1. Imagine the famous singer Kishort Amonkar is going to visit your school. You have been asked to introduce her to the audience before her performance. Hon
would you introduce her?
Here is some information about Kishori Amonkar you can find on the Internet
Read the passage and make notes of the main points about:
• her parentage
• the school of music she belongs to
• her achievements
• her inspiration
• awards
Padma Bhushan Kishori Amonkar, widely considered the finest femas
vocalist of her generation, was born in 1931, daughter of another great artis
Smt. Mogubai Kurdikar. In her early years she absorbed the approach an
repertoire of her distinguished mother's teacher Ustad Alladiya Khan. As hes
own style developed, however, she moved away from Alladiya Khan's Jaipu
Atrault gharana' style in some respects, and as a mature artist her approad
is usually regarded as an individual, if not unique, variant of the Jaipu.
model.
Kishori Amonkar is a thinker, besotted by what she calls the mysterious
world of her raagas. She dissects them with the precision of a perfectionis
almost like a scientist, until the most subtle of shades and emotions emeng
and re-emerge.
She is very much inspired by the teachings of the ancient Vedic sages
written at a time when vocal music was highly devotional in character. The

Welcome the famous kishort amonkar who inspires many to our stage

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