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Amid Delhi’s busy, event-filled taste clutter, the Shriram Shankarlal Music Festival (SSMFL) stands retired for its calm gait and committedness to the existent tone of Indian Classical Music.
Founded successful 1947 by legendary impresario Sumitra Charat Ram, the festival emerged astatine an important clip successful India’s taste history, making classical euphony much accessible to everyone. Over the years, SSMFL has acceptable a modular by featuring legends specified arsenic Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, and M.S. Subbulakshmi, who person shaped Indian Classical Music.
This Friday, the three-day festival returns to the open-air arena of Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra. What makes the festival peculiar is its cautious enactment of artists, not conscionable the fig of performances. Shobha Deepak Singh, Chairperson of Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra and the unit down the festival, says the extremity is to contiguous Indian classical euphony with dignity, discipline, and depth. This year, she adds, the spotlight is connected young talent.
The archetypal time volition diagnostic a confluence of contented and young excellence, showcasing artists specified arsenic Ramana Balachandran, a rising prima of Carnatic music; Siddhartha Belmannu, an emerging Hindustani vocalist; and celebrated sarod maestro Tejendra Narayan Majumdar.
On the 2nd day, Sawani Shende, a starring pistillate vocalist, and Shashank Subramanyam, the internationally recognised flautist, volition instrumentality the stage. The evening volition premier with a uncommon guru–shishya presumption featuring Sajan Mishra and his lad Swaransh, representing the surviving transmission of the Banaras Gharana.
The last time volition unfastened with a peculiar greeting league featuring eminent vocalist Madhup Mudgal and Biswajit Roy Chowdhury, the renowned maestro of the sarod, who volition regale with prime compositions from greeting ragas. The festival volition culminate with a expansive performance, featuring Lokesh Anand on the shehnai, Shashwati Mandal, an eminent vocalist, and the legendary pairing of Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan and Pt. Anindo Chatterjee promises an unforgettable acquisition anchored successful tradition.
The festival volition beryllium held from March 6 to 8 astatine the Open Air Arena, Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, New Delhi. Entry is free.
