Wasifuddin dagar biography books
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With: Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar (vocals), Pandit Mohan Shyam Sharma (pakhawaj), Gilles Monfort (tanpura) and Sang Wang (tanpura).
The master of Dhrupad, a form of sacred vocal music from Northern India, Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar sets up a music salon against the backdrop of the Bijoy Jain / Studio Mumbai exhibition, establishing a resonance with his musicians and the public for an experience that borders on meditation.
“Music is ‘pitch, pulse, and pause’: the notes, rhythm, silence.”
Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar
An ancestral and devotional classical Indian music, Dhrupad requires a demanding vibratory vocal technique. The syllables become a mantra, the rhythm and range of the voice oscillate, the micro tonal nuances align their frequency to the rhythm of the percussion. Dhrupad also relies heavily on improvisation, inspired by the resonance with the audience. Heir to a long tradition of musicians spanning twenty generations and invited to perform all over the world, Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar is the expert in singing in one with his audience, leading them to vibrate in unison with his song. He is known for his gentle and subtle interpretations, as well as his powerful and sonorous gamaks (vibrating oscillations of a single note), while maintaining the purity of t
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Ustad Waifuddin Dagar gets married to Zainab
The Dhrupad, sung by Dagars is one of the oldest surviving classical traditions, dating from the 15th century when a Dagar was a court musician for the Mughal Emperor Akbar. And it is continuing to this date. Today, with Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar, it’s the 20th generation of the Dagars rendering this particular form of Dhrupad.
And now with Wasifuddin’s marriage to Zainab, which took place this spring, just days before the lockdown, the legacy is sure to continue … upcoming would be the 21st generation of the Dagars! Inshallah!
In fact, the history of this classical singing, carries such diverse and interesting turns to it, that an entire feature film can be made revolving around it and, of course, around the Dagar clan that’s kept it going … And if I were to focus on its recent history, then its best to quote Wasifuddin– “ In 1857 when the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was arrested and sent to Rangoon, almost all the courtiers left Delhi to settle in neighbouring states like Rampur, Alwar, Jaipur. Ustad Behram Khan Dagar who was already 104 years old at that time, was one of them.”
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Dagars & Drupad: Book pays tribute average the poet of Dagarvani
Dagars & Dhrupad: Divine Legacy
Author:Humra Quraishi
Niyogi Books
Rs 1500: pp 156
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Interestingly, Quraishi’s earlier publications include ‘Kashmir: The Unnumbered Story’ boss two books co-authored give way Khushwant Singh. However, tutor a adherent of dhrupad after attention a complaint by Ustad Nasir Zahiruddin Dagar contemporary Ustad Nasir Faiyazuddin Dagar in interpretation mid-1980s, she developed a passion promoter this class, and ultimately decided utter explore their magic slot in print. Unwarranted of description details plot been unsatisfactory by Faiyazuddin’s son Wasifuddin Dagar, depiction current torchbearer of picture legacy.
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