Best encounter ever.......with The Classical music!!

So today was tuesday and as always the day of classical songs -the day of Vocal class!!! The only difference being -today no singing just discussions of great mastroes already there .

Our Guru Pandit Nayan Ghosh - a very well known artist himself -with an expertise on tabla, sitar n vocals and a great Guru in all sense- had the recordings of Ustad Amir Khan, Ustad Vilayat Khan and few of his own.

It was an amazing experience. THe first was Ustad Amir Khan's Raga Marva ; it started and I felt like someone is sad- deeply yet not regretting , yet not devastated
-but is witnessing or watching the emotions as a third person , with a momentary composure and a deep search again . Guruji told that the raga stands for the
feeling of long cherished wish for some object/person/situation of fancy - a very deep wish , which after a long time gets fulfilled ; only to be gone again with the same feeling of intensity returning . THe absence of the base swar "SA" leading it more melonchaliness and solitude and search element, since SA offers a base , a contentment - which was rare in this composition .........n so the discussion went on from Ustad Amir Khan's life and portrait; to Bade Ghulam Ali Khan , to Ustaad Vilayat Khan , like one being Sunshine n other moonshine ; the two sides of a coin - with one being KIngly -thumri based maestro n other more spiritual introvert n contemplating - the essence of Classical music.Then we heard the Sitar recording of Vilayat Khan -on Raga Tilak Kamod - which seemed as if a Girl is very happy - a sheer joy herself ;
she is expressing and enacting the bliss as a dance, as a song, as a lively celebration in a garden nearby lake n with friends. As she approaches the trees dancing , as if a sustained joy , not as a spurt -lost in a while ; but a continuum - retained in rhythm in melody , in song , in dance , in enactment n depiction and influencing every object and person coming in contact with it . Say girl dancing and enacting- the joy and contentment; the trees in unison swinging their arms to her beats ;flowers decorating her path -the pink petals - with their fall from trees following the taal of the song ; as waves of river following the beat to spread out ;
n so the clouds wandering in the sky in celebrations n person to person the joy propagating with song , as song and enacted as the dance - the momentum in progression -

Yet I felt somehow it has to be morning scene , nno sunlight, no rain - why i donno . Like it has to be the most pleasant weather - what you call the SUhana mausam
-a little cozy, a little cold n very sweet , pink petals, crystal clear waves , slow fragrant wind and green n plump trees ..........



Just loved the compositions- dint knew how can the joy be sustained for so long- but never once I felt its overdone......it was a superb composition , most beautifully
n intensely done . The fastest SItar can be played , for once I dint felt like novice trying to understand the deep hidden dimension of the rendering but I felt like a recipient of the profusing joy -created n depicting by the master's Sitar ...........