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Seeking Gen Y
Chat: Lesle Lewis the performer is here. He’s also mentoring a brigade of young star musicians.
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Kolkata,
June 15, 2013
New tunes from Sonagachi
During the day, this is just another street in Kolkata. Men soap their bodies in a public bath. A juice vendor slices through a watermelon. A chaiwallah pours tea into clay kulhars. W...
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NEW DELHI,
June 13, 2013
Five centuries of Dhrupad
Baha’ud-Din Dagar (37) represents the 20th generation of an unbroken chain of musicians who have been at their sacred craft of Dhrupad without ever having to compromise on their music, preserving...
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June 13, 2013
History and harmony
My music-teacher once mentioned this great collection of period instruments at Vienna. “You must see it if you ever visit Austria,” he had said. Decades later, I recollected his remark as I stood...
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Thiruvananthapuram,
June 13, 2013
Fine stage presence
It was glorious music all the way at S. Saketharaman’s recital at Palghat Fine Arts Society auditorium, Tharekkad. His concert proved to be an amalgam of keen musical sense, technical virtuosity,...
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Hyderabad,
June 12, 2013
When Bumblefoot came to town
How often does a celebrity guitarist offer to launch your debut album and perform at a gig with you? Chances are never. But not when the band is Point of View (POV) and the guitarist is Ron ‘Bumbl...
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BANGALORE,
June 11, 2013
Picture the sound
Jamie D’Silva was always fascinated by sound. “From childhood I was always interested in recording things. I come from a musical background, but I didn’t think of it as a career choice as I didn’t...
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Chennai,
June 10, 2013
Carnatic vocalist Ranjani Hebbar passes away
Carnatic vocalist Ranjani Hebbar Guruprasad died on Sunday in her hometown Udupi, after a prolonged battle with cancer. One of the bright young talents in Carnatic music, 31-year old Ranjani, a na...
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June 8, 2013
Down Foras Road
She’s sung for the Obamas, the Dalai Lama, Oprah Winfrey and even for hardened criminals. She’s performed with noted names like Yo-Yo Ma, A.R. Rahman, Wyclef Jean, Philip Glass, Ricky Martin, and...
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June 7, 2013
Morning ragas
A raga that is suitable for the mornings, exuding positivity and happiness, is Bilahari. Bilahari has beauty in asymmetry, and is an audava-sampoorna raga. It contains the notes sadja, c...
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NEW DELHI,
June 6, 2013
A concerted effort
In the Sangeet Natak Akademi’s ongoing festival of music, dance and drama featuring the recipients of the Akademi awards for the year 2012, the Chennai-based O.S. Thiagarajan’s Carnatic vocal conc...
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Dancing voices
Reign of sublime melody
Namma Wacken
Dramatic debut
The King and I
If all experience was music
Flawless exposition
Simply scintillating
Facets of a legend
NEW DELHI,
June 13, 2013
The echo of his genius
That greatness has no correlation with commercial success is best personified in the life and works of Hindi film music director Vasant Desai. Well versed in every department of film making, Desa...
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NEW DELHI,
June 13, 2013
See, hear, understand
The past week brought to the fore presentations out of the ordinary, with music and the raga taking a prominent place. Mounted by Alap of Chennai was Navarasa at the India International Centre (II...
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June 13, 2013
Artist with commitment
It was a concert organised by Mudhra and the theme was Gowla ragas. Launching into an alapana of Kannada Gowla, Ranjani Hebbar made it clear that she had arrived. The delineation had such original...
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June 13, 2013
Virtuosos dazzle
The fifth Veena festival, held in Chicago recently curated by SAPNA, was dedicated to the late Sripada Pinakapani and Lalgudi Jayaraman.
The three-day event began with Chitravina Ravikira...
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Kochi:Melodica,
June 12, 2013
The changing art of sounds
Alternatively called the melodion, pianica or melodia depending on brand variants, the melodica is a handheld 32-note keyboard with a blow pipe attached. While its timbre is like a piano’s,...
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June 10, 2013
Rendezvous with retro
Who wins? Music created by an almost 300-musician strong orchestral set-up of yore or today’s gadget-driven tunes? Going by the turn out at well-known comic actor Madan Bob’s ‘Madan Utsav’ it is th...
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June 8, 2013
That old black magic
“Summer journeys to Niagara and to other places aggravate all our cares/We’ll save our fares!/I’ve a cosy little flat in what is known as old Manhattan we’ll settle down/Right here in Town!/We’ll...
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RAJAHMUNDRY,
June 8, 2013
J.V. Raghavulu passes away
The man who composed great music for most popular Telugu song Janani janma bhumischa…swargadapi gariyasi in the movie ‘Bobbili Puli’ in which late N.T. Rama Rao played the lead role, is no...
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MADURAI,
June 7, 2013
A cool number this summer!
Summer has cast a dry-spell even on entertainment. In a time, when you are longing for that extra dash of fun, here’s something quirky and funky. Calling themselves ‘Eskimos’, a group of young lik...
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NEW DELHI,
June 6, 2013
Falling short
Most awards have suffered an erosion in their credibility, and the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi award is no exception. One is at a loss to understand the kind of thinking that goes into decid...
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With strings attached
Tuned to music
Showcase of youth power
On a musical rampage
Resounding success
Paeans to guru bhakti
A vision to woo
Nava rasa at his command
Slideshow
Violin maestro Lalgudi G. Jayaraman passed away in Chennai on Monday, April 22, 2013 at the age of 82. We recall the luminous moments of an outstanding violinist, teacher and composer par excellence. Compiled by T. Arvind
