I G O R

Celebrating his 7th Birthday ! (Crans s/Sierre - Switzerland)

TERRY RILEY in studio (Chateau d'Hérouville, France) recording  "Les Yeux Fermés". Produced by Igor Wakhevitch for Warner Brothers Rec. 

 (photo private archive Igor Wakhevitch)  All rights reserved.

KAUSHIKI CHAKRABARTY (after a memorable concert at the "Cité de la Musique" in Paris - Teental Recitals)  Kaushiki visiting the Eiffel Tower with Igor ! 

Ustad ZAKIR HUSSAIN the legendary tabla maestro of India and also member of "SHAKTI", the band of John Mc Laughlin. The first encounter between Zakir and Igor was organized by Pandit Vijay Kichlu in Kolkata (India)

Below, autograph insciption: Khan Saheeb words to “igor ji”

Photo above: two genius of music together. An encounter organized in Paris by their friend the composer Igor Wakhevitch: meeting for the first time, USTAD AMJAD ALI KHAN, the great maestro of the sarod (India) and the great french virtuoso of the clarinet, MICHEL PORTAL.

(Photo below) NYGMAR (golden hat), dancer of the “Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts” in Dharmsala (Himachal Pradesh) India. Nygmar is the official performer of the “Sacred Dee”r Tantric Ritual Dance. The TIbetan Institute of Performing Arts is the official Opera-Dance-Company of His Holiness the XIVth Dalai-Lama

 The Sacred Deer's ritual. A dance to chase the Evil

 Spirit of Good Luck : TASHI SHOELPA

IGOR WAKHEVITCH with his muse, “COQUINE DE PARIS”.

Photo above: Pandit Ajoy Chakraaborty’s inscription to Igor. (One of the greatest maestro vocalist from India. He is the father of Kaushiki Chakrborty)

Below: ERISSA (Taddy) : half Indian, half Swedish ! … born in Africa! Igor's great friend in India ! …..

 Below : Igor's friend Taddy

ERISSA (Taddy) : Taddy's poetry and way of life inspired to Igor the piece of music "Taddy's fruit garden" (dedicated to Taddy) … on the first side of the album "Let's Start" (EMI)

Photo below: PRABHAKAR

Photo (below) : CHAMPAKLAL : He was Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's intendant. After the departure of the Mother, Champaklal never spoke again, remaining voluntarily mute for more than fifteen years ... tiil the end of his life ....

CHAMPAKLAL

Below: OLIVIER MESSIAEN’S TREATY OF HIS MUSICAL LANGUAGE’S TECHNIC (first page with musical examples).

OLIVIER MESSIAEN

 OLIVIER MESSIAEN was Igor's teacher at the "Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance"

Below: Olivier Messiaen's treaty of his musical language 

Score of IGOR STRAWINSKY's "THE RITE OF SPRING" annoted by Igor in Messiaen's Analysis Class ("Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance")

Below : Igor's score, cover page of Igor Strawinsky's legendary masterpiece:  "The Rite of Spring"

Nomenclature de l'orchestre : "The Rite of Spring" orchestration  (list of the orchestra instruments playing in "The Rite of Spring")

 IGOR AU DOMICILE D' OLIVIER MESSIAEN JOUE "LE MERLE NOIR" sur le piano du Maître ("Catalogue d'Oiseaux" pour piano)

Igor playing on Messiaen's personnal grandpiano in Olivier Messiaen's appartement in Paris, 220 rue Marcadet. Behind, Rose-Marie Cabestany and Betty Yang from Taiwan.

