THE FUNERAL OF MUSIC ... 5
Do not be fooled by the popularity of a Hindustani classical music exponent and mistake him to be a master. Fame counts for little in this great art which is likened to sadhana geared for God-realisation. The greatest exponents live behind the curtains and the lesser ones, greedy for gain and ephemeral self-establishment, manipulate the media and the public to 'achieve' so-called eminence without real musical merit. The result is predictable. Classical music is being reduced to a sham and all that is sung or played is a combination of notes that neither reveals the oceanic depth of raga music nor does it manifest the mood of a raga in its truest sense.
A series of notes does not make music. It is a surface-skimming and not depth-diving that is then the fate of classical musical exposition today. The classical part is gone and the popular form is emerging in all its nakedness, not because the public want it but because the 'modern masters' know no better a brand of music than what they present before the public. Their taaleem (musical training) is poor and perseverance at learning poorer. All that these exponents chase is fast fame and quick money. Materialism has eaten into their vitals as devitalised they strut about from concert to conference presenting a caricature of classical music and reaping the applause of the foolish multitude that know no better than what they hear to be able to distinguish between the fake and the real. Thus is music being buried alive everyday and the blazing flames of the pyre consume all that was grand and great about this ancient form of musical approach to the Divine. It is a death too soon and a funeral too early for us, the real music lovers, to bear.
Written by Sugata Bose
P.S. : Provided below are audio / video links of some great musical renditions of the past :
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
Do not be fooled by the popularity of a Hindustani classical music exponent and mistake him to be a master. Fame counts for little in this great art which is likened to sadhana geared for God-realisation. The greatest exponents live behind the curtains and the lesser ones, greedy for gain and ephemeral self-establishment, manipulate the media and the public to 'achieve' so-called eminence without real musical merit. The result is predictable. Classical music is being reduced to a sham and all that is sung or played is a combination of notes that neither reveals the oceanic depth of raga music nor does it manifest the mood of a raga in its truest sense.
A series of notes does not make music. It is a surface-skimming and not depth-diving that is then the fate of classical musical exposition today. The classical part is gone and the popular form is emerging in all its nakedness, not because the public want it but because the 'modern masters' know no better a brand of music than what they present before the public. Their taaleem (musical training) is poor and perseverance at learning poorer. All that these exponents chase is fast fame and quick money. Materialism has eaten into their vitals as devitalised they strut about from concert to conference presenting a caricature of classical music and reaping the applause of the foolish multitude that know no better than what they hear to be able to distinguish between the fake and the real. Thus is music being buried alive everyday and the blazing flames of the pyre consume all that was grand and great about this ancient form of musical approach to the Divine. It is a death too soon and a funeral too early for us, the real music lovers, to bear.
Written by Sugata Bose
P.S. : Provided below are audio / video links of some great musical renditions of the past :
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
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