"Soul of Ghazal" a performance by Ishu Sharma at The Attic, 36, Regal Building, CP - 6:30pm on 5th June 2010
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Event Details : “Soul of Ghazal” a performance by Ishu Sharma.
The ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets (shers) and a refrain with each line sharing the same meter. It can be understood as a poetic expression of the pain of loss or separation or the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form originated in the 6th century pre Islamic Arabic verse and remains the principal poetic form of Indo-Perso-Arabic civilization.
Ghazals were written by the Persian mystics and poets Rumi, Hafez and Fuzuli. The form came to India in the 12th century under the influence of the Sultanate courts and Sufi mystics and flowered in the Persian and Urdu poetry of Mirza Ghalib and Muhammad Iqbal. Through the influence of Goethe, Friedrich Ruckert and August von Platen they also became popular in 19th century Germany. The ghazal is just a poetic form, an ode and exists in many languages including Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Turkish, Kashmiri, Kurdish, and Pashtu.
The ghazal form in India has reached new heights with the poetry of the great ‘shairs’ (poets) Mir Taqi Mir, Ghalib, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz being set to brilliant musical compositions often based on ‘Ragas’ and sung by some of the most famous ghazal singers of India and Pakistan. The music embellishes the words and brings alive the themes of illicit, unattainable love, separation and the passion of the unrequited lover.
nahii.n ki mujhko qayaamat kaa etiqaad nahii.n
shab-e-firaaq se roz-e-jazaa ziyaad nahii.n
It is not that I do not have faith in (the pains of) the day of judgment
But the night of separation is not less than the day of judgment.
Mirza Ghalib
This evening’s programme is as much a tribute to the ‘shairs’ who wrote the great couplets that comprise the Ghazal as to those singers who brought the words alive through their music.
Ishu Sharma has been singing the Ghazal for two decades now along with other forms – Thumri, Dadra, Bhajan and Folk. She credits her mother for introducing her to music and her success to her family for their support. She started her formal training in music when she was seven years old and became a disciple of Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty and later in Ghazal of Ustad Zamir Ahmed Khan of the Delhi Gharana. She was inspired by the famous ghazal singers Begum Akhtar and Farida Khanum and through her singing has paid homage to the great poets Mirza Ghalib, Zouq and Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
She is an approved artist of All India Radio and has received many awards for her achievements in music. She has also traveled all over India and performed at various festivals around the country.
Related Events : Ghazals | Music
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Event Details : “Soul of Ghazal” a performance by Ishu Sharma.
The ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets (shers) and a refrain with each line sharing the same meter. It can be understood as a poetic expression of the pain of loss or separation or the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form originated in the 6th century pre Islamic Arabic verse and remains the principal poetic form of Indo-Perso-Arabic civilization.
Ghazals were written by the Persian mystics and poets Rumi, Hafez and Fuzuli. The form came to India in the 12th century under the influence of the Sultanate courts and Sufi mystics and flowered in the Persian and Urdu poetry of Mirza Ghalib and Muhammad Iqbal. Through the influence of Goethe, Friedrich Ruckert and August von Platen they also became popular in 19th century Germany. The ghazal is just a poetic form, an ode and exists in many languages including Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Turkish, Kashmiri, Kurdish, and Pashtu.
The ghazal form in India has reached new heights with the poetry of the great ‘shairs’ (poets) Mir Taqi Mir, Ghalib, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz being set to brilliant musical compositions often based on ‘Ragas’ and sung by some of the most famous ghazal singers of India and Pakistan. The music embellishes the words and brings alive the themes of illicit, unattainable love, separation and the passion of the unrequited lover.
nahii.n ki mujhko qayaamat kaa etiqaad nahii.n
shab-e-firaaq se roz-e-jazaa ziyaad nahii.n
It is not that I do not have faith in (the pains of) the day of judgment
But the night of separation is not less than the day of judgment.
Mirza Ghalib
This evening’s programme is as much a tribute to the ‘shairs’ who wrote the great couplets that comprise the Ghazal as to those singers who brought the words alive through their music.
Ishu Sharma has been singing the Ghazal for two decades now along with other forms – Thumri, Dadra, Bhajan and Folk. She credits her mother for introducing her to music and her success to her family for their support. She started her formal training in music when she was seven years old and became a disciple of Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty and later in Ghazal of Ustad Zamir Ahmed Khan of the Delhi Gharana. She was inspired by the famous ghazal singers Begum Akhtar and Farida Khanum and through her singing has paid homage to the great poets Mirza Ghalib, Zouq and Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
She is an approved artist of All India Radio and has received many awards for her achievements in music. She has also traveled all over India and performed at various festivals around the country.
Related Events : Ghazals | Music
"Soul of Ghazal" a performance by Ishu Sharma at The Attic, 36, Regal Building, CP - 6:30pm on 5th June 2010
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