Pandit Ram Krishna Bose : Profile
When the pursuit of the art of music is accompanied by hard work, patience and dedication- it assumes its significance. Pdt. Ram Krishna Bose is such a devout musician for whom music is a passion and as such has become the meaning of his life. Mr. Bose plays Sitar, Tabla, Santoor and also is an accomplished vocalist. He has experimented with these instruments to produce novel effects. Intensity of emotion, clarity of perception and a deep involvement with the subtleties of Ragas has endowed his music with a distinct sentiment. Listening to his music is like being transported into a different highly charismatic world. It is beyond intellect a highly passionate overflow of powerful feelings.
His personality is equally charming. Immensely unassuming, well mannered, soft broken, disciplined and endowed with an outstanding aesthetic sense – Pdt. Bose is conscious of his responsibility towards his family, Society and friends. Mr. Bose's excellence lies in his ability to delve deep into the feeling that has gone into the creation of a song. He is able to touch that depth and recreates it in his delivery of the song. Such intense is his recital that sometimes not only he himself but even the audience listening to him melt into tears.
The audience reminded of an incident which can never fade away from their memory. Once Pdt. Bose Sang the hymn which Swami Vivekanand had sung when he first met Ramkrishna Paramhans. It was an open premises in which hundreds of girl students and teachers were there to listen to him. Mr. Bose sang that song is the manner Vivakanand would have sung it. It was like communicating with the almighty such a powerful melody could not have been possible put for the life long devotion of Mr. Bose.
In the present times when music is also under the influence of cultural pollution, when it leads to tiredness, restlessness, depression and dissatisfaction instead of cheerfulness and joy, the recital of Pdt. Bose singing the Vedic hymns, takes one to the height of spiritualism.
