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: 18:30 onwards. |
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: December 17, 2008 |
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: December 17, 2008 |
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: NCPA-Experimental Theatre |
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: Mumbai, Maharashtra [India] |
| Nad Ninad : from our archives - Guided listening session on Abdul Karim Khan. This is a programme that makes available to lovers of Hindustani classical music some fine recordings from the NCPAs archives. This month, its the music of the late vocalist and Sangeet Ratna Khansaheb Abdul Karim Khan of the Kirana gharana. Mashkoor Ali Khan will give a demonstration of his style which will be followed by a panel discussion. Born in 1873 in the north Indian village of Kairana, Khansaheb spent most of his life in Maharashtra, establishing music schools in Belgaum, Miraj, Pune and Mumbai, raising funds for their upkeep through the organising of ticketed shows, which was a pioneering initiative for the time. His music, according to critics, was sweet and soothing, avoiding dramatic contrasts, thereby having little affinity to the formal simplicity of the Gwalior gharana, or the Agra gharana made popular by his contemporary Faiyaz Khan. Among the departures Khansaheb made from convention were his unorthodox thumris, that acquired pensiveness where eroticism is customary, and his adaptation of Carnatic ragas to the Hindustani style, a fusion that would have been hard to achieve but for his genius. In collaboration with the Indian Musicological Society. |
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Nad Ninad : From Our Archives - Music Session