A useful book for learners of instruments, especially the flute, was released in Chennai this past week, the author being none other than N. Ramani.
He said that he had chosen songs that he had not played in commercial recordings so that the students of Ramani's Academy of Flute (RAF) can have access to these kritis.
Releasing ‘Ramaneeya Geetham' K. Srinivasaraghavan, DDG, AIR, Chennai, said that the compilation of kritis of various composers would be of immense use to students. P.S. Narayanaswamy, who received the first copy, felt that Ramani should have started the project much earlier for the simple reason that complete notations for hundreds of kritis would have been available now.
Learning by habit
Cleveland Sundaram described Ramani as an artist who's always raising the bar.
In his address, Ramani said that RAF grew out of the late Mali's desire to promote theflute and has more than 1,500 students now.
Two fine assemblies of RAF's students drawn from Chennai, Bengaluru, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Madurai and Tiruchi performed delightfully. Rahul on the violin was assertive, and Thanjavur Kumar (mridangam), Srirangam Kannan (morsing) and Anirudh Athreya (kanjira) exhibited calibre of a high standard that elevated the performances of the two groups. The function was held at Ragasudha Hall.(For copies of Ramaniya Geetham contact RAF: 24993217).
