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  Hariprasad Chaurasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chaurasia is a classicist who has made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music.
Hariprasad Chaurasia was born into a non musical family.
Hariprasad Chaurasia is one of the busiest North Indian classical musicians, regularly traveling and performing throughout the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hariprasad_Chaurasia   (309 words)

  
 MusicalNirvana - Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is known internationally as the greatest living master of Bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute.
Chaurasia is among a few but growing classicists who have made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music.
Hariprasad Chaurasia was born in Allahabad in 1938 into a non musical family.
www.musicalnirvana.com /hindustani/hariprasad_chaurasia.html   (278 words)

  
 Seasons India :: Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
Hariprasad Chaurasia's appearance on the concert platform brought him instant acclaim all over India which was soon followed by invitations from music festivals in Iran, Europe and the USA, where he reaped a rich harvest of rewards.
Hariprasad Chaurasia has been amongst the few Indian classicists who have made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music.
As a musician, Hariprasad Chaurasia is a rare combination of innovator and traditionalist and has significantly expanded the expressive possibilities of classical North Indian flute playing through his masterful blowing technique and his unique adaptation of alap and jor to the flute.
www.seasonsindia.com /art_culture/music_hari_sea.htm   (253 words)

  
 Padmabhusan HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA
Hariprasad Chaurasia has recorded a compact disc at Oslo alongwith Western Artists John Mclaughlin and Jan Garbarek which has gained international popularity and was released by the ECM company.
Chaurasia is a serious teacher with several dedicated classical students who are beginning to make their mark on the Indian concert stage.
Chaurasia has also been honoured by being the second recipient of the 'Konark Samman' awarded by the Orissa State Goverment in the year 1992.
www.rajkot.com /hariprasad/index.htm   (528 words)

  
 CD Baby: HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA: Shikhar
Hariprasad Chaurasia was born into a family of wrestlers in Allahabad, India.
For this part of the performance HariPrasad Chaurasia is accompanied by Bhavani Shankar on the pakhawaj, an ancient, majestic sounding barrel shaped drum.
Throughout the recital Hariprasad alternates the main line of the melody with a great variety of improvised phrases many of which are playfully imitated by the tabla player.
cdbaby.com /cd/chaurasia4   (922 words)

  
 Profile: Hariprasad Chaurasia; Flamboyant Flautist
And you might well be forgiven for the gaffe; because except for the sheer brunt of his musical genius Hariprasad Chaurasia, who turns 60 on July 1, could easily have been in any one of those professions.
Unlike many other maestros of his generation who received classical music by way of inheritance, Chaurasia was not born to a family of musicians or a gharana as the jargon goes.
For Chaurasia, perhaps, this is not a serious disadvantage because his ultimate ambition is to take the bamboo flute and his music to as wide an audience as possible.
www.india-today.com /itoday/06071998/arts2.html   (975 words)

  
 CD Baby: HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA: Power & Grace 2 - from poetrychaikhana
Chaurasia does not come from a family of musicians; his father was a distinguished wrestler who actively discouraged musical study.
Hariprasad Chaurasia has never been afraid to step outside the immediate circles of his own traditions.
The second piece is Hariprasad Chaurasia's rendition of a popular bhajan 'Om Jai Jagdish Hare', a devotional hymn in praise of God.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/chaurasia2/from/poetrychaikhana   (550 words)

  
 Indian Classical Music Circle of Austin - Padmavibhushan Hariprasad Chaurasia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pundit Chaurasia was born in Allahabad, India to a family of wrestlers.
Pundit Chaurasia has not only brought new techniques, and his unique expressions of the nuances of Indian classical music with such unsurpassed elegance to playing the bansuri, elevating it to a new level as a concert instrument but has also experimented with fusion music in the international arena.
Rakesh Chaurasia is the nephew and front-ranking disciple of Padma Vibhushan Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia.
www.icmca.org /artistes/hpc/hpc.html   (1111 words)

  
 Hariprasad & Rakesh Chaurasia
An internationally acclaimed flautist of India, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is very popular and eminent artiste par excellence who is known for his outstanding contribution popularizing Indian classical Music all over the world.
As a musician, Chaurasia is a rare combination of innovator and a traditionalist.
A well-known name is connected to the young Rakesh Chaurasia, nephew and prodigy of Hariprasad Chaurasia, the master of the flute.
www.sonarupa.co.uk /itm00833.htm   (407 words)

