dover lane

surprising there doesn’t seem to be anyone blogging on the dover lane conference,  or is it just not coming up in google search?   I had a look at the  performing artist line-up.  It is interesting.  There is a predominance of Bengali artists and of instrumentalists.   On the whole I think it is a good reflection of the top people,  Venkatesh Kumar,  Shahid Parvez, Rashid Khan, Girja devi,  Pt. Jaisraj, and others.  I might be skeptical of  the choice of N. Rajam and Manjiri Asnare-Kelkar but that might only reflect my personal prejudices.  As I have noticed with Saptak festival,  not much is given to the Maharashtran female vocalists with the exception of Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande.   If i were the organizer of a major festival like dover lane,  I would do anything to get Kishori Amonkar or Parveen Sultana.  After these divas Manjusha Kulkarni-Patil is the darling of the public this side of the country.  I have already blogged about my other favorites, Padma Talwarkar,  vijaya jadav-gatliwar, Asha Khadilkar, shubada Paradkar, Shubha Joshi and others.       I really enjoyed the blogs from the Sawai Gandharva festival from Pune.  Many thanks to whoever that was.  By the way  I am very keen to get the recording of Malini Rajurkar’s bihag tappa that she sang there this year.  I have learned that tappa and I would like to hear how she sings it,  especially if she uses the tal structure indicated by Ginde saheb in his transcription of Ratanjankars’ compositions.  I prefer it in two avaartans rather than one.