Music

Different in form and setting, the JustUs Repertory theater productions written by Gowri Ramnarayan, Black Lilies and Enchantment, shared a common thread.

Classical arts are oceans unto themselves. As children, when we learn classical music or dance, we may begin in a shallow lagoon, paddling around, singing, dancing, or playing for the joy of art.

Youngest of the celebrated Carnatic music trinity he may be, but Muthuswamy Dikshitar (1775-1835) is not the most accessible of composers.

RK Shriramkumar must be one of the most popular choices for the title of Sangita Kalanidhi in the history of Carnatic music, beloved as he is of senior musicians, the vocalists he accompanies,...

In one of his last concerts, Kollenkode Viswanatha Iyer Narayanaswamy moved listeners to tears with the depth of feeling of his rendering of Gopalakrishna Bharati’s, Varugalamo Ayya, the devotee Nandan’s desperate plea before the Deity.

What is the Musiri bani?  Listen to what his star sishya Suguna Purushottaman had to say about him during Musiri Margam, an illuminating tribute she paid to his memory—during the late evening of her own life.