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Zia Mohiuddin Dagar — Seattle, 1975 / 1979
Imported from Raga Records. Original credits and historical wording are preserved; musical claims await independent review.
Original source and attribution ↗Programme, audio and booklet for RAGA-222 →Ira Landgarten
Z. M. DAGAR
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar rudra vina
Rag MARWA
[1] alap 17:59 [2] jor 15:29
Rag BAGESHREE
[3] alap 18:25 [4] jor 16:36
Total Time: 68:40
UPC: 7044820 222 2 1
USTAD ZIA MOHIUDDIN DAGAR (1929-1990) was the world's most renowned exponent of India's ancient rudra vina, the instrumental ancestor of the sitar. He was also one of the few masters of dhrupad, the slow, austere, meditative traditional music still performed as it was centuries ago by Dagar's forefathers in the Mughal courts. He had several promising students in India, and in the United States, where he performed and taught regularly since his American debut in 1968. Dagar was affiliated with the American Society for Eastern Arts in Berkeley, California, and he also taught for many years at the University of Washington, in Seattle, where these concert performances were recorded in 1975 (Marwa) and 1979 (Bageshree). -- Ira Landgarten
Booklet: memoir by Jody Stecher
Credits
Recorded 1975 (marwa); 1979 (bageshree).
from the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archive · second in a series
Z.M. Dagar on Raga Records: Todi, Ahir Lalit, Panchamkauns Booklet includes article by Ira Landgarten.
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