Nikhil Bandyopadhyay by Swapan Kumar Bandyopadhyay [Hardcover]

A nine-year-old boy who first won acclaim by playing the sitar with a trembling heart in front of an audience, at the age of seventeen at a music conference (1948) impressed and amazed the great musicians of India by playing the sitar with all his heart. This artist is Nikhil Banerjee. Nikhil was founded in 1956 at the Tansen Sangeet Conference. The trio playing of Ustad Alauddin Khan, Ali Akbar and Nikhil is a sensation in the world of music. After this, his life underwent continuous transitions. He has surpassed his previous performances in every performance in the country and abroad with sophisticated thinking, exquisite exposure of anger and painstaking skills. He conveyed to the audience the scope and inherent beauty of Indian music. Even on the eve of his death, at the last ceremony of his life, he plunged his sick body into the depths of rage - played Darbari Kanara and Hemanta. On the basis of information collected from various sources, Swapankumar Banerjee has brought out the full picture of Nikhil Banerjee's artist life. Appendices include artist's own writings, list of records and cassettes and identity of self-created ragas etc.