India - Hindustani Classical Music - Manjiri Asanare Kelkar - Bandish in Rag Jaitashree

This videoclip features a performance of khyal, a North Indian classical vocal genre, by Manjiri Asanare Kelkar.
Manjiri is a renowned exponent of the stylistic lineage of Jaipur Atrauli gharana. Her musical training started under the guidance of her father, the distinguished tabla player Anand Asanare, and continued with the illustrious Jaipur gharana singer Madhusudan Kanetkar and - more recently - with legendary Kishori Amonkar. It is thanks to such extensive and rigorous artistic training that Manjiri has developed a rare musical sensitivity, well-matched by her outstanding technical precision and her deep knowledge of the repertoire. These qualities, together with her melodious voice and the creative richness of her performances, make Manjiri of the most talented khyal singers of her generation.
In this performance, Manjiri is accompanied by Nitin Ware on tabla and Dnyaneshwar Sonawane on the harmonium.
In this videoclip, Manjiri Asanare Kelkar performs a traditional bandish (a vocal composition) in the evening Rag Jaitashree, a musical mode which emerges from the combination of Rag Jait Kalyan and Rag Shree. Jaitashree’s scale is heptatonic, with the second degree diminished (a distinctive trait of Shree) and the sixth degree either diminished (as in Shree) or natural (as in Jait Kalyan).
The composition is set on a fast tintal, a 16-beat meter. The topic of the lyrics is that of separation from and longing for one’s lover (viraha), a common theme in North Indian classical vocal music.
The presentation of the two sections of the composition (the sthayi, focussing on the lower range of the melody and the antara, emphasising the upper tonic from approx. 01’38’’) is interspersed with improvisation which bring Manjiri’s inventiveness, musicality, technical ability to the fore.
The concert was preceded by a conversation between Manjiri Asanare Kelkar and Laura Leante, professor of ethnomusicology at Durham Univeristy, which touched upon aesthetic, philosophical and musicological issues related to Indian Classical Music, and khyal. The video of the meeting is posted on the Giorgio Cini Foundation's KZbin channel:
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The performance, curated by Prof. Laura Leante, was organized by the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in collaboration with Durham University’s Music Department.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 7 July 2023
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