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Folk music at Dhaka University

Two-day music festival ends

Jamil Mahmud
The two-day music festival arranged by recently opened Department of Music. Dhaka University ended on July 30 at the TSC auditorium. The second day s programme featured folk songs. Students and teachers of the department along with invited artistes, including Farida Parveen and Chandana Majumdar, performed different genres of folk songs at the programme.
Among the folk genres of the country, songs of Lalon are considered to be the most refined - in terms of lyrics and compositions. The mystic. philosophical songs take the listener to another realm. The programme naturally started with a chorus of a Lalon song. DU students rendered "Emon manob janam aar ki hobey. *
Students also sang some solos. Songs of rural bards, including Lalon. Radharaman,
Hason Raja. 'Polli Kobi Jasimuddin and Jalaluddin Khan, were rendered.
Enamul Haque performed a Lalon song. "Emon shamaj kobey go srijan hobey." Razia Sultana sang "Jarey chherey elam shey ki abar ashbey
phirey," a song composed by Jasimuddin.
Other choruses performed at the programme included a Hason Raja number "Hason Raja’e koy ami kichhu noy" and a Jalaluddin Khan song "Oamardarodi."
Noted music researcher and teacher of the department. Professor Mridulkanti Chakrabarty rendered a Radharaman song "Amar bondhu doyamoy tomarey dekhibar mon-e loy." The bards bf rural Bengal have ( delved deep into the mystery of creation. The Radharaman song would be an example of that. Through the song, the Vaishnav poet wanted to trace the link between the absolute and relative.
Accomplished folk singer Chandana Majumdar rendered two popular Lalon songs -- "Itorpana karjo amar" and "Aar amarey marishneyma."
Lalon exponent Farida Parveen rendered three songs, including "Barir pashey aarshinagar" and "Milon hobey koto diney." Her last performance was "Shomoy geley shadhon hobey na." In recent times, the veteran artiste has been
performing the song differently from her previous recorded cover. At the programme, the rendition featured only one instrument - a bamboo flute by Gazi /\bdul Hakim.
In between Majumdar and Parveen's performances, Kamoi Khalid rendered "Shona bondhurey ami tomar naam loiya kandi." Among the invited artistes, Idris Boyati and his troupe (from Madaripur) performed at the programme
Prior to the rfltfsibhF programme, a discussion was held where Professor Nazrul Islam, chairman, Bangladesh University Grants Commission was the chief guest. Professor Harun-ur-Rashid, pro-vice chancellor, DU and Professor Sadrul Amin, dean, Faculty of Arts, DU were the special guests. Kuheli Islam, chairperson of the department, gave the welcome speech.
The programme was held to mark the 100 years of the ever-familiar patriotic song "Dhano dhanya pushpey bhora" by Dwijendra Lal Roy. The first day's programme featured performances of classical music.