MAGICIAN NO MORE

Day before yesterday our great Bismillah Khan died. He was one of the very few musicians who could be called magicians. I had the fortune of listening his shehnai on one fine auspicious Diwali morning. It was a once in a lifetime experience(DD comes up with good programs very rarely). I was entharlled by the reverberations of his shehnai which I think are holy. Listening to his shehnai on the dawn of Diwali was one of the most fulfilling experiences in music. I will always savour that moment in my life. I will surely miss him.