{"id":42514,"date":"2024-07-13T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T09:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mint-money.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/13\/joydeep-mukherjee-the-young-maestro-embracing-the-art-of-musical-brilliance-intricate-compositions-majestic-melodies\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T09:04:10","slug":"joydeep-mukherjee-the-young-maestro-embracing-the-art-of-musical-brilliance-intricate-compositions-majestic-melodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mint-money.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/13\/joydeep-mukherjee-the-young-maestro-embracing-the-art-of-musical-brilliance-intricate-compositions-majestic-melodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Joydeep Mukherjee: The young maestro embracing the art of musical brilliance, intricate compositions &amp; Majestic melodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>New Delhi (India) July 13 :<\/strong> \u201cAn Ode to Classical Excellence, embracing the timeless euphony\u201d \u2013 this phrase perhaps describes Pt. Joydeep Mukherjee\u2019s recent performance in Kolkata on 12th July at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations\u2019 Satyajit Ray auditorium, for their signature Horizon series program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The young maestro, recently being bestowed with the International Brooklyn Award 2024, supported by the Arts Society, London, for his contribution to revive the rare and extinct instruments of India has showcased three instruments here in one stage to present the theme \u201cHistorical melodic heritage of Bharat\u201d. The instruments are the 18th century Sursingar, Sarod and Mohanveena of Radhika Mohan Maitra (1948). This Mohanveena should not be confused with that of its namesake, which is an enhanced slide guitar, developed, self-named and propagated by a popular musician since the 1990s, almost around 45 years post Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra invented the traditional Mohanveena which was a bridge instrument between the Sarod and Sursingar, named by Thakur Jaidev Singh, the-then Chief Producer of All India Radio.<\/p>\n<p>Mukherjee started the \u2018Alaap\u2019 in Sursingar on raaga Miya Ki Malhar and concluded it with \u2018Jor\u2019 and climax-filled \u2018jhala\u2019. He then played three compositions of Miya Ki Malhar in Mohanveena \u2013 first one in the 12-beat Choutaal followed by two in 16-beat Tritaal. He was given great support on Tabla by the veteran percussionist Pt. Debasish Sarkar, a disciple of Pt. Kanai Datta and Pt. Jnan Prakash Ghosh. Mukherjee then moved to Sarod, concluding his presentation by playing some self-created compositions based on popular songs of Rabindranath Tagore on monsoons. This, he announced, \u201chas been inspired by the works of Padma Bhusan Pt. Buddhadeb Dasgupta with the help of Pt. Debasish Sarkar.\u201d Needless to say, Sarkar\u2019s accompanying style enhanced the execution of the compositions played by Pt. Mukherjee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mukherjee\u2019s program was followed by\u00a0an Odissi dance drama on Ramayana by Ms. Shatabdi Mallik and her group where they portrayed their performance on \u2018Mahiyasi Kayikei\u2019. The audience enjoyed the show as every artist tried to give their best expressions.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking about the history of the Mohanveena, Mukherjee said, \u201cIt was around 1943, when the young sarod player Radhika Mohan Maitra played a \u2018jugalbandi\u2019 in Sursingar with Ustad Sadiq Ali Khan on Veena at a concert in Lucknow which was attended by many great musicians of that time. Post the concert Maitra felt the necessity of a 3-in-1 instrument which would have the resonance of the Sursingar, tonal quality of a Veena while it would deliver faster \u2018bol-bani\u2019 playing capability to that of a Sarod or Rabab. In short, it would be like a bridge instrument between Sarod &amp; Sursingar so that the sarod players don\u2019t face difficulty in playing a Sursingar like instrument. It was required to imbibe the \u2018Dhrupad-aang Been\u2019 baaj for the sarod players \u2013 practically impossible in Sarod. After some years of experimentation, in 1948, he came up with a design of an instrument which looks like an amalgamation of the Sursingar &amp; Sarod.\u00a0In the new instrument the essence of Veena, Sursingar &amp; Sarod was incorporated. Amazed by its design &amp; sound quality, Thakur Jaidev Singh, the-then chief producer of All India Radio named the instrument as \u201cMohanveena\u201d after the name of Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra in 1948. He also recorded an interview of Pt. Maitra along with a recital in the same year in Akashvani. It was one of the most successful experiments where he played several National Programs and numerous Akashvani recordings on this instrument, which are now the assets of Akashvani archives. In this instrument the goat skin of the sarod was replaced by light wood and the huge \u2018tabli\u2019 of Sursingar is minimised to some extent. The bridge was flattened and one smaller bridge was added like the Surbahar for sympathetic strings, i.e. \u2018Jawari\u2019 component has been added. Doordarshan also made a documentary on this heritage instrument in 1990s, which was broadcasted several times in the National network, named \u2013 \u201cMohanveena \u2013 a Genesis\u201d. Today, this \u2018parampara\u2019 of the 76-year old Mohanveena\u00a0is being practiced by the disciples, grand disciples and great disciples of Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sursingar, another traditional instrument modernized, revived and presently propagated by Mukherjee across the world, has been appreciated by the Honourable Prime Minister, Shree Narendra Modi in February 2023, after receiving the National award in Music from the Sangeet Natak Academi (Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Purashkar) in Instrumental music for the year 2019.\u00a0He recently made the headlines across India for reviving and modernizing the 16th century Tanseni Rabab (created by the legendary Tansen) and Sur-rabab made in the 19th\u00a0century Bengal. This Tanseni Rabab is the father of Sursingar while Sur-rabab is a cross between the Tanseni rabab and Sursingar, quite evident from its name \u2013 \u2018Sur\u2019 from Sursingar &amp; \u2018Rabab\u2019 from Tanseni Rabab.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, when questioned about the modified slide guitar in the similar name of Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra\u2019s instrument, he clearly mentioned, \u201cNo comments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have any objection to this press release content, kindly contact pr.error.rectification@gmail.com to notify us. We will respond and rectify the situation in the next 24 hours.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (India) July 13 : \u201cAn Ode to Classical Excellence, embracing the timeless euphony\u201d \u2013 this phrase perhaps describes Pt. 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