The past week has seen a huge spike in Covid-19 cases across India and efforts to resume music festivals will now perhaps have to be relegated to the background at least until the vaccination rollout is well and truly in place. We will, however, continue to relive the music festival atmosphere through this column as we reimagine some concerts that were held as part of well-known festivals.
So far, we have listened to tracks featuring artists who performed in the first two sessions of the Dover Lane Music Conference held at Calcutta on December 31, 1954, and January 1, 1955. Today, we will include tracks that reimagine some of the music that may have been performed in the third and concluding session of this festival.
Held on January 2, 1955, the third session like the previous two was also scheduled to begin at 8.30 pm. Interestingly, two of the artists featured on the final day had been scheduled in the first two sessions too, a repetition that would be inconceivable…