Victory Day 2010

Few TRB members Discuss about TRB next tour

Profile Of a Dedicate Ustad Hamid Hossain

Ustad Hamid Hossain was born in a musical family in Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. He received his talim in tabla, sitar and Hindustani classical vocal from his renowned father, Ustad Kader Buksh, one of India’s foremost musicologist/musician. Ustad Kader Buksh had many illustrious students including Sachin Dev Burman, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Abbassudin Ahmed, and many others. A civil engineer by academics, he decided to dedicate his life to the propagation of Indian music throughout the world.Since he loved music completely, he decided that he would try to perform in all three different art forms.He did not want to sacrifice his love for the Sitar, Tabla or Vocal music and thus decided to learn and perform all three.He moved to Bangladesh in 1968 and became one of Bangladesh’s most well known and respected musician and teacher of music.From there, he built a solid base in the understanding of how to teach the music that was taught to him. He stayed in Bangladesh for a few years performing for Radio Bangladesh often and teaching hundreds of students. At this time in his life, he received the offer to migrate to the United States. Although he did not know what the opportunities were that existed in the United States as far as Indian music was concerned, he decided to migrate and see what he could do. By the early 70s, Indian music was gaining recognition throughout the world due to the efforts of Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Ustad Vilayat Khan. He immediately started to seek out like minded individuals and people who wanted to learn about music. He was successful to such an extent that music became his only profession; he taught regularly maintaining a wide group of students and also performed through out the United States.

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

TRB Iftar Party 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
Cell Contact :
01717637953 (Shazahan Sayef)
01916625532 (Shiblee Hassan)
01916030485 (Rudra Rajat

TRB President receive the World Food Festival 2010 award from Vietnam.

TRB members Congrats TRB Adviser Roqubul Hasan for his Srilanka tour

Tablaraj Bangladesh General Meeting Discussion
 

 There held a general meeting leaded by the president Rajan Saha on 27 May 2010, in TSC. The main issue of the meeting was the future plan for Tablaraj Bangladesh. There joined few honorable advisors of TRB Roqibul Hassan, Arshad Ali, Arif Rahman and Ashfaque Ahmed.  

Issues of discussion were to proceed with new projects of work to proceed ahead through constructive work in order to meet the objectives of TRB. TRB is in process to have the membership in papers so as to strengthen the cohesiveness in the organization in productive as being taken over all delegated job responsibility that helps in designing the further procedures in fine tune form.

Rajan Saha concludes the meeting with thanking the members and other important personalities to make the meeting successful. 

TRB welcome you to take the smell of soil. 

Reported by

Tahera Hossain

TRB members Congrats TRB President Rajan Saha for selecting representative Of International Yuba Conference

Few TRB members Joined Padatik Nattya Uttshob at Shilpokola Academy

Bangali r Praner Uttshob TRB Borsho Boron '17

General meeting Of TRB On TSC

Dear Dedicated members,

Tablaraj Bangladesh is going to hold a
general meeting for celebrating Pahela Baishakh’ 1417.

In this
meeting all the advisors will be sharing their opinions. All members are
requested to attend the meeting and give their important views.

Date: 29 March, 2010
Day : Monday
Time : 6.00pm
Venue : T.S.C,Dhaka University
Meeting agenda: Program of Pahela Baishakh

Cell Contact : 01916625532 (Shiblee Hassan), 01916030485 (Rudra Rajat)

TRB Work

1st Anniversary Of Gayanpunja Library , Sponsored By TablaRaj Bangladesh

1st Anniversary Of TablaRaj Bangladesh

Dear all the TRB members and you…. Tablaraj Bangladesh is going to complete its first year on 13 February that is Pahela Falgun, the starting of spring in Bangla calendar. Tablaraj Bangladesh had started its journey on 13 February 2009 (English calendar), 1 Falgun 1416 (Bangla calendar) with few energetic youths’ strong steps for the true image of Bangladesh in terms of tradition and culture.

Tablaraj Bangladesh would like to thank each and every friends, great seniors, enthusiastic youths, the Bangladeshi friends living abroad and last but not the least all international friends or well wisher over the world, who were always beside TRB supported their valuable opinions, suggestions and also stretching necessary helping hands.

Tablaraj Bangladesh is going to celebrate the day with a big struggler at the age of sixty. Abul Hossain, the big struggler who make his living on singing and playing ‘Dotara’. TRB would like to honor his remarkable strength and desire of earning money through entertaining people with music instead of pick the easy practice of begging (the general scenario of Bangladesh) with suvenior of ‘Dotara’.
Please join in our celebration…. Every ones’ passion for soil leads the Tablaraj Bangladesh (TRB) to enjoy this success. Date: Saturday, 13 February Time: 11.30 a.m. Venue: Sorwardhy Uddan For further information please contact, Name : Jajabar Rasel cell no: +88 01716 417210

hello fnz , Com'on TRB stall No 14 , National Pitha uttshab ,Shilpokola Academy (21th January - 28th january , 3pm to 9pm every day)