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| They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update.With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb.Internet Movie Database Inc.CREATE YOUR PLAYLIST NOW!Though her public image is sometimes dominated by perceptions of an uncompromising
approach and unapproachability, the power and emotional appeal of her music has
kept her in the forefront of classical music lovers' thoughts for many years.This page contains Indic text.Kishori Amonkar (born April 10, 1931) is a noted Hindustani music performer who is known for singing khayal in the Jaipur gharana style.Unsourced
Music without emotion is like an empty shell.That is why our shastriya sangeet fails to appeal to listeners who always prefer music which appeals to the heart, rather than the intellect.Our music is the fifth Veda.If you go on contemplating and meditating upon the divine art.Brahman I am trying to reach that.People say that I look beautiful when I sing.Today I seem to have got an answer.This page was last modified 14:22, 20 August 2007.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.Fateh Ali Khan
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D.Perfectionist and a Dreamer
To know Smt.Kishori Amonkar is to know
genius.She has in her a concentrated essence of tbe
good, the bad and the beautiful that any genius could
boast of.Kishoritai now for many a year, yet
I find that the passage of time does not help me to bind
in words her elusive and many dimensional personality.Like a great poet, she can say "Yes.Kishoritai tunes her tanpura with
the precision of a scientist.Then how does one do it ?Pausing
only for thc well anticipated question to end, she
replied, " Well, it is an art.One should strike the next string in such
a manner that the sound of the second is blended into
the first and so on and thus thereby there is being
established sacred serious, musical cyclic pattern.Of
course it inspires me to sing, but at times I am afraid
even to mingle my own vocal notes into that divine
sound.Her eyes gently shut, one
hand adjusting thc beads below, the other stretching
out towards the knobs at the other end, she becomes
an object of beauty for any photographer, a portrait
painter or even all ordinary viewer.And the colour is the colour of love.But that will never
satisfy her.The seen world she does love
but the pull and the insight into the unseen world is
more fascinating.Her imagination then knows no
bounds "How must be the home of these notes ?How do they behave with each other ?She has
thonght consistently and deeply on the various problems
that face a creative artist.Her
notes are divine and their singing is sacred.She feels that an artist is an artist.Like a
true romanticist, she has an undying urge to reach out
to Beauty.Her search for beauty does not turn her into an
escapist.Wheras, in life most often than not, they
are mutually exclusive.That is the uniqueness of art.Music may thrive on and be enriched by the depth and
expanse of a 'Karuna Rasa' or 'Shringar Rasa', but
it ultimately culminates in 'Shanti Rasa' that is
'ultimate bliss'.If Kishoritai adores Beauty, she worships Truth
anf therefore respects knowledge.Knowledge for her
is not trapped wholly in books or fettered only in laboratories.She believes that knowledge is free.It can be
found anytime, anywhere.Some of the rarest titles
in English Literature have been presented to me by
Kishoritai, having bought the books in a bookshop, at
various airports or on the pavement.They are
neatly covered and bound.She
searched for it high and low, She leafed through all
the shops in Bombay, Delhi, Allahabad nd other
smaller cities in India as well.But Kishoritai did not give in.And if Mai is unwell, Kishoritai is terribly disturbed.At
that time, it is easier for Lalitatai to nurse Mai than
attend her Tai's frequent and demanding phone calls.And as soon as Mai says, "I
am having a stomach ache or a little palpitation,"
Kishoritai leaves her side to sit besides the telephone.She rings up the
Doctor so often and with so much of urgency that she
makes the Doctor sick.With a temperature
as high as 103 raging in her body, I have seen her give
all excellent full fledged concert in Dadar.One had only to
see it to believe it.That is the fierce intensity she has
for her music.It is almost inhuman or superhuman.Her study of
"rasa theory" is very comprehensive.By now,
she has become a renowned exponent of the "Rasa
Theory of Music".She carries
the same brand of fire in her speeches as in her musical
rendering.It was the year 1977; Place: New Delhi.Kishoritai Amonkar had been invited to
participate in an International Seminar on Arts to be
held in the capital of India.The thunderous applause at the end "communicated"
the listeners' feeling of appreciation.The impact of
the paper was further seen when the Indian and Foreign
Delegates attended her concert at 'Ashoka Hotel' the
following day and made it a point to tell her of the
same.Bound to music and its Reedeemer too.Kishoritai
doesn't sing music, she breathes it.Then what can one
write about it?It is like trying to describe and give
one's impression of a beautiful sunrise.Her Music is as fresh as dew
and as ancient as the earth.Here I acknowledge my utter helplessness to do
justice to her singing.She like
her mother Mai has also been awarded a 'Padmabhushan'.Indian Melody : Your one stop source for all Indian Music needs..Kishori Amonkar Songs : Hosted by Bharath. |
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