Tip: use the above player-plugin for listening to any of the four recordings. To download the audio and text files, visit here: https://archive.org/details/mariyamman-in-music >> 1) Madurai aracalum Minaksi (“She is Minaksi ruling over Madurai”)Kapi raga, adi tala; from the movie Tirumalai Tenkumari (“From Tirupati to Cape Comorin”); sung by Sirgali Govindarajan; music composed by Kunnakkudi VaidyanathanDuration: …
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Dr. Friedemann SchlenderLeiter der Hindi-, Bengali-, Urdu- und Sanskrit-Programme von DW-RADIO 25.10.03 Laudatio für Herrn Ludwig Pesch/Tagore-Kulturpreis 2003 der DIG Die Satzung des Tagore-Preises fordert von den Bewerbern „ein hohes künstlerisches Niveau und besonderes Einfühlungsvermögen in die indische Kultur“. Es ist schwer, in festumrissenen herkömmlichen Kategorien Ludwig Peschs Indien-bezogenen Beitrag zu beschreiben, der ihm den …
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T. R. Sundaresan (Chennai) is a versatile percussionist with “A-grade” ranking at the national Indian broadcasting service (All India Radio). He performs several South Indian percussion instruments with equal virtuosity: Mridangam (the double-sided main drum of Carnatic music), Ghatam (claypot), Kanjira (small tambourine), Morsing (Jew’s harp) and Konnakkol (rhythmic solmisation) T. R. Sundaresan’s mridangam was soft, …
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