December 09, 2009
Margazhi Isai Vizha on AIR
Prasar Bharati, Chennai and Academy of Indian Music and Arts (AIMA) promoted by Prof. T.V. Gopalakrishnan recently hosted a five day Isai Vizha at the atudios of AIR, Chennai. These concerts held from Dec. 2 to 6, will be broadcast on AIR's Chennai 1 from Dec. 16 to 25 at 8.45 am.
The following is the schedule:
Dec. 16 - Udayalur Kalyanarama Bhagavathar - Namasankeerthanam
Dec. 17 - T. V. Sankaranarayanan - Vocal
Dec. 18 - M. S. Gopalakrishnan - Violin
Dec. 19 - S. Sowmya - Vocal
Dec. 20 - O. S. Thyagarajan - Vocal
Dec. 21 - E. Gayathri - Veena
Dec. 22 - R. Vedavalli - Vocal
Dec. 23 - N. Ravikiran - Chitraveena
Dec. 24 - Suguna Varadachari - Vocal
Dec. 25 - T.V. Gopalakrishnan - Vocal
Margazhi Maha Utsavam 2009 TV Telecast Schedule
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Nada Sudha, Velachery
A music festival will be held from Jan. 1 to 12, 2010 at Nada Sudha, Near Baby nagar, Velachery.
Phone no, 94444 65536, 98410 70390, 99406 56260
Jan. 1, 2010 - Friday
4.30 p.m.- Inauguation
6.30 p.m.- K. Satyanarayanan - Keyboard, M.A. Sundaresan - Violin, J. Vaidyanathan - Mridangam
Jan. 2, 2010 - Saturday
4.30 p.m.- Bombay Laxmi Rajagopalan - Vocal
6.30 p.m.- M.K. Shankaran Namboodri - Vocal, Madurai Balasubramanian - Violin, Melakaveri Balaji - Mridangam, Nanganallur Swaminathan - Ghatam
Jan. 3, 2010 - Sunday
4.30 p.m.- Vijayalakshmi Ramakrishnan - Vocal
6.30 p.m.- N. Vijay Siva - Vocal, Charumathi Raghuram - Violin, A.S. ranganathan - Mridangam
Jan. 4, 2010 - Monday
4.30 p.m.- Neyveli Ramalaxmi - Vocal
6.30 p.m.- Akkarai Sisters - Vocal, Ranjini Ramakrishnan - Violin, Nellai Balaji - Mridangam, N. Guruprasad - Kanjira
Jan. 5, 2010 - Tuesday
4.30 p.m.- Amrutha Venkatesh - Vocal
6.30 p.m.- Jugalbandhi
Jan. 6, 2010 - Wednesday
4.30 p.m.- Padma Seshadri Sisters - Vocal
6.30 p.m.- Carnatica Brothers K.N.Sasikiran, P.Ganesh - Vocal, M.A. Krishnaswamy - Violin, Bangalore Phalgun - Mridangam
Jan. 7, 2010 - Thursday
4.30 p.m.- Master Shyam Murali - Saxophone
6.30 p.m.- Gayathri Venkataraghavan - Vocal, V.V.S. Murari - Violin, Erode Nagarajan - Mridangam, Nerkunam Shankar - Kanjira
Jan. 8, 2010 - Friday
4.30 p.m.- Arthi Srinivasan - Vocal
6.30 p.m.- Enselble led by Rajhesh Vaidhya
Jan. 9, 2010 - Saturday
4.30 p.m.- Padma Shankar - Vocal
6.30 p.m.- Sikkil Gurucharan - Vocal
Jan. 10, 2010 - Sunday
4.30 p.m.- Sree Usha and Sreesha - Mandolin
6.30 p.m.- O.S. Arun - Vocal, Mullaivasal Chandramouli - Violin, Melakaveri Balaji - Mridangam, Srirangam Kannan - Morsing
Jan. 11, 2010 - Monday
4.30 p.m.- Vaishnavi - Vocal
6.30 p.m.- Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan - Vocal, V.V. Ravi - Violin, Trisur Narendran - Mridangam
Jan. 12, 2010 - Tuesday
4.30 p.m.- Bharathi Ramasubban - Vocal
6.30 p.m.- Neyveli Santhanagopalan - Vocal, Vittal Ramamurthy - Violin, Trichur Mohan - Mridangam, B.S.Purushotham - Kanjira
December 07, 2009
Kerala Music college students in Chennai for season
It is one of the nicest things a government could do to students with regard to cultural exchange.
When M.A.Baby, Hon'ble Minister for Education and Culture of Kerala initiated a cultural exchange in arts and music, he chose the right time for the students to be in Madras.
The students of music from three Govt. colleges in Kerala landed in Chennai early December and spent a week here. There were educative sessions with veterans like Dr. Balamuralikrishna, P. S. Narayanaswamy, 'Chitravina' Ravikiran, T.V. Gopalakrishnan. After the sessions, the students presented Sangeethanjali in groups at Srinivasa Sastri Hall, Luz, Mylapore.In one of these sessions senior vidwan P.S. Narayanaswami was giving these students a few tips apart from teaching them a new kriti. "Always practise in your own sruti irrespective of whether you have caught cold or other inconveniences. Practise varnams by singing them in 2 kalais and in a single breath for two avarthanams" he said.
Students of Sri Swati Tirunal Music College, The Tripunithura Music College and the Chembai Memorial Music College, Palakad travelled all the way to Chennai and visited a few colleges here including the Teacher Training College at The Music Academy.
It is learnt that the students from the Music Academy in turn will visit the colleges in Kerala to get a hands on feel of learning music in these places and the government of Kerala is sponsoring the entire programme.A good idea. But not many students in Chennai were seen at these sessions or to listen to the good music presented by the Kerala students. The local students too should have utilised the opportunity to rub shoulders with their counterparts at this programme, one of the observers felt.
