If “Music is wine” the following three intoxicationg instrumental pieces do live up to these remarks by Beethoven. Sitar by Pandit Ravi Shanker Sarod by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan : Santoor by Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma: “How does one put the spiritual significance of music on paper? Music transcends all languages [...]
This blog is just an attempt to familiarise the lovers of Amir Khurau to a form of singing, called Tarana, the fascinating fast paced rendition often intended to attain trance ( haal), is attributed to be invented by him. Needless to say his other inventions being Qawwali, seventeen taals, tabla and sitar. All I get [...]
Contd..from Part 1 I repeat, these two days were like a trip to the world of Bulleh Shah, his life and philosophy in the company of Sain Zahoor. Having been over awed by his deep mystical eyes, I had to gather some courage to ask him all the valid and invalid questions I had in [...]
A small irritant from a dear friend, a westernised desi, who kept calling Qawwali as ‘Qawwali song’ got me to make a polite request to her call it only Qawwali. She probably thought I was an expert in the field and with innocent curiosity started to fire questions at me about Qawwali. I really felt [...]
Perception: Something to Think About | InspirationHub | Your Daily Infusion!. A MUST READ… This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities. No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, [...]
Tchaikovsky’s first ballet, Swan Lake is considered by many to be one of the greatest classical ballets of all time. Its romance and beauty has allowed the classic ballet to mesmorize audiences for more than 100 years. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (in four Acts) was composed in 1875 as a commission by Vladimir Petrovich Begichev, the [...]
Note from Parents: She is just a kid who loves music and is good at it, but also loves most things kids love and has a full life. It took 18 months to make this video and it was hard enough to get the film, let alone decent sound in these crowded, noisy environments. Thus [...]
Music & Nature-work as tranquillizers and antidepressants. (…The canyons of S.E.Utah…) Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy. ~George MacDonald As I Walk with Beauty As I walk, as I walk The universe is walking with me In beauty it walks [...]
Beethoven’s “Moonlight sonata”, a name coined by German music critic Ludwig Rellstab after Beethoven’s death, is one of the most widely known classical music pieces, and has been since it was composed some 200 years ago. It is said that Beethoven was inspired to write the sonata while visiting Lake Balaton, located in Hungary.
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