Chandigarh’s Tagore Theatre will host a choir recital by the renowned group – Gandharva Choir. Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi will organise the Gandharva Choir by renowned Indian classical music vocalist Madhup Mudgal on September 6 at Tagore Theatre from 7 pm onwards.
A spokesperson of the CSNA said that the Gandharva Choir has been giving magnificent performances of classical and folk music for three decades now. They have wooed the audiences both nationwide and internationally with their performances in some of the difficult forms of classical music like Dhrupad, Dhamar, Varnam and Tarana and others.
The conductor of the group is Madhup Mudgal who is Hindustani classical music vocalist and belongs to the Gwalior gharana of music. He has been trained under the gems of classical music — Pandit Jasraj, Kumar Gandharva and Pandit Vasant Thakar, said he. The spokesperson said that the creative, innovative, experimental, the Gandharva Choir is affiliated to Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, New Delhi's prestigious College of Indian music founded in 1939. The Gandharva Choir has successfully experimented with classical and folk styles of music. Its extensive repertoire includes hymns from the ancient Vedas, songs from the Karnataka or South Indian systern of music, items from Rabindra Sangeet (Tagore’s songs) and modern experimental works involving the use of harmony. In recent times the Gandharva Choir has pioneered choral music in India and its efforts and achievements have been successful in setting a trend of choral music in the country, added the spokesperson.