Source: The Hindu | By SARITA BRARA
September 16, 2013
Over the years, All India Radio has played a crucial role in promoting classical music in the country
"Classical music has never been as popular as film or light music. It had committed listenership in the past and the same can be said about the present. To say that listenership of classical music has been lost in the din of film and pop music in the fast paced life today would not be a correct assumption," says Lakshmi Shankar Bajpai, All India Radio Station Director in Delhi.
In the absence of any survey, it is difficult to say whether the number of listeners of classical music has come down or increased, she says. "One small mistake about the name of a raga or its rendering on any of the AIR programmes, and the phones start ringing to point out the mistake."
Also in the annual music competitions that All India Radio organises,.............................
Read more at http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/musically-sound/article5128986.ece
September 16, 2013
Over the years, All India Radio has played a crucial role in promoting classical music in the country
"Classical music has never been as popular as film or light music. It had committed listenership in the past and the same can be said about the present. To say that listenership of classical music has been lost in the din of film and pop music in the fast paced life today would not be a correct assumption," says Lakshmi Shankar Bajpai, All India Radio Station Director in Delhi.
In the absence of any survey, it is difficult to say whether the number of listeners of classical music has come down or increased, she says. "One small mistake about the name of a raga or its rendering on any of the AIR programmes, and the phones start ringing to point out the mistake."
Also in the annual music competitions that All India Radio organises,.............................
Read more at http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/musically-sound/article5128986.ece
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