Anand Bhate

It’s being held to kick off the Bharat Ratna’s birth centenary year (he was born on February 4, 1911) and Bhate tells us that he was as great a guru as he was a performer. He says, “One peculiar trait he had was that he would tell us to amalgamate the base of the Kirana Gharana [which he specialised in] with the good 
aspects of all the other gharanas. That’s why he had his own characteristic gayaki — what we can call the ‘Bhimsen gayaki’ — which was a combination of many different factors.”

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Bhate adds that outside of music, he also learnt the importance of humility from Joshi, a man who, despite his evident fame, was an approachable human being who made it a point to never insult anyone. The concert itself will highlight the icon’s vast repertoire — from classical to semi-classical music, to natya sangeet and devotional songs. This eclectic oeuvre is testament to the open ear that Joshi kept for different forms of music, the art form that had a stranglehold on his consciousness ever since he was a child in shorts. That’s the characteristic, Bhate says, which helped him take Indian classical music from restricted royal chambers to the masses. And that, the disciple adds, is one of the lasting legacies of his master.

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