Gangubai Hangal's Birthday Celebrations

humdinger · Post by **humdinger** » 06 Mar 2007, 22:58

Vidushi Gangubai Hangal celebrates her 95th birthday...
http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/02/stories ... 440300.htm

coolji, on to you now, to distribute sweats...

knandago2001 · Post by **knandago2001** » 07 Mar 2007, 00:25

I visited Ajji on sankranti day last January to pay my respects. She is a real gem of a person! In spite of poor health, she was such an eager conversationist that I couldn't bring myself to take leave of her after 3 hours... Later this year, she looks forward to celebrating Rambhau Kundgolkar's (Savai Gandharva) aradhane in Kundgol - her guru bhakti is so inspiring.... God bless and keep her for all of us

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 07 Mar 2007, 07:32

humdinger.
I am unpacking.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 07 Mar 2007, 10:00

Waiting for candy

humdinger · Post by **humdinger** » 07 Mar 2007, 10:29

at your leisure Kji...wait makes the candy tastier...

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 07 Mar 2007, 10:35

Koyaliya Bole....
http://rapidshare.com/files/19798792/Hi ... e.mp3.html

(there is some magic in this Hindol(Sunadavinodini) which is beyond words...
One can feel the Sun Rising as she sings it.
also has a lovely tharana in Kamod
humdinger, arasi-most uploads here will be of average recording quality - picked up from various sources (mostly AIR)

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 07 Mar 2007, 13:56

and images of a glorious Sunset
another glorious tharana

http://rapidshare.com/files/19811344/Ma ... _.mp3.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/19813067/Ch ... s.mp3.html
Chandrakauns

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 07 Mar 2007, 14:03

http://forum.santabanta.com/showthread. ... 113&page=8

also see posts 112 to 114 by Saleem- a Moving story beautifully told

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 07 Mar 2007, 20:39

Cool,
And it was twenty years ago! Her seventy fifth birthday. What a woman, what a life! We were lucky enough to hear her in two house concerts in the early eighties.
The name Mulle comes to me in a flash. Wonder if Vijay Mulle is related to the Mrs. Mulle I knew briefly through my aunt. I traveled from Bombay to Pune with them where my aunt had official business. Mrs. Mulle, I gathered, was a rasika. She seemed interested in the CM and hindi film songs I sang--being polite to my aunt, may be--and when my aunt went on to Dharwar to attend a conference, it was arranged that I would stay with Mrs. M with her friends in Pune, and return to Bombay the next morning. I had a surprise. Her friend turned out to be Bhimsen Joshi, and late into the night, he sang, his wife's ustad played the sitar, and there was a tabla player too. We crashed on the floor for a few hours' sleep, in that old fashioned house with an atrium (did they live on one side of the house?). When it was time for us to leave the next morning, Mrs. Joshi, donned in traditional sari (was it a special puja day?), prepared hot khichdi for breakfast, after which they said goodbye to their friend and the stranger who came to stay the night...

humdinger · Post by **humdinger** » 07 Mar 2007, 21:26

kji...what a great way to wake up the world! juicy sweets indeed...thanks a lot!
arasi...that was quite an experience!

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 07 Mar 2007, 23:26

coolkarni wrote:Koyaliya Bole....
http://rapidshare.com/files/19798792/Hi ... e.mp3.html

(there is some magic in this Hindol(Sunadavinodini) which is beyond words...
One can feel the Sun Rising as she sings it.
also has a lovely tharana in Kamod
humdinger, arasi-most uploads here will be of average recording quality - picked up from various sources (mostly AIR)

Cookarni avare,

Thanks a lot for the wonderful treat of hindOL

-Ramakriya

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 07 Mar 2007, 23:28

arasi wrote:Cool,
when my aunt went on to Dharwar to attend a conference, it was arranged that I would stay with Mrs. M with her friends in Pune, and return to Bombay the next morning. I had a surprise. Her friend turned out to be Bhimsen Joshi

Arasi avare,

You are so lucky!

