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| Name | Vasant Rai: Sarod Virtuoso: Raga Darbari & Zila Kafi: Tabla: Ananda Gopal Bandopadhyay |
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| Video Discription | Vasant Rai (1942–1985) was one of world's most acclaimed performers of Indian music and virtuoso of the Indian-Persian-Afghan instrument Sarod.Rai was the last student of Baba Allauddin Khan, who is best known as the guru of Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan. Until his death at the young age of 43 in 1985, Vasant Rai was one of the world's most acclaimed masters of Indian music. Born in Unjha, in the province of North Gujarat, India, in 1942, he began musical education at age seven. He studied vocal music with his father, Govindji Brahmbhatt, and instrumental music with his elder brother, Kantilal. Vasant became proficient on sitar, violin, and flute, and appeared in his first concert at age 11. In 1958, after 13 years of musical experience, Vasant became the disciple of the incomparable guru Ustad Allauddin Khan, and was the last student to receive the Indian maestro's complete musical training. He emerged a virtuoso on the sarod. The sarod is a 25-string fretless lute. Developed during the Mughal period of India's history, the modern sarod has a body of seasoned teakwood, a goat skin belly, a highly polished metal fingerboard, and is plucked with a plectrum made from horn or coconut. Like its relative the sitar, the sarod's first four strings carry the melody. In addition to three chikari strings, which have drone and rhythmic accompaniment functions, there are three other support strings that serve a similar purpose. Fifteen additional strings, the taraf, act as sympathetic resonators. Like the sitar, the sarod is a delicate, highly sophisticated instrument that is extremely difficult to master. Vasant studied and practiced under the strict guidance of Ustad Allauddin Khan, residing in his house, for eight years. He taught at the renowned master's famed Music College in Maihar. Between 1964 and 1970, Vasant was given several important awards for musical excellence. In 1972, Vasant became a visiting professor of music at Columbia University in New York City. He subsequently founded the Alam School of Indian Classical Music in New York, where he taught sarod, sitar, flute, violin, guitar, and voice. He lived in the Chelsea district of New York City infuencing many Western musicians, while carrying on the pure classical tradition of his guru. His son Satyam is an accomplished sarod player, and his daughter Sangita a Kathak dancer. Vasant Rai had been coming to the United States since his teen years but finally settled in New York City in 1969 and lived mainly in the Greenwich Village area and also for a short time at the Chelsea Hotel when he was not touring. From 1969 to 1985 he conducted the Alam School of Music in Greenwich Village. Alla Rakha, Mahapurush Misra, Shanta Prasad, and Zakir Hussain usually accompanied him on the tabla. Darbari Kanada, or simply Raga Darbari, (pronounced darbāri kānada), is a raga in the Kanada family, which is thought to have originated in Carnatic music and brought into North Indian music by Miyan Tansen, the legendary 16th-century composer in emperor Akbar's court. This tradition is reflected in the name itself; Darbar is the Persian derived word in Hindimeaning "court." As the most familiar raga in the Kanada family, it may sometimes also be called Shuddha Kanada or pure Kanada. It belongs to the Asavari thaat. Darbari is a grave raga, played deep into the night, considered to be one of the more difficult to master, and with the potential for profound emotional impact. The ascension of aroha is in the lower and middle octaves. In the avroha the note Ga (gandhar) komal is used in a weak manner and a slow vibrato (andolan) on this note. The association of the notes Ni and Pa sounds pleasing. Its Vadi swar is Re and Samavadi is Pa. aroha: S R (R)g, (R)g M P d n S' avroha: S' d n P M P (M)g, (M)g M (S)R, S For reference, the set of notes in the Asavari thaat is S R g M P d n, and for Darbari, the role of the komal gandhar is crucial, as is dwelling on the lower komal dhaivat for some time. Darbari Kanada Alap Zila Kafi gats in teentaal The alap is Allauddin Khan's greatest teaching, for it is deep, slow, and well-developed in the more passionate, more serious ragas, such as Darbari Kanada here, a raga of late evening associated with the 16th-century Akbar royal court. The performance changes pace, mood, and mode by continuing in raga Zilla Kafi with 16-beat tintal, played by Ananda Gopal Bandopadhyay on tabla. The kafi group of scales is light-hearted, self-assured, and peaceful. The sound has been improved here. Film Songs on Darbari: Hum tujh se mohabbat kar ke sanam by Mukesh from Awara (1952), music Shankar Jaikishan Ae dil mujhe aisi jagah le chal by Talat Mahmood from Arzoo (1950), music Anil Biswas Tu pyar ka sagar hai by Manna Dey from Seema (1955), music Shankar Jaikishan Vasant Rai perform with Ustad Alla Rakha Raga Mishra Shivranini and a dhun in Raga Jaijavanti at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTiP31hozNY x328PYK4iZs |
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| Tags | Shuddha | Vishuddhatma | Aptasutra | Vasant Rai | Sarod | Sarod Virtuose | Baba Allauddin Khan | Raga Darbari | Raga Darbari kannada | Raga Zila Kafi | Anand Gopal Bandopadhyay | 1981 Greenwich Village | Washington Square Church Concert |
