Workshops
1. Music workshop for kids (April 2019) –
A summer workshop was conducted by Neha and her friend Ms. Ashwini Badwe.
It was open for all. It was an activity-based workshop to make kids understand basic concepts in classical music.
Children were taught with demonstration, how notes ascend and descend gradually, what is the difference between ‘dynamic (chal) and static (achal) notes, what are speed variations of rhythm, Children were asked to translate a song in Marathi or Hindi.
Such activities were covered in the one-day workshop. This workshop created interest about music in minds of several kids and they started learning some form of music later.
The objective of the workshop was to create liking and curiosity in the minds of children aboutclassical music.
2. A Dhrupad workshop by well-known dhrupad artist Meghana Sardar (November 2019)-
At Suhrud Music school, classical music is taught with the help of Gandharva Mahavidyalay syllabus, as it is nicely designed to get introduced to Indian Classical Music. Though basic education is introductory, Team Suhrud wants students to understand the actual concept of what they are learning and wants to provide them with a chance to get guidance from experts to understand the concept well.Due to popularity of Khayal gayan, singing of Dhrupad gradually started losing public acclaim. It remained restricted to one compulsory question in examination. This Dhrupad workshop was specially arranged to know more about this art form.In the first half of the Workshop, Meghana Sardar elucidated about the history, methodology of Dhrupad in very easy language. In the second half, she taught the students a Bandish. This was followed by Question-answer session wherein students and their parents too got their doubts cleared.