Bhimsen Joshi is 75 MOHAN NADKARNI The Rediff.com Special, February 1996 He has never cared to hog the limelight. Quite to the contrary, the limelight keeps hogging him. A tribute to Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, the doyen of Hindustani classical music, on his 75th birthday, by Mohan Nadkarni, his biographer and wellknown critic. A jubilee year is rightly and understandably an event for rejoicing as much...
By MOHAN NADKARNI The Economic Times, August 27, 1989 With the death of the maestro, Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, 96, at Gwalior on August 22, an era of giants in Hindustani music has come to an end. He lived full of years and honours and loomed large on the concert scene for an incredible period of seven decades, as few else could. Raga and tala...
Retrospection: BADE GULAM ALI KHAN By MOHAN D. NADKARNI writing as GURUDEV SHARAN The Times of India, May 5, 1961 MUSIC to me is more than my food. I live music – it is my very life, and Icannot live without it. I would rather die with a song on my lips than live without music –so declaimed the maestro. Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali...
D V Paluskar – a tribute D.V. Paluskar participated in his first Music Conference when he was only 14. MOHAN D. NADKARNI The Illustrated Weekly of India, November 27, 1955 The sudden death, at 34, of Dattatraya Vishnu Paluskar is truly a national loss, coming as it did at a time when the older generation of giants in music is gradually dying out. Paluskar...
Crossing the Sound Barrier: Kumar Gandharva Prodigy, poet, innovator, rebel – Kumar Gandharva is all this and much more. Blazing new trails in the tradition – bound field of Indian classical music, he is one of the most controversial vocalists of our time. His genre, novel in form and unorthodox in approach, evokes extreme reactions – fanatical adulation from fans and consistent hostility from...
Bhatkhande, A Pioneer He Resurrected Science of Hindustani Music MOHAN D. NADKARNI Sunday Chronicle September 18, 1949 Music like all art, is a vital part of a nation’s culture; and in this era of fulfillment of national aspiration and cultural regeneration, it possesses immense value for all of us. It was the outstanding personality of Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande whose anniversary falls on 19th September...