*****Several Press Comments on Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty*****
The Hindu
"Ajoy Chakrabarty is" something of a miracle of natural gifts and tireless self-culture.
The Statesman
"Ajoy's music is beyond criticism."
The New York Times[On the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of India's Independence at the Carnegie Hall] -
"Ajoy Chakrabarty" held a rare summit meeting."
The Boston Globe
"Ajoy Chakrabarty has become the principal transmitter of the style of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan."
India West Magazine (California)
"Vocalist Ajoy Chakrabarty and His Ambitious Dream : Chakrabarty is trying to do what no one has done before in India. He is making a systematic attempt to seek the best child musical talent and have them trained and guided by a top class vocalist - himself."
*****Reviews / Testimonials on Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty******
"...during my long life I have not found any student so accomplished in every respect other than Ajoy"
-- Jnan Prakash Ghosh (one of the few Great Gurus of Indian Music)"AAJKAL" 14 February, 1993
"Ajoy is truly a 'thinker' of superior quality. It is only a 'thinker' who can break barriers and reach 'unattainable heights' normally not within the reach of an average successful musician."
--Shri V. K. Kichlu Executive Director(Sangeet Research Academy Calcutta) The premier Institution for promoting Indian vocal classical music
"I am very happy and proud to see your wonderful music building (Shrutinandan) which you have so nicely done... you have fulfilled my ambition"
-- Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Sarode Maestro 19 March, 1999
"Under the leadership of Shri Ajoy Chakrabarty it (Shrutinandan) brings to Calcutta and to the world a truly modern musical school where initiates to the rich world of Indian classical music may master the- living musical culture of old and new India."
-- Roald Hoffman PH Nobel LaureateScientist 12 March, 1999
"...What is perhaps most impressive about the work of Indian masters such as Ajoy Chakrabarty is its seamless blend of austere tradition and bustling improvisation:"
Washington Post April 17, 2000
"...In the music of India, virtuosity is an entry level requirement. Master vocalist Ajoy Chakrabarty stands supreme in a nation of unbelievably skilled musicians."
-- Honolulu Weekly June 28-July 4, 2000
"Ajoy has not only the good fortune to possess a voice that his own untiring efforts have endowed with an extraordinary depth and flexibility, but he has acquired that rarest of gifts - a mastery of form."
-- Satyajit Ray, 1995 Oscar Winner Film Director
"Such a superb fluidity of imagination, a heart, moaning with emotional bruises and wounds and the capacity to toy with technique and musical ornament at will -- Providence bestows only once in a century and only on a chosen one. Ajoy Chakrabarty seems to have a generous measure of the blessings..."
--The Hindu October "9,1998 |
