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My first experience of the Tyagaraja akhandam was in sometime in the early eighties. It was my first visit to Tiruvayyaru. The…
It must have been 1985 or 86. My grandfather Thyagu came into our house all excited. He had just visited his good…
It is December and music season time in Chennai. This year I have chosen Divya prabandham as my theme for the Jaya…
GNB was a name that frequently came up in musical discussions in my home. Sometime in the late seventies my grandfather Tyagu…
Yesterday I sang a concert for the Maharajapuram Rasikas Trust at the Krishna Gana Sabha auditorium. The trust is run by Dr…
The Music Academy has announced that Shri AKC Natarajan, Clarinet artiste, has been selected to receive the Sangita Kalanidhi award this year.…
Today is the birth centenary of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, in my opinion, one of the most influential of all carnatic musicians in…