There is a telling anecdote about Kishori Amonkar’s early years as a classical sensation when she was rattling off the number of shows she had been booked for and her mother and guru Mogubai Kurdikar, herself a legendary disciple of Ustad Alladiya Khan’s Jaipur Atrauli gharana, heard her out and asked her if her calendar had […]
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A Love Lost, But Not Forgotten
There was a time not so long ago when the royal courts of Lucknow shimmered to the lilting melodies of thumri. Around 1847, the Nawab of Awadh, Wajid Ali Shah and his court singer Sadiq Ali Khan are credited with developing thumri into a popular style to which the courtesans danced. It is to revive […]