Hyderabad: The strumming of sitar, the beats of the tabla and the Kathak dance marked a becoming tribute to the legends of Hindustan song dance — Pandit Ravi Shankar and Pandit Birju Maharaj — on Saturday.

The development used to be organised by way of Artwork Hub and Surmandal on the NTR auditorium in Public Lawn.

 

The Kathak efficiency used to be by way of Mukti Shri, who used the Kasturi Tilakam slokas as an invocation to Lord Krishna. She adopted this with a efficiency of Sita Swayamwar and concluded with Ravan Vadh, forward of Ramanavami on Sunday.

The USA-born Paul Livingstone at the sitar accompanied by way of Shashanka Bakshi at the tabla carried out a mix of the ‘raags’ Jog and Rageshwari in ‘youngster taal’, Manj Khamaj bandish in ‘aadha youngster taal’ adopted by way of a composition in ’Drut youngster taal’ finishing in Jhaala.

Mukti Shri, who educated below Pandita Shama Bhate for greater than 10 years, stated, “For me dance is similar to worship. Perseverance and compliance had been my mantra.” She stated she had a natural Kathak repertoire and in addition experimented with recent and jazz song.

 

Tabla maestro Pandit Bakshi stated he had studied the tabla from the age of six and had educated below Pandit Bhola Prasad of the Benares gharana.

“My recordings had been launched via Track of the Global, New York. I’ve toured broadly during India and in several portions of Europe, the United Kingdom, the USA and several other West Asian international locations,” Pandit Bakshi stated.

Sitarist Livingstone remarked, “I’m one of the vital few American disciples of Pandit Ravi Shankar and educated below Pt Rajeev Taranath and Amiya Dasgupta. I’ve carried out round the USA, in Mexico, Europe and South Asia with main tabla artists together with Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri.”

 

Livingstone, whose first sitar efficiency in India used to be in 1985, stated he additionally performed upright bass and explored the meditative inspiration of dhrupad.

“As a composer of ‘ragajazz chamber song’ within the realm of global song synthesis I  lead my very own Arohi Ensemble in addition to acting ceaselessly as a classical sitar soloist,” stated Livingstone, including that he had composed and recorded for movie and tv and created song for reside theatre and dance productions. He stated he had featured on two Grammy Award-winning information.

 

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