  
 Music Today Profiles Hariprasad Chaurasia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hariprasad Chaurasia received further guidance from surbahar player Shrimati Annapurna Devi, daughter of the late Ustad Allaudin Khan and sister of Ali Akbar Khan.
Chaurasia has been amongst the few Indian classicists who have made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music.
As a musician, Chaurasia is a rare combination of innovator and traditionalist and has significantly expanded the expressive possibilities of classical North Indian flute playing through his masterful blowing technique and his unique adaptation of alap and jor to the flute.
www.india-today.com /mtoday/profiles/hari.html   (340 words)

  
 CONCERT REVIEW: Vibrations of the Wind -- Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia Comes to Kresge
Chaurasia is the foremost flutist in India and one of the best in the world.
Its life and joy filled the air with excitement, and Chaurasia’s buildup of notes was such that the audience’s enthusiasm so cumulated that they broke into a standing ovation when Chaurasia reached his crescendo.
Chaurasia gave an amazing display of this skill, making each one of us appreciate the joy that music can elicit.
www-tech.mit.edu /V121/N46/Hariprasad_Chau.46a.html   (709 words)

  
 HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA (flute) and SHIV KUMAR SHARMA (santoor): Music on the Web (UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is acknowledged as the pre-eminent Indian flautist, having devoted his entire lifetime to the deceptively simple bansuri (Krishna's instrument), a bamboo flute which he cuts himself from the bamboo groves around his home.
There is always heart-warming interaction at concerts of Indian music between the musicians on the platform, and with members of the audience who show their appreciation of the subtleties of performance audibly.
The Chaurasias, uncle and nephew disciple, brought beautiful tone qualities and expressive ornamentation to their playing, close to the human voice, which is the model for all Indian instrumentalists.
www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/Oct99/chaurasia.htm   (503 words)

  
 Chembur.com Hariprasad Chaurasia
Hariprasad Chaurasia was born in Allahabad in 1938 and started learning classical vocal techniques from Pt.
Chaurasia’s is the classic story of the victory of music over muscle.
Chaurasia is in the process of setting up a gurukul (suitably called Brindavan) in Mumbai.
www.chembur.com /musicians/hari.htm   (820 words)

  
 rediff.com: Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Live!
andit Hariprasad Chaurasia is known internationally as the greatest living exponent of the North Indian bamboo flute.
The numerous awards and titles that he has received over the year are acknowledgement of his mastery of the art and his contribution to music.
Pandit Chaurasia is a rare combination of innovator and traditionalist.
www.rediff.com /chat/hari.htm   (132 words)

  
 Hariprasad Chaurasia
In Indian mythology Lord Krishna is said to have seduced more than 16,000 women through his playing of the "Bansuri" or bamboo flute.
Hariprasad Chaurasia is at pains to affirm that he's happily married and has no wish to emulate the romantic exploits of Krishna.
But for the past quarter century Chaurasia has been charming audiences with his flute not just in his native India, but across Europe and the United States.
www.ibaradio.org /India/portraits/portraits2.htm   (84 words)

  
 Hariprasad Chaurasia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hari Prasad Chaurasia's God gifted talent and his consummate artistry has distinguished him as the greatest living master of the North Indian flute today.
Unlike many other great musicians of India, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia was not born in a family of musicians.
Hari Prasad Chaurasia's appearance on the concert platform brought him instant acclaim all over India which was soon followed by invitations from music festivals in Iran, Europe and the USA, where he reaped a rich harvest of rewards.
www.uvm.edu /~fimd/chaurasia.html   (362 words)

  
 One World Trading   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is a privilege to once again present a rare treat of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia's Classical Journey.
Rakesh Chaurasia accompanies Hari - Ji on the Flute.
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia Live in Concert is the best DVD available.
www.one-world-trading.com /hariprasad_live_concert_DVD.shtml   (181 words)

  
 Kamat's Potpourri:Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Unquestionably the best-known flutist of the present day India, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia does not come of a musical lineage in the conventional sense.
His quest of excellence took him to Annapurna Devi, worthy daughter and disciple of the great Acharya Allauddin Khan of Maihar, and it was from her that his music received its magic touch.
It would be true to say that Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia picked up the thread where Pandit Pannalal Ghosh, the great pioneer of woodwind music left it, following his sudden and untimely death in 1960.
www.kamat.com /indica/music/chaurasia.htm   (382 words)

  
 The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Hariprasad Chaurasia reinvents the `alaap'
The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Hariprasad Chaurasia reinvents the `alaap'
BANGALORE: Hariprasad Chaurasia was in his elements at `Swar Nritya Utsav' to mark the 81st birth anniversary of the late C.R. Vyas, a Hindustani vocalist, on Saturday.
Pandit Chaurasia was constantly interacting with the audience and even cut a few jokes during his nearly two-hour long concert.
www.hindu.com /2005/10/09/stories/2005100917520300.htm   (341 words)

