THE GLORY AND THE PLIGHT OF CLASSICAL MUSIC ... 1

THE GLORY AND THE PLIGHT OF CLASSICAL MUSIC ... 1

Fools appreciate looks and attire rather than music and this is what carries some beautiful/handsome artistes through for some time before the public's good sense dawns and they throw overboard all such dross into the ocean of oblivion. But there are some that devise newer ways to dupe the public and they survive a slave's pretentious tenure of a lifetime dangling dresses and sporting good looks, mannerisms, manners and charms before they are finally rejected in the evening of their musical 'careers'. These mock-serious Antonios are the shame of an industry that is termed classical.

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo : Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Sahib who remains the benchmark of all judgement on classical musicians.