VISHMADEV CHATTERJEE
The most extraordinary genius in vocal music in India in the last hundred years. My judgement is based purely on the basis of his raw talent honed to perfection but, alas, temperamental flaws and consequent psychological affliction followed by a harrowing experience of musical banishment in the Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo Ashram put paid to the fullest flowering of his rare genius and deprived the world of what would have been the Everest of attainment in music, the fulfilment of a promise that never came to fruition fully, an aspiration in sublimity felt but not quite realised, a blossoming dawn clouded untimely to mar the hues of the dewy sun, an unfulfilled dream of a musical marvel like the world has not since seen. Vishmadev Chatterjee remains emblematic of a musical realm that may rightfully be represented in verbal terms as Gandharvaloka. My prostrations at his feet and pleas for his grace.
Written by Sugata Bose
The most extraordinary genius in vocal music in India in the last hundred years. My judgement is based purely on the basis of his raw talent honed to perfection but, alas, temperamental flaws and consequent psychological affliction followed by a harrowing experience of musical banishment in the Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo Ashram put paid to the fullest flowering of his rare genius and deprived the world of what would have been the Everest of attainment in music, the fulfilment of a promise that never came to fruition fully, an aspiration in sublimity felt but not quite realised, a blossoming dawn clouded untimely to mar the hues of the dewy sun, an unfulfilled dream of a musical marvel like the world has not since seen. Vishmadev Chatterjee remains emblematic of a musical realm that may rightfully be represented in verbal terms as Gandharvaloka. My prostrations at his feet and pleas for his grace.
Written by Sugata Bose
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