Photos from night 11 – Ustad Sayeeduddin Dagar
Tags: 2010, Culture, Dagar, Drupad, Music, Sadhguru, vocalist, Yaksha
Night 11: Ustad Sayeeduddin Dagar
Ustad Sayeeduddin Dagar hails from a family whose name is synonymous with the art of Dhrupad singing. He belongs to the unbroken lineage of the illustrious Dagar family of Dhrupad music propagated by Baba Gopal Das Pande (Behram Khan) of Jaipur.
Dhrupad is the oldest surviving form of Classical music in India and traces its origins to the chanting of Vedic hymns and mantras. Though a highly developed classical art with a complex and elaborate grammar and aesthetics, it is also primarily a form of worship, in which offerings are made to the divine through sound or nada.
Sayeeddin Dagar has been gracing this platform for more than 25 years. He has kept this tradition alive and represents the 19th generation along with brothers, the late Padmabhushan Ustad Aminuddin Khan Dagar, Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Khan Dagar, the late Ustad N. Zahiruddin Khan Dagar and late N. Faiyazuddin Khan Dagar. His father, the late Ustad Hussainuddin Khan Dagar (alias Tansen Pandey of Kolkata) was his first guru, from whom he started learning at the age of six. After the death of his father in 1963, in Kolkata, he learnt extensively from the late Padmabhushan Ustad Rahimuddin Khan Dagar.
Tags: 2010, Culture, dhrupad, Isha, Music, Sadhguru, ustad sayeeduddin dagar, vocalist, Yaksha
Photos from Night 8: Smt. Sudha Raghunathan
Sudha Raghunathan is one of India’s leading classical musicians. This accomplished Carnatic vocalist started her formal training at the age of nine under her mother, Smt. Choodamani’s guidance. Later, she also learnt the nuances of Carnatic music from Sri. T. V Viswanathan and Sri. B.V. Lakshman. However, the turning point came when she won an Indian government scholarship for advanced training in music and got the opportunity to train with the illustrious Padmabhushan, Sangeetha Kalanidhi, Dr. M.L Vasantha Kumari in 1977.
Sudha Raghunathan has performed concerts all over the world at the invitation of prestigious institutions. She has earned the respect of other reputed musicians from both the Carnatic as well as Hindustani music genres.
Tags: 2010, carnatic, Culture, Isha, Music, performers, Sadhguru, sudha raghunathan, vocalist, Yaksha
Photos from Night 4, Pt Rajshekhar Mansur
Tags: 2010, Culture, gharana, hindustani, Isha, Music, Pt RajShekhar Mansur, Sadhguru, vocalist, Yaksha
Night 4: Pt. RajShekhar Mansur
Pt. Rajashekhar Mansur (born in 1942) is a Hindustani Classical vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana. He is the son and disciple of the legendary Hindustani vocalist Pt. Mallikarjun Mansur.
Having taught literature and linguistics for nearly 35 years and retired as a professor and chairman of the English Department, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Pt. Rajashekhar continued to pursue music, giving vocal support to his illustrious father and also performing independently.
Panditji has not only been a custodian of the rich treasure bequeathed by his father, but has also richly contributed to the gharana by his inimitable style. His music is multidimensional where laya, sur and rasa are soulfully intervoven. He has taken upon himself the onerous task of giving currency to aprachalit ragas like Meghavali, Lachcha – Sakh, Godhan Gouri, Bilawal Prakars, Nat Prakars, Malhars and many more. He handles the Jod and Sankirna ragas with great ease, treating them as ragas with distinct identities.
Tags: 2010, Culture, gharana, hindustani, Isha, Music, Pt RajShekhar Mansur, Sadhguru, vocalist, Yaksha
