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opportunities to young and talented artists, irrespective of their
Gharana or Guru, to perform in front of the music loving audience of Calcutta. This program became very popular and continued even after his death, till the mid nineties. Some of the most well known names in today's Indian Classical music scene got an opportunity to perform on the big stage for the first time at the Rising Talents conference.
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in 1948 and in 1949 it was adapted at All India Radio by Thakur Jaidev Singh, the then chief producer of All India Radio in New Delhi. In this instrument the goat skin of the sarod is replaced by wood and the bridge of the sarod is replaced by the bridge of
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In 1976, Radhika Mohan founded the
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Maitra rose to prominence as a musician in the 1950s, when he was in demand for concerts both within India and elsewhere in the world. Aside from radio recitals, he performed in countries such as
Afghanistan, Australia, China, New Zealand and the Philippines as part of cultural delegations organised
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family that had a history of musicianship and of patronising that art. At present this is at
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