WHEN THE HOUR WAS GONE
BUT THE MUSIC LINGERED ON
With my boyhood buddy, sitarist Partha Bose, and his wife, vocalist Esha Bandyopadhyay, outside the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, immediately after the morning session of the music conference in the Vivekananda Hall on the occasion of Swamiji's 157th birth anniversary. Partha, accompanied by the percussion maestro Swapan Chaudhuri, enthralled the audience with his fluid but robust rendition of 'sitar vaadan' (sitar playing). The maestro at the tabla was energetic, ebullient and simply matchless in excellence.
It was a trip too far across 38 years when I had first heard Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri in 1982 in the Dover Lane Music Conference when he had brilliantly accompanied Pandit Ravi Shankar and won my admiration, and now it was across four decades when I watched him deftly dazzling his audience with nimble finger-work punctuated by robust rendition of bold artistry on the vibrating membrane of his bnaya and tabla. Life today has come a full circle for both Partha and me.
May Swamiji grace Partha continued success at the forefront of Hindustani instrumental music ! May Thakur grant Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri long life, health and good cheer so that he may carry on with his mission to spread the musical culture of India worldwide !
Vande Vivekananda !
Written by Sugata Bose
BUT THE MUSIC LINGERED ON
With my boyhood buddy, sitarist Partha Bose, and his wife, vocalist Esha Bandyopadhyay, outside the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, immediately after the morning session of the music conference in the Vivekananda Hall on the occasion of Swamiji's 157th birth anniversary. Partha, accompanied by the percussion maestro Swapan Chaudhuri, enthralled the audience with his fluid but robust rendition of 'sitar vaadan' (sitar playing). The maestro at the tabla was energetic, ebullient and simply matchless in excellence.
It was a trip too far across 38 years when I had first heard Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri in 1982 in the Dover Lane Music Conference when he had brilliantly accompanied Pandit Ravi Shankar and won my admiration, and now it was across four decades when I watched him deftly dazzling his audience with nimble finger-work punctuated by robust rendition of bold artistry on the vibrating membrane of his bnaya and tabla. Life today has come a full circle for both Partha and me.
May Swamiji grace Partha continued success at the forefront of Hindustani instrumental music ! May Thakur grant Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri long life, health and good cheer so that he may carry on with his mission to spread the musical culture of India worldwide !
Vande Vivekananda !
Written by Sugata Bose
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