The Guardian's editorial page has a column titled "In praise of..."
where, as might be guessed, the editors choose someone or something
to praise. On July 1, it featured Bireshwar Gautam. Here's what
the editors had to say.

Excerpt follows:

It is hard to work out whether Bireshwar Gautam is courageous or
foolhardy, or both. Who on earth tries to make a living from a
tradition of classical music that is close to dying out? How can a
male...

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some of you may have read this book already, but janaki bakhle's "two
men and music" about bhatkhande and vishnu digambar paluskar is a MUST
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vinay

A friend recently forwarded these to me...thought I'd share them with
the rasiks here.

Raga Marwa performed at Seattle, Nov 3rd 2007. Notice the old style
(as in pre-Amir Khan sa'ab) approach to the Raag (the sound quality is
not all that great, but I think the performance compensates).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z7OMzDQgGGM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3EvGwDx0OlM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DVNNcjqAzw4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fxEXJEaKWg4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=l70B82RuAKA

There are some more short (incomplete) clips of Bhaumikji on
youtube...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=p4-1onh479c
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VtNF77rfm88
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VycT4BvbiZ8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qLA5z_8xqew
(the jaijaiwanti is a particular favorite)

An excerpt of Devasthalibua's taleem in
Nand has now been posted (thanks to Sanjay
Havanur who did the mp3 conversion) at:

http://www.mediafire.com/?j1hpnolvnsh

This was recorded in mid-1991. The taleem was
given to me and my wife Vijaya Sundaram.

On a related note: there are to my knowledge
no available recordings of Devasthalibua's
concert presentations. He gave up public
performance in the mid-1970s, so there may
be tapes in some private collections, but I
have never encountered any. There is a
recording of Gajananbua singing Kafi Kanada,
Kamod and Savani Nat in which the vocal
support seems to be Devasthalibua...no
identifications are given, but Guruji agreed that
he was the one giving sangat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjqamJZklU8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcJAU7Q5BBI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbYAHND1Op4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maTEDFjbS54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMgsns7bww

These are from a TV appearance. Anyone recognize the interviewer?

I wish I had a lot of video to upload, now that I've finally got a
YouTube
account. Alas, there's not much more.

WS

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