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Meeta Pandit - Hindustani Vocal Concert (CANCELLED)
Raagmaala invites you to a Hindustani Classical Vocal Music "Baithak" - An intimate setting with a small audience.
Concert features a brilliant Khayal singer Ms. Meeta Pandit who grew up in a family of famous musicians "The Pandits of Gwaliorâ€. Regarded as fountainhead of Gharanas (music schools), Gwalior is the revolutionary and dynamic school of music. Over the time different styles of music developed here, which found widespread acceptance. The father of Dhrupad style, Raja Mansingh Tomar (1486-1516), founded Gwalior School of music. Raja Man along with the accomplished nayaks (scholar musicians) adorning his court, wrote a musical treatise Mankautuhal, established a music school in Gwalior Fort and innovated and popularized the Dhrupad style by using Brijbhasha (local language), the popular language for the lyrics of the compositions. Raja Man prepared the ground for musicians of the legendary Tansen’s stature about whom was said “bhuto na bhavishyati†( there never was nor will there be). The name of Tansen is inseparable from Gwalior. For long time the Mughal courts were dominated by the musicians from Gwalior.
After the Tomar dynasty, the musicians received great impetus under the patronage of the Scindia’s who made Gwalior their capital. The Gwalior singers, experts in Dhrupad, now played a revolutionary role in the shift from Dhrupad to Khayal style. Ustad Nathan Pir Baksh can rightfully be called the innovator of Gwalior Khayal style. During the lifetime of Ustad Hassu-Haddu-Nathu Khan, the Gwalior tradition reached its pinnacle. Gwalior became synonymous with music. Students from all over the country came to Gwalior to learn from these masters, fanned out from here all over India and made Gwalior Gharana immortal.
Gwalior has produced a galaxy of musicians, musicologists, composers and teachers. Besides Khayal, Gwalior is well known for its various music genres, Tappa, Tarana, Ashtapadi, and Thumri.
The Pandits of Gwalior who were Sanskrit scholars and Keertankars, imbibed the glorious legacy of the Gwalior tradition from the innovators of the Gwalior style and made a seminal contribution in preserving, revitalizing and popularizing of the tradition. There being no descendent of the innovators of the Gwalior tradition, this legacy would have gone in oblivion but for the untiring effort, guru bhakti, sincerity, devotion, dedication, constant endeavor of the Pandit brothers that these great masters passed on their entire treasure of knowledge and compositions to them.
Meeta Pandit represents the sixth in the unbroken lineage. On her young shoulders rests the responsibility of over 200 years old family tradition. Her grandfather Pandit Kishanrao Shankar Pandit and father L.K. Pandit groomed her in this art. Meeta’s voice can stretch over a wide range of three octaves. The rendering of the breathtaking traditional Tappa is one of the thrilling items in her concerts. Tappa is the most taxing form of singing. Please visit: www.meetapandit.com
REVIEWS:
Herald of a new dawn (Hindustan times)
"The launch of Meeta Pandit signifies the revival of the Gwalior Gharana."
Harballabh Sangeet Sammellan (Indian Express)
"Her tappa ... brought out the versatility in this future Czarina of Hindustani Music."
Her voice has keen timbre (The Times of India) "Meeta’s voice has a finely wrought timbre with a keening edge. She uses this quality with wisdom, getting to the very core of the Raga’s essence. The realization that she is still very young dawns later."
A film on her titled 'A film on her titled 'Meeta Pandit - Linking a Tradition with Today' has been made by PSBT, which was publicly screened in March 2005 at IHC.
"Doctor of Music" - Doctoral thesis on "Contribution of the Pandit family of Gwalior Gharana to Hindustani Music", 2001
Tabla player Ashish Sengupta and Violinist Kailash Patra will accompany Meeta
Date: 07/01/2007
Location: 50 Glenrose drive Riverside, RI 02915
Time: 4:00 pm
Organized By: raagmaala
Cost: $25 per person including Dinner
Contact: Arun - 401-433-1409
Email: raagmaala@gmail.com
Directions: From 95 S/N take exit 20 (195 East). From 195 East take exit 4 and stay right (Riverside). This will bring you onto Veteran’s Memorial Parkway. Follow 103 east signs. Take a left at the fourth light onto Willet Avenue (103 East). Go about a couple of miles and look for Getty Gas Station on the left. Take a second left after the gas station onto Glenrose Drive. Go to the stop sign and take a right onto Palmer Street and an immediate left. The first house (Brown) on the right is the venue. From 195 East take exit 6 and at the bottom of the ramp at the lights take a left. Drive thru the intersection (set of lights). You are on South Broadway. Drive till the end (about a mile) and take a left onto Veteran’s Memorial Parkway then follow as above
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