Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Oct 28: Sopori Academy of Music And Performing Arts (SaMaPa) organized the third fund raiser music concert in Capital for J&K flood victims.
The concert titled ‘Concert for Kashmir’ was held in collaboration with India Habitat Centre featuring some of the senior maestros of Indian music like Vidushi Sumitra Guha (Vocal), Ustad Hashmat Ali Khan (Tabla), Vidushi Uma Garg (Vocal), Pt LK Pandit (Vocal) and Pt Rajindra Prasanna (Flute) joined by Ustad Rashid Mustafa Thirakwa, Durjay Bhaumik (Tabla), Bharat Bhushan Goswami (Sarangi) and Paromita Mukherjee and Vinay Mishra (Harmonium).
SaMaPa fund raiser concerts have so far helped to mobilize around Rs 80 lakhs. The series of concerts have been an initiative conceived by the great music legend Pandit Bhajan Sopori, hailed as the cultural bridge of J&K with the rest of the country, and maestro Abhay Rustum Sopori.
SaMaPa organized the 1st concert in collaboration with the German Embassy and later got together the best of the young generation musicians in the 2nd concert.
Prior to the concert Pandit Bhajan Sopori said, “The floods shattered the State. We got the musicians of India and the art lovers together in this cause to express solidarity towards the victims affected by the floods and also raise funds”. “The musical evening is also to create awareness about the problems faced by the victims and people can still help in providing relief and rehabilitation, said Abhay Sopori.
The concert was attended by a number of people including Prof Aparna Sopori, Commissioner Income Tax, VK Tiwari, DDG Doordarshan, Rafique Massoodi, musicians — Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan, Ustad Akram Khan, Danish Aslam Khan, Ritish Mishra, Ojesh Pratap Singh, Athar Hussain, architect Neerja Tiku, musicologists —Manjari Sinha, Ravindra Misra and Pt Vijay Shankar Mishra, and writer Ratan Kaul.
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