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Ustad Khan’s music uplifts soul: Sonia
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has condoled the death of sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, who passed away on Friday after prolonged kidney ailment.
In a letter to his wife, Mary Khan, Ms. Gandhi said: “Ustad Ali Akbar Khan embodied the very pinnacle of our great classical music tradition. In his hands, the sarod was an instrument that expressed with unsurpassed beauty and eloquence the noblest aspirations and deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
All those who were privileged to hear him never forgot the sheer magic of that experience, which stirred and uplifted the soul, the letter said.
Ustad Sahib’s musical genius was a reflection of his own spirituality, his profound understanding of human nature, as well as his dazzling virtuosity. Ms. Gandhi said his death was an irreplaceable loss to the nation. But his, music, which carried forward the great tradition of Ustad Allauddin Khan, would live on forever.
Ms. Gandhi said Ustad Ali Akbar Khan had a long, personal association with “my family. Pandit Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi held him in the highest esteem. For me and my family, his death is a personal loss.”
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