-Ramakriya

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 07 Mar 2007, 23:38

Ramakriya,
Yes!
Still, you have all those years to experience even better things...

Wish though, that you and I and others were not at two ends of the world instead of being with DRS on the 10th.

knandago2001 · Post by **knandago2001** » 12 Mar 2007, 18:33

Coolkarni Sir thanks for that lovely hindol. I'm slowly catching up with listening....

Here are the links to Mata Bhavani in Komal rishab Asavari
http://www.badongo.com/file/2445669

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 12 Mar 2007, 18:36

thank you for the track.are we ready for
bole re papee hara ??

knandago2001 · Post by **knandago2001** » 12 Mar 2007, 20:47

Oh yes, that wonderful Miyan ki Malhar!! Who else can sing it like Ajji? What a God-send!!! many thanks Sir..

humdinger · Post by **humdinger** » 12 Mar 2007, 21:48

ever ready...

divakar · Post by **divakar** » 14 Mar 2007, 13:34

since on topic.. an article that is one year old. hope it is ok.

http://www.flonnet.com/fl2304/stories/2 ... 708000.htm

jayaram · Post by **jayaram** » 14 Mar 2007, 14:08

A graceful lady...

meena · Post by **meena** » 15 Mar 2007, 07:56

divakar
thanks. Yr. old its ok with me, was a good read

Gangubai once told film-maker Vijaya Mulay, in the initial years of television: "If a male musician is a Muslim, he becomes an Ustad. If he is a Hindu, he becomes a Pandit. But women like Kesarbai and Mogubai just remain Bais."

Her mother Ambabai was a Carnatic musician.She was so brilliant that the best of musicians came to listen to her.

Kji, do u have an audio clip?

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 28 Mar 2008, 16:30

A wonderful article in todays "The Hindu" Bangalore edition on Gangubhai and Bhimsen Joshi by Deepa Ganesh. Please find the link below:

http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/28/stories ... 682200.htm

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 28 Mar 2008, 20:16

Thank you, Cienu. Very moving...

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 28 Mar 2008, 21:25

Today Kundagol has one of the most quaint looking Railway stations.The platform is at a level lower than the ground level , so that we have to climb a flight of stairs to walk out.Trains often stop here , waiting for a signal to chug into Hubli.
Those few minutes of unplanned enjoyment , when I run up to pick up a conical packet of Mandakki -Khara(Pori-Mixture) from a very fine shop upstairs , is pure bliss,
Now, have I made Shanks homesick??
Any one cares for a gangubai "bole re papee hara" here ??

paddu · Post by **paddu** » 28 Mar 2008, 22:47

Any one cares for a gangubai "bole re papee hara" here ??

Neevu needida bhikshya.. Prasaadavendu UNNuvevaYYa...

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 28 Mar 2008, 23:02

Please make all comments in english. Thanks.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 29 Mar 2008, 02:13

Paddu says to Cool:
The alms that you extend, I would take as prasAd.
Don't we all?
(by the way, Lakshman can understand it

It is for the benefit of others that he mentions it.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 29 Mar 2008, 05:27

not only that,
paddu made it look like a line from a vachana ...
poets poets , everywhere.

http://rapidshare.com/files/103169049/1 ... Malhar.mp3

A 70 Minute khayal in miya malhar , rounded up with bole re in the faster tempo section.

matterwaves · Post by **matterwaves** » 06 Apr 2008, 03:48

cool sahebra,
sadhanakeriya geleyanobbana daye ( a friend of mine from sadhanakeri (dharawada) sent me this). A extremely soulful rendition of Bageshri (?).. who cares what raga it is when it can take you to the depths of bhava?

http://www.sendspace.com/file/o3oowz

lingering doubt whether it were actually bageshri(usage of panchama?) . Im gven to believe that pancham is varjya in bageshri