Now you can buy December season tickets online
This is for people who visit Chennai for December season.
A few sabhas have opted to have their ticket sale online this year. Season tickets for the December season as well as the daily tickets for the kutcheri of your choice can be bought online now.
To plan and buy the tickets, the schedule of concerts of the sabhas whose tickets are available for purchase online is also up.
Presently, tickets for concerts at Brahma Gana Sabha, Kalarasana, Mudhra and Bharat Kalachar are available online.
Check http://ticketnew.com/
A few sabhas have opted to have their ticket sale online this year. Season tickets for the December season as well as the daily tickets for the kutcheri of your choice can be bought online now.
To plan and buy the tickets, the schedule of concerts of the sabhas whose tickets are available for purchase online is also up.
Presently, tickets for concerts at Brahma Gana Sabha, Kalarasana, Mudhra and Bharat Kalachar are available online.
Check http://ticketnew.com/
December 06, 2009
A chat with 'Ghatam' Karthick
Should the title have been Dr. S. Karthick? This Ghatam player would have preferred this, for he could only tell how hard earned his doctorate was!
It was during a chat session organised by Deccan Chronicle at the Rasam restaurant on Dec. 5, Karthick shared informal moments with his rasikas over a plate of snacks and a cup of coffee.
Blending humour with musical anecdotes, Karthick said in two lines how he rose to be 'Ghatam' Karthick from a mere optional sub-percussionist. And he owed it all to his late father, who did not have a background in music but encouraged his only child to take up this instrument full time.
Now that he travels abroad accompanying Carnatic musicians as well as the fusion artistes, what feedback he gets from the rasikas abroad? He says Hindustani is still better known there. "Perhaps, Carnatic music is badly marketed though it is a very beautiful thing. And of late the Carnatic artistes are getting better in dress sense and presentation, but it was not so a decade ago. This may also have been a reason."
Karthick also shared the lec-dem sessions he had done for the foreign students. "If one talks from the angle of traditional Indian percussion, it does not interest them. You need to make it simple for them to understand and relate to what they can connect with."
For a question on deciding a career in upa-pakkavadyam, Karthick said that it was a bold decision. "One of my father's friends asked me if my scores were very low in plus-two exams and was it the reason for me to choose ghatam. That really irritated me. But my father showed me the right direction to make a mark in what I chose."
And he said that the doctorate was also his father's wish.
"My thesis was on musical intruments in Sanskrit literature. It is kept as reference material im Madras University and a few other colleges. It got delayed by 7 years due to my busy schedule and various other unexpected reasons. Even one of the communications relating to my thesis was lodged in the dead letter office!"
And how is it like workingin films? Karthick recalls his playing before any track getting ready for the song 'Madrasai suthi pakka poren' in May Maadham and playing after everything was over for the song 'Margazhi thingal allava' in the film Sangamam - two contrast situations.
But should the Carnatic music stick to its tradition and be performed in its own format? No says Karthick. There should be scope for flexibility as in Cricket which is now also in T 20 format. "Arts also change with times and we should accept it."
That's how his 'HeArtbeat' ensemble was born and the next day another performance of this ensemble was scheduled with a new item included in it.
Deccan Chronicle already held two such sessions with singers O.S. Arun and Sikkil Gurucharan. It plans to hold more such informal chats with Carnatic artistes. Do watch the daily for announcements.
It was during a chat session organised by Deccan Chronicle at the Rasam restaurant on Dec. 5, Karthick shared informal moments with his rasikas over a plate of snacks and a cup of coffee.
Blending humour with musical anecdotes, Karthick said in two lines how he rose to be 'Ghatam' Karthick from a mere optional sub-percussionist. And he owed it all to his late father, who did not have a background in music but encouraged his only child to take up this instrument full time.Now that he travels abroad accompanying Carnatic musicians as well as the fusion artistes, what feedback he gets from the rasikas abroad? He says Hindustani is still better known there. "Perhaps, Carnatic music is badly marketed though it is a very beautiful thing. And of late the Carnatic artistes are getting better in dress sense and presentation, but it was not so a decade ago. This may also have been a reason."
Karthick also shared the lec-dem sessions he had done for the foreign students. "If one talks from the angle of traditional Indian percussion, it does not interest them. You need to make it simple for them to understand and relate to what they can connect with."
For a question on deciding a career in upa-pakkavadyam, Karthick said that it was a bold decision. "One of my father's friends asked me if my scores were very low in plus-two exams and was it the reason for me to choose ghatam. That really irritated me. But my father showed me the right direction to make a mark in what I chose."
And he said that the doctorate was also his father's wish.
"My thesis was on musical intruments in Sanskrit literature. It is kept as reference material im Madras University and a few other colleges. It got delayed by 7 years due to my busy schedule and various other unexpected reasons. Even one of the communications relating to my thesis was lodged in the dead letter office!"
And how is it like workingin films? Karthick recalls his playing before any track getting ready for the song 'Madrasai suthi pakka poren' in May Maadham and playing after everything was over for the song 'Margazhi thingal allava' in the film Sangamam - two contrast situations.
But should the Carnatic music stick to its tradition and be performed in its own format? No says Karthick. There should be scope for flexibility as in Cricket which is now also in T 20 format. "Arts also change with times and we should accept it."
That's how his 'HeArtbeat' ensemble was born and the next day another performance of this ensemble was scheduled with a new item included in it.
Deccan Chronicle already held two such sessions with singers O.S. Arun and Sikkil Gurucharan. It plans to hold more such informal chats with Carnatic artistes. Do watch the daily for announcements.
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