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“International Virtual Clasical Music Festival ,Dhaka 2021” Dedicates to the great legend of classical music “ PANDIT RAMKANAI DAS”
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Dhrupad - the search of the ultimate.
# Ustad Sayeeduddin Dagar
# Dagar Gharana
# Indian Classical Music
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Indian dhrupad singing Ustad Sayeeduddin Dagar, Nov. 26, 2000 Aspect Art, an art program for Kleurnet Television Amsterdam, 1998-2001,. interviews and edit by David Heine and son, production by Luc Sala.

Dhrupad is the search of the ultimate
search for a true sound,
search the eternal and pure from of sound, the sound of the cosmos.
Dhrupad ,Nada Yoga - the yoga of sound. It is the best way to get yourself by lost you...

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Ustad Nasir Aminuddin Dagar ji 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Ustad Nasir Aminuddin Dagar and Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar - Raga Desh, Kolkata,1980s Vocal and Veena

"Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can't be found on any instrument. That's like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world."
- Nina Simone

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JAKHAN PORBE NA MOR PAYER CHINHA Suchitra Mitra Rabindrasangeet For listening pleasure only. No intention to infringe copyright.

•• Remembering Legendary Dhrupad Vocalist of Hindustani Classical Music Tradition Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar on his 88th Birth Anniversary (15 June 1932) ••

Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar (15 June 1932 – 8 May 2013) was an Indian Classical Vocalist in the Dhrupad, the oldest existing form of the Hindustani Classical Music and part of the Dagar family of musicians. He taught at the Dhrupad Kendra, Bhopal, with his elder brother Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar as a visiting professor up to the time of the Babri Mosque riots when he decided to live at the gurukul of his brother Zia Mohiuddin Dagar at Palaspe near Panvel.
He was awarded the 1994 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Hindustani music-Vocal by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama. Padma Shri- India's fourth highest civilian honor been conferred upon him in year 2012 – but he turned it down, saying the government did not care about his seniority as he was chosen for it after much younger Dhrupad singers were conferred the honour.

• Early life and training : He was born in Udaipur, Rajasthan, where his father, the great Ustad Ziauddin Khansahib, was the court musician of Maharana Bhupal Singh of Udaipur. He was taught dhrupad vocal & veena by his father. After his father’s demise, he continued learning under his elder brother, Late Ustad Z M Dagar, the foremost Rudra veena player of 20th century. Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar represented the 19th generation of the musical tradition of the Dagar family that is believed to have preserved and nurtured Dhrupad for 20 generations.

• Career : Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar has done a lot for popularizing dhrupad music by his numerous concerts and workshops. He has performed widely in India and abroad, and received the Tansen Samman from the Madhya Pradesh government and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. In 2005, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the North American Dhrupad Association.
He has a remarkable command over microtones (swara-bheda) and various gamakas, and is noted for his gradual development of alap through vilambit, madhya and drut laya (slow, medium and fast tempo). He was probably the only person alive to be able to demonstrate all the five geetis mentioned in the Sangita Ratnakara namely, Shuddha, Bhinna, Gaudi, Sadharani (which is dagarwani of today) & Vegasura (which is popular in south India).
He was the most influential dhrupad vocalist in India after the senior Dagar Brothers (Ustads N. Moinuddin & N. Aminuddin Dagar).
By 1980, he had virtually settled down in Austria where he taught at the conservatory of Innsbruck teaching Dhrupad in Austria and France (mainly Paris). Once, during a visit to India, one of his disciples, the filmmaker, Mani Kaul came to him and pleaded with him to provide the background score for a film, The Cloud Door(1994) he was making on Madhya Pradesh. During the making of the film, they spent over two months in Madhya Pradesh, a lot of time in Bhopal. In those days, Shri Arjun Singh was the Chief Minister of M.P. Cultural development was one of his passions. It is because of him that the magnificent Bharat Bhavan cultural center came up in Bhopal. At that time, the Secretary to the Department of Culture in MP was Shri Ashok Vajpayee. Shri Vajpayee offered to start a government- supported Dhrupad Gurukul in Bhopal. Ustad sahib agreed to move back to India and to take charge as the Guru at this Gurukul. He taught dhrupad for 25 years at this Dhrupad Kendra, under the Ustad Allauddin Khan Music Academy, Bhopal, to students like the Gundecha Brothers and Uday Bhawalkar.
He was a distinguished guest faculty at 'Dhrupad Sansar', IIT Bombay for a span of 5 years. Dhrupad Sansar was started under the Cell for Human Values to create an appreciation about Indian Classical Arts & Culture among staff & students of the institution.
He was staying and teaching at the Dhrupad Gurukul near Panvel, which was built by his elder brother Ustad Z. M. Dagar and continued to perform in India and abroad until his brief illness and death on 8 May 2013.

• Students : His students include Ritwik Sanyal, Pushparaj Koshti, the Gundecha Brothers, Uday Bhawalkar, Sombala Satle Kumar, Marianne Svasek, Nirmalya Dey, and his nephew Mohi Baha'ud-din.

