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Background
For the last 133 years, Shree Baba Harballabh Sangeet Mahasabha has been
making its earnest endeavours to preserve and propagate Hindustani
Classical Music by organizing:
• Sangeet Sammelan – all past and present music maestros have
participated in the sangeet sammelans at one time or the other
• Sangeet Pratiyogita – Annual Music Competition organized to
encourage younger generation to take up Indian Classical music a career
and to pick up the best and to reward them.
• Sangeet Utsavs – Vasant Utsav, Malhar Utsav & Hemant Utsavare
-organized every year in the months of February, August and October
respectively; to keep up the tempo for the promotion and propagation of
Indian Classical Music.
• Seminars – for students and educators of music
But with the introduction of fusion/pop styles slowly
influencing/replacing the traditional, folk and classical music, and
with the shift in the interest of the younger generation from the
traditional/classical towards fusion/pop music; and it was strongly felt
that:
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To preserve the purity of Indian Classical
Music
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To nurture it so that the priceless heritage
is not lost with the passage of time, and
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To propagate in amongst the initiated or
un-initiated, especially the younger generation
Shree Baba Harballabh Sangeet Mahasabha must establish a modern 'Gurukul'
– an institution for imparting rigorous training in Indian Classical
Music to the students of music by the most competent guides and
maestros.
Thus, the project for establishing
Harivallabh Music & Research Academy was initiated in the year 2007.
A resolution to this effect was passed by the general body during
meeting held on 12th December, 2007.
Our plans got a boost when S. Prakash Singh
Badal declared a grant of Rs. One Crore, for the establishment of the
Academy during the Sangeet Sammelan in 2007.
Vision
To nurture and propagate the priceless heritage of Indian Classical
music, beginning with Hindustani Classical Music, through the age old
learning tradition of 'Guru-Shishya Parampara'.
Aims and Objectives
The loss of royal patronage threw the arts open to public mercy.
Classical music, in its pure form, is fundamentally a complex study and
therefore, cannot come within the reach of the uninitiated. As a result,
serious music suffered. Pt. V N Bhatkhande and Pt. V D Paluskar tried to
bring classical music within the reach of the middle class
intelligentsia, in a systematic way, by introducing music education in
universities and institutions. But such institutions rarely succeeded in
producing musicians.
History reveals that the only effective
method to impart the complex techniques of any art form, especially
music, is through long years of close involvement between teacher and
student. This enables the teacher help the student imbibe music as an
art form, while yet allowing it to naturally unfold in its full creative
splendour.
Harivallabh Sangeet & Research Academy is
being created with the aim of stemming the process of gradual distortion
and dissipation in traditional forms and techniques of Indian classical
music.
The aim is to establish a modern 'Gurukul' and revive the traditional
'Guru-Shishya Parampara'.
To ensure quality education and research, the Academy would be run
professionally.
The three basic objectives Harivallabh
Sangeet & Research Academy are:
1. To create an effective training system.
2. To rationalize traditional data with the help of modern research
methods and technology
3. To promote and propagate Indian Classical music
Harivallabh Sangeet & Research Academy shall
provide the security and the comforts of a home and the opportunity for
a brighter future to both the gurus and the scholars. It shall achieve
this through the implementation of its objectives based on a training
system that is essentially the Guru-Shishya Parampara with suitable
contemporary fine-tuning.
The quality of the average listener plays a
vital role in the development of music. In the current Indian classical
music scenario, where the audience has assumed the role of the most
decisive patron, the task of nourishing a solid base of high quality
listeners has become a critical factor for the survival of the best
values in music.
Harivallabh Sangeet & Research Academy shall undertake the task of
creating a wide variety of platforms all over the country and abroad,
which attempt:
1. To take high quality music systematically to areas and sections of
the population who otherwise do not enjoy access to it.
2. To cater to specialized audience needs and create connoisseurs of
music by changing the conventional conference mould and creating new
thematic profiles.
