{"id":1619,"date":"2010-06-26T00:07:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T04:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?page_id=1619"},"modified":"2017-11-16T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T20:15:24","slug":"pt-shreeram-g-devasthali-1935-2002","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/posts-about-music-and-musicians\/pt-shreeram-g-devasthali-1935-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Pt. Shreeram G. Devasthali, 1935-2002"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On the occasion of my Guruji’s 8th death anniversary, I’m starting a web page dedicated to his memory. I hope to provide some information about him along with recollections from friends and students, some photographs and of course some samples of his teaching from the times we were able to record it.<\/p>\n

In 1998 I recorded six hours of his reminiscences. By that time his Parkinson’s Disease had taken most of his voice, so he was unable to sing \u2014 but he could still tell stories, and it was a great joy to sit with him while he recalled his life in music. I will be including excerpts from this material also in the months to come.<\/p>\n

If you knew Pt. Devasthali, please leave a comment, and it will be included in this page, which I hope will expand significantly.<\/p>\n

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Guruji in 1994<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In 1991 the American Institute of Indian Studies sent a video team to document one of our lessons. Despite the intrusive presence of camera, lighting team and sound man, the taleem session was unaffected. I digitized my copy of the video and had short clips on YouTube, but recently put the whole thing on Vimeo without interruptions \u2014 here is Devasthalibua giving me material in Shri Raag. The extraordinary flow of his teaching is vividly evident.<\/p>\n