Dr. Padmanabh Joshi | pkjoshi8945@gmail.com If you listen to a film song composed by maestros Shanker-Jaikishan, OP Nayyar, or Salil Chowdhury, you also hear a tune being played along with the song in the background. This parallel tune is created with Violin, Cello, Piano, Spanish Guitar, or an Organ. This ‘parallel tune for a song’...
Can a boy of just 13 years of age play Violin like a professional and conduct a full Church Choir? Well, yes if he is Anthony Prabhu Gonsalves. Does this name sound familiar? Yes. He was the same Anthony Gonsalves who was paid tribute by his student and legendary composer Pyarelal Sharma in the song...
Shankar Iyer | burmanfan@gmail.com Listening to the RD Burman’s iconic ‘Tum Bin Jaan Kahaan’ (Pyar Ka Mausam) without Kishore Desai's mandolin strings is much similar to being served Mumbai’s famed vada pav without vada and the dry garlic chutney! The ultimate freedom song 'Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna hai' (Guide) or Ai Meri Zohra zabeen...
by: Sudnya Patkar, (daughter of a well-known song and solo violinist Pt. Gajananrao Karnad pens a life portrait of her illustrious father). Pandit Gajanan Madhav Karnad was born in a middle-class Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin family on 28th April 1923. A distant relative visiting the Karnad family noticed the child would just not let go of...
Born on 3 June 1890, Baburao Krishna Rao Meystri belonged to karveer Nagar. He was widely famous in entire Kolhapur; he was an eccentric artist. Baburao was an exceptional engineer and a compiler. He had the camera made for filming movies and was the one to introduce artificial lighting, trolley for cameras, three-dimensional characters, stenography, curtains...
Shankar Iyer | burmanfan@gmail.com The trailblazer for the community of musicians, Cawas Lord was the first-ever musician of the Hindi Music Industry, you heard it right! Born in 1911 to an affluent Parsi family in Pune, Cawas was brave enough to follow his heart and that made him take the decision of moving to Mumbai...
