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Madras HC stops Madras Music Academy from giving Sangita Kalanidhi MS Subbulakshmi award to TM Krishna
1 month ago

Madras HC stops Madras Music Academy from giving Sangita Kalanidhi MS Subbulakshmi award to TM Krishna

Op India  

On Tuesday, the Madras High Court restrained the Music Academy from presenting the Sangita Kalanidhi MS Subulakshmi award to Leftist activist TM Krishna. Musicians pulled out of Madras Music Academy’s annual conference 2024 after the Academy conferred the Award to TM Krishna The Sangita Kalanidhi MS Subulakshmi award has been started to honour the Madras Music Academy each year. Earlier …

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Reverberations from an unequal music
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Reverberations from an unequal music

New Indian Express  

Much ink has already been spilt on the recent controversy around the conferring of the Sangita Kalanidhi award by the Madras Music Academy to T M Krishna. What is often overlooked in these discourses is that these values were put in place quite recently, over the course of the 20th century, when nationalism in its cultural iterations placed music and …

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Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin backs TM Krishna on Sangita Kalanidhi award: 'Don't mix narrow politics into music'
9 months ago

Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin backs TM Krishna on Sangita Kalanidhi award: 'Don't mix narrow politics into music'

Hindustan Times  

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday backed Carnatic vocalist TM Krishna amid protests by several artists who have opposed the Sangitha Kalanidhi award for him. "My warmest congratulations and appreciation to the great singer TM Krishna for being selected for the 'Sangeetha Kalanidhi' award of The Music Academy," Stalin wrote on X. MK Stalin defends TM Krishna getting …

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Madras Music Academy: How arts has been used to cover up misconducts of various hues
9 months ago

Madras Music Academy: How arts has been used to cover up misconducts of various hues

Op India  

Great Indian percussionist and Ghatam player Padma Bhushan Vikku Vinayakram’s Divine appearance clubbed with his passionate and unmatchable performance towers over TM Krishna’s shallowness and Himalayan arrogance. They said that participating in this year’s conference under TM Krishna’s presidency would constitute a “moral violation.” They accused Krishna of causing “immense damage” to the Carnatic music world. A big shoutout to …

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Ricky Kej condemns Madras Music Academy chief’s response to Ranjani-Gayatri: N Ravikiran, Vishakha Hari, Trichur Brothers and many more speak up against TM Krishna
9 months ago

Ricky Kej condemns Madras Music Academy chief’s response to Ranjani-Gayatri: N Ravikiran, Vishakha Hari, Trichur Brothers and many more speak up against TM Krishna

Op India  

On Thursday, three-time Grammy Award winner Indian music composer Ricky Kej condemned the attacking letter written by N Murali – the chief of the Madras Music Academy – to Carnatic musician sisters Ranjani and Gayatri. In this letter, N Murali said, “Dear Ms Ranjani and Ms Gayatri, I received your joint letter of 20th, March, 2024 and was shocked by …

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Music Academy slams Ranjani and Gayatri over protest against musician TM Krishna
9 months ago

Music Academy slams Ranjani and Gayatri over protest against musician TM Krishna

India TV News  

The Music Academy situated in Madras responded to Carnatic singers Ranjani and Gayatri over their protest against Indian Carnatic vocalist TM Krishna on Thursday. The Music Academy President, N Murali wrote a letter to the Carnatic singer duo on March 21st. For the unversed, Ranjani and Gayatri had withdrawn from the Music Academy Conference citing TM Krishna's participation. The Music …

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Music Academy hits back as Carnatic singer-sisters object to award for colleague
9 months ago

Music Academy hits back as Carnatic singer-sisters object to award for colleague

India Today  

The Music Academy, Madras, on March 21, slammed vocalists Ranjani and Gayatri for their 'unwarranted and slanderous assertion against a senior fellow musician'. Music Academy's president Murali, in his reply to Ranjani-Gayatri, wrote, "I, received your joint letter of 20th, March 2024 and was shocked by both its vituperative content, which is replete with unwarranted and slanderous assertions and insinuations …

