Mysuru: “One should know sorrow, one should know loneliness and then something happens and that is how great music comes out,” said Sarod Maestro Padma Shri Pandit Rajeev Taranath.
He was replying to a question about how one can produce great music, at a felicitation function organised by Dhvanyaloka’s Literary Criterion, Centre for English Studies and Indigenous Arts, for the Padma Shri award conferred on him, at Dhvanyaloka premises on Bogadi Road recently. He said that when a music connoisseur compared him to his Guru Ustad Ali Akbar Khan in Kolkata where he was performing, he (Taranath) said it was a great honour for him as that is the highest reward a Shishya can ever aspire for.
