Disciples
Posté dans divers, HINDOUSTAN par kerbacho - Date : avril 2nd, 2006En juin 2000, lors de notre dernière rencontre avant qu’il quitte l’Europe pour les Etats-Unis, j’avais demandé à Anirban Dasgupta quels étaient (outre son père) « les autres » disciples de Radhu Babu. Voici (dans l’ordre alphabétique) les noms qu’il m’avait donnés :
[extrait de http://www.angelfire.com/ma/sarod/presmsg.html]
Returning to Radhu Babu, his story is a tale of medieval majesty mixed into modern life. His grandfather was a wealthy Zamindar with a huge estate in Rajsahi, then in India, now part of Bangladesh. He was a patron of the arts, especially music, as he himself was a drummer. To enhance his drumming opportunities, he had, living at his court, a man who was arguably the finest sarodist in India, Ustad Mohammed Amir Khan Bangash of Shahjahanpur. Amir Khan’s great grandfather, Gulam Ali Khan Bangash , who was an Afghan rabab player, had invented the sarod by altering a rabab, replacing gut strings with metal and installing a metal fingerboard instead of wood. Gulam Ali’s son, Ustad Murad Ali Khan was the founder of the gharana and his brother Ustad Nanne Khan started another line of the gharana. Nanne Khan’s son was Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan , father of the present day Ustad, Amjad Ali Khan .
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