Pandit Sanjoy Bandopadhyay

A Poetic Praise

sitardivine — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:58:24 +0000

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 hesechhe..’ .. The recital received very warm appreciations from the audiences.. Sanjoyjee’s colleague Dr. Bidyut Kanti Chaudhury, who is a natural poet and gives outlets to his expressions through poems, could not retain himself and immediately grabbed a piece of worn out paper and wrote a few lines. Later he gave it to Panditjee in a fresh new piece of paper.. We liked the poetry and take the opportunity to share with you.. the poetry by Dr. Bidyut Kanti Chaudhury on Pt. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay..

Anil-Madhyam Compositions

sitardivine — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:59:16 +0000

Here are some compositions based on Anil-Madhyam.You may download the pdf files

A Rezakhani gat
Transcribed in Staff notation system
Sthayee
The .MUS file that can be opened in Finale.

Manjha
Click to get the .MUS file

Antara
Click to get the .MUS file

[Transcription to Staff Notation by Ranjan Ghosh.]

Anil-Madhyam

sitardivine — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:23:40 +0000

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 aaisle aktu jantar niye bastaam’ [Dilip, are you free this evening? If you come then I would like to sit with my instrument]. Dilip readily agreed.

In the evening after playing a bit of Bihag I thought of the six notes.. I tuned my tarab strings and started strumming. Dilip immediately reacted.. “ Sajnjoyda, sundar lagchhe to! Ki raag?” [Sanjoyda, this is sounding beautiful! What is the raga?]”

Sanjoyda chose to play Anil-Madhyam during the 01 January 2012 evening concert to celebrate the birth-centenary of Acharya Anil Roychaudhury. Listen how he introduced the raga. He spoke in Bengali. Here is what he said…

Enjoy the rendering …

Raga details

Name of the raga: Anil-Madhyam
Conceptualized by: Pt. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay on 24 December 2011
First performed by Pt. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay on the sitar on 01 January 2012 in a concert organized by Vistar as a tribute to Acharya Anil Roychaudhury during his birth-cenetenary celebration.

Notation system
Shudh svaras in Caps: SRGMPDN
Vikrit svaras in smalls: r g m d n
Tar saptak : S’ R’ G’ M’ etc
Mandra saptak: N1 D1 P1 etc.

Raga: Anil-Madhyam

Arohan: S R g m P n S’

Avarohan: S’ n P m g R S

Pakad: R n1 S, RgPm

Important note focus: Tivra-m

Chalan:

R n1 S g S, R g P m
P1 n1 P1, m1 P1 S
P1 n1 g R n1 m1 P1 S
P1 n1 R, S g S, R n1 S, P1 m1
n1 S R g m, S g R n1 P1
S R g m P m
g m P n g, R g m R, S g S, n1 g R, S R g P m
R n1 S R g m P n – P
m P S’, R’ S’ n – P
P n R’, P n g’ R’ S’
R g m P n S’ R’ g’ R’ S’
S’ n P m g R S

The Ascending, Descending and Chalan in Western Notations system… Download the .MUS file in Finale

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Ascending, Descending and Chalan

[Converted to Staff Notation System by Ranjan Ghosh.]