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List of CDs for the month of October 2019

1/10/2019 Allah Tero Naam. A collection of favourite bhajans of Mahatma Gandhi.

3/10/2019 Chants of India. A collection of shlokas composed by the great Pandit Ravi Shankar. Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 11 December 2012), born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury a "Sitar maestro", was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music.. He also served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India from 1986 to 1992.

4/10/2019 Raas Garba.

5/10/2019 Raas Garba.

7/10/2019 Colours of Rajasthan. Instrumental music.

9/10/2019 Best of Abida. A collection of Sufi songs sung by the famous Abida Parveen.

10/10/2019 Call of the mystic. Sarod by Anupam Shibhakar.

11/10/2019 South Indian Classical Music.

14/10/2019 Carnatic Classical Music on Mandolin. Artist U. Srinivas. Uppalapu Srinivas was a virtuoso Indian mandolin maestro and composer belonging to the classical Carnatic musical tradition. Srinivas was one of the most globally beloved South Indian musicians and is regarded as the Mozart of classical Indian music. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1998 by Government of India and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2009.

15/10/2019 Best of Hariprasad Chaurasia. An internationally acclaimed flautist of India, Padma Vibhushan Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is a very popular and eminent artiste par excellence who is known for his outstanding contribution in popularizing Indian Classical Music all over the world.

16/10/2019 Rumba-Mambo-Cha cha cha.

17/10/2019 Sitar. Artisrt-Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. Padmabhushan Pandit Nikhil Banerjee was an eminent Indian classical sitar player of the Maihar Gharana. A student of the legendary Baba Allauddin Khan, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee was known for his technical virtuosity.

18/10/2019 Romantic instrumental melodies- Panflute

19/10/2019 Shanti Priya. Violin recital by Dr.L. Subrahmanium.

21/10/2

Going in deep on Hindustani music's most famous string instrument. Part 2 looks to the future, introducing some modern sitar stars and examining the rise of fusion (also see Part 1).

—Part of Living Traditions: 21 articles for 21st-century Indian classical music

The sitar is a living instrument, and the musicians who play it traverse a rapidly changing world. Modern artists build on the work of earlier innovators, and the internet enables aspiring sitarists to draw inspiration from all kinds of music. Students rarely live with their gurus under the harsh isolation of the old-style gurukul (master-disciple system) any more, and many are now scattered across the globe.

Consequently, approaches to the instrument are in a permanent state of flux. In Part 1 we examined how the sitar produces its sound, and explored the technical, aesthetic, and spiritual contributions of three towering 20th-century masters - Pandit Ravi Shankar, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, and Ustad Vilayat Khan.

But despite its limitless reverence for the old greats, Hindustani music is fundamentally a forward-looking tradition. Here we turn to the future, covering how today’s notable players continue to innovate and sampling some sitar fusion.

Three 21st-century masters

In most genres, musical technique tends to improve over time. It may expand in different directions, but rarely goes into reverse. Standards are raised as new artists push to be distinctive and find better ways to do what their teachers did.

This is true of any genre - Charlie Parker’s alto sax chops may have astounded late-1940s jazzers, but today’s college learners are expected to be able to run a vast range of his licks on command (and in all keys, mind). But the sitar’s sharp focus on technical virtuosity means that outer limits are always being pushed particularly hard. Here are three 21st-century maestros who have found success in their quests for ever-greater musi

A tribute site for Pandit Nikhil Banerjee (14 October 1931 - 27 January 1986)

I dedicate this page to our friends Swati and Ratan Mukherjee,
who trusted us with their beloved brother/brother-in-law.

Their daughter Sheema, here accompanying her uncle,
has her own web site.

And here is Ratan accompanying his beloved friend/cousin/brother-in-law.

A note, inside a card, that I wrote to Ratan for his 90th birthday (1st January 2020).

A truly remarkable film tribute has been created to Panditji's memory
by Steven Baigel. With Steven's permission I have included his work
- a veritable labour of love - at the foot of this web page.

(In March 2019 - visiting a sister who lives in Mill Valley CA - I had the
great pleasure of meeting up with Steven for several hours...)

A note of Saturday 6th May 2023. Only today have I discovered
Alan Tootill's wonderful tribute site. I am in awe. What he wrote in his
Appreciation and Biography section rings so many bells for me.

Pandit Nikhil Banerjee was the most wonderful musician I ever heard. I first heard him in London on 22nd October 1983 (concert poster), then in London on 24th November 1984 (its concert poster), and finally in Dublin on June 21 1985. In that year Pandit Nikhil Banerjee gave only three concerts in Europe: in London, in Bath, and here - at our invitation - in Dublin, on European Music Day. I haven't reproduced our concert poster, simply because it is too large to scan, and I take this opportunity to correct that it wrongly billed his visit as being his first visit to Ireland; in my ignorance I believed it to be so.

Nikhil Banerjee's first visit to Ireland was in late October 1972, here at the invitation of the then Music Association of Ireland, and a very brief account of that visit was published in the Irish Times on 31 Oct. 1972.

That first visit of Nikhil Banerjee's is alluded to ("... most notably, Nikhil Banerjee in his recit