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Dhaka Gallery opens with a pristine sarode recital

Zahangir Alom
Delvistaa Foundation, Music Alliance World Wide and Shilpangan jointly organised a sarode recital at Dhaka Gallery, Banani in the capital recently. Ustad Aashish Khan, son of famous sarode maestro Ali Akbar Khan and grandson of Baba Ustad Allauddin Khan, performed at the programme accompanied by his son Shiraj Ali Khan on the sarode and Ustad Yousuf Ali Khan on the tabla. Dhaka Gallery started off its journey through this sarode recital.
The interactive soiree paid a musical tribute to the Surbahar Doyenne Guru Maa Annapurna Devi, who passed away on October 13, 2018.
Mustapha Khalid Palash, Chairman of Delvistaa
Foundation with Rumi Noman and Mehjabin Rahman on behalf of Shilpangan and Music Alliance World Wide respectively delivered welcome addresses at the event. Abul Khair, Chairman of Bengal Foundation, and Ustad Shahadat Hossain Khan spoke at the event. At the beginning, architects Shahzia Islam Anton and Mustapha Khalid Palash presented bouquets, uttario and gifts to the featured artistes of the soiree.
Ustad Aashish Khan started off the soiree with Raga Hembehag, an intermingling of Raga Hemant and Raga Behag. Baba Ustad Allauddin Khan, a legendary name in the history of North Indian classical music, created the distinct Raga Hemant along with developed the intermingled Raga
Hembehag. They presented alap, jod and jhala of the raga. The father-son duo later played Raga Kaushiki, which is otherwise called Raga Kaunsi Kanada. Ustad Aashish Khan played the rare gaut of the raga that he learned from his Guru Maa Annapurna Devi. Yousuf Ali Khan embellished the performance with playing madhyalaya tintaal on the tabla.
The promising Shiraj Ali Khan follows the style of reciting sarode with the left hand like his great grandfather Baba Ustad Allauddin Khan. Baba Allauddin became the court musician for the Maharaja of Maihar, where he laid the foundation of a modern Maihar Gharana by developing a number of ragas, combining the bass sitar and bass sarod with more traditional instruments and setting up
an orchestra. In 1935, he toured Europe, along with Pandit Uday Shankar's ballet troupe, and later also worked at his institute, Uday Shankar India Culture Centre at Almora for a while. In 1955, Khan established a college of music in Maihar. Some of his recordings were made at the All India Radio between 1959-60.
The multi-instrumentalist and composer Khan's son Ali Akbar Khan, daughter Annapurna Devi, son in law Pandit Ravi Shankar, nephew Raja Hossain Khan and grandson Aashish Khan went on to become established musicians. His other disciples include Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, Vasant Rai, Pannalal Ghosh, Bahadur Khan, Rabin Ghosh, Sharan Rani, Jotin Bhattacharya, Rajesh Chandra Moitra and W D Amaradeva.