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Maakelara vicharamu – Ravichandrika
pallavi mAku-ElarA vicAramu maruku-anna SrI rAma candra O Lord SrI rAma candra, Father (anna) of Cupid (maruku) (marukanna)! Why (ElarA)...
Feb 2, 2021
Kuruyadu nandana – Sindhu Bhairavi
In 2006 I had gone on a concert tour of North America with Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), Guruvayur Dorai (Mrudangam) & Neyveli Venkatesh...
Oct 28, 2020
Paradevata – Dhanyasi
One side of my ancestors hail from the village Tiruvisainallur near Kumbakonam. Here, you can find the famous Sridhara Ayyaval Math,...
Sep 29, 2020
Idi samayamu – Natakapriya
My introduction to the 10th melakartha, Natakapriya, was through the composition Geeta vadya (composed by Tanjavur Sankara Iyer). This...
Sep 20, 2020
Manasurada – Samakadambari
Samakadambari is a ragam that was created by GNB. I had learnt this song when I sang a GNB day concert for the Indian Fine Arts Society...
Sep 12, 2020
Kumaraswaminam – Asaveri
My grand aunt and guru Smt Rukmini Rajagopalan had a particular liking for Dikshitar kritis. She had learnt several of those songs from...
Aug 29, 2020
Elavatara – Mukhari
I recently discovered a diary of mine from the eighties containing some interesting song lists. I had a made a list of important ragams...
Aug 22, 2020
Re re manasa – Naattai
Gajanana, Vinayaka, Ganapati, Ganesha all bring to mind the beginning of a concert with ragams like Hamsadhwani and Naattai dominating...
Aug 14, 2020
Gopala Bhaktim – Bageshri
Bageshri is a beautiful, melodious ragam that is very popular in North Indian classical music. My first exposure to this ragam was my...
Aug 8, 2020
Vanna maadangal – Ragamalika – Periazhwar pasuram
Mr Sivaramakrishnan was quite well known to hardcore carnatic music lovers in Madras. He had an extraordinary collection of spool tapes...
Aug 1, 2020
A Tiger varnam in Kapi
Today is the birthday of Tiger Varadachariar. If I was give a chance to go back in time my first choice will be to meet the great Tiger...
Jul 26, 2020
Appa naan – Poorvikalyani – Arutpa
I first heard this song sung by the mridangam maestro Guruvayur Dorai. He gave a private concert in my house when we had an informal...
Jul 20, 2020
Aadugiraan in Kapi
Calcutta Krishnamurthy (KSK mama) was a well known name in our household when I was growing up in the seventies. My uncle Suresh had...
Jul 15, 2020
Lalgudi Tillana in Rageshri
I came across the Ragehsri tillana composed by Lalgudi Jayaraman for the first time in a recording of Nedunuri Krishnamurthy’s concert....
Mar 18, 2015
London concert video
Sri Sanjay Subramaniam’s Kucheri @Sivan Centre. Sunday, 15th~March~2015: https://youtu.be/lXX6WsEF76I #video
Mar 3, 2015
Tyagaraja Akhandam
My first experience of the Tyagaraja akhandam was in sometime in the early eighties. It was my first visit to Tiruvayyaru. The whole...
Aug 4, 2014
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