Audio | What Makes Indian Music Unique – Kennedy Center Education

To listen to the educational resources shown below, click here >> Source: Music of India, An exploration of Indian musicURL: https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/media-and-interactives/media/international/music-of-india/Date visited: 2 August 2021 Related post“Sampradaya is like a broad river and the bani is a tributary”: Umayalpuram Sivaraman on his 75 years of performance >>

Perceptions of “Guru” now and then

A teacher teaches music – the curriculum, the techniques, the methods and so on, but a Guru teaches how to approach music: how to understand it, how to internalize it and how to enjoy it. […] Music is a lifelong pursuit and its emotions start sinking into you with more internal growth of the self …

What makes one refer to Carnatic music as “classical or art music”?

Tyagaraja depicted by Sangeeta Vidvan S. Rajam >> Tyagaraja worried about many things — about the death of brahmanatva — the lofty way of thinking and living, of sham religiosity, of sycophancy, of Lord Rama’s reluctance to bestow grace. In one such song in the poignant raga Naganandini, he laments: sattaleni dinamunu vacchena Such days …

“Every family member excels at certain tasks”: A family’s legacy of making mridangams – Kerala

Read the full story with more photos in The Better India >> In Kerala’s Peruvemba village, one family has been making the Mridangam, a Carnatic instrument, for four generations. They make two types of Mridangams – Ech and Thag. […] The cumbersome and labour-intensive process of making every piece, which continues seamlessly and without glitches, …

Video | “Breath of Life”: Carnatic flute by JA Jayanth

https://youtu.be/z_xu2Oj9Qfo JA Jayant performs for Indian Arts Connection’s Breath of Life fundraising concert to buy oxygen concentrators to help with Indias 2nd wave of COVID.He is accompanied by B Ananthakrishnan on the Violin, NC Bharadwaj on Mridangam and S Karthick on Ghatam.Donations acceptedhttps://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/breath-…​ Related post What makes one refer to Carnatic music as “classical or …