3. To commemorate those veterans and doyens of classical music whose
'pursuit of music as a form of knowledge has enabled us to establish and
perpetuate a community of shared values'.
The spirit of enquiry shall remain one of the foundations on which
Harivallabh Sangeet & Research Academy shall ensure the continuity of
India's musical heritage. Harivallabh Sangeet & Research Academy shall
probe all areas in the structure and material of musical traditions
today.
The Plan
Shree Baba Harivallabh Sangeet Mahasabha plans to establish:
A Music School for those who appreciate Indian Classical Music.
A Music & Research Academy for those who want Indian Classical Music as
a career path.
Music Workshops conducted by the eminent artists of Indian Classical
Music for the benefit of students of music,
A Music University to finally test the abilities, talent, of the
students of Music and to grant them degrees in music,
A Music Archive for housing recordings of the great maestros, Music
Library containing Audio, Video Recordings, Reference books on music to
fulfill the quest for material for the research scholars.
A Music Therapy centre to help people get de-stressed ……
A Building complex that will house all the facilities and of course
A Team of trainers, experts, technicians and the students, the research
scholars.
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The
Progress Report
Construction of Harivallabh
Bhawan
The firm foundation of this long
awaited project was laid in June 2006 with the magnanimous donation of a
piece of land by Shree Devi Talab Mandir Prabandhak Committee to Shree
Baba Harivallabh Sangeet Mahasabha for building Harivallabh Bhawan to
house the proposed music school, Sangeet & Research Academy, an
auditorium to hold music workshops and small concerts and to house the
music library and archive.
The project got a boost when the Chief
Minister of Punjab S. Parkash Singh Badal announced a generous grant of
Rupees One Crore for the establishment of Harivallabh Sangeet & Research
Academy.
Shri Manoranjan Kalia, Minister for
Local Bodies, Industry, Punjab handed over the cheque of Rs.One Crore to
accelerate the activities.
It had been decided to carry out the project in Three Phases.
Phase -1 - To build the outer shell
and internal structural work within one year. Estimated cost Rs. 35 Lacs.
In reciprocation of the generous offer made by Shaheed Ramesh Chander
Memorial Society to donate Rs.10 Lacs, the Mahasabha has decided to name
one hall as Shaheed Ramesh Chander Hall. The auditorium will be named
after the great freedom fighter Shri Manmohan Kalia
The work has already been completed.
Phase - 2 - To carry out the interior
finishing and furnishing work. To get the acoustics work and Air
Conditioning work completed. To ensure installation of electrical,
electronic equipments is complete within two years. Estimated cost Rs.50
Lacs.
The work on this is in progress\
Phase - 3 - To complete the
roof top garden cum open air music concert hall within three years
Estimated cost Rs.20 Lacs.
On the Academic side, it has been
decided to :
1. To start a Music School for
providing free education to music enthusiasts in the year 2009.
5 Sangeet Aacharyas have given their consent to establish and carry
forward Guru – Shishya Parampara.
2. To establish Music Archive, and Music Library.
A well equipped Music Archive has been setup for the benefit of Research
students. For the present it has been housed in the office of the
Treasurer. It will be shifted in Harivallabh Bhawan as soon as the same
is ready
3. To start organizing Music Workshops.
Two such workshops were organized during 2008-09. more have been planned
for the future.
4. To establish Harivallabh Sangeet Vishvidyalaya in 2012.
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You Can Contribute!
Great institutions can
only be built by pooling in of resources by the leaders in trade,
industry, government, well wishers and donors.
Punjab Government has very kindly contributed Rupees One Crore for the
establishment of Harivallabh Music Academy.
Financial contributions to the tune of Rs.50 Lacs are required
immediately to maintain the pace of work of building this great
institution.
You are one of the
few privileged persons who can afford to make a lasting contribution in
promoting and preserving Indian Classical Music.
Please
do make a generous contribution towards this noble
cause,
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