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Mohinderjit
today stands astride musical crossroads, the first of new
generation of musicians whose inborn virtuosity leads them to
explore new fields, diverse directions, always with Success. Mohinderjit is known to discerning audiences and to Indian cinema
enthusiasts as a singer, violinist and composer of high standing.
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Mohinderjit’s
early training was received from the Late Pandit Husanlal
who was far more than an orchestrator of film-music ,he was
simultaneously and outstanding vocalist & violinist. Mohinderjit
weaves his own magic in his compositions. He excels in the soft
and sweet. Mohinderjit’s music is very distinctly his own. The
ornamentation in his music is so simple, yet intricately woven,
that it has become a watermark of his own inimitable style.
Mohinderjit is a composer with a yen for the original. Possessing
great insight into India’s folk music, he has the ability to blend
these folk forms with the traditional classical base to create a
form all his own.
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Mohinderjit is one of the very few musicians in this country who
are well-versed in both the Hindustani and Occidental genres and
who can effect the aesthetic merger of the two whilst retaining
the character and essential purity of each. To reach the masses
without coarsening once approach is an art. Mohinderjit knows this
art.
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The
good composer is a master, not a slave, of public taste. To be
such a master a composer needs, first, mastery over his craft. Mohinderjit endeavors to raise levels of appreciation among the
public by infusing in his work a certain quality, a certain
tradition.
Our popular music today needs a dynamic composer who will bring it
out of the rut into which it has fallen. Mohinderjit with his
comprehensive insight into the grammar of film-music composition,
has the ability to give a new direction, a new dimension to our
popular music.
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As a vocalist himself, he knows how to draw the best out of a
singer; and as a virtuoso violinist is in complete control of his
orchestra.
His scintillating repertoire includes
Khayal, Thumari, Dadra,
Ghazal, Geet, Kaafi and Devotional Songs.
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He
has the gift of being able to impart his classical art even to his
lighter songs. This is what makes him a remarkably flexible
vocalist, whose music goes both to head & heart of his audiences.
Every song, every phrase shows how Mohinderjit has explored the
greatest depths of music. He envelops the listener with the warmth
of glowing embers in his voice… the smoothness of marble arch in
his meend… the lightness of fluttering feather in his zamzama and
khatka… the subtle suggestion of a smile in his kan… the delicacy
of a carven ivory trellis in his ‘taan’ and ‘boltaan’.
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It’s a rare experiences to listen to him – a
singer-composer-violinist with such a vast and variegated
repertoire and such perfection of tanning and discipline, for
Mohinderjit is nothing if not sensitive; infact superbly so and
supremely aesthetic.
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