Ustad Bahauddin Dagar - Ragas Bihag & Ragvardhani - Berlin February 19th (2023)

Reflecting on this wonderful concert by Bahauddin Dagar, it seems that the wider Dagar family has a special history with Berlin, dating back to the first appearance of the Senior Dagar Brothers in 1964 on the invitation of Alain Daniélou and the newly founded Institute for Comparative Studies, later renamed Institute for Traditional Music. This concert took place at the Orangerie of the Schloss Charlottenburg. And further recordings were made and released on the famous Unesco Series. In 1981, the Junior Dagar Brothers spent a year in Berlin on invitation of the DAAD- Berliner Künstlerprogramm, They performed several times during their stay, most outstanding was a special radio recording for a small invited audience at the RIAS (now Deutschland Radio) of which I had the privilege to be part of. In 1983 the Intl. Institute in Co-Operation with the Ethnological museum hosted a Dhrupad Mela (Festival), curated by Peter F. Müller (later Pannke), which included Zia Mohiuddin and Zia Fariduddin Dagar, Bahauddin's father and uncle