On his Birth Anniversary, Hindustani Classical Music And Everything pays rich tributes to the legend and are very grateful for his contributions to the Indian Classical Music. 🙏💐

Pandit Arun Bhaduri is no more now.Pranaam to the lotus feet. Rest in peace! 🙏🙏🙏

With profound grief I have to inform you that the last of the Historical generation of Giants Guru Maa Annapurna Devi left for her heavenly journey at 3.51 a.m yesterday at the BreachCandy Hospital, Mumbai. The daughter of the Legendary Ustad Alauddin Khan Sahab. And the Guru of many including the great Pt. Nikhil Banarjee, Pt. Brijbhushan Kabra, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma, Pt. Nityanand Haldipur . She passed away during an auspicious period, signifying the divine mother taking Her Illustrious child into her fold. Jai Guru !!! Pranaam !!

'Dhrupad' The Music - Takes you to yourself, a very undiscovered realm that was veiled for a long time.Reveals your own personality, state of mind, psychology, sense of beauty and joy.You will just sing what you are......
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Dhrupad Synopsis : Dhrupad is the oldest surviving form of Hindustani Classical music and the Dagars, who have been singing for twenty generations are responsible mo...

Role of Tanpura in Dhrupad
It is said that Shastriya Sangeet is not possible without the presence of the tanpura, the four-stringed drone instrument containing the cardinal notes Sa and Pa. It is ‘nirgun’ or formless, having no melodic structure of its own. Like water, it takes on any colour that is put into it by the accompanying raga which is ‘sagun’, has a specific nature, or attachment. The tanpura enables the singer’s voice to be precisely pitched, thereby creating the desired raga. Tanpura and raga are therefore bound together inextricably, each complementing the other, like water in a pot.

The tanpura follows the principles of natural harmonics, from which raga is created. The basic condition for music is ‘anurannan’, vibration or echo following the utterance or striking of the sound . The singer has to listen intently to the vibration of the tanpura’s string and merge his/her own voice to it until the two become one. In dhrupad, this merging of the voice into the echo of the perfectly pitched tanpura is given utmost importance. Awareness of ‘sur’ is the key to singing. The singer sings, and the tanpura sings along with him/her, like water taking the shape of the pot into which it is poured.

Dhrupad – The Music OF The Immortals

There are few forms of Indian classical music that have the power to evoke devotion among humans and move the Divinity itself.

Dhrupad, the oldest surviving form of Indian classical music, originally sung in temples and spiritual gatherings, is the only form of music which can boast of having the power to move both humans and Gods alike.

Dhrupad’s origin can be traced to the chanting of Vedic hymns and mantras. Over the centuries it found its place primarily as a form of worship, in which offerings were made to the divine through sound or nāda.

Dhrupad can easily be called the voice of the soul, as it is never played or sung to entertain, but to take the listener on a journey of contemplation and experiencing inner peace.

Having been around for ages, and practised as the highest form of music, with time it developed into a classical art with complex and elaborate grammar and aesthetics. The emphasis is always on maintaining the purity of the ragas and the swaras (notes).

It is not surprising then to see that the experience of listening to Dhrupad is often seen as being akin to doing meditation, reciting mantric chants, worshipping, performing yoga or practising ta**ra based on the knowledge of the nādis and chakras. An art, portraying a universe of human emotions, trying to strike a perfect balance.

A vocal Dhrupad performance begins with a meditative Alap in which the artist develops the Raga, note-by-note, with purity and clarity, without any instrumental accompaniment or words. The philosophy behind not using words is that words may distract and thus lessen the chance of floating in a spiritual plane.

According to Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar, one of the greatest exponents of the Dhrupad tradition, “Alap entails the search, to get a perfect pitch of every note. So it takes you into a sort of meditation in which you are lost in the waves of sound and forget everything, there remains only sound.”

This is followed by Dhrupad or Dhamar (The fixed composition part), which is sung with the accompaniment of a two headed barrel drum called Pakhawaj.

About six centuries ago, Dhrupad music came to be patronized by the royal courts and its complex rendering became intended for highly sophisticated royal audiences. Several compositions were written in praise of emperors. Dhrupad music has survived so far, due to the persistence and dedication of the masters who refuse to give up, despite financial hardships and adversity.

Prominent Gharanas or Traditions of the Dhrupad in existence are The Dagar family, Talwandi Gharana, Darbhanga Gharana and the Bettiah Gharana.

This persistence seems to be paying off now, as we see a new generation of Dhrupad artists such as Wasifuddin Dagar, Bahauddin Dagar, Gundecha Brothers, Nancy Lesh, Uday Bhawalkar, Prem Kumar Mallik, and others, taking on the onus of keeping the sanctity and purity of Dhrupad music alive.

The West embraced Dhrupad in the 60s and it gained its place as a popular art form. The credit for introducing the West to this most ancient form of Indian classical music goes to none other than the Dagar brothers.

The growth in its popularity has given a new lease of life to this art form, which many believe was on the brink of extinction. The growing interest has made it financially viable for those who want to spend their life mastering Dhrupad.

If not, it would have been tragic to see music that could impress the mortals and the immortals alike, not lasting forever!