"The role of music lies in helping the consciousness uplift itself towards the spiritual heights."
The MotherDate:-Saturday, November 28th, 2015
Program Details :-
5:00 – 5:30 PM - Meet and Greet
5:30 – 5:45 PM - Siddhi Day Meditation
5:45 – 8:15 PM - Divine Music by Samir & Sanghmitra Chatterjee
8:30 PM - Dinner
Place:- 631 Vale Drive, Morganville, NJ 07751
Information:-
New Jersey ---> Vivek Sinha ---> 732-772-0864
Pennsylvania ---> Devendra Patel ---> 215-970-5170
New York ---> Govind Nishar ---> 914-400-3444
Samir Chatterjee is a virtuoso Tabla player from India. He travels widely
across the world throughout the year performing in numerous festivals as a
soloist or with other outstanding musicians from both Indian and
non-Indian musical traditions. Samir performed at the Nobel Peace Prize
ceremony in Oslo, Norway in 2007. He also performed a few times at the
United Nations General Assembly. His compositions are widely acclaimed
as well as his writings. Samir is a firm believer in the transforming
effect of music on the society and all aspects of his work reflects this
conviction. Samir is rated ‘A’ as an artiste of Indian national radio and
television. He can be heard on numerous recordings featuring as soloist,
accompanying many of India's greatest musicians and in collaboration with
western musicians of outstanding caliber. In concert Samir has accompanied
many of India's greatest musicians including Pt. Ravi Shankar, Ud. Vilayat Khan,
Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Pt. Jasraj, Pt. Nikhil Banerjee, Pt. V.G. Jog, Pt .
Shivkumar Sharma, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, M. S. Gopalakrishnan, Ud. Amjad Ali Khan,
Ud. Salamat Ali Khan, Smt. Lakshmi Shankar, Ud. Aashis Khan, Dr. L. Subramanium,
Ud. Shujat Khan, Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty, Ud. Nishat Khan, Ud. Rashid Khan,
Pt. Tejendra N. Mazumdar, Pt. Debashish Bhattacharya, to name only a few.
You can visit www.tabla.org or email Samir@tabla.org to learn more about his love for music.
Sanghamitra Chatterjee is a leading singer from India specialized in
Indian popular and semi-classical songs. Her repertoire covers a wide variety
from Bhajan, Ghazal, Dadra, film songs, Rabindra Sangeet (songs of Tagore),
Adhunik (Bengali modern song) to different types of folk and regional songs
in different languages. She had her lessons in classical singing from Pdt.
Usharanjan Mukherjee and Sri Dashu Mukherjee. In non-classical music her
training has been under Jatileshwar Mukherjee, Ajoy Das, Prasanta Chowdhury,
Nikhil Chatterjee and others. She is an upgraded artist of the national radio
and television of India. Her proficiency in Tagore songs has earned her the
Sangeet Sudhakar diploma.
Q: Mother, how can one enter into the feelings of a piece of music played by someone else?
A: Mother
In the same way as one can share the emotions of another person by sympathy, spontaneously, by an
affinity more or less deep, or else by an effort of concentration which ends in identification.
It is this last process that one adopts when one listens to music with an intense and
concentrated attention, to the point of checking all other noise in the head and obtaining a
complete silence, into which fall, drop by drop, the notes of the music whose sound alone remains;
and with the sound all the feelings, all the movements of emotion can be perceived, experienced,
felt as if they were produced in ourselves.