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4 days, 1 hour ago

The Margazhi itinerary for December 20

THE MUSIC ACADEMY @ 168, TTK Road, Alwarpet. December 20, 8.30 a.m.: Lecture demonstration ‘Vak-Vadya-Voice complimenting the Instrument and Vice-versa’ by R.K. Shriramkumar with K. Arun Prakash and Amritha Murali; 10 a.m.: ‘Sri Ramarin Kalam’ by Dushyanth Sridhar; 12.30 p.m.: Sri Sri Sisters; 2 p.m.: Aditya Madhavan; 4 p.m.: Chertala Rengantha Sharma; 6.30 p.m.: Pantula Rama. December 20, 7 a.m.: …

Sri Mylapore

5 days, 3 hours ago

Chennai Margazhi sabha canteens: A guide

The Hindu

The Music Academy, Sastha Catering Services For RK Venkatesan of Sastha Catering Services, planning the lunch menu for the Margazhi sabha canteen begins two months ahead. “We take pre-bookings, and customers can avail our parcel service this year,” says Venkatesan, who has been catering at sabha canteens for the past eight years.Though his canteen functions from 7am serving filter coffee …

Coffee Traditional Sabha Lunch Menu Canteen Venkatesan

5 days, 5 hours ago

The OMR sabha: How Chennai’s OMR is celebrating Margazhi

The Hindu

Hymavathi Raghuraman’s first day of the Tamil month of Margazhi was quite eventful. Accompanying her were 20 other residents from her apartment – they headed to APL Global School, located around nine kms from their residence, for the first day of the ‘OhMaRgazhi festival’. Anyone familiar with Chennai’s OMR will have stories to tell about traffic towards the Tidel Park …

Festival Chennai Omr Margazhi Ohmargazhi Festival

6 days, 8 hours ago

I am the connecting link between two generations

The Hindu

As I enter the 80th year of my musical career, I look back at the many dimensions of Carnatic music that has left an indelible impression on me. Today, 9 a.m.: Bangalore Brothers; 11.45 a.m.: J. Yoga Kirtana; 1.30 p.m.: Ananya Ashok; 4 p.m.: Madurai T.N.S. Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshitar’s Maha Bhaktha Vijayam at 7 a.m.; Malladi Brothers’ vocal concert at …

Music Carnatic Music Carnatic Margazhi

1 week ago

A guide to the Margazhi concerts on December 17, 2024

The Hindu

THE MUSIC ACADEMY @TTK Road, Alwarpet. December 17, 8 a.m.,: Music performance by the students of Advanced School of Carnatic Music; followed by Academic sessions 8.20 a.m.: ‘Encapsulating a Raga: Varnamettu’ by Ritha Rajan; and 9.20 a.m.: ‘Raga descriptions in the Brhaddesi of Matanga’ by V. Premalatha. December 17, 9 a.m.: Manda Sudha Rani; 11.45 a.m.: Shruthi Shankar Kumar; 1.30 …

1 week ago

Artists honoured at 36th Margazhi Mahotsav held at Bharat Kalachar

The Hindu

Many artists were honoured at the inauguration of the 36th Margazhi Mahotsav at Bharat Kalachar here on Sunday. The Viswa Kala Bharathi went to bharatanatyam exponent Shobana Chandrakumar and Carnatic musicians — The Malladi Brothers. While Kala Seva Bharathi was given to bharatanatyam exponent Priya Murle, the Nadaga Kala Bharathi went to K.R.S. Veteran bharatanatyam exponent Chitra Visweswaran said Bharat …

Bharat Bharathi Kala Kala Bharathi Margazhi Mahotsav Bharat Kalachar

1 week, 3 days ago

Your weekend Margazhi guide

The Hindu

KARTIK FINE ARTS @ Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall December 14, 10 a.m.: Abhirama G. Bode; 12.15 p.m.: V.U.M. December 15, 10 a.m.: Sweta Balasubramanian; 12.15 p.m.: Sreeranjane Kaushik; 2 p.m.: K. Giridharan; 4 p.m.: Aishwarya Shankar; 6.15 p.m.: Vani Ramamurthi. December 14, 10 a.m.: M. Chandrasekaran and G. Bharathi ; 1 p.m.: Madhumita Doraiswamy; 2.15 p.m.: K. Ranga; 4 …

