New venue to welcome burgeoning audience

The 32nd edition of world’s longest classical music festival Saptak 2012 is to take place at Amrut Mody School of Management, near IIM-A from today. This is a maiden shift of venue for the 13-day long festival, which has always been organized at Kashiram Agarwal Hall. The venue change is prompted by the attempt to […]

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Old instruments, fusion to star at 32nd Saptak

The heady combination of shehnai and sitar promises to set hearts racing on the first day of Saptak 2012 the 32nd edition of longest international music festival. The fest will begin on January 1 with the first session — a double bill with Ustad Ali Abbas Khan’s Shehnai and Kartik Sheshadri’s sitar accompanied by Shubh […]

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Saptak's classical music library to go public

Digitization Of Over 15,000 Rare Recordings Has Been Completed In a mammoth effort to preserve century-old live music performances, Saptak has readied the firstever digitalized classical music library in the state. The library will be open to the public from January 2012. The library contains many hidden gems including the musical renditions of Lt Mongubai […]

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Drug-addict in Mum, vocalist in France

“Life is indeed an accident,” says musician Joseph Manuel Roacha, 68, also known as ‘Slow Joe’. “I was severely addicted to drugs. And today I am severely addicted to music. The change from drugs to music has happened quite accidently,” adds Joseph. A vocalist with a band from France, born and brought up in Mumbai, […]

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Making of Sultan in Morbi – journey from Bhilvas to Buckingham Palace

With legendary Sarangi Nawaz Sultan Khan’s demise, the world lost a creator of intriguingly pathos evoking melodies, however his disciple Dr Kashyap Dave, anaesthesiologist who learnt Sarangi from Khan last 25 years and is in close association with him since 1960, lost a father-figure and mentor. Sharing his precious memories of past decades, Dave said, […]

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