http://www.imageurlhost.com/images/d0kkjtlnec2afqeu5ew3.jpg The Concert of the Centenary
Yesterday it was with a rare concert of classical music that the RAJBARI of Ekdalia Road, celebrating hundred years of Durga puja in their house, concluded Saptami din.
Sitting in a simple and refined pandal in the courtyard of the ancestral house, under the loving stare of the exquisitely crafted traditional Durga Ma, the large extended family with their friends and neighbours were treated to a remarkable musical event. A long, dazzling, epic and at times thunderous khyal opened the musical session, followed by thumris and Bhajan, each one rendered in its unique personality, with an impressive virtuosity.
The singer was Pandit Shyam Sundar Goswami, accompanied by Pandit Sanjay Mukherjee at the tabla, by Prof. Biswajit Roychowdhury at the violin, by Sri Shukanto Mukhopadaya at the harmonium and Smt. Bandana at the tanpura.
The audience was elated and on three consecutive times, asked the artistes to perform one more piece; even the kids were jubilant, and started dancing in the Thakur Dalan in front of Durga and her children. People were offered hot spicy tea to replenish their energy.
When all was over, the musicians and the guests shared the Prasad offered to Durga Ma, gracefully distributed by the young girls and the ladies of the house.
Returning home at night, everyone felt grateful and proud, one would say ennobled in a sense, by having participated with the mind and heart to such an event, which was made possible by the generosity of the Banerjee family and is also only possible because of long years, sometimes an entire life, of resolute tapasha (sacrifice) by the accomplished musicians.
Finally we were all united by the sense of beauty and devotion materialised in the vibrant tradition of Durga puja and in the antique tradition of musical offerings, combined into one.
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"Before very long in Calcutta, an enthralling voice has awakened the courtyards of the ancient palaces, heritage buildings and chapels with a subtle sense of unassailable melody. The maestro is none other thanb Pt. Shyam Sundar Goswami, who aiming the excellence of performing Art has achieved the zenith of success, therefore exposing a divine tableaux of truthful music against the malaise of specious cacophony, amplified by the dilettantes of the present times. His magical voice not only casts a hypnotic spell on the minds of the listeners but supplies them unintermittently with a never failing perception of aesthetic pleasure owing to which he may be termed as a transcendentalists-a reformer of music in mystical realm. Not withstanding the abundance of modernity in the setting trends in music, Pt. Shyam Sundar Goswami is an exception bringing back the quintessence of Indian Classical Music to the cul-de-sac life of present era. His is restoration music breaking the trends of pseudo trance, therefore, throwing the unerring light of perpetual glory on the self-coined genre of Classical Music. In music Pandit Shyamsundar Goswami traces a Utopian spirituality which under the veneer of seemingly artistic temperament reveals his mastery of this most intricate art form influenced by the ecstatic reverberation of philosophical reflections on Music: "Music is the soul of my life." Panditji's worldwide reputation as an awe inspiring performer is bestowed with another rare gift - his virility to spread his music as a devoted and loving guru. Pandit S. S. Goswami started his training from his mother, Smt. Maya Goswami. He specialized in Kheyal of Hindusthani Classical and got a Master's Degree in Classical Music from Rabindra Bharati University, he shows equal brillance in « thumris » and « bhajans ».After Long years of "sadhana" ( serious studies ), at the feet of several great Gurus (among them Pandit Madan Mahan and Pandit Jadunath Chakraborty& many more...) - he emerges now as a talented, sincere and eminently enjoyable singer . He currently teaches classical music at the prestigious Calcutta School of Music and gives concerts in India and abroad.Many Pandits and Ustads have accompanied him.Each time it was « house full » of people from everywhere to experience music for the soul , music for peace. This is the magic of the Old Houses of the world allied to the magic of Panditji who bears our heart aloft, far far away into an other world……… He is unique in his way of interpreting the ragas, unique in his devotion and dedication to the Almigthy through his music. « a jewel » as the late artist Prabhas Sen of Santiniketan used to say........