A Seraphic Ecstasy Of Indian Raaga Music In Leeds

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Three top-notch Indian classical musicians Roopa Panesar, Kamalbir Nandra and Chandra Chakraborty performed at Seven Arts, Leeds at the finale of the two-day World Poetry and Indian classical Music Festival and held the audience literally spellbound with extra-ordinary fusion of world poetry and Indian classical music.
The festival was held on 9 and 10 October 2015 and organised by one of the leading Indian classical music promoters in this country and a Leeds based Indian sub-continental classical music institution Saudha, Society of Poetry and Indian Music.
Roopa Panesar, one of leading Sitarists of this country, performed at the beginning of the second day of the festival. The melancholy of the autumn at the outside of the venue added a doleful dimension to the performances. Elena Loomba, in the audience at seven Arts, said ‘The whole composition turned out to be so autumnal, such a wonderful dialogue between death and life, such a flow of woes’.
Kamalbir Nandra, the disciple of the late maestro of Ghazal Jagjit Singh, played a rendition of viscerally connecting composition in Violin.
A phenomenal part of the evening was, an experimental rendition of live classical music, poetry recitation and dance, called Raagmala. Led by one of the finest Indian classical Chandra Chakrabory, the whole performance metaphorically painted the human life cycle through different phases from dawn to dusk. Sumana Basu, a Leeds based semi-classical singer sang two light songs and Ishita Bhattachariya interpreted the colour of ragas through the dramatic expression of Kathak dance while Eric Schelander recited to poems of Tagore and Hafez to communicate the mood of music.
The event was planned, developed and anchored by the director of Saudha T M Ahmed Kaysher.

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