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Pandit Pran Nath (Devanagari: पंडित प्राणनाथ) (3 November 1918 13 June 1996) was an Indian classical singer and master of the Kirana gharana singing style. Promoting traditional raga principles, Nath exerted an influence on notable American minimalist and jazz musicians, including La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Don Cherry.[1] He began performing in the United States in the 1970s, and established the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in 1972; he subsequently taught in various universities across the US and Europe.[1]

Pran Nath
(पंडित प्राणनाथ)
Born(1918-11-03)3 November 1918
Lahore, British India
Died13 June 1996(1996-06-13) (aged 77)
Berkeley, California, US
Genres North Indian classical, dhrupad, khayal
Occupation(s)Singer

Early life


Pran Nath was born into a wealthy family in Lahore in present-day Pakistan. While they were avid devotees of music, inviting musicians into the house to perform nightly, his family did not approve of his desire to become a musician, so he left home at the age of 13 and took up residence with the reclusive singer Abdul Wahid Khan of the Kirana gharana, cousin of the more widely known Abdul Karim Khan.

Pran Nath served Khan for seven years before he was accepted as a student, and stayed with Khan for nearly two decades[citation needed]. Both guru and disciple were much attracted to mysticism: Abdul Wahid Khan, a Muslim, to Sufism; and Nath, a Hindu, to a Shaivite sect in Dehra Dun. It is said that Nath lived in a cave near the Tapkeswhar temple to Shiva for five years,[2] serving his guru intermittently. He eventually married and reentered the world at the request (guru dakshana) of his guru, in order to ensure the preservation of the Kirana style. In 1937, he became a staff artist with All India Radio.

However, Nath stuck to Abdul Wahid's extra-methodical and austere singing style, with a heavy emphasis on alap and slow tempo, which suited his voice well but was not very popular. Like his teacher, Pran Nath's singing emphasized precise intonation and the gradual, note-by-note exposition of tone and mood in the alap section of the music.[3]

Nath supported himself as a music teacher, and worked at the University of Delhi from 1960 to 1970. He was also a visiting professor of music at Mills College.[4]


Life in the United States


In 1970, Pran Nath travelled to New York to visit the American composer La Monte Young and visual artist Marian Zazeela, who heard his first issued recording, Earth Groove: The Voice of Cosmic India. In 1972, he established the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York City and lived in the US for the rest of his life. He taught at several universities abroad and in the US, including Mills College, and attracted a strong following among the American minimalist composers, including Terry Riley, Jon Hassell, and Henry Flynt.[5] Jazz musicians such as Don Cherry and Lee Konitz also drew influence from his teaching.[1]


Notable students



Discography



Unreleased recordings


Like his teacher, Pran Nath did not emphasize recording or the releasing of records, preferring live performance. While only three recordings of Pran Nath were released during his lifetime, a large number of recordings exist under the care of La Monte Young. In Pran Nath's will, Young, as executor of his estate, was instructed to begin releasing recordings.[6]


Films



References


  1. Harris, Craig. "Biography - Pran Nath". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  2. terryriley.net/india/PranNath.htm[permanent dead link]
  3. Dhar, Sheila (2005). Raga n' Josh. Permanent Black.
  4. "Music at Mills, An Illustrious Musical History".
  5. Alexander Keefe, Lord of the Drone: Pandit Pran Nath and the American Underground
  6. Lavezzoli, Peter (2006). The dawn of Indian music in the West: Bhairavi. Continuum. p. 256.
  7. In Between the Notes: A Portrait of Pandit Pran Nath Archived 29 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine





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