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Exclusive: What you need to know about NCPA's musical archives
Updated On: 17 July, 2023 12:10 PM IST | Mumbai | Jane Borges
The NCPA had made its archival catalogue available online. Here is an exclusive peek into the preservation vault that has been meticulously digitised, so that everyone can enjoy the vast repository of sound and symphony
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Nayan Kale, chief executive, Technical Department, NCPA, at the preservation vault comprising audio and film material. Pics/Sameer Markande, NCPA
Archiving is a delicate matter, and only those invested in it, will understand its rigour. There’s an exhaustive amount of work that goes into it—documenting, recording, storing, cataloguing and digitising. In the end, the hope is that someone will put it to good use, perhaps even better than imagined.
Nayan Kale, chief executive, Technical Department at the NCPA, is however sceptical. For decades now, he has manned a rare repository of great genius and artistry, preserved in a room at the performing centre in Nariman Point. Audio recordings of the legendary musicians Bal Gandharva, Zhohra Bai, Bismillah Khan, Janaki Bai, Begum Akhtar, Gangubai Hangal, Sundara Bai, Pyara Jan, Rasoolan Bai, Pyara Saheb, Roshanara Begum and the renditions of the Symphony Orchestra of India among others, rest in sync and harmony here. If this room had a voice, it would sing a new song daily.
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