It was around 1975, Banga Sanskriti Sammelan was held in Kolkata maidan. My family had a great relation with Vismadeb Chattopadhyay and we went to listen to his performance, I was quite young then. On the first day of performance he started to sing and then stopped. He said, he was not in a mood to perform. He set aside his harmonium and left the stage. It was a different time the whole audience was silent. Nobody raised a voice, I can remember only some people sighed with the words that it’s a pity we couldn’t hear him. The organisers were very repentant and they promised a performance in near future in that particular conference. At the last day of the conference, we heard that Vismadeb babu’s performance was on the list. It was a whole night programme and Vismadeb Chattopadhyay was the last performer. We listened the programme whole night and Nikhil Banerjee had performed raga Sudhbasantm prior to Vishmadev.
I heard this from my father, he was inside the greenroom
Pt. Nikhil Banerjee
Vismadev Chattopadhyay listened to Nikhil Banerjee’s recital, staring blankly at the sky, he asked once, ‘it’s Nikhil, isn’t it’. But then again, he was silent. After that he took stage and sang something for a while. I don’t remember the exact raga, but he again stopped suddenly and said, ‘I am not in a mood to sing even today’. Everyone anticipated the repetition of the last days show. But to everyone’s surprise he pulled the harmonium close to his lap as he often did and started to play. I didn’t remember the raga he played but it was mesmerising. It was an out worldly experience. I still remember the beauty of his recital flowing through the audience. And it was the last of the programme because nothing could surpass it.
The well-known sitar player Sanjay Guha is now serving as a faculty member at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. He learnt music from a number of highly reputed musicians including Pt. Radhika Mohan Moitra, Pt. Deepak Chaudhury and Vidwan M. Balamurali Krishna.
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Instrument tuning, Vilayat Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Ravi Shankar, Amjad Ali Khan, Nikhil Banerjee, Green Room, Tanpura, Sitar, Ragini Concert, Abdul Halim Zafar Khan, Sadarang, Naskar & Company, Playing style, Sarod
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Bengali
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The well-known sitar player Sanjay Guha is now serving as a faculty member at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. He learnt music from a number of highly reputed musicians including Pt. Radhika Mohan Moitra, Pt. Deepak Chaudhury and Vidwan M. Balamurali Krishna.
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1980, Kushal Das, Tanmoy Bose, Kala Sangam, Vilayat Khan, Kala Mandir, Sujat Khan, Tejendra Narayan Majumder, Arup Chattopadhyay, Bobby Shetty,
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Bengali
Sanjay Guha speaks :
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The well-known sitar player Sanjay Guha is now serving as a faculty member at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. He learnt music from a number of highly reputed musicians including Pt. Radhika Mohan Moitra, Pt. Deepak Chaudhury and Vidwan M. Balamurali Krishna.
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Dover Lane Music Conference, 1980, 1981, Jasraj, Anindo Chatterjee, Mahapurush Mishra, Jamshedpur, Swapan Chowdhury, Shyamal Bose
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Bengali
Sanjay Guha speaks :
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The well-known sitar player Sanjay Guha is now serving as a faculty member at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. He learnt music from a number of highly reputed musicians including Pt. Radhika Mohan Moitra, Pt. Deepak Chaudhury and Vidwan M. Balamurali Krishna.
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Dixon Lane, Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Recording, Tabla, 1950, Masit Khan, Ajim Khan, Ahmad Jaan Thirkwa
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Bengali
Sanjay Guha speaks :
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The well-known sitar player Sanjay Guha is now serving as a faculty member at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. He learnt music from a number of highly reputed musicians including Pt. Radhika Mohan Moitra, Pt. Deepak Chaudhury and Vidwan M. Balamurali Krishna.
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Shyamal Bose, 70, Dover Lane Music Conference, Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Abhogi Kanada
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Bengali
Sanjay Guha speaks :
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The well-known sitar player Sanjay Guha is now serving as a faculty member at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. He learnt music from a number of highly reputed musicians including Pt. Radhika Mohan Moitra, Pt. Deepak Chaudhury and Vidwan M. Balamurali Krishna.
The well-known sitar player Sanjoy Guha is now serving as a faculty member at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. He learnt music from a number of highly reputed musicians including Pt. Radhika Mohan Moitra, Pt. Deepak Chaudhury and Vidwan M. Balamurali Krishna.
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1940, Uma Shankarji, Jasrajji, Kashim Bazar Rajbari, Balaram Pathak, Bhavanipur, Abhiram Mishra
In 1940s, Balaram Pathakji used to come to our Bhawanipore residence , where we used to stay then. He had taken up residence at Cossimbazar Rajbari, having come from Gaya recently. He used to come to our place at around 10 pm at night. Umashankarji was here too, as well as his brother Abhinav Mishraji, Jasrajji too. There was a big room in our house, which is a shop now. One day each week these stalwarts – Balaramji, Umashankarji, Jasrajji, my uncle and a few others – made music till 1:00 or 1;30 in the morning. This was something important to happen at my home, only regret is I wasn’t born then.
