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The Limping Beauty and the Challenges— Birth of Saptarishi and Peeyush Talas
Note: Please scroll down to read an approximate translation by Dr. Pragya Pyasi, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Hyderabad. It was early 1995. We all were so much under the overwhelming influences of the four instrument-giants Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Vilayet Khan, and Nikhil Banerjee that our minds were kind of hypnotized state…
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Anil Madhyam
Note: This was originally posted on January 5, 2012 by sitardivine Scroll down for Interpretations through Synaesthesia Sanjoyda talks about the birth of Anil-Madhyam. “It was coldish 26 December… six notes came to me whispering.. I started humming… immediately started to love them. I called Dilip [Mukherjee] on his cell phone ‘Dilip, sandhyebelaa free aachho? Tumi ele aktu…
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Ahiri Marwa and Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta
Note: This was originally posted on March29, 2014. On the day before yesterday [27 Mar 2014] at the ‘Vistar’ program Buddhada [Padmabhushan Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta] suddenly asked me if I knew ‘Ahiri Marwa’ [আহীরী মারোয়া জানিস?]. I said, no, I did not learn any rag named ‘Ahiri Marwa’ [না শিখিনি]. Next evening when I came back…
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A sketch discovered after 45 years…
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A Poetic Praise
Pt. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay gave a sitar solo recital at his workplace Rabindra Bharati University. The program was arranged on February 26, 2012 at the Uday Shankar Hall at Emerald Bower Campus to observe the sesquicentennial birthday celebration of Swami Vivekananda. Professor Bandopadhyay played Shudh-Sarang and a dhun based on the Tagore song ‘Megher kole rod…
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৬০ পেরিয়ে
৬০ পার করাটা অনেক চেষ্টা করেও শেষ পর্যন্ত আটকানো গেলনা| কুষ্ঠিতে ছিলনা তাও পৌঁছেই গেলাম|এগার বছর বয়সেই সটকে যাবার কথা ছিল, তার জায়গায় ষাট! অতএব এ পর্যন্ত ৪৯ বছর ফাউ| ফাউ সবারই ভালো লাগে, সত্যি বলতে কি আমারও অল্প অল্প লাগে| জন্মদিনের দুদিন আগে জানতে পারলাম আমার শ্রীমতীজী কিছু একটা ফাঁদছেন, টের পেলাম উনি ছাত্র-ছাত্রীদের সাথেও কথাবার্তা বলছেন| ১৬ সেপ্টেম্বর সকালে ওঠার…
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Brief Bio-data
Name Pandit Sanjoy Bandopadhyay Date of Birth September 16, 1954 Snail mail 3/1/1D Padmapukur Road, Kolkata 700092 [W.B.] Email / Phone sitardivine@gmail.com | 9433230717 / 9163365904 Training Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra, Pt. Bimalendu Mukherjee, Pt. Peejush Prasanna Bandopadhyay, Pt. Manas Chakraborty. Also from Pt. Ajay Sinha Roy, Pt. D.T. Joshi, Pt. Shankar Ghosh. AIR grade …
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Foreign visit itineraries since 2005
2016 Bangladesh Sunday 27 November: 2:00 a.m. | Concert at Dhaka Army Stadium, Bengal Foundation Music Festival 2014 USA 08 t o 15 February – Visit to the University of Michigan Friday, February 7th : 9:05 pm Flight Departs KolkataSaturday, Feb 8th : 1:50 pm Flight arrives to DetroitGround Transportation from airport to hotelSunday, February 9th : Rest! Recover…
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News Archive since 2014
It occurred that we inadvertently deleting the news that appears on this site at different times. So we decided to create this archive. Better late than never! Commendable Research Presentation by Dr. Pragya Pyasi connecting PSB’s Music Pedagogy and SDG at the Lovely Professional University Dr. Pragya Pyasi’s research presentation on “Exploration of Innovation and…
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Tribute to the Music Legend Richie Havens at Woodstock
Hindi Translation —- Bengali Translation Playing at the Bethel Woods on the 18 Aug 2013 to pay tribute to the music icon Richie Havens I had the opportunity to pay my humble musical tribute to the music legend Richie Havens during the memorial function along with Steve Gorn [Bansuri] and Samir Chatterjee [Tabla]. Thanks to…
Pandit Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
Outstanding Musician, Prolific Guru, and Exemplary Academician
