By MOHAN NADKARNI writing as GURUDEV SHARAN Times Weekly, August 25, 1973 KANADA KE PRAKAR By Jaisukhal Tribhuvan Shah ( Published by the author, pp 332, Rs 16) The colourful KANADA Group of ragas is a class in itself in the rich and varied repertory of north Indian music. Thanks to recent research in musicology, it is now conclusively proved that many of these...
By MOHAN NADKARNI writing as GURUDEV SHARAN Times of India, September 5, 1976 A TOUCH OF CLASS Muttusvamy Dikshitar, Edited by V. Raghavan, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Bombay, Rs 15) The advent of the celebrated trinity – Syama Sastri, Tyagaraja and Muttusvami Dikshitar – between 1763 and 1847 A.D. is rightly regarded as the golden age of Carnatic music. They were all excellent...
By MOHAN NADKARNI The Times of India, July 2, 1972 PANDIT VISHNU DIGAMBER PALUSKAR (1871-1931) was the first musician to bring traditional Indian music to the masses- the music that had long remained the exclusive preserve of the rich. This he did in the true tradition of a missionary. He undertook extensive tours and started jalsas (public concerts) for the rank and file. He...
Indian Music by B. Chaitanya Deva (Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi, pp172, Rs. 30) Music of the Nations by Swami Prajnananda (Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, pp223, Rs 28) By MOHAN NADKARNI The Times of India, April 20, 1975 Deva makes an entirely new approach to the study of the history of Indian music. Few musicologists have argued so convincingly that Indian music...
Sangeet-Ratna Khansaheb Abdul Karim Khan Yaanche Jeevan Charitra by Pandit Balkrishnabuwa Kapileshwari, (Published by the author, pp 912, Rs 55) Thor Sangitkar by Prof B R Deodhar, (Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Vidyalaya Mandal, Bombay 4, pp260, Rs 12) [Both books published in Marathi] By MOHAN NADKARNI writing as GURUDEV SHARAN Times Weekly, March 10, 1974 One of the tragedies besetting India’s age-old musical tradition, particularly...
By MOHAN NADKARNI The Economic Times, September 20, 1987 It is an established fact that music in India has now come to be treated as a subject of advanced study and research. There are academies and universities where music education has reached university and doctoral standards. More recently, some of these institutions have introduced the subject of western music as part of the curriculum,...