More than just song and dance
The HinduWhen a little boy stood up and asked Nedunuri Krishnamurthy what that tall brown thing behind him was, the celebrated Carnatic vocalist indulged his curiosity and explained that it was a tanpura. Another youngster quizzed Ghatam V. Suresh: “Won’t that pot break if you hit it hard?” The amused vidwan explained how they were made, and demonstrated how strong they were and didn’t just stop with that; he also rewarded the boy with a prize for his questioning mind. “I also loved the puppetry; you don’t get to see it often!” But Svanubhava’s expansion has not just been geographic. The audience includes kids from Corporation schools and from the outskirts of the city; in other words, children who would not typically be part of Chennai’s famous December music and dance season. During this year’s edition in Chennai last week, one young boy, seated on the stage to the left of the singers, placed his school bag in front of him to keep taalam.
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