To read the full article by the internationally acclaimed author of India After Gandhi, click here >> After Partition, Bade Ghulam chose to move to Pakistan, but, finding the audience for classical music limited (in all senses of the word), wished to return to the Indian side of the border. In the 1950s, it was …
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Flute TS Sankaran – Kalakshetra 1988
1. 0:0:00 kAmbhOdi aTa tALa varNam 2. 0:11:11 gajAnanayutam – chkravAkam 3. 0:20:16 sogasu jUDa – kannaDagowLam 4. 0:26:50 nenaruncarA nApaini – simha vAhini 5. 0:34:15 cinna nADE – kalAnidhi 6. 0:45:35 rAgam + manasu swAdhInamaina – shankarAbharaNam 7. 1:20:22 rAgam+ meevalla – kApi 8. 1:35:38 rAgam + parama pAvana rAma – pUrvikalyANi + thani …
“Drinking the ever tasteful essence of raaga, why don’t you rejoice, O mind!” – Tyagaraja’s Ragasudharasa rendered by Flute Jayanth
https://youtu.be/QXhxrOD5yng Yet another proof and a delightful one (if any were needed), that”Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one, and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. … No one of its notes is final, yet each reflects the …
Video | Carnatic Wave: A journey into the Karaikudi tradition
https://youtu.be/h5cWjCFTMe8 Carnatic Wave is an aural journey into the Karaikudi Veena tradition, a centuries old practice of Southern Indian classical music being carried on by a group of musicians in Portland, Oregon. This short documentary offers a glimpse into their world of Carnatic music, highlighting the importance and challenge of teaching traditional art forms in …
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Video | Layavinyasam by TR Sundaresan: Mridangam & Konakkol
https://youtu.be/Maid2YZUBps More about TR Sundaresan >> Related posts Practice four widely used Carnatic talas – free for all learners “Sampradaya is like a broad river and the bani is a tributary”: Umayalpuram Sivaraman on his 75 years of performance