Skilful sarod recital
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Anindya Banerjee enthralled the audience with his performance.
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The schedule of the year-long diamond jubilee celebration of the Sri Vijaya Thyagaraja Sangeetha Sabha, which got off to a grand start with a five-day fete of music and dance last month, featured sarod Surmani Anindya Banerjee of Kolkata last Friday at Kalabharathi, Visakhapatnam.
He began training in Sarod, called Gajamukha veena in the past, when he was barely 10 in 1968 from the masters who taught at the Ali Akbar College of Music, Kolkata.
Anindya still continues to hone his skills under the expert tutelage of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan under gurukula system. Credited with performances all over the country, he toured Bangladesh with the maestro in 1979, performed in Canada where he went on a teaching assignment at the Alauddin School of Performing Arts of Calgary University in 1984.
In this concert last week, he was accompanied on tabla by one of the prime disciples of the maestro Abhijit Banerjee of the Farukkabad Gharana, Ashok Chakraborthy, a post-graduate in music in tabla of Rabindra Bharathi University.
Anindya started his concert on an absorbingly tranquillising but reposeful note expansively expatiating Yamankalyani with fine exercises in aalap, jore and jhal followed by a composition in vilambit teen tal (16 beats) and dhruth in ektal (12 beats). Then after a brief but beautiful aalap in Malkhauns, he played two compositions both in teental. Lilting compositions in Jayajaivanthi and Bengali Bilaval marked the tailpiece.
Very minor deviations in concentration notwithstanding, he made it an attractive showcase of delicate touch and masterly dexterity playing the instrument. Chakraborthy surfaced a dulcet flow of myriad combinations of bholes on tabla and contributed sublime grandeur.
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