Mylapore Sabha Vidya Margazhi Guide Lecdem

1 week, 3 days ago

Saketharaman serves delightful surprises in his Margazhi concert

The Hindu

Svanubhava took centre stage as S. Saketharaman performed for Kartik Fine Arts at Narada Gana Sabha. Good teamwork The Hamsanandi raga delineation ahead of Lalitha Dasar’s ‘Pavana guru’ on Krishna, set to Rupakam, featured an aesthetic grahabedham, yielding Madhyamavati. The poignance of Sama was well brought out by Saketharaman as a prelude to Dikshitar’s ‘Annapurne visalakshi’, with Bhaskar replicating the …

Pallavi Raga Karthick Saketharaman Sai Giridhar

1 week, 3 days ago

All set for the Season

The Hindu

Each passing Season is a moment of reckoning for the musicians as their learnings and refinements over the previous 11 months culminate in a challenging showcase at the end of the year. Every Season is new, because our music keeps evolving every year. Amritha Murali Look back, look ahead: For me, every year the Season is a time for introspection …

Music Voice Season Concert Good Avoid Artistes

1 week, 3 days ago

The Hindu brings out AI Chatbot for Margazhi Sabha schedule

The Hindu

This Margazhi, The Hindu has introduced an AI Chatbot that will pull out the concert schedules of around 30 sabhas and hundreds of artistes performing during the season. The Hindu Margazhi Sabha Schedule AI Chatbot, as it is called, can help the discerning sabha hopper to get details of over 1,400 concerts, dance and drama performances, lecture-demonstrations and all other …

Hindu Sabha Bot Margazhi Schedule Ai

1 week, 5 days ago

‘Sringaram’ set to re-release for Margazhi: Why this Tamil film on the devadasis is relevant

The Hindu

Madhura shuts the door. While it marked the debut of both its director and lead actor, Sringaram was packed with heavyweights in the technical team, boasting names like choreographer Saroj Khan, art director Thota Tharani, cinematographer Madhu Ambat and musician Lalgudi Jayaraman. After the script changed, Aditi became the lead, something that overwhelmed her initially, but then things fell in …

Film Aditi Madhu Sharada Madhu Ambat Sringaram

1 week, 6 days ago

The Margazhi Quiz

The Hindu

The Margazhi Quiz Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit YOUR SCORE 0 /10 RETAKE THE QUIZ 1 / 10 | Who is known as the Sangita Pitamaha of Carnatic music? YES NO Answer : Purandaradasa SHOW ANSWER 2 / 10 | Name the author of the musical treatise Sangita Sampradaya Pradarsini. YES NO Answer : Subbarama Dikshitar …

Music Know Answer Quiz Yes No Answer

3 weeks, 2 days ago

A fashion symphony

New Indian Express

CHENNAI: A part from being the holiday season, December is the month to celebrate family, friendship, and life. So we wanted to showcase this sartorial splendour on the ramp.” Taking this discussion and innovation onto a larger stage, Event Arts in association with Radisson Blu Hotel and Suites GRT Chennai held Marvellous Marghazhi last year. “Seeing her walk the ramp …

Chennai Month Margazhi

11 months ago

Chennai Sangamam — A cultural confluence in Chennai where classical and folk art meet

The Hindu

December is the month of festivals, and music fills the air in Chennai, the actual and cultural capital of Tamil Nadu. Despite the clear divide between “classical” and “folk” which is also drawn on the lines of caste and location, the Chennai Sangamam created a platform for the coming together of classical and folk art performers, and offered a continuity …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

The making of the Chennai Margazhi Dance Season

The Hindu

During the Season, halls big and small, reverberate to the sounds of anklebells, sollukattus, cymbals, mridangam strokes and music. Classical dance – Natyam, is an integral part of Chennai’s Margazhi Season, the scope of which has expanded from November to January, thereby providing more performance opportunities mainly to youngsters. Over the year, many dance programmes started being staged under the …

Music Performance Chennai Performances Congress Season Bharatanatyam

1 year, 5 months ago

Chennai-based Theatre Nisha brings two English plays to Mysuru

The Hindu

Margazhi and Sordid will be staged on July 15 and 16, respectively Theatre Nisha, Chennai is bringing two of its plays to Mysuru for the first time, and they will be staged this weekend. The English plays — Margazhi and Sordid — have been directed by V. Balakrishnan, an alumnus of the National School of Drama. While Margazhi will be …

