E8: Presentation and Listening.

With guest: Shubhangi Sakhalkar. Continuing our conversation with Smt. Shubhangi Sakhalkar Ji, a Hindustani musician and Guru, we discuss internalization of material and presentation of khayal. Specifically, we look at how practice (riyaz) and presentation differ. Furthermore, we discuss how to properly listen to music in the Hindustani khayal genre. Shubhangi Ji is a Hindustani musician and guru in the Bay Area. She is a disciple of Dr. Prabha Atre and Smt. Padma Talwalkar. She is also the founder of the Intonation foundation, an organization founded in 2018 dedicated to promoting Hindustani Classical Music (https://intonationfoundation.org/). Furthermore, she organizes the Amir Khan Music Festival annually. In the past few years, she has organized and taught a masterclass series for advanced vocal studies that can be found on her YouTube page. Lastly, she has recently released an album, Serenity, that can be found on Apple Music and Spotify. More information can be found on her artist profile page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/sakhalkar.shubhangi/). Hosted by Shishir Rao, a DPhil student at the University of Oxford and a student of Hindustani Classical Music.