Music

Joy of Music!

I do not remember when the music started influencing my mind. My father used to have a collection of records LPs and he used to listen to music and songs while his friends coming over to see him. I was a tot during those days but I vividly recall that time. I didn’t understand what were the lyrics about but they actually were engrained on my mind subconsciously until one day that I was lying despondent on a couch and radio was playing some old Indian songs and suddenly a song started and I just got up from the bed with the perking up lyrics of song by K. L Saigol. I could recall the tune from my childhood memories, same song used to be played by my father over and over again, but first time in my life I understood the lyrics. I just fell in the magical aura of music and songs by K. L Saigol. Before that I was listening to the pop songs by Madonna, Michael Jackson, latest Indian movies songs and what’s not. But I was introduced to K. L Saigol and Punkhaj Malik quiet later in my life after I had completed my house job.

It’s also interesting to get introduced to western classical music. My eldest brother passed his Engineering from NED University and he went to study MS from New York in 1969 when I was just a tot, He came back in 1971 and brought many LPs of Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Vivaldi etc. and we all used to listen to those symphonies. These piano sonatas were engrained on my mind subconsciously and I knew the tunes from my memory lane but I could not identify the musicians who composed it.

I also love eastern classical music as well, like sitar by Ravi Shankar, Ustad Allah Datta, and Zakir Hussain. Beautiful Ghazals of Ghalib and Iqbal sung by Malika Pukhraj, Tahira Syed, Begum Akhter, Jagjeet Singh etc. and Qawalies by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Farid Uddin and Abu Ahmed, they all had won my heart already. New singers like Atif Aslam, Rahat Fateh Ali khan, Indila, Adele, Lady Gaga are all my favorites.

It depends on my mood to what to listen specially when I go to my work place by driving my car. In the morning I am fresh to listen fast music and songs but when I am returning home tired, I want soothing piano sonatas!

I tried to learn to play guitar and electronic key board and took up lessons from “ Sagar School of performing Arts” (it was situated near Kashmir road but now it is non existent) after my house job and during my first Job as RMO at OMI hospital. I used to go to music school after hospital and then used to return back to home. I have done everything that I wanted and I count it as a blessing. I never continued playing those instruments and they are just memories now!