Full speech of T.M. Krishna while accepting Sangita Kalanidhi M.S. Subbulakshmi Award
Respected Justice S. Muralidhar, former Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court; President of The Music Academy Mr. N. Murali; Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. S Sowmya, Sangita Kalanidhi Bombay Jayashri Ramanth, vice- presidents, secretaries, committee members of The Music Academy, artists of song and instrumental, practitioners of dance, and its accompanying arts, friends and connoisseurs of music, my namaskarams to all of you. As it has been said before by many great musicians, India’s gift to the world of music is the Raga, which is at the very core of Karnatik music. Subbulakshmi’s every sangati in an alapana dazzled like the stars in the sky; when Palghat Mani Iyer executed a pharans at the speed of sound; when Pazhani Subramanya Pillai played his trademark korvais; when S. Balachandar tugged at the vina’s strings stumbling upon one gem after another, ignoring even the need for a ‘pluck’; and when Vidvan V. Nagarajan’s strokes thundered on the Kanjira, they were embracing raga and inviting us into its domain. It is also a musical landscape that holds within it the ‘sound of Karnatik music’. There is no point in celebrating Karnatik music’s musical Parampara-s if we are unwilling to support musicians who represent and carry forward these important legacies.
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