Last Friday, an awesome
‘Jugalbandi’ was organised by the united efforts of Panaji’s Samraat Club, Rotary Club, Inner wheel Club
and the International Centre Goa. The notes of Manish Pingle’s slide-guitar fused
with those of Sandeep Mishra’s Sarangi and the Tabla beats of Prasun Chaterjee.
Before their performance, Goa’s ace drummer, Carlos Gonsalves was felicitated by
the Governor of Goa. Carlos replied to the felicitation with his percussion.
His amazing performance
included not only a variety of drums and sticks but also assorted utensils and
everyday things like the seat he was seating on! He seemed to hold the capacity
to turn every skin and shell into a percussion instrument. His developed skill of
music was uniting to impact the potential of percussion that lay in the various
surfaces.
Indeed, once again
the togetherness of expertise and potential was in full display. The same was
noticed in the ‘Jugalbandi’ where the great players connected their developed
skill with the full potential of their instruments. The music that they were
able to draw from their musical tools indicated the unison of the artist and
the implement.
But in case of the
percussion players like Carlos or the great ones like Zakir Hussain, Sivamani
and others; their capacity to make everything sound interesting is found
exciting by audiences. Of course, other music players are not lesser in
attractiveness, but in the case of the percussion players, the listeners see
the unfolding potential of even things considered to be disconnected from musical
capacities.
While personal
development of individual skill is valuable, its combination with connecting to
latent potential in others is the seed for discovering greater treasures. We must
realise that success gets positively impacted when the competency of the
individual is united with the discovery of performance possibilities of the
team members to eventually create the pleasing percussion.
When individual
skill connects with potential of the other person
Truly then we will ‘unite to impact’ the
possibilities of percussion!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
Goa, India.
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