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COVER STORY - Music was his life by SAVITA NARASIMHAN
In an age when the nagaswara-inspired, robust, masculine, forceful music of G.N. Balasubramaniam, Alathur Brothers and Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer held sway, Ramnad Krishnan’s choice of the veena-like, delicately modulated style of singing was a decisive deviation from the general trend. Regarded as synonymous with raga-s like Sahana, Begada and Saveri, Ramnad Krishnan was as passionate about what he believed to be aesthetic and pure music as he, more ...
OUR GURU - Vadyar 80: a tribute to Guru S.K. Rajarathnam Pillai by NRITHYA PILLAI
I am proud that I initiated the process of conducting ‘Vadyar 80’, a homage to Swamimalai S.K. Rajarathnam, my maternal grandfather, on the occasion of his 80th birth anniversary. I sent emails to all his students who now live in different parts of the world, and we started exchanging ideas about how best to commemorate his memory. After this initial step, my mother Jayakamala Pandiyan took up the task of overall coordination and, more ...
SEMINAR - The role of the voice in Indian music
A panel discussion at the ITC-SRA seminar in January 2010 at NCPA, Mumbai.
(Sruti is happy to present edited excerpts from the above panel discussion in two parts. The late eminent musicologist Dr. Ashok Ranade led the discussion, while leading vocalists Aruna Sairam, Uday Bhawalkar and Shubha Mudgal were his fellow panelists. The first part follows)
Dr. Ashok Ranade (AR)
We begin this academic session by discussing a very important, more ...
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