Disciples of Nadayogi Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, led by Garimella Balakrishna Prasad, went around the exhibition of photos on the life of the doyen of Carnatic classical music treasuring every moment captured in the prints.
The disciples gathered around each picture put up at Rajiv Smruthi Bhavan on the Beach Road trying to relate or recall their association with it. The weeklong exhibition of 70 exhibits, comprising some old photographs and textual narratives on the late Carnatic guru, got under way with Garimella Balakrishna Prasad formally inaugurating it on Wednesday morning. Appreciating the effort made by the Tarakeswara Foundation in gathering the information, Garimella said that he did not have the exact list of the 108 kirtanas of Ramdas that Nedunuri had set tune to.
Nedunuri’s son Pinakapani wanted the soft copy of the details to help him carry the extra information on the website dedicated to the doyen of Carnatic music who breathed his last here on December 8.
Vocal concertEarlier, a young disciple of the Carnatic maestro, Kamakshi Mounika, gave a vocal concert at the open air stage of Smruthi Bhavan, the 18th edition of the series of Indian Classical Music concerts. Speaking on the occasion she recalled how the maestro treated her with love and affection while training her in Carnatic music. She was accompanied by Sree Ramya on violin and S. Subrahmanyam on mridangam. The three musicians were felicitated by Garimella Balakrishna Prasad.
The programme was sponsored by Professor of Medicine, GITAM Dental College, R. A. Naik, professor of IIAM R.R. Naik, neurosurgeon Bharat Singh Naik, ENT specialist K. H. Vikas, ophthalmologist Hema Bindu, and BSNL (Hyderabad) Senior Divisional Engineer R. Raghavamsi. Musicologist Perala Balamurali Krishna, disciples of Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Chaitanya Brothers, managing trustee of Tarakeswara Foundation Sehdev Singh, among others were present.
In a tribute, Tarakeshwara Foundation said: “The light of music in this part of the great country extinguished after illuminating its environs for more than three-fourth of a century.”
The photo exhibition would be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. till December 24.
