Every year, the Swastik Cultural Organisation invites Indian
classical singers and dancers to Goa to be a part of Swarmanguesh, the Master
Dinanath Mangueshkar memorial classical music and dance festival. The festival,
which is celebrating its fifth edition this year, was inaugurated by the
nightingale of India, Bharat Ratna Lata Mangueshkar in the year 2011 in the
presence of her siblings Pt Hridaynath Magueshkar, Meena Khardikar and Usha
Mangueshkar.
“We organise the festival in memory of Master Dinanath
Mangueshkar, who was born in Mangueshi, Goa. Mangueshkar passed away at the age
of 41, but within the short span of his lifetime, he became a popular theatre
personality courtesy his unique and attractive style of singing. Earlier, a
similar event used to be organised by Samrat Sangeet Sammelan at Kavlem, which
later discontinued. Then we thought of organising Swarmanguesh to promote
Indian classical singing and dancing,” informs Dr Pravin Gaonkar, President,
Swastik Cultural Association.
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The day-long festival will witness a special performance by
renowned tabla player from Kolkata Ashok Mukherjee and sarangi player Murad
Ali.
Sharing details about the day-long festival, Dr Pravin
explains, “The festival will be organised in 2 sessions i.e. morning and
evening. The morning session will start at 9am. Young and dynamic singer
Manjusha Patil will begin the first session with her classical vocal
performance. She will also render famous Natya Sangeet sung by Master Dinanath
Mangeshkar. The second performer of the first session will be another young
vocalist, Suchismita Das. She’s the disciple of the great vocalist Pt Ajay
Chakrabarty. Suchismita has been trained under the Patiala Gharana, the music
school which is famous for versatility in vocal music.”
The first session will conclude with a tabla solo
performance by Pt Yogesh Samsi, one of the leading tabla players of our
country. He is the disciple of tabla maestro Ustad Alla Rakha and belongs to
the same gharana as great tabla player Ustad Zakir Hussain.
The second session will start at 3:30 pm with the
instrumental ‘jugalbandi’ by Abir Hussain on sarod and Saket Sahu on violin.
Both are students of Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata. These two young and
talented instrumentalists will play pure classical music, maintaining
originality and uniqueness of their instruments. The second performance of this
session will be a Kathak performance by a dynamic couple from Bangalore,
Rajendra and Nirupama. They are known for their mastery over classical as well
as contemporary dance. The music festival will conclude with the performance of
one of the most respected classical vocalists of India, Ustad Rashid Khan. He
belongs to the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana and will be performing for Swarmangesh
for the fifth consecutive year.
All the above artists will be accompanied by Dayesh Kosambe,
Sandip Ghosh and Yogesh Samsi on tabla, and Raya Korgaonkar, Tanmay Deochake
and Ajay Joglekar on harmonium. This festival will be anchored by Rupa Chari
and Hetal Gangani.
“Our organisation’s main aim is to promote Indian classical
music and dance. Hence we organise two big festivals, Swarmanguesh and
Pratidhwani. For Swarmanguesh, we invite Indian classical singers and dancers,
while Pratidhwani is organised in the memory of classical singer Francis
Rodrigues and only Goan artistes participate,” concludes Dr Pravin.
Swarmanguesh will take
place today, November 1, 2015 at the Dinanath Mangueshkar Auditorium, Kala
Academy, Campal-Panjim at 9am. The festival is open to all
