Sunday 4 October 2020

WHEN MUSIC TAKES TO FLIGHT AND COMMERCE CORRUPTS ARTISTIC ATTITUDES


WHEN MUSIC TAKES TO FLIGHT AND COMMERCE CORRUPTS ARTISTIC ATTITUDES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIUC-MRb4NA&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0QgHOcI9jRxBza4wy_WTRzASbp_qJcl8RG69aioJRcBZ6vi7trW-DnxAY [Search in Google to find the video. Direct YouTube link will not show up.]

Dubious presentation. Ajoy Chakraborty is simply not up to the mark. His is a poor rendition full of pretension. His presentation of the Tagore song is off-tune and off-colour. He ought to give up musical pretension and dubious playing to the gallery. Culture at the hands of such mercenaries of music is truly at its ebb. Is this Bihag or a sheer travesty of it? Music takes to flight when commerce corrupts artistic attitudes. That the people still enjoy such horrendous performances is a pointer to the decadence of culture and the grossness of mass appreciation. Would it were that musicians exhibited some character that would entitle them to being called so !

Foreword written by Sugata Bose

Photo : Baba Allauddin Khan who would have thrashed such artistes for their caricature of music.

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