Photo below: IGOR MARKEVITCH (the great Symphonic Orchestra conductor) asked his young friend and student Igor "Wakhevitch" (aged of 15) to learn and play his piano pieces, a collection of compositions for piano named "STEFAN THE POET". Igor Markevitch married the daughter of Vaslav Nijinsky

Pandit HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA touring with Igor Wakhevitch for "Teentaal Recitals" igor's company dedicated to Indian Classical Music, concerts and workshops (Concert in Paris at the "Musée du Quai Branly")

Below : after the immense success of the "Chaurasia Cycle" at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris (Hommage to Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, bansuri bamboo flute maestro, living treasure of India) : congratulation letter to Igor Wakhevitch from Mr. Stéphane Martin, President of the Paris Museum "Musée du Quai Branly"

Photo below : Jacques RUEFF inscription to Igor Wakhevitch. Jacques Rueff was elected to the "Académie Française" in 1964. Great economist, he was an important economic advisor to President of French Republic, General Charles de Gaulle and President of the French republic Georges Pompidou

 I G O R W A K H E V I T C H

Below: " to Igor" ... few lines written by a young couple from Israel touring in India :

Olivier Messiaen's analysis of Igor Strawinsky's score of "The Rite of Spring" : Igor's annotation  during his class at the "National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance of Paris"

Igor's annotations "live" during an Olivier Messiaen's class analyzing Igor Strawinsky's score of *The Rite of Sping" at the "National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance of Paris"

Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha (the Gundecha Brothers), visiting a Ferrari shop in Venice. Nowadays they are the most inspired and greatest maestros singers of "dhrupad" in India and all over the world. Great friends of Igor, they came with him and "Teentaal Recitals & Maestros" for a memorable concert in Paris at the "Cité de la Musique" and in Venice at the Cini Foundation.

Igor and Alexandre Wakhevitch in Switzerland (summer holiday

(Below) Words of thanks from Mr. François Mitterrand, President of the French Republic to Igor Wakhevitch for the gift of his music presented in luxury edition numbered from 1 to 1000 : three LPs accompanied by a luxury libretto including many photos. Salvador Dali's opera "Être Dieu"

The universe of Tintin – though not an official religion – occupy an important place in Igor's spirituality. Below :  1) an ambush in the Sahara desert : "The Crab with the Golden Claws" by Hergé  2) the huge rocket ready to take-off for the moon : "Objective Moon" by Hergé 

Above: a frightening situation for Tintin and Miloo pursued by gangsters in the streets of Chicago.

Above: Tintin in Tibet in the footsteps of yeti (Yeti = l'abominable homme des neiges; the abominable snowman)

Photo above : Adhi travelling to Madya-Pradesh with Igor to pay a visit to the Gundecha Brothers in Bhopal, the famous "dhrupad" singers

Sri Aurobindo Ashram :  the street of the Darshan's balcony (rue François Martin), Pondicherry.  South India.

The ashram balcony where the Mother was giving Her "Darshan"  four times per year in Puducherry (Pondichery) South India

In the backgounf the "Service" tree under which is located the Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's samadhi (grave). One can guess, hidden by the branchs of tree, one of the windows of Sri Aurobindo's room. The eight small windows facing the south are those of the Mother's room (12, rue de la Marine, Puducherry, South India)

Main culture of Tamil-Nadu farmers : cashew trees in Bruno Petris's land and garden. BRUNO PETRIS (Varuna) from Italy was a great friend of Igor and a teacher of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram International School ; a very good sanskritist and a poet. Rest in peace, dear Bruno. See you again ....

Country side around Igor's living place in India.

Just behind Marica's grave (igor and Alexandre's mother)

Entrance of Bruno Petris's garden where Marica and Bruno are both buried in the countryside of Puducherry, not far from the shore of the Gulf of Bengal,  South India

Photo (below) : Pandit Rajan and Sajan Mishra in concert in Paris : morning ragas (Teentaal Recitals & Maestros) Musée du Quai Branly

Photo (below) :  Pandit SHIV KUMAR SHARMA, the legendary indian maestro of the santoor  (Shiv-ji inscription to Igor, with lots of love 8. 8. 08)

PANDIT SHIV KUMAR SHARMA

HAZAK

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