IFA@Ahmedabad: A Curated Listening Experience & A Hindustani Classical Vocal Recital | June 27 & 28, 2019 | Saptak Archives
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with Saptak Archives
invites you to
Tradition and the Individual: A curated listening experience of personalities in the Agra Gharana
by Smit Dharia
Thursday, June 27, 2019 | 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
&
A Hindustani Classical vocal recital of ragas from the Jaipur Atrauli Gharana
by Radhika Joshi Ray
Friday, June 28, 2019 | 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Webpage launch of ragas of the Jaipur Atrauli Gharana by Dr Arun Dravid
Friday, June 28, 2019 | 07:30 PM
Saptak Archives
Brij House, IInd Floor, Opposite Old High Court, Stadium Road, Ahmedabad - 380 014
We are delighted to invite you to Tradition and the Individual: A curated listening experience of personalities in the Agra Gharana by Smit Dharia and A Hindustani Classical vocal recital of ragas from the Jaipur Atrauli Gharana and Webpage Launch of ragas of the Jaipur Atrauli Gharana by Radhika Joshi Ray at the Saptak Archives, June 27 and June 28, 2019.
Smit Dharia and Radhika Joshi Ray received Archival and Museum Fellowships from India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) to research the Saptak Archives at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Saptak Archives was set up in 2004, the silver jubilee year of Saptak, to digitise music recordings. The recordings are enriched by a host of other details such as artists' biographies, performance details and information about the ragas. The objective of the archive is to digitise music recorded in different media for long term preservation, storage, compilation and retrieval in digital media.
Tradition and the Individual: Musical personalities in the Agra Gharana, is a curated listening session led by Smit Dharia. What makes a Gharana? Can the music of an artist identify with a particular Gharana? How do we find relevance today to music made almost a century ago? This session of archival recordings will explore these questions alongside the music of various generations of musicians who were inspired by the Agra tradition and brought meaning to it, as well as shaped it through their own talent. The session will give listeners a chance to experience recordings specially selected from the vast collection of Saptak Archives of artists not only in performance, but also from informal baithaks and discussions.
Smit Dharia is a Hindustani Classical Vocalist and a disciple of Pt. Satyasheel Deshpande. He enjoys archival recordings of past masters and has keenly studied them as part of his fellowship program under IFA and Saptak. He has also contributed in the archival work at Samvaad Foundation and has developed a sense of navigating and interpreting music from a bygone era. He has a masters in English Literature as well as Music.
Radhika Joshi Ray will present a Hindustani Classical vocal recital where she will perform three ragas characteristic to the Jaipur Atrauli Gharana. She will draw from her research work on the characteristics of the gayaki of the Jaipur Atrauli Gharana and her studies of recordings available at the Saptak Archives. Radhika will be accompanied by Shri Tejovrush Joshi on tabla and Shri Rohit Marathe on the harmonium. This event will be followed by the Launch of a Webpage of ragas of the Jaipur Atrauli Gharana that will be linked to the Saptak website. This webpage will showcase detailed analysis of ten ragas of the Jaipur Atrauli Gharana using recordings from the Saptak Archive. The webpage will be inaugurated by Dr Arun Dravid (senior vocalist of the Jaipur Atrauli Gharana).
Dr Radhika Joshi Ray is a Hindustani classical vocalist and a senior disciple of Pt Raghunandan Panshikar. She is the founder of Jaipur Gunijankhana, an archive that works towards the documentation of the music of the Jaipur Atrauli Gharana. Radhika has performed extensively in various music festivals across the country.
These Archival and Museum Fellowships from India Foundation for the Arts, in collaboration with Saptak Archives, Ahmedabad, Gujarat are made possible with support from Tata Trusts.