Vaidehi Iyer
The Festival of Sacred Music at Tiruvaiyaru-by-the-Cauvery transformed a forgotten temple town into a landscape of rich possibilities. How can Tiruvaiyaru need introduction to music? Yet, there was not one discordant note in the…
shankar9262/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/logo.pngshankar92622010-06-26 06:43:402017-02-12 00:02:54The Other Festival - at Tiruvaiyaru
He took classical music to the masses
Vamanan
MKT Bhagavatar – his was the story of south India’s greatest singing star in the infant decades of Tamil cinema. "Bhagavatar," says Prof. P. Sambamoorthy in his Dictionary of South Indian Music…
Renaissance man
S. Janaki
The name of Raghavan is a legend in the revival of studies into ancient Indian culture. When our country had lost its memories of the past, Dr. Raghavan brought back the original thoughts. Those of us who had no identity,…
shankar9262/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/logo.pngshankar92622010-04-26 06:50:162017-02-12 00:03:29Dr. V. Raghavan
Ambassador of Carnatic music
V. Ramnarayan
Chitravina N. Ravikiran is a child prodigy who has evolved into a maestro in his field. He astounded scholars and musicians with his amazing knowledge and musicality even before his third birthday.…
Manna Srinivasan
The 163rd aradhana mahotsavam of Tyagaraja was held at Tiruvaiyaru from 2nd to 6th January with the usual fervour. The turnout was huge. Coming so close to the music season in Chennai, it was a continuation of the music soaking…
shankar9262/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/logo.pngshankar92622010-03-25 06:57:082017-02-12 00:03:43Tyagaraja Aradhana 2010 in Tiruvaiyaru
Ganesh-Kumaresh
First there is silence, then there is sound. Then there is language; and then there is a theme. The first thing that penetrates silence is sound. There are two types of sounds – musical and unmusical, nada and noise. The nada…
shankar9262/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/logo.pngshankar92622010-02-27 07:04:002017-02-12 00:03:56Where words fail, music speaks
V. Ramnarayan
Sruti was devastated when its founder Pattabhi Raman died in December 2002. The recent passing away of Contributing Editor S. Rajam has been no less a loss. His was the sage counsel we sought whenever in doubt about matters historical…
shankar9262/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/logo.pngshankar92622010-02-27 07:01:112017-02-12 00:04:03A great loss to Sruti
Could you imagine anyone here performing the Iliad or the Odyssey in six episodes over six evenings,and people actually showing up to watch? Nobody cares about these epics anymore, except maybe a few classicists at Chicago. Dead beyond a doubt," …
Manna Srinivasan
Tavil maestro Valayapatti AR. Subramaniam has become a legend in his own lifetime with his introduction of new dimensions to the art of percussion, scoring several firsts as a performing artist and bringing laurels to the traditional…
V.Ramnarayan
Was it an astute masterstroke on the part of the Music Academy? An attempt to broadbase the demography of Carnatic music practitioners? Delayed recognition that Carnatic music was essentially temple music before it acquired temporal…
Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. T.N. Krishnan
The late Sri G. N. Balasubramaniam (G.N. Sir to many of us) was hailed as a genius by his distinguished contemporaries. Veterans who were with us when GNB started his career showered on him their affection…
V.Ramnarayan
Not perhaps since the days of Veena S. Balachandar has a leading Carnatic musician traversed a path as unusual. Bombay Jayashri was all of 28 when she began a truly full-fledged performing career in Carnatic music. Though introduced…
shankar9262/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/logo.pngshankar92622009-10-29 08:44:362017-02-12 00:04:39Bombay Jayashri - A strange and wonderful journey
