Pune: For Kirana Gharana’s exponents, productive writers, and classical legend Hindustan Prabha Atre, accepting Padma Vibhushan is award for all teachers from Sureshbabu Mane to Hirabai Barodekar and the listener.
Within a year where he will be 91 years old, his dedication remains his craft.
“I am happy.
This award is for teachers, my listeners, and all Hindustan classical music lovers.
Until my last breath on this earth, I want to sing and talk to my listeners, and dedicate my life to music,” Atre said in the interaction with Toi on Tuesday.
Atre has been wearing a lot, prestigious hat in his career, whether it’s his job on all Indian radios, or becoming a music lecturer at the SNDT female university in Mumbai, or a writer and a writer.
He was also associated with other exponents in Kirana Gharana, especially Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, performed at the Classical Pune classical music festival, Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav, and gave a final appearance at the Festival since 2006, after Joshi retired due to health problems.
“I am very happy that the dedication of Prabha Atre for classical music for Indian music has been recognized in this way.
Besides his work in classical music, he is a creative person and a composer, and is a senior at Kirana Gharana.
In fact, I am a mother and she is Under the supervision of the same teacher, and it feels like my aunt has been respected, “Shrinivas Joshi, President Arya Sangeet Prasarak Mandal, who regulates the festival that his father began by his father.
He suggested that artists will come in Hindustan’s classical music, including some jest too.
“You must have satisfaction in your own work, and do not expect awards.
They will come in the end,” he said.
Want to sing until my last breath: Prabha Atre
