Event details
May
1
Monthly Mahfil
Most classical and popular musical genres, such as, Ghazal, Bhajan, Thumri, Dadra, and Bollywood songs use and absorb poetic genres, including ghazal, bhajan, barahmasa, and genres of classical and folk poetry.
To explore and appreciate the strong connection between poetry and music in our culture, we will gather every month to closely read a few poems sung by well-known classical and popular singers and analyze them line by line in various contexts to appreciate the literary and aesthetic value of both the poetry and their musical rendition. We will end each gathering with inviting a couple of participants to share their recitation or musical rendition of poems included in the reading packet of the day. Selected poems will be pre-circulated among registered members of monthly mahfil.
The poetry reading session will be led by Fauzia Farooqui.
To explore and appreciate the strong connection between poetry and music in our culture, we will gather every month to closely read a few poems sung by well-known classical and popular singers and analyze them line by line in various contexts to appreciate the literary and aesthetic value of both the poetry and their musical rendition. We will end each gathering with inviting a couple of participants to share their recitation or musical rendition of poems included in the reading packet of the day. Selected poems will be pre-circulated among registered members of monthly mahfil.
The poetry reading session will be led by Fauzia Farooqui.
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