People often regret their limitation of understanding classical music and form their opinions about music and musicians influenced by critical reviews published in newspapers and periodicals.

As no system or institution has been evolved so far for proper appreciation of music only a handful of musicians and genre remain in the forefront, courtesy publicity. As a result classical music is getting poorer, genres like Dhrupad and Dhamar are almost extinct these days.

No art can flourish without sagacious understanding of its patrons and appreciation by audience. Artistes at times play to the gallery for earning cheap popularity that hardly does justice as far as vastness and depth of Indian classical music is concerned.

We here at Shrutinandan have designed a Music Appreciation Course under the direct supervision and guidance of Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty.

This appreciation course is for the guardians of the students at Shrutinandan as well, that enables them to groom their wards in a better way.

Each student is taught on the basics of Indian music and musical accompaniment (Harmonium, Tanpura and Tabla) in this course.

Students of Music Appreciation classes are selected through Audition Tests.

A special Medal of citation in the name of Pandit Vijay Kumar Kichlu, famous Indian classical vocalist and former Executive Director of ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata, is conferred on the best student of the course.