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19 hours of rare live music by 19 musicians

The musical spread will not only bring rarely heard ragas vocally, but also instrumentally, as the flute, violin, santoor, sarangi, sitar, sarod and mohan-veena will all spin their magic.

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Hindustani classical music legend Kishori Amonkar at her residence in Mumbai
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Mumbai will witness Hindustani classical music's first-of-its-kind 19-hour-long Prahar concert, where 19 heavyweights from the world of music will perform. The concert, which will celebrate rare ragas, will begin at 6am on Sunday and culminate at 1.30am on Monday at the Shanmukhananda Fine Arts and Sangeetha Sabha in Sion.

Conceived by Durga Jasraj, founder-director of Art and Artistes, concert '8 Prahar' will celebrate music of every Prahar (the day broken into three-hour segments from dawn). It's a joint initiative of Sri Shanmukhananda Fine Arts and Sangeetha Sabha and Pancham Nishad to showcase the rich treasure of ragas in Indian classical music at the apt time of the day. The line-up includes Ganasaraswati Kishori Amonkar, Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia, Rashid Khan, Dr N Rajam, Jayateerth Mevundi, Satish Vyas, Pt Ulhas Kashalkar, Devaki Pandit, Ustad Dilshad Khan, Gundecha Brothers, Pt Budhaditya Mukherjee, Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, Ayaan and Amaan Ali Khan, Pt Rajan and Pt Sajan Mishra, Pt Vishwamohan Bhatt and Sanjeev Abhyankar.

The musical spread will not only bring rarely heard ragas vocally, but also instrumentally, as the flute, violin, santoor, sarangi, sitar, sarod and mohan-veena will all spin their magic.

Legendary flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia, who will commence the concert at 6am, is extremely elated about it. "This is a timely effort on the part of the three organisations to create awareness about traditions of Indian music, which is based on the profound research of our ancient scholars," he said.

Numero uno vocalist Ganasaraswati Kishoritai Amonkar, who will wrap up the concert, said, "People will become aware of how musical notes change in sync with every minor change in nature from the break of dawn to the setting of the sun. The change in nature and time changes the seasons. The season changes, so does the time and the sound of musical notes and its inter-relationship."

"The great seers of music experienced the subtle changes in nature and time and propounded a theory of seasonal and time-based melodies in the Indian classical tradition, which, if sung or played as per theory, creates a very positive and serene effect on life," she added.

Vice president of the 63-year-old Sri Shanmukhananda Fine Arts and Sangeetha Sabha, VS Amarnath Sury said, "This programme will bring awareness among the cognoscenti and lovers of Hindustani classical music about the evolution and prevalence of ragas related to different prahars (time periods)."

Jasraj reminisced, "As a child, I remember attending concerts which would go on till the wee hours of the morning. One got to hear so many different beautiful ragas. But now, since all concerts only happen in the evening, I feel that the rich traditional wealth of Hindustani classical ragas gets lost without being presented to the next generation of listeners and music lovers. This was what led me to think of the concept."

Shashi Vyas of Pancham Nishad said: "The concept of time is a major striking and distinctive feature of Indian music. So much so, that the melodies and the ragas are seasonal and time-based. The entire structure of the music in India is based on the time frame divided into two parts — from sunrise to sunset and from sunset to sunrise. Each part is then divided into four further parts called a 'prahar' comprising three hours each. Based on the division of 'prahars' of the day, in Hindustani Classical Music, every raga is designed to be performed during a particular 'prahar'. The performance of a particular raga at a particular time enhances its aesthetic effects, creating a positive and serene impact on the listeners' mind and soul."

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