With a Concert on Saturday, December 19 at Dorothy Winstone Centre
Venkat Raman
Auckland, December 17, 2020
Sargam School of Music is organising a music Concert in memory of legendary Sitar Player Pandit Ravi Shankar this weekend in Auckland.
Organised in collaboration with ‘Talented Artists of Auckland,’ the event will begin at 6pm at Dorothy Winstone Centre of Auckland Girls Grammar School located at 16 Howe Street in Newton.
Sargam School of Music Director and Principal Basant Madhur said that it was an honour to conduct a programme in memory of the legendary Sitarist.
Tribute to a great artiste
“Pandit Ravi Shankar was one of the greatest artistes of our times and certainly the most versatile Sitar player. He taught thousands of students who later became famous figures in the world of music and collaborated with the late George Harrison, a former Beatle and many others. Sargam School of Music has always been dedicated to Pandit Ravi Shankar and the forthcoming Concert also celebrates the 100th Birthday of the great artiste,” he said.
Basant said that his School had planned a concert in honour of Pandit Ravi Shankar on the day of Centenary Birthday which was on April 7, 2020 but could not do so because of Covid.
Bass Octave of Sitar
“Pandit Ravi Shankar popularised performing on the bass octave of the Sitar for the Alaap section and became known for a distinctive playing style in the middle and high registers that used quick and short deviations of the playing string and his sound creation through stops and strikes on the main playing string,” Basant said.
Pandit Shankar’s fondness for rhythmic novelties, among them the use of unconventional rhythmic cycles was widely acknowledged. His interplay Alla Rakha improved appreciation for Tabla playing in Hindustani classical music.
Pandit Ravi Shankar promoted the Jugalbandi Duet Concert style and claimed to have introduced new ragas Tilak Shyam, Nat Bhairav and Bairagi.
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