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A boost to classical music

Chhayanaut's Shuddha Sangeet Utshab begins today

Staff Correspondent
Chhayanaut will hold a two-day classical music festival (both vocal and instrumental) at its main auditorium in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. Starting on December 19 evening, the annual festival comprising three sessions, will end on December 21.
The seventh edition of the festival will be formally inaugurated by eminent music exponent and guru Pandit Amaresh Roy Chowdhury of Rajshahi as chief guest.
In this connection, a press conference was held on December 17 at Chhayanaut Shangskriti Bhaban. Vice president of the organisation, Dr. Sarwar Ali; three classical music gurus - Rezwan Ali Lablu, Asit Dey and Swarup Hossain - were present at the press conference.
The programme will begin at 6:00 pm on December 19 with the lighting of candles as a symbol of diffusing knowledge; followed by a welcome address by the organisers along with speeches by the chief guest and a choral performance by the artistes of Chhayanaut. The festival aims to fulfill the desire of music lovers for events dedi-
cated to classical music and to inspire the practice of the genre in Bangladesh.
Besides group performances by Chhayanaut artistes, Amaresh Roy Chowdhury, Saurav Kumar Nahar (Kolkata, India) and Latifun Jilio will perform vocal music while Dolon Kanungo (Chittagong) will present a Mohonveena recital at the first session (6pm-10:30pm) on the inaugural day.
The second session of the festival will start at 9am and continue till 1pm the next day (December 20). Satindranath Haidar, Aloke Kumar Sen, Bizon Chandra
Mistry will be the featured
vocalists while Iftekhar Alam Prodhan (tabla) and Sheuli Bhattacharjee (violin) will perform instrumental recitals at that session. Chhayanaut artistes will also give a group performance at the session.
The third session of the festival will set off on the same
day at 7:30 pm, and will continue till the next morning. A number of noted vocalists - Khairul Anam Shakil, Anil Kumar Saha, Asit Dey, Rezwan Ali Lablu, Pandit Tushar Dutta (Kolkata, India), Fakir Shahidul Islam and Priyanka Gope will perform classical khayal while Md. Moniruzzaman (flute), Swarup Hossain (tabla) and Ebadul Huq Shaikat (sitar) will present instrumental recitals at the nightlong session. Chhayanaut artistes will also perform choruses at the programme.
Mobile phone operator Grameenphone is the sponsor of the festival.