Frases de Bismillah Khan

Ustad Bismillah Khan foi um músico indiano que tocava shehnai, instrumento de sopro da família do oboé, originário do subcontinente indiano. Apesar de o shehnai ser um instrumento antigo na tradição da música popular indiana, usado especialmente em cerimônias tradicionais, atribui-se a Khan o feito de ter elevado o instrumento ao nível de apresentação em concertos. Foi o terceiro artista de música clássica indiana a ser agraciado com o prêmio Bharat Ratna , a mais alta honraria civil de seu país. Obteve reconhecimento mundial pela sua execução do shehnai ao longo de mais de oito décadas. Bismillah Khan era quase sempre chamado com o título honorífico "Ustad" precedendo seu nome. Trata-se de título de origem persa, historicamente usado em menções a professores e artistas respeitados, principalmente músicos . Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Março 1916 – 21. Agosto 2006
Bismillah Khan: 15   citações 0   Curtidas

Bismillah Khan: Frases em inglês

“After a year and half Mamu told me if you see anything don’t talk about it. One night I was playing deep in meditation. I smelled something. It was an indescribable scent, something like sandalwood and jasmine. I thought it was the aroma of Ganges but the scent got more powerful. When I opened my eyes, there was Balaji standing right next to me, exactly as he is pictured. My door was locked from inside; nobody was allowed to enter when I did riyaz.”

He said ‘play my son’ but I was sweating. I stopped playing.
Khan used to do riyaz (practice) before the temple of Balaji as advised by his mamu (maternal uncle) who had also told him not talk to any body about anything that might happen. But when he told his mamu about his seeing Balaji, mamu was annoyed and slapped him.
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“Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive…. Music has no caste.”

Quoted in [Ekbal, Nikhat, Great Muslims of undivided India, http://books.google.com/books?id=JsDNDeHkb8AC&pg=PA45, 2009, Gyan Publishing House, 978-81-7835-756-0, 45–]
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“Tradition takes time to change. But it changes, all right. All that I have to do is to keep trying.”

After this he was invited to play the Shehnai solo on the All India Radio
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“Allahee… Allah-hee… Allah-hee…. I continued to raise the pitch. When I opened my eyes I asked them: Is this haraam? I am calling the God. I am thinking of him. I am searching for Him. Why do you call my search haraam?”

In reply to the Shia Maulvis in Iran who were arguing with him that Music should be banned, he sang the song in Raag Bhairavi and posed a question to them to which they had no answer.
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“I wish I could hold a concert…. It is unfair that the Shehnai is not played at concerts. Why should not the Shehnai be played at the concerts?… Then let me do it now. Let me break tradition…. May Lord Balaji help me.”

When he was perturbed at not being invited to play in concerts when other instrumentalists held solo performances, and it is when Lord Balaji whispered in his ears “All good things begin with Shehnai”.
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“An image can never be the real thing. Varanasi is where the Ganga flows, where I can play the Shehnai for Lord Balaji. I shall be at home, nowhere else but in India.”

Sukriya.
When he was asked to stay back in America following his concerts there, even with a promise that a Varanasi would be replicated for him there.
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“Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.”

Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,
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“Ustad Bismillah Khan’s specialization lies in his ability to produce intricate sound patterns on the Shehnai, which was hitherto, considered impossible on this instrument.”

Raj Kumar in [Kumar, Raj, Essays on Indian Music, http://books.google.com/books?id=wwwX6DWfn3gC&pg=PA205, 1 January 2003, Discovery Publishing House, 978-81-7141-719-3, 205–]

“Allahee…Allah-hee… Allah-hee…. I continued to raise the pitch. When I opened my eyes I asked them: Is this haraam?”

I am calling the God. I am thinking of him. I am searching for Him. Why do you call my search haraam?
In reply to the Shia Maulvis in Iran who were arguing with him that Music should be banned, he sang the song in Raag Bhairavi and posed a question to them to which they had no answer.
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