  
 Dr N Ramani & Hariprasad Chaurasia - Together - CD / cdRoots
Because this time facing off, in a performance recorded live in Chennai in 1995, are two whole philosophies of Indian music, the Hindustani tradition from the North and the Carnatic from the south, represented respectively by Hariprasad Chaurasia and Dr. N.
Ramani, two men widely acknowledged as the greatest living exponents of their instrument: the bansuri (or venu) terms which describe the various types of bamboo flute sacred to the god Krishna.
Hariprasad Chaurasia, meanwhile, was born in 1928 the North of India, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
www.cdroots.com /rd-together.html   (492 words)

  
 Hariprasad Chaurasia: an Interview in New Renaissance Magazine
An interview with Hariprasad Chaurasia by Ian Gottstein
New Renaissance caught up with Hariprasad Chaurasia, the world's premiere Indian flautist, after his master class in Cosmopolité
NR: Hariprasad Chaurasia, I am very grateful to you for this gift of your time.
www.ru.org /chaurasia-104.htm   (656 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Venu: Music: Hariprasad Chaurasia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The divine playing of Hariprasad with tabla master Zakir Hussain moves mountains of emotion.
This historic concert took place in 1974 at the Stone House (literally a large granite room) in Fairfax, California, and was a youthful collaboration between two true geniuses of Indian classical music.
Hariprasad exhales a haunting, peaceful, erotic and at times frightening improvisation through the bansuri (bamboo flute)accompamnied by Zakir Hussain's tabla.
www.amazon.com /Venu-Hariprasad-Chaurasia/dp/B0000009UE   (1324 words)

  
 Written on the Wind CD - Hariprasad Chaurasia : Audiorec[indian music store]
In this recording Hariprasad Chaurasia has selected three contrasting ragas suitable for the evening.
Each employs a similar framework of five principal pitches, yet the positioning of these pitches in relation to the drone-tonic and the style in which they are played; give each rag a unique musical personality and originality.
Quite simply, Chaurasia is one of the best musicians on the planet.
www.audiorec.co.uk /newprdtls.asp?id=17   (273 words)

  
 Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hindustani music virtuouso Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is synonymous with the bansuri, as the flute is called in Hindi, an instrument associated in Indian legend with Lord Krishna.
Shri Rama Kala Vedike is organising an exclusive music performance by flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia at Ravindra Kalakshetra on August 12, 6 p.m.
GV Centre kicks off its new season with a performance by Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and tabla player Anuradha Pal POWERHOUSE PERFORMERS Chaurasia and Anuradha If Coimbatore was introduced to rib-tickling...
www.topix.net /who/pandit-hariprasad-chaurasia   (166 words)

  
 World Music Central - Shikar, double CD by Bamboo Flute Master Hariprasad Chaurasia
Leicester, UK - Hariprasad Chaurasia, the bamboo flute master, has a new 2-CD set on the Sense World Music label entitled Shikar.
He begins with Raga Jaijavanti, an evening melody which has been a great favorite of many vocal masters of the past, including Bade Ghulam Ali Khan.
The second half of the recital begins with the popular Raga Jog, an evening raga which has emerged as a favorite with both artists and listeners over the last fifty years.
www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20041125170244824   (302 words)

  
 CD Baby: HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA: Flying Beyond
North Indian classical music on the bamboo flute.
Alap, Jor, & Jara in the haunting late night raga Malkauns featuring: Hariprasad Chaurasia on the Bansuri (bamboo flute).
The great Indian master of the North Indian Bamboo Flute has won a number of prestigious awards including the Sangeet Natak Academy (1984), Padmabhushan (1992) and Padma Vibhoosan (2000).
cdbaby.com /cd/hariprasad   (196 words)

  
 HariPrasad Chaurasia - Indian classical music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hariprasad Chaurasia (born in 1938) trained first as a vocalist under Pandit Rajaram.
He received training also from Anapurna Devi, the wife of Ravi Shankar and the daughter Ustad Allaudin Khan, founder of the Maihar gharana.
They share not only the same instrument but also the same school, the Maihar Gharana, and they both like to play the long flute.
makar-records.com /siteus/HC.html   (86 words)

  
 Official Ticketmaster site. Hariprasad Chaurasia tickets, dates
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We currently do not have any tickets on sale for Hariprasad Chaurasia.
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 TV5 - Musique - Mondomix - Hariprasad Chaurasia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
TV5 - Musique - Mondomix - Hariprasad Chaurasia
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia est le plus grand joueur de flûte bansuri vivant.
“Hariprasad Chaurasia and his divine flute“ (Dom disques)
www.tv5.org /TV5Site/musique/mondomix.php?id_artiste=519   (177 words)

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