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Why TM Krishna winning Sangita Kalanidhi award has divided Carnatic music scene
9 months ago

Why TM Krishna winning Sangita Kalanidhi award has divided Carnatic music scene

India Today  

Carnatic singer TM Krishna being conferred the Sangita Kalanidhi award by the Madras Music Academy has divided the music scene. On March 18, the Madras Music Academy announced that they are conferring TM Krishna with the Sangita Kalanidhi, the highest award in the Carnatic music scene. In a series of posts on X, Carnatic singer duo Ranjani-Gayatri accused TM Krishna …

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This Chennai band, Many Things, is all about jazz, blues and beyond
2 years ago

This Chennai band, Many Things, is all about jazz, blues and beyond

The Hindu  

When jazz saxophonist, Maarten Visser, bass guitarist and national award-winning composer Aravind Murali, heavy metal drummer and mridangam player, Manu Krishnan, got together about three years back, they talked about forming a band “with no boundaries”. Aravind says, “We talked about ‘many things’ but due to the pandemic nothing happened for two years till January 2022 when we decided to …

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Top 5 Academies in India to learn Carnatic Vocals
2 years, 2 months ago

Top 5 Academies in India to learn Carnatic Vocals

Deccan Chronicle  

India is home to numerous beautiful states with unique cultures vividly portrayed through their folk dance and music. Popularised by composers like Purandaradasa, Thyagaraja and Muthuswamy Dikhshithar, Carnatic Vocals is one of two main subgenres of Indian classical music and is a divine art form derived from the Samaveda. With their zeal to propagate the rich legacy of culture by …

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IT Rules : Madras High Court Says It Will Hear Challenge Despite Centre's Transfer Plea In SC
3 years, 5 months ago

IT Rules : Madras High Court Says It Will Hear Challenge Despite Centre's Transfer Plea In SC

Live Law  

The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Union Government to file a counter-affidavit on pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the Information Technology Rules, 2021, notified by the Centre on February 25.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy directed. The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Union Government to file a counter-affidavit on …

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Carnatic music marries theatre in The Madras Players’ ‘Trinity’, set to reach a global audience
3 years, 6 months ago

Carnatic music marries theatre in The Madras Players’ ‘Trinity’, set to reach a global audience

The Hindu  

In 2020, the celebrated trinity of Carnatic music —Thyagaraja Swamy, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Sastry — was witness to thundering applause on a stage in Toronto, Canada. Trinity, The Madras Players’ rendition of Seetha Ravi’s short stories translated by Prabha Sridevan, retired judge of the Madras High Court, has been on stage since 2018. The 66-year-old theatre group’s creation, which …

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When Crowds Flocked at M.S. Subbulakshmi's Concerts Despite Fears of Japanese Attack During World War II
3 years, 11 months ago

When Crowds Flocked at M.S. Subbulakshmi's Concerts Despite Fears of Japanese Attack During World War II

News 18  

Subbulakshmi was the first performing artist to receive the Bharat Ratna. Earlier that year, she had appeared in a sabha concert in Calcutta and shortly after that had her portrait unveiled in Vellore by the president of the Madras Music Academy, who noted that she was ‘an outstanding personality among vocal musicians a voice of exquisite sweetness and power’ and …

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The Friday List: From Bridgerton, Margazhi music festival to FirstAct play Star Light, your weekly calendar of virtual events
3 years, 11 months ago

The Friday List: From Bridgerton, Margazhi music festival to FirstAct play Star Light, your weekly calendar of virtual events

Firstpost  

Compiled by Aishwarya Sahasrabudhe Christmas in 2020 has been a rather toned down version of the usual cheer. When: 25 December Where: Jaipur Literature Festival’s Facebook — Music and plays Ever since the first lockdown came into effect, Royal Opera House, Mumbai has been screening excerpts from archived concerts and live performances to the effect of infusing some colour in …

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