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| The great ‘shenai-vadak’ is no more | | PM condolesBismillaha’s demise | |
New Delhi, Aug 21 President APJ Abdul Kalam, Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed shock and grief at the demise of 'shehnai' maestro Bismillah Khan describing him as a symbol of India's composite culture.
The shehnai legend and Baharat Ratna; Ustad Bismillah Khan died here in a private hospital early today.
He was 90 years old.
According to the family sources the maestro died due to severe cardiac arrest at 2:45 am at the Heritage hospital.
"Ustad Bismillah Khan's passing away indeed marks the end of an era in shehnai music. He was a rare jewel and a musician who comes only once in a life time," President A P J Abdul Kalam said in a condolence message.
Hailing Khan as a "gifted artistic genius", Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat said he brought a rare vibrancy and resplendence to Indian classical music and enthralled his audiences across the globe.
Shekhawat said in the death of the music maestro the country has lost an acclaimed musician, a powerful exponent of our composite cultural values and a fine human being.
In his condolence message, the Prime Minister said "a true symbol of our composite culture, Khan sahib, through his mellifluous rendering of the shehnai showed us all that while God may manifest himself in many forms, piety finds its true expression through music." Lauding the departed maestro as a "great son of India", Singh said he almost single-handedly elevated this simple instrument of popular folk music into a famous vehicle of Hindustani classical music.
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and senior BJP leader L K Advani remembered Khan as an unmatched shehnai player and as a legend in Indian classical music.
"It's impossible to fill the void that his death has caused to the world of music," Vajpayee said.
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