King of Dhrupad Pandit Ramchatur Mallick - Hardcover

C.L.Das

9788184573336: King of Dhrupad Pandit Ramchatur Mallick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8184573332 ISBN 13: 9788184573336

Publisher: KANIska publication, 2012

Language: English
Pages: 101 (63 B/W Illustration)
About the Author

Professor Chandrakant Lal Das is senior Sarod-player of the Maihar-Senior Gharana and an eminent music scholar of the country.

Born in 1934, he inherited the love for music from his father, late Jainarayan Das who also happened to be a trained classical vocalist and a Sanskrit language scholar apart from being a zamindar in the Terai region of Nepal.

A disciple of Acharya Alauddin Khan, C.L, Das also received the guidance from Pt. Ramchatur Mallick of the Darbhanga-Amta Gharana in the rendition of Ragas in Dhrupad style. He is also credited to have pioneered the trend of reviewing classical music and dance programmes in the newspapers. A number of research scholars and fellows at the Indira Kala Music University, Khairagarh, (Chhattisgarh) and the University of Delhi continue to take guidance from him.

A musicology of national repute, C.L, Das prepared the syllabus of the courses of music from intermediate to post-graduation level for the Kameshwar Singh Sanskrit University, Darbhanga (Bihar) and has been the examiner of M.Mus exams in the Magadh, Mithila and the B.N. Mandal Universities at Gaya, Darbhanga and Saharsa respectively for the last four decades.

His also played a major role in bringing classical music and musicians among the gentry in Bihar, creating cultural organisations like ‘Nav Sangeet’, Bihar Sangeet Parishad and other, organising classical music concerts in the auditorium and holding regular music sessions at his residence since the 1950s. The list of artistes who performed in those events included Pt. Ravi Shankar, Ustad Amir Khan, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Ustad Bahadur Khan, Ustad Nasir Ahmad Khan and Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan.

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