Mysuru hosts all-night Hindustani music concert

For the archetypal clip successful caller years, an all-night Hindustani classical euphony performance was organised successful Mysuru.

The lawsuit was organised by the Hindustani Sangeet Kalavidara Okkuta (Hindustani Musicians Association) astatine Swaradhara auditorium successful KSRTC layout successful Srirampura connected Saturday. Like-minded musicians, euphony lovers, and organisers came unneurotic to big this unsocial philharmonic solemnisation dedicated to the affluent contented of Indian classical music.

Starting astatine 9 p.m. connected Saturday and continuing till 6 a.m. connected Sunday, the performance featured soulful vocal performances, tabla solos, bansuri (flute) recitals, and Carnatic flute renditions of nighttime ragas that captivated the audience, the organisers said successful a merchandise here.

Artistes specified arsenic Sharada Kattige, Shrimati Devi, Veerabhadrayya Hiremath, Sameer Rao, Adarsh Shenoy, Chandan Kumar, Prithvi Bhaskar, Radhesh, Ramesh Dhannur, Dundayya Poojera, Shubhang Hebbar, Harikrishna, Bhimashankar Bidanoor-Panchami, Ramesh Kolkunda, and Shriram Bhat enthralled the ‘rasikas’ (music connoisseurs) with their performances, making the nighttime a memorable solemnisation of Hindustani music, the merchandise added.

In Hindustani classical music, circumstantial ragas are traditionally performed astatine peculiar times of the time and night. However, since astir concerts instrumentality spot successful the evening, euphony lovers seldom get an accidental to perceive to nocturnal ragas. To revive and bask these fading nighttime melodies, the Mysuru-based artists and a prime radical of connoisseurs came unneurotic to big this peculiar event.

All-night Hindustani euphony gatherings person a agelong history. The celebrated Sawai Gandharva Music Festival started by Pandit Bhimsen Joshi successful Pune traditionally continued done the night. In Kundagol, the Sawai Gandharva festival inactive runs overnight for 2 days. Other prestigious overnight euphony celebrations see the philharmonic conception of the Veereshwar Punyashrama just successful Gadag, the Dover Lane Music Festival successful Kolkata, ‘Saptak’ successful Ahmedabad, and the ‘Harivallabh’ festival successful Jalandhar, the merchandise said.

In Dharwad and Hubballi too, specified concerts were erstwhile common, but implicit the years, with dwindling assemblage participation, they person been reduced to shorter midnight sessions. Taking enactment of this inclination and with the intent of recreating a rare, immersive philharmonic experience, the organisers successful Mysuru organised the concert, the organisers said.