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Abhirami Ajai’s concert, Divine Echoes, in Thiruvananthapuram took listeners on a musical journey that bridged languages, time, regions and streams of philosophical content that have defined the Bhakti movement in India. As the rain pounded outside, Abhirami’s audience was soaked in melody during her interactive concert at the annual Soorya Dance and Music Festival. For…
Carnatic vocalist, Varijashree Venugopal, recently wrapped up a tour of France, where she performed at some of the country’s most celebrated music festivals, in collaboration with EYM Trio — a French jazz group, featuring Elie Dufour, Marc Michel and Yann Phaphet. This summer tour marked another milestone in Varijashree’s long-standing collaboration with EYM, which is…
Five years ago when Carnatic vocalist TS Sathyavathi received a standing ovation at Chennai’s Music Academy, she spoke at length about her guru, RK Srikantan. Now, she follows in her guru’s footsteps receiving the first Purandara Award her guru received from the Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha in Bengaluru about three decades ago. “The Purandara Award is my guru’s blessings….
Amritha Murali with R.K. Shriramkumar (violin) and K. Arun Prakash (mridangam). | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Soon after presenting a lec-dem on ‘Raga’s changing nature across compositional forms’ at The Music Academy, Amritha Murali offered a soulful performance in memory of Smt and Shri V .Ananthanarayanan for Naada Inbam. Three stirring niravals at ‘Padayugamu madilo…
Sanjay Subrahmanyan | Photo Credit: S. R. Raghunathan On that note, an autobiographical portrait of Sanjay Subrahmanyan, is at once the summary of a life dedicated to Carnatic music and a peek into the effort that goes into making a classical musician’s genre-defying transformation at the top of his career. In fact, the headline of…
