Swara Samrat Festival 2021: A fine blend of traditional music
Sitar player Pt. Subhendra Rao at Swara Samrat Festival, 2021 Vocal, instrumental and dance performances by new and established artistes at the four-month long online Swara Samrat festival turned out to be a mixed bag Listening to the four-month long online Swara Samrat festival (SSF) that concluded recently allowed one to note certain trends in Hindustani music that are increasingly gaining strength. The tradition of not repeating a raga previously performed at a festival is being ignored nowadays. At SSF, some ragas were repeated up to even three times. There were 16 instrumental concer...
Source: thehindu.com