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Sahab Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan, the legend passed
away in the year 1989 at the age of 79. During
his lifetime, he had tried to maintain a tradition
of Indian Classical Music music and never compromised
with his tradition for mere public applause.
To propagate his ideals and his music, the UMAK Centre for Culture was registered
in the year 1993. The Centre hopes that the abiding values which Ustad Mushtak
Ali Khan Sahab so assiduously believed in, might be assimilated and be of benefit
to the future generation, desirous of learning music and playing it with restraint
and purity.
We are grateful to the lovers of Khan's Sahab's music and to those who have
inspired us to institute this Centre.
In 1994, the Centre succeeded in releasing a book entitled ‘Ustad Mushtaq Ali
Khan and Indian Music'. This was released by Pandit Bhim Sen Joshi and published
by Har Anand Publications. The entire cost, without any outside support, was
borne by the admirers and students of Sitar Maestro Pandit Debu Chaudhuri,
one of the foremost students of Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan and the Founder Secretary
of UMAK Centre for Culture.
The Centre has released some CD recordings and 2 books on music. Amongst it's
many welfare activities, the Centre has also helped the deserving artists financially
who are in a distressed condition. Amongst it's cultural activities which are
undertaken throughout the year, UMAK Centre for Culture has by now presented
more than 8 Big Music Festivals presenting both upcoming and renowned artists
notable amongst them being Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Pandit
Shiv Kumar Sharma, Pandit Birju Maharaj, Mr. Sivamani, Mr. Louis Banks and
many others in the field. On the 3rd of June2005, the Centre celebrated the
70th birthday of it's Founder Secretary, Pandit Debu Chaudhuri at Kamani Auditorium
which featured a concert by Smt. Shubha Mudgal and a Special concert by Pandit
Debu Chaudhuri accompanied by Pandit Kishan Maharaj.
The Centre has also got a new Pan No. AAATU 1218 J from the Income Tax Department.
To further the ideals of the late Ustad, the Delhi Administration granted a
piece of land measuring 946 square metres at the Jasola area behind Apollo
Hospital , Delhi . Seeing the philanthropic work done by this institute, which
is of a Charitable nature, being a non profit organization, the administration
granted us official permission to collect donations under the 80G scheme of
Income Tax,
At present the main obstacle we are facing is with respect to the finance to
fund the construction of the building. We have got a nominal bank balance with
the help of the Delhi Administration. We are appealing to all , including the
admirers of Khan Sahab's music, like minded individuals, institutions, the
Central Govt., Semi Government institutions, Corporates and others to come
forward and help us with their kind contribution to build this unique Centre,
extending their positive support to build this unique Centre. This will help
us in keeping Khan Sahab's memory alive for the future generations. We request
you to kindly come forward and help us financially and also otherwise to accomplish
the mission which is to have the building first, so that we can keep the music
of this great Maestro of the country alive. The Centre is presently functioning
from J –1852, Chittaranjan Park , New Delhi-19, till we get the new building.
Aims
and Objectives of UMAK Centre
- To propagate and promote traditional Indian
Classical Music.
- To advance, promote and disseminate the study
and education of Classical Music
- To document compositions and create an archive
for music.
- To propagate, document and preserve the music
of Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan and rare compositions
of Senia Gharana.
- To carry on research work on Indian Music,
with special emphasis on Indian Classical Music.
- To promote national integration and communal
harmony
- To establish institutions, hold classes for
the teaching and training of classical music
free of cost for the highly talented students.
- To acquire, take over, carry on and maintain
affiliation or otherwise with music colleges,
schools, and allied institutions.
- To organize cultural functions annually in
different parts of India as well as in foreign
countries.
- To hold Charitable functions for a cause.
- To create a Trust or to provide financial assistance
to any Trust, which has been created for achieving
the same object as that of this society.
- To popularize traditional music amongst the
masses.
- To help needy and deserving students with musical
talent and artists.
- To facilitate outstation artists for accommodation.
- To sponsor upcoming artists with grant, scholarship,
financial assistance and provide platform for
them to combine music with theory and conduct
regular lecture demonstrations.
- To distribute prizes or institute awards for
the promotion of classical music and dance.
- To construct, maintain, alter, improve and
develop buildings and to purchase take on lease
or otherwise acquire, to sell, give on lease,
exchange or otherwise transfer or dispose off
all moveable or immoveable property for the Society.
- To construct a mini auditorium and a sound
studio and to give this on hire to outsiders
for organizing any function or recordings if
feasible.
- To establish libraries, reading rooms for the
dissemination of knowledge and to provide assistance
to poor and deserving persons by way of providing
them books.
- To provide financial assistance to persons
desirous of spreading the cause of Indian Music
in foreign countries or in India by means of
providing them financial assistance for going
abroad or elsewhere
- To provide free training o poor talented students.
- To open an International House for foreign
students for further exchange of research work
on music.
Office
Bearers
President
Dr.
S.N Mukherjee
Vice
Presidents
Ustad
Rahim Fahimuddin Khan Dagar
Dr.
D. K Ghosh
Shri
K. C. Jain
Shri
Vasant Sathe
Prof.
Abad Ahmed
Treasurer
Smt.
Runa Chaudhuri
Hony
Secretary
Pandit
Debu Chaudhuri
Asst.
Secretary
Dr.
Prateek Chaudhuri
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