| Told by | Bishoke Kumar Sil |
| Obtained by | Suranjita Paul |
| Date | 29th September 2016 |
| Place | 84A, Ahiritola. Kolkata- 700005 |
| About the speaker | Bishoke Kumar Sil is an eminent Sitar and Rudraveena player of Seni gharana |
| Tags | Mira Sil, Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury, Sitar, Rudraveena, Seni gharana, Dhrupad Anga, Melody, Dagarbani, Gauharbani, Meend, Khandar bani, Raga, Panchhanan Roy Chowdhury, 1968, 1974, 2005- 2010. |
| Language | Bengali |
Bishoke Kumar Sil speaks:
Verbatim:
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Verbatim by: Dr. Suranjita Paul
Translation:
My first guru was my elder sister Mira Sil. Our home had a heritage of music. My elder sisters were all very talented. My eldest sister was a good singer while middle sister was a disciple of Chhabi Bandyaopadhyay. She sang many devotional songs and Kirtans. My elder brother Dr.Arun Sil was the mastermind behind these learning processes. He once decided to send my sister to learn from Birendra Kishore Roy Chaudhury. I remember the incident clearly. My sister asked my brother whether he knew the legendary musician and my brother took out the telephone directory and called the maestro and fixed the time for her to learn from him.
It was in 1968 that my sister was married and went to live in London. Then I started to learn from Birendra Kishore and continued till his death. He passed away in 1974 or 75, I think. Then I got transferred to North Bengal and discontinued learning. I used to learn sitar from him also, as learning Sitar would help mastering the skill of playing Veena with ease. Birendra Kishore used to follow Dhrupad style of Seni Gharana. He taught me Sitar and Veena both.
I was quite young then, must be 20 years of age, so I didn’t understand a lot of his teaching, I think. He used to sing the things. Gauharbani, Dagarbani and Khandarbani were the fundamentals of my learning. Gauharbani had long Meends and then comes Dagarbani, he used to teach me between Dagarbani and Khandarbani which was typical of Seni Gharana. At first, he taught me small ragas and I passed Prabhakar from there. He used to sing the ragas and had to copy it down then I had to render it through the instrument. I cannot express the teaching learning process more explicitly than that.
I had to go away due to my job, as I told you earlier. When I returned I started learning from Panchanan Roychaudhry. He was a disciple of Birendrababu for sixteen years. The year was 2005, I think. I learnt from him for a period of five years until his death. Before that I used to practise the learnt ragas and my own compositions.
Translated by: Arundhati Banerjee
Picture Courtesy: Google
http://oriental-traditional-music.blogspot.com/2016/11/more-sursringar-birendra-kishore-roy.html
http://www.rudraveena.org/NaeemBamboo.html
Edited & Designed: Dr. Suranjita Paul
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