Play Plays Margazhi Sordid

1 year, 11 months ago

Excerpt from Tho Paramasivan’s Ariyappadaatha Tamizhagam: The festival of Thai Pongal

The Hindu

The sacred day of Thai Pongal, the first day of the Tamil month Thai, in the middle of January, is the most important festival of the Tamils. In Tirunelveli district, for instance, the Thai Pongal rituals are performed in a house even if a death occurs on the day of the festival. A song in the Paripadal says: ‘O, River …

Festival Moon House Maasi Margazhi Thai Pongal Thaipoosam

2 years, 11 months ago

Margazhi music without modern trappings

The Hindu

It is a pleasant Margazhi morning. “I wanted something more intimate, where artistes and audiences alike could enjoy music and feel the divine vibrations,” he says. What better time to perform and listen to music?” Everyday during the month-long Ekantha Sangeetha Sevai festival, Murari arrives at the temple by 5.30 a.m. with his family and students. It’s an ambience that …

Music Temple Sandeep Concerts Murari Jayanth Margazhi

2 years, 11 months ago

The Hindu Margazhi Music Contest judges announced

The Hindu

If you are among the under-40 musicians sending in online entries for The Hindu Margazhi Music Contest, don’t you want to know who the judges are? The judges for the competition are musician, dance scholar and writer Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, vocalist and an associate professor of French Varalakshmi Anandakumar, violinists LN Sisters and gurus M. Lalitha and M. Nandhini, Mridangist and …

Music Carnatic Hindu Hindustani

3 years ago

Chennai revels in the return of the Sabha canteen

The Hindu

Sri Sasthalaya Catering, Narada Gana Sabha After two years, catering contractor Ramesh Krishnan and his team are back: and they are determined to make it a memorable Margazhi. “Sabha canteens are an opportunity for caterers like us to find new customers that may bring in business for the rest of the year,” says Ramesh. Sastha Catering Services, Mylapore Fine Arts …

Sabha Ramesh Lunch Serve Canteen Srinivasan Margazhi

3 years, 11 months ago

The missing Margazhi moments

The Hindu

As the Margazhi music season winds to a close, one saw it take on a brave new digital avatar this time to leap over the hurdles that the pandemic created. The dishes on offer, the mind-boggling speeds of ingestion, the palpable tension of choosing between Mysore Bonda and Keera Vadai, the last-minute capitulation to a Badam Halwa, the race to …

Margazhi

3 years, 11 months ago

2020, a year in Indian classical music: How the pandemic impacted patrons, practitioners and the art itself

Firstpost

Cyberspace — the space where most of this new normal is playing out — has never before had so much happening; musicians and audiences approached the space with a mix of hope and misgiving. “These musicians lived in an area behind the bazaar and that got corrupted to Bhendi Bazaar!” One of the most valuable events of 2020 in Indian …

Art Music Space Normal Carnatic 2020 Audiences

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 …

Festival Music Murder Light Play Carnatic Star

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The Margazhi itinerary for December 20

Chennai Margazhi sabha canteens: A guide

The OMR sabha: How Chennai’s OMR is celebrating Margazhi

I am the connecting link between two generations

A guide to the Margazhi concerts on December 17, 2024

Artists honoured at 36th Margazhi Mahotsav held at Bharat Kalachar

Your weekend Margazhi guide

Saketharaman serves delightful surprises in his Margazhi concert

All set for the Season

The Hindu brings out AI Chatbot for Margazhi Sabha schedule

‘Sringaram’ set to re-release for Margazhi: Why this Tamil film on the devadasis is relevant

The Margazhi Quiz

A fashion symphony

Chennai Sangamam — A cultural confluence in Chennai where classical and folk art meet

The making of the Chennai Margazhi Dance Season

Chennai-based Theatre Nisha brings two English plays to Mysuru

Excerpt from Tho Paramasivan’s Ariyappadaatha Tamizhagam: The festival of Thai Pongal

Margazhi music without modern trappings

The Hindu Margazhi Music Contest judges announced

Chennai revels in the return of the Sabha canteen

The missing Margazhi moments

2020, a year in Indian classical music: How the pandemic impacted patrons, practitioners and the art itself

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