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Beyond B-town
Shreya Ghosal tells Harshini Vakkalanka she doesn't want to be limited to film music. She would like to bring in a ratio that favours non-film music
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Song of the strings
Denis Azabagic's guitar that melded cultures and compositions struck a chord with listeners
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Musicscan: Suffused with the spiritual
Avoidable wordplay notwithstanding, Unni Krishnan’s concert was a finesse-filled exercise.
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May 13, 2012
Beatstreet
The revivalist tendency in popular music is still going strong, and Glaswegian soul artist Emeli Sandé's debut album “Our Version of Events” seems to be yet another artist giving strength to the m...
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CHENNAI,
May 12, 2012
Need support if I rejoin: Leela Samson
It all began at Kalakshetra Foundation's board meeting that was held on April 10. On Friday, exactly after a month, the issue of Leela Samson's resignation seems to have come full circle with the...
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CHENNAI,
May 11, 2012
Odisha CM spends an evening at Kalakshetra
Temporarily setting politics aside, Odisha Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik attended a cultural evening of dance and music at the Kalakshetra Foundation in the city on Thursday. He was in Chennai to...
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May 10, 2012
Friday Review Letters To The Editor: ‘Direct learning is a boon’
With reference to the article, ‘Her breath was music,’ on Mayavaram Saraswati Ammal, her disciple flautist K. Bhaskaran wirtes:“It has been erroneously stated that I honed my skill by listen...
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May 10, 2012
Just for music
The band is called Jjust, pronounced ‘just', the J is silent if you please. With an average age of 23, the band is made up of collegians Jawahar Raj, Judah Sandhy, Tony Thomas and Sai Prakash who...
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HYDERABAD,
May 10, 2012
Divine Duo
They can't even remember when they started singing together. On this hot day in their quaint apartment in Barkatpura, Lalitha and Haripriya, the Hyderabad Sisters sit reticent As the gush of the...
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Kochi,
May 10, 2012
Strains of a legacy
A musician evolves and establishes an identity. His voice or the musical instrument he plays acquires a definitive identity, a musical footprint. This is exactly what separates Pandit Prateek Chau...
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May 10, 2012
Focus on Tamil songs
The eighth Tamil Isai Vizha, sponsored by Sadhana Sadan, took place at the Siddhi Vinayakar temple, Chintamani Nagar, Saibaba Colony, Coimbatore. Sivakumar, managing trustee of the temple, who ina...
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May 10, 2012
Swara gymnastics
Chandan Kumar's (grandson of the late violinist, T. Chowdaiah) exceptional talent to combine the panache with the dulcet came to the fore in his engaging flute recital, featured by Nadabrahma Ga...
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May 10, 2012
Lyrical and dignified performance
Veena vidushi Padma Varma's chaste concert highlighted the charm and elegance of the veena.Head of the Department of Veena in RLV College, Tripunithura, Padma was initiated into music by h...
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Getting perky
On a winning note
All that jazz
Goan heady cocktail
A style of his own
A life in music
A flavour-filled exercise
When past became present
The Kabir chronicles
May 12, 2012
Showcase: Brilliantly unpredictable
As you read this, At the Drive-In will have played their first reunion show since 2001 at the Coachella festival. Vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez gave up on that ba...
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May 11, 2012
A Raga’s Journey — Jaunty Jonpuri
Jonpuri has its roots in Hindustani music and has spread its branches far and wide into Carnatic Music. This attractive raga is said to have been named after the sultan Sharqui of Jonpur. The emoti...
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May 10, 2012
Tunes that soothe
Praise and worship albums and live concerts have been quite the rage for sometime now. The recent concerts by Don Moen, Gershon Edinboro, Isaac Joe and Alwin Thomas in the city bear witness to thi...
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May 10, 2012
On how a legacy has continued
The guru and then the sishya, traversed the same route. Destiny, perhaps wanted it that way. T.K. Govinda Rao matched his Aasan, Musiri Subramanya Iyer in the matter of musical erudition, faithf...
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Bangalore,
May 10, 2012
Laal salam
Driving back from the Laal concert last week, there were a few things playing on my mind. First, of course, the music, created by this revolutionary Pakistani rock band, led by political activist,...
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Hyderabad,
May 10, 2012
Reviving symphony
Framed pictures of Luciano Pavarotti, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman and many more line the walls of his living room but violinist, music composer and conductor Michael Makhal says that his greatest...
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Thiruvananthapuram,
May 10, 2012
Confluence of the arts
Like an old musical instrument that has been dusted and tuned to render fresh melodies, Thanjavur Amma Veedu's hoary walls now reverberate with notes from musical events called ‘Sangeetha Satsanga...
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May 10, 2012
Adherence to Parur bani
Dr. M. Narmadha's violin solo recital under the auspices of Pollachi Tamizhisai Sangham was full of joy and verve as her nimble fingers poured out popular kritis one after the other. Her introduct...
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May 10, 2012
Seasoned notes
Twenty-two years is a long period in the career of a musician. But to be able to listen to him after this interval is a rare privilege for any rasika. So when Guruvayur T.V. Manikandan sang in Thr...
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May 10, 2012
Scales of precision
Kottakkal Ranjith Varier is gradually making a place for himself as a competent Carnatic vocalist. Ranjith began his concert in Thrissur with a varnam in raga Kanada, set to Ada tala, co...
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Miami University confers doctorate on A.R. Rahman
Pandit Ravishankar gets Tagore award
Sound effects
Emergency meet of Kalakshetra board likely
Celebrating rare kritis
On conventional lines
Well-rounded recital
Tradition bound
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The Kalakshetra Foundation presented an evening of music and dance for the visiting Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday. Photos: R. Ragu
