SPIC MACAY’s night-long musical treat

SPIC MACAY’s Anubhav series ended with a virtual overnight concert featuring well-known exponents

Anubhav-2021, held from June 21 to 27, concluded with an overnight concert enabling hundreds of rasikas to come online for a sumptuous treat of classical music and dance. SPIC MACAY introduced the Anubhav series as the virtual ‘avatar’ of its international convention last year when the pre-scheduled Inter-Con at IIT Kanpur could not be held due to Covid-19. The virtual Anubhav series offered students across the globe a holistic experience of Indian art and culture. Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia opened the overnight concert with a mesmerising Yaman. Known for treating his raags like a deity, imparting a spiritual aura to its delineation strictly in accordance with tradition, his reposeful alaap-jod-jhala created a tranquil ambience. The medium tempo composition in Rupak taal of seven beats time cycle was followed by a brisk bandish in dhrut Teentaal, where each progressive swara follows an intriguing gait (vakra gati) when moving towards the taar gandhar and then reverting to pancham before reaching the sam on gandhar. This also provided a shorter mukhada for the swift jhala reaching a crescendo with Pt. Ravindra Yavgal’s brilliant tabla accompaniment.