SURVIVAL OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC - Page 6

Originally posted by: Qwest

Collapse of Classical Music in Pakistan

There are several reasons for the collapse of Hundustani Classical music in Pakistan after partition, apart from official apathy. Before independence Lahore was a an important cultural center in North India. Affluent Hindu and Sikh families were the main patrons of music. Most of these patrons migrated to India after partition. Interestingly many muslim artists chose to migrate to Pakistan from India - Amanat Ali Khan, Barkat Ali Khan, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and Fateh Ali Khan of the Patiala gharana; Ustad Salamat Ali Khan and Nazakat Ali Khan of the Shyam Chaurasi gharana; Roshanara Begum of the Kirana gharana; Asad Ali Khan (Ustad Fayyaz Khan's nephew) of the Agra gharana and Sardar Khan (Taanras Khan's grandson) of the Delhi gharana. But the patrons had migrated out of Pakistan. The artists realized that the old system of patronage had collapsed. Pakistan government (through Pakistan Radio), unlike All India Radio refused to step in as the chief patron. Wisely Bade Ghulam Ali Khan decided to migrate back to India after a few miserable months and had a very successful post independence career as well. Though in the beginning, official Pakistan govt. policy was very tolerant, later Increased criticism from orthodox quarters influenced the official policy which proceeded to discourage many forms of Hindustani music like Dhrupad, thumris and dadras as un-islamic. The artists were left at the mercy of the market and they had no market. They gradually lost their audience. They either dissuaded their children from following in their footsteps or the children themselves opted for film music or ghazal singing. In the last decade, some of them moved to pop music — about half of those singing or playing in the pop groups are children of the great masters. So Pakistan lost out on its musical heritage. But those who migrated to Pakistan and chose to sing mainly ghazals later gained prominence in, like Mehdi Hassan, Farida Khannum, Iqbal Bano and Mallika Pukhraj.

Found this very interesting! I always wondered why classical music did not flourish in Pakistan, while some of the most famous names in India were Muslim.

Originally posted by: soulsoup

Done. Refresh the page. 😊

Thanks geeku!

ITC launches Web portal to promote Indian music

from Indo-Asian News Service

New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) India's tobacco major ITC has launched a Web portal
to preserve and propagate the country's rich heritage of classical music.

The portal -- www.itcsra.org -- is a part of the ITC's Sangeet Research
Academy (ITC-SRA), established in 1978 to pioneer corporate patronage to
Hindustani classical music (northern Indian genre), which was slowly dying
out due to lack of royal support after India became free in 1947 and
abolished feudalism.

The portal would enable the larger Indian diaspora access the academy's rich
repository of classical music.

One of its sections, Gharana (school of music), is a unique feature on the
site that interweaves gurukul, a traditional Indian system of learning under
which the teacher and student live under the same roof, with various styles
of classical music in northern India.

Gharana spans 10 major schools of north Indian classical music and the music
of world-renowned maestros from the 19th century to the present day.

It tantalises the reader with its treasure trove of more than 5,000
compositions culled from some 1,000 recordings by 41 living legends, which
was a part of a Ford Foundation project undertaken by the academy.

Another highlight is the "Know your Raga" online-education tool that
features audio demonstrations of more than 80 "ragas" (melodies). One can
even learn the times when these ragas are played in anther section that
deals with the time for when the melodies should be played.

But keeping in mind time differences across the world, the portal has a
section which is divided into 12 time zones and tell the reader which raga
should be played in each zone at a given time.

The reader can even create his own music in the "Music Room," but only after
you register yourself the first around.

--Indo-Asian News Service

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Vijay what to say to you........

Thanks a lot yaar.............

Started downloading......

Arey this thread was started by me? Must be in my previous incarnation..

Thanks Vijay, but why Rapidshare? 😭

Originally posted by: charades

Working on turboupload...😆

Vj please do it. rapidshare is asking to wait for such long times.

Thanks for adding the tracks on turboupload. I uploaded the first one from rapidshare. The second one was giving waiting times of 33+ minutes. 😆 Thanks again.

Dear Vijay
I succeeded in downloading Prabha Atre's Kalavati now and I am listening to it after nearly 20 years! You can't imagine my elation! Thank you once again. May God shower all his blessings on you.

Does anyone have DV Paluskar's short compositions in Hameer, Kedar, Shyam Kalyan etc? Please post if you have.

Originally posted by: punjini

Does anyone have DV Paluskar's short compositions in Hameer, Kedar, Shyam Kalyan etc? Please post if you have.

Punijni ji,

I have some of Pandit ji's compositions in
Raga Lalit
Raga Bilaskhani Todi
Raga Asawari
Raga Hameer
Raga Kedar

Will upload these as and when time permits (unless Vijay ji uploads some first)...