Master on masters
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TextPublication details: Haryana Penguin Random house 2017Description: xli, 122p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour)ISBN: 9780670089543Subject(s): Sarod players | Musicians | Music-India FriendshipDDC classification: 780.92254 Summary: Veteran musician and sarod maestro, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, writes a deeply
personal book about the lives and times of some of the greatest icons of Indian
classical music. Having known these stalwarts personally, he recalls anecdotes
and details about their individual musical styles, bringing them alive.
Twelve eminent musicians of the twentieth century appear in the book - Bade
Ghulam Ali Khan, Amir Khan, Begum Akhtar, Alla Rakha, Kesarbai Kerkar,
Kumar Gandharva, M.S. Subbulakshmi, Bhimsen Joshi, Bismillah Khan, Ravi
Shankar, Vilayat Khan and Kishan Maharaj. In writing about them, Amjad Ali
Khan transcends the Gharana and north-south divide, and presents portraits of
these great artists that are drawn with affection, humour and warmth.
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Veteran musician and sarod maestro, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, writes a deeply
personal book about the lives and times of some of the greatest icons of Indian
classical music. Having known these stalwarts personally, he recalls anecdotes
and details about their individual musical styles, bringing them alive.
Twelve eminent musicians of the twentieth century appear in the book - Bade
Ghulam Ali Khan, Amir Khan, Begum Akhtar, Alla Rakha, Kesarbai Kerkar,
Kumar Gandharva, M.S. Subbulakshmi, Bhimsen Joshi, Bismillah Khan, Ravi
Shankar, Vilayat Khan and Kishan Maharaj. In writing about them, Amjad Ali
Khan transcends the Gharana and north-south divide, and presents portraits of
these great artists that are drawn with affection, humour and warmth.
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