Bharat Sundar is a dependable vocalist, who is constantly on the learning curve and making efforts to frame an impressive concert format. Surprisingly, without going in for a fast number, he sang ‘Paal ninainthoottum thayinum’, a virutham in Dhanyasi, and followed it up with Gopalakrishna Bharati’s ‘Kanaka sabapathi darisanam’ in sowkhya bhava. Tyagaraja’s lively number in Kuntalavarali ‘Sara sara samare’ …
The seventh day of The Music Academy’s annual academic conference featured a lecture on ‘Mysterious Medieval Transformations - Ragas Abheri and Ahari’ by K. Srilatha, She opened the lecture with a history of the classification of these ragas, starting from the 16th century Svaramela Kalanidhi. Subsequent works in the 17th and 18th centuries beginning with Thanjavur Maharaja Sahaji’s Raga Lakshanamu, …
Vedanta is the essence of the Vedic thought, enshrined primarily in the Upanishads. If binaries of any kind, be it of praise and censure or even of language and silence, all constitute the Ultimate Reality and yet the Ultimate Reality is not restricted to any of these, one can express one’s alignment with Brahman using censure and silence too, and …
An autorickshaw that bumps along in tune with Tygaraja’s Nagumomu, a popular number composed by him in Abheri, has taken its 31-year-old animator Anand Babu to instant fame. After it was posted on Anand’s Insta account on Sunday, it has been seen and shared in thousands and the number of views has crossed 13 K. In 2015, he had done …