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Profile Of a Dedicate Ustad Hamid Hossain
Ustad Hamid Hossain was recruited by the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), to help them start a Indian music department since the University was known for its ethnomusicology program at that time. Dr. Mantle Hood, from UCLA and many other luminaries of the academic ethnomusicology world was at the music department at UMBC. Ustad Hossain started teaching various courses in Indian music at UMBC and his affiliation has lasted to this day. In 1982, he started envisioning an All USA Indian Music and Dance Competition that would be held at UMBC every year. His vision was not to make it such a competitive environment but rather an environment that would facilitate competition and improvements in music. All his students and many students throughout the United States gathered in Baltimore for two days in November 1982. Students from all ranges were present from beginners to advance from 5 in age to 75 in age. It was a remarkable event and was recognized as a truly ground breaking event that brought together members of many communities, including Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian and American community. This competition is now almost 25 years in running. One of the only competition to be held out of India that has run for this amount of time. It has received awards from three presidents of the United States. The mayor of Baltimore, the Governor of Maryland including all three Ambassadors from the Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indian Embassy have been present for different competitions. For the last 3 years, United States Senator, the honorable Paul Sarbanes (D‐MD) has come to witness the events and distribute trophies in the last three years. He has said that this is one of the truly unique events he has ever been to and he would come as many times as he could.
In 1991, he started Aim Records, Inc. to record and distribute classical compact discs of Indian music. The releases so far have been great and numerous and many top luminaries of Indian music are on this label, including Ajoy Chakraborty, Rashid Khan, Shujaat Khan, Budhaditya Mukherjee and many others. Aim Records, later turned into Aimrec.com and has since published many interactive and wonderful Indian music products.
He is the executive producer of Sangeetpedia. He believes till this day that the most important aspect of his life, why he was born, was to propagate Indian classical music throughout the world. Ustad Hamid Hossain has had many students throughout his life in music. His students love him to the level of worship, because he not only teaches them music but gives and instills upon them a philosophy of life.
Today, he has a waiting list of at least 40 students at any given time and is teaching at various different places in the United States. He is perhaps the most well known Indian music teacher outside of India and his life is a testament that foremost, his love for music and the propagation of Indian music is undisputed. He is the father and guru of one of the creators of Sangeetpedia, Enayet Hossain.
Information By : Rajan Saha
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Dear Dedicated members,
TablaRaj Bangladesh (TRB) is going to hold an Iftar Party
In this Party all the Advisers will be sharing their opinions.
All members are requested to attend the Party and give their important views.
Date : 20th August 2010
Day : Friday
Time : 5.00pm
Venue : Chhayanot Songit Bhaban, Dhanmondi-26, Dhaka-1209
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01717637953 (Shazahan Sayef)
01916625532 (Shiblee Hassan)
01916030485 (Rudra Rajat
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