" My Memoirs in Music " by Shweta Jhaveri
A thing of beauty is a joy forever - in the spirit of this favourite Keatsian line I present a few of my memoirs in music.
Whether it is the present, past or future, sweet memories stay forever. Often suggested by my wellwishers and students in general
to write something about my Hindustãni vocal music training and music-life, I present excerpts from my teens and twenties in India and abroad.
My first 25 years in music.
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* The Guru-shishya Paramparã
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In 1990s I was instrumental to inaugurate the lamp of the premier Pandit Jasraj School of Music foundation
outside of India and often visited there to teach and perform.
( Founded & Directed
by Asha Lohia )
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Vocal accompanyment to my legendary Guruji from 1986 to early-1990s was great learning for me.
He performed richly beautiful khayals, his compositions and bhajans that I was grateful to learn and performed in India and abroad,
inaugurated the lamp of Guruji's premier foundation outside of India, mentored students, researched, composed for
dance-dramas and sang for my debut-film BhagvadGita for swami Vivekananda's centenary.
From college days I had often sung, composed, recorded, for many years at the studio of a producer fan P. Jangbãri in India.
When he heard me accompanying Guruji in concerts he called my voice culture Shwet-rangi meaning pure-colourful, like a follower of
guruji.
Guruji's voice was four notes higher than mine. His shadaj (Sa) was my madhyam (Ma) therefore in many concerts due to my limited upper
voice range I had begun to accompany him in the lower to middle octaves introducing my voice culture, reviewed by critics as
'providing delightful counterpoint' or 'wonderfully innovative'. At times critics interviewed me as if I co-innovated something. Thus 35 years ago in my
early 20s as a disciple and vocal accompanist to Guruji I was grateful to perform his innovative duet in progress and to be its premier
performer-accompanist.
Due to Guruji's foundations, busy schedules and our different lifestyles we hardly met.
Guruji had blessed me saying "As a disciple and a vocal accompanist your voice brings me peace."
(Tutelage- reviews)
* My Beginnings at the AACM :
(page 2 of 3)
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