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BAITHAKS
After live performances by sitar player
Purbayan Chatterjee, tabla player
Anubrata Chatterjee, vocalist Swarndeep
Chatterjee and Ut Shujaat Khan, tune in to
these virtualbaithaks with vocalist
Ronkini Gupta (April 27), and sitar player
Ramprapanna Bhattacharya (April 29). A
Kuchipudi dance recital by Yamini Reddy
(pictured)will be presented on April 24.
Watch them live on HCLConcerts
on Facebook.
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The Delhi-based organisation, Rekhta, that put

REKHTA Urdu on the cultural map presents their much-
RECITALS & loved Jashn-e-Rekhta festival this week. In the
RAMBLINGS coming days, listen to Priyanka Barve, who plays
Anarkali in Feroze Abbas Khan’s Mughal-e-Azam,
sing ghazals (April 24), while playback singer
Javed Ali takes you on a Sufi journey (April 25).
Poet Shakeel Jamali talks about shayariand
talaffuz(April 23), and there will be a session by
actor Shabana Azmi and poet Javed Akhtar
(pictured)on April 26.
Tune in at 6 pm for each of the programmes
to Rekhta’s YouTube, Facebook or
Twitter page.
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Among the virtual concerts, the Udupa Music

UDUPA Festival seems to be one of the most organised
MUSIC platforms. Created by ghatam player Giridhar
Udupa, the festival features artistes such as
FESTIVAL santoor maestro Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma
(pictured), flute legend Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia,
Visit shaale.comfor registration singer and composer Shankar Mahadevan, guitar
legend John Mclaughlin, flautist Pt Ronu
Majumdar, percussionists Pt Yogesh Shamsi, Pt
Vijay Ghate, Ojas Adhiya and Pt Shubhankar
Banerjee, and vocalist Abhishek Raghuram.
What’s also interesting is that these concerts are
monetised. Priced at Rs 1,200, the proceeds
from the tickets will support musicians facing
financial crisis at this point.
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Don’t blink else you must miss the

MUSICIAN’S announcement for watching some of these
DIGISTAGE musicians perform line on Musician’s Digitage.
Recently, sitar player Purbayan Chatterjee
Visit the YouTube channel, (pictured) brought together 11 artistes including
Musician’s Digistage violinist Nandini Shankar, percussionist Shikhar
Naad and Ojas Adhiya, vocalists Gayatri Asokan
for a version of poet and filmmaker Gulzar’s
Humko mann ki shakti denafrom Hrishikesh
Mukherjee’s Guddi.It had over 50,000 views.
Watch these live concerts on their YouTube
channels, Twitter and Facebook pages. The
announcement for the concert is made a day
in advance.
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AROUND THE WORLD

Geography does not matter in times of a pandemic. Lady Gaga showed us that with the recent
‘The One World: Together at Home’ broadcast. Coming up is Paul McCartney’s live concert on April 26
and Coldplay’s performance on April 30. Producer Diplo, Dillon Francis and DoorDash have also come
together for Coronight Fever, back-to-back livestream DJ set, on Twitch and YouTube, to donate meals
to those in need through the Feeding America initiative.

Keep a watch on their respective social media sites

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Mumbai-based National Centre for the

FROM THE Performing Arts (NCPA) has opened its archives
ARCHIVES and what’s come out are some gems of concerts.
Watch their YouTube channel for a dance
performance by Bharatanatyam exponent
Malavika Sarrukai (pictured). Then there are
performances by Buddhist nun Ani Choying,
flautist Ashwin Srinivasan and Purbayan
Chatterjee on April 24. A concert by Symphony
Orchestra of India showcasing German Romantic
composer Bruch’s Violin Concerto 1will be
streamed on April 25. All the performances are
at 6pm.
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MELODIES
Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, also has an
expansive digital initiative and has opened its
archives and made conversations available.
Other concert halls across the globe such as the
Berlin Philharmonie, the New York Metropolitan
Opera, The Royal Opera House and London
Symphony Orchestra are also sharing their
content online.