Hariprasad Chaurasia

Hariprasad Chaurasia - what immpeccable melodic mastery!

This is one of my top favorite Bansuri Masters! I'm just transfixed
everytime I hear him.

Melodically,

Jacky Ligon

ligonj@northstate.net wrote:

> Hariprasad Chaurasia - what immpeccable melodic mastery!
>
> This is one of my top favorite Bansuri Masters! I'm just transfixed
> everytime I hear him.

Same here - he's one of my favorite Hindustani musicans!

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--- In tuning@y..., David Beardsley <xouoxno@v...> wrote:
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>
> ligonj@n... wrote:
>
> > Hariprasad Chaurasia - what immpeccable melodic mastery!
> >
> > This is one of my top favorite Bansuri Masters! I'm just
transfixed
> > everytime I hear him.
>
> Same here - he's one of my favorite Hindustani musicans!

Hello Jacky and David, and all,

Born in 1938, not in a family of musicians, Hariprasad would have
become a wrestler, in the footsteps of his wrestler father, but for
his guru Pandit Rajaram, who taught him vocal music. But, Hariprasad
was not destined to become a singer. He heard the famous fluitist
Pandit Bholanath, of Varanasi, was captivated, became his pupil.
Hariprasad received further guidance from the famous teacher-Surbahar
player Annapurna Devi, the illustrious daughter of Mahiar gharana
maestro Ustad Allaudin Khan, sister of the Sarod Guru Ali Akbar Khan,
and the "better half" of the legendary Sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar.
[Surbahar is like a bigger Sitar, tuned one octave lower. The
quality of its timbre in the very low octave has to be heard to be
believed.] Thus Hariprasad was able to stand on his own merit, even
when the music world was under the influence of the greatest flutist
Pannalal Ghosh.

Hari-ji, as he is lovingly called [please note, JI stands for love
and respect!], Hariprasad is not only a master of the North Indian
bamboo flute, but also an excellent and painstaking teacher. He has
done great sevice to the cause of Indian music all over the world,
while pursuing an inspired performing career as a musician.

Hari-ji has recorded extensively his solo recitals, jugalbandhi-s
(duets) with the Santoor wizard Shiv Kumar Sharma; has also recorded
with artistes like John McLaughlin to Jan Garbarek . He has composed
music for Indian movies like Silsila.

For Hari-ji's comprehensive discography, visit
http://www.chaurasia.com/
http://www.songsearch.net/CATALOG/H/HARIPRASAD_CHAURASIA.HTM

In passing, I have observed that all instrumentalists -- Hariprasad
(flute), Sultan Khan (Sarangi), Vilayat Khan (Sitar), Annapurna Devi
(Surbahar) -- have always been good singers.

Regards,
Haresh.

David Beardsley wrote:

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> he's one of my favorite Hindustani musicans!

I have a recording of Hariji playing a Malkauns. It is one of the most powerful pieces of music I
have heard. I was listening to it a few years ago as I was working away in an yoga centre. At the
crux of one section a simple pentatonic motif hit me like an arrow in the chest and forced me to
stumble over, blubbering like a child. I've rarely felt music in such a physical and emotional
manner. He certainly puts it together.

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>

on 3/28/01 5:23 PM, tuning@yahoogroups.com at tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> From: ligonj@northstate.net
> Subject: Hariprasad Chaurasia
>
> Hariprasad Chaurasia - what immpeccable melodic mastery!
>
> This is one of my top favorite Bansuri Masters! I'm just transfixed
> everytime I hear him.
>

Oh yes, me too.

Seth

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Alison Monteith wrote:
>
> David Beardsley wrote:
> >
> > he's one of my favorite Hindustani musicans!
>
> I have a recording of Hariji playing a Malkauns. It is one of the
> most powerful pieces of music I have heard. I was listening to it
> a few years ago as I was working away in an yoga centre. At the
> crux of one section a simple pentatonic motif hit me like an arrow
> in the chest and forced me to stumble over, blubbering like a child.
> I've rarely felt music in such a physical and emotional
> manner. He certainly puts it together.

My intro was a concert in New Jersey that was basically
an Indian World Festival at Middlesex County College (very local to
where I live).

I went to this particular concert because he was supposed
to play with Zakir (cancelled). Pandit played with another
drummer anyway. I'd never heard of him at the time.
This must have been about 10-12 years ago.

The afternoon and evening were filled with thunder storms and
scared all the tourists away...there were very few westerners there!
Of course the concert was amazing. Later I got Raga Lait on Nimbus,
my only Hariparasad cd for years.

nada brahma,
db

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