Bombay Jayashri dedicates the award to her mother and gurus
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The Padma Shri goes to a musician who spans borders and genres with ease
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The Padma Shri goes to a musician who spans borders and genres with ease
“Music comes to me more readily than words” – Ludwig Van Beethoven. What the great German composer said resonates in Bombay Jayashri’s music. Most children are introduced to music through lullabies sung by their mothers, and that becomes the most important bond that connects the child to the mother and the music. So it was with Jayashri. With her musician-parents as her initial gurus, the vocalist’s progress from lullabies to ragam tanam pallavi happened in the most natural manner. Music soothed her and this soothing quality extends to her music as well. Nominated for the Oscars for her lullaby in
Vidyadhar Vyas. | Screengrab from Saptak Archives via YouTube.
This 250-episode programme contained short descriptions of raags and taals used in Hindustani music with demonstrations by practitioners of this system. Episodes would end with film songs that were based on these raags and taals. Apart from this, the programme also included serialised thematic presentations by well-known musicians and composers. The presentations by Hindustani musicians addressed various aspects of their instruments, styles, individual journeys with music, and such others.
Today, we listen to some of these presentations featured on the Vividh Bharati Youtube channel.
Eminent bansuri player and composer Dr Vijay Raghav Rao speaks about the raag Jhinjhoti in the ninth episode of his thematic presentation entitled “Raag Raseele Rang Niraale”, which looked at the manner in which raags could be used in conventional Hindustani music but also in other contexts. The episode also