev Chattopadhyay

When Baba was a bit older, he used to indulge in physical exercises a lot. One day Badal Khan saheb had arrived when he was doing his exercises. My father could do 500 push-ups at one stretch; something many people could do in multiple sets. So Badal Khan saheb found him doing one push-up after another. When he finished, he found his Guru standing behind him. He said, “beta, if you continue exercising like this, you  would ruin your voice”, but praised him too by saying that he had not seen anybody do it like this. We have heard that Moizuddin Khan Saheb did push-ups and squats before he performed at a programme, which finds mention in Amiya Nath Sanyal’s writings. So it was with Vishmadev.

 

Translated by: Arundhati Banerjee

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