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Pandit Falguni Mitra / Lec-Dem on Dhrupad Gayaki
LearnQuest Academy of Music
Presents
A Lecture-Demonstration
On
Dhrupad Gayaki: One of India’s Oldest Classical Vocal Traditions
by
Pandit Falguni Mitra
Of Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata
with
Shri Tapash Dash on the Pakhawaj
Pt. Falguni Mitra
A talented young Dhrupad singer during the nineteen fifties, Pandit Falguni Mitra matured, by the seventies, to a master Dhrupad exponent known to all Indian classical music connoisseurs of India, North and South. A top class broadcaster on All India Radio, participating in National Programs, Radio Sangeet Sammelans and Special Programs, he frequently telecasts from various Television centers. For decades together, he has been an invitee to major music conferences all over India. Pandit Falguni Mitra’s return to North India in 1999, after nearly seventeen years of virtual absence, has been a significant event for Dhrupad music. At the invitation of the highly reputed ITC Sangeet Research Academy (SRA ) he returned to Kolkata as the Dhrupad Guru and the Prefect (administrating all music teaching activities) of the SRA. Since then, SRA made Dhrupad a compulsory subject for its students. On his return to Kolkata, Pandit Mitra has been acclaimed and hailed by musicologists, learned musicians (including highly respected octogenarian music critics), and common listeners alike, as the reviver of Dhrupad, especially in the eastern India. His master performances in the famous Dover Lane Music conferences in 2000 and 2002 (Golden Jubilee year) in Kolkata reestablished Dhrupad in its proper position of respect. A venerable Resource Person (expert scholar) to major universities and institutions, he remains very busy giving seminars/workshops to teachers & professors. Author of many valuable publications, he was the honorable Addressor at the Convocation of the Bhagalpur University in 2002. Pandit Mitra has blended extraordinary grace and sweetness into the heroic style of Dhrupad singing, always maintaining an unwavering purity of the 'raga' and the Dhrupad traditions. His majestic presentation of Aalaap, Dhrupad, & Dhamar, and his profound mastery over 'laikari' are incomparable. None of the present day Dhrupad singers of repute can match the total and matured presentation of Pandit Mitra who has been truly acclaimed as the reviver of this great art form. Falguni Mitra’s guru and father Pandit Shib Mitra, a worthy disciple of the celebrated Pandit Bholanath Pathak of the Bettia-Banaras Gharana, also received training in Aalaap from the greatest Dhrupadia of the twentieth century, Ustad Nasiruddin Khan, the patriarch of all the Dagars. Thus Falguni Mitra combines the Dagar style of Aalaap with the Bettia-Banaras style of Dhrupad and Dhamar, with a distinctive stamp of his own personality, distinguishing his music from all others’ in this genre.
Tapash Dash
Tapash Dash, a bright young percussionist of Kolkata. Tapash, initially trained by his father Sri Kalipada Dash, was a disciple of the illustrious Pakhawazi Pandit Rajeeb Lochan Dey (who was also his father’s guru). Later he received training from the renowned Pakhawaj players Pt. Ramakant Pathak and Pt. Vitthaldas Gujrati. A guest teacher at the Rabindra Bharati University, he is a well known performer in various music conferences, and on Radio & TV.
Date: 07/18/2004
Location: LearnQuest Academy of Music
108 Elm Street, Suite 2, Waltham, MA 02453
Time: 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Cost: $10.00 (regular), $8.00 (students with Id.)
Contact: Rajesh Godbole - 781-788-8718
Pradeep Shukla - 978-264-4566
Web: www.learnquest.org/directions/directions.html
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