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Raag Jaijaiwanti (An Excerpt) -by Pandit Nikhil Banerjee

A Syed Wajid's Presentation

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Q. "Do you know of any serious, talented Western musicians who are now practicing Indian classical music"?

"To be very frank, I feel that one thing is lacking in these Western people-that is patience. Patience means when you say that you want to learn Indian music or any music, that you must go deep into it. For a few years you learn it, practice it and one fine morning you just give up. No! Then you cannot expect anything. I know because when I used to teach here there were many great talented boys and girls. They were doing very well but after 6-7 years they used to practice very hard, they used to devote and concentrate very hard, and they learned nicely. One fine morning, they say, "Now I must learn some Korean music!" OK, it's up to you. That perseverance and strength of mind that I will stick to one point is not there. There are two or three ways: if you really want to become a performer, is one point; "I want to have some idea about Indian music," that is another point; and "Just for the sake of my own pleasure I want to learn," is still another point. I've seen myself there were quite a good number of boys and girls who used to play good sitar or sarod. There's a practical side also: you must think about your future. If you've got that strength of mind, that you really love this music and you will really do something, just practice and concentrate, then definitely you can become a good musician. You have to have a real guru, of course, and hear good musicians. It's a full lifetime job. You listen, you practice, you think, how to improve, again you listen to good musicians. In that respect, anybody can learn and play good music. Like Peter Row in Boston, though for the past 5 or 6 years I've been out of touch with him, but before that he used to play quite nicely. He could reproduce the sentiments and emotions of rags very nicely. There's a boy at Khansahib's school, George Ruckert; one boy in Basel, Ken Zuckerman-he's a very good musician, he plays very good sarod. He actually plays lute. They're both American. If they really learn from Ali Akbar Khansahib, he's the best teacher they can have, and if they practice, think and listen, they can become good performers".

Pandit Jee said in an interview ........

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Music

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• Raag
• jaijaiwanti
• by
• Nikhil
• Banerjee
• 15
• min

[swajidz21]

@vatganapatim @ Thanks for appreciation .... plz check the Vimeo's link, now I updated the info.

[vatganapatim]

Great piece! The link for the complete recording isn't working. Grateful if you coulf fix. Thanks.