Sunday, 17th Feb, 2008, 9 PM.
Tilak Smarak Mandir
About the artist:Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is known internationally as the greatest living master of Bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute. Chaurasia is among a few but growing classicists who have made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music. He is probably the most accessible Hindustani musician who has done a lot to popularize Bansuri and classical music among the masses.Hariprasad Chaurasia was born in Allahabad in 1938 into a non musical family. His father was a wrestler. His mother died when he was very young. Hariprasad had to learn music almost in secret, scared of the father who wanted him to become a wrestler. First he started learning vocal music from Pt. Rajaram at the age of 15. Later, he switched to playing the flute under the tutelage of Pt. Bholanath of Varanasi. Much later, while working for All India Radio, he received guidance from the reclusive Smt. Annapurna Devi
Sunday, February 17, 2008
CONCERT: Pt. Hariprasad Chourasia
CONCERT: Pt. Babanrao Haldankar
Noted vocalist from agara and jaipur gharana, Pt. Babanrao Haldankar will perform on 17th Feb at Bharat Ganay Samaj near Shanipar.
Venue: Bharat Gayan Samaj, Near Shanipar, Bajirao Road
Date and Time: 9 AM, Sunday, 17th Feb
About the artist:Pt. Babanrao Haldankar is a stalwart of both Agra and Jaipur-Atrauli gharanas, having being trained by Ustad Khadim Hussein and Anwar Hussein (Agra Gharana) and Smt Mogubai Kurdikar (Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana). Pt. Haldankar is today well known as a guru, composer, scholar-thinker and performer. He has composed more than 200 Raga texts in vilambit (slow composition), drut (fast composition) and Taranas. He has published several books in Hindi, Marathi and English. These are valuable treatises covering the expanse of Hindustani Classical Music and unique explanations of the theory and performance of Ragas. He has several CD's and cassettes to his credit.
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