T.N. Krishnan
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Thanks for that treat, Kaumaaram. Have you had any luck finding that old Keeravani recording everybody raves about?
BTW, for those who are curious, here are some solo tracks from son Sriram Krishnan's concerts: http://sriramkrishnan.net/
The Cheta Shri reassures me that the sowkhyam that epitomises TNK's music has not diminished much in its inheritors.
BTW, for those who are curious, here are some solo tracks from son Sriram Krishnan's concerts: http://sriramkrishnan.net/
The Cheta Shri reassures me that the sowkhyam that epitomises TNK's music has not diminished much in its inheritors.
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An excellent interview by Prof TN Krishan,particularly I am so impressed by his view point about Sound Monitors, I hope all of the musicians take that viewpoint and implement it.
http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/01/09/stor ... 980100.htm
http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/01/09/stor ... 980100.htm
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Guruji: Here are the links. Please bear with me for poor recording.
http://rapidshare.com/files/181290487/0 ... m.MP3.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/181290489/0 ... a.MP3.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/181290487/0 ... m.MP3.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/181290489/0 ... a.MP3.html
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Kaumaaram, that Kiravani alapanai was just excellent and concise. Thanks so much. And rajeshnat, thanks for the link to that good interview as well. You're right- his views are very refreshing! And nice to see him praising the talent level in current day violinists as well where it may be easy to brush everybody off as inferior compared to the good old days! Coolji, downloading the MMI TNK clip now- one of my fave combinations!
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Attended the Maestro's 80th b'day bash today (sathabhishekam) at the Ananthapadmanabhaswamy Temple, Adyar. The roster of attendees was awesome and a remarkable example of the Carnatic fraternity turning out in united love & respect for one of its greatest vidwans. I was touched especially by the presence of almost all the great violin maestros: LGJ (represented by his son GJR), MSG, VVS, MSA and his two sons, MC. N Ramani was there. Among contemporary violinists I could spot only Shriramkumar, Sriram Parasuram and TNK's disciple Charumati. Percussion vidwans aplenty: UKS, TVG, Dorai, Bhakta, Easwaran, Sankaran, Vasan, Vaikom, Prasad, Mali, etc. Vocalists: Trichur Ramachadran, Alpy Venkatesan, Sowmya, Suguna Purushottaman, Ranjani-Gayathri, Anooradha Sriram, Brindamma's grandson Girish... Many Sabhanayakas: Prabhu of KGS, Venkatraman of MFAC, Sivakolundu of Rasika Fine Arts, Cleveland Sundaram. Violin virtuosos from the maestro's family were there of course: N Rajam, Kala Ramnath, Sangeetha, Sriram & Viji
Long live the Maestro!
Long live the Maestro!
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I had the good fortune of being invited to this function and attended the same and sought his blessings in person. All top ranking musicians attended the event and there was a good crowd and we were all treated to a fabulous lunch May TNK Sir lead happy and long life. I did see N.Murali and Nalli Kuppuswami along with Cho.Bye Ragjay
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A write-up from 'The Hindu'.
Date:17/02/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/02/17/stor ... 330500.htm
Date:17/02/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/02/17/stor ... 330500.htm
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Just found an old DD concert of TNK on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI5VneaW9A0
Vandanamu in Sahana is an unusual entry in the playlist (never heard him play anything but Giripai in Sahana before), and Manavyala is main (good half-hour). Haven't watched it yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI5VneaW9A0
Vandanamu in Sahana is an unusual entry in the playlist (never heard him play anything but Giripai in Sahana before), and Manavyala is main (good half-hour). Haven't watched it yet.
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Some great vintage photos of TNK:
http://picasaweb.google.com/tnkrishnan. ... toArchive#
A couple of Bangalore concerts:
http://sangeethamshare.org/prasad_badar ... gh_School/
[Sowkhyam personified- a really excellent vAthApi and a really good bilahari ragam in item 3]
http://sangeethamshare.org/prasad_badar ... Centenery/
[Nice rItigowLa and lovely hari nEnenDu]
http://picasaweb.google.com/tnkrishnan. ... toArchive#
A couple of Bangalore concerts:
http://sangeethamshare.org/prasad_badar ... gh_School/
[Sowkhyam personified- a really excellent vAthApi and a really good bilahari ragam in item 3]
http://sangeethamshare.org/prasad_badar ... Centenery/
[Nice rItigowLa and lovely hari nEnenDu]
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A video of TNK's disciple - Charumathi
http://ishare.rediff.com/video/entertai ... ram/543090
http://ishare.rediff.com/video/entertai ... ram/543090
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Yes Mr Diwakar,divakar wrote:sorry arvind, it is a commercial recording available in 3 cassettees. the third volume contains the chatur-raga malika RTP. I guess now it must be available in CDs as well. dont miss it. PMI literally sings with Ariyakudi.If you (or anyone on this forum) could share a non-commercial recording of Ariyakudi's Chatur Raga Pallavi,
You are correct. Ariyakudi's cm renderings are available in 3 volumes in audio cassetes as well as in CDs.
You can try in all leading shops like Raj Video Vision, Thousand Lights, Chennai-6 and Giri Trading Co.
The chatur raga RTP is in the third volume and one should not miss it.
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There's a Saveri RTP by MDR and TNK accompanies him. In his response to MDR's alapana, TNK plays in the mandra sthayi for a few minutes transporting everyone to an entirely different world. This is one of the most dangerous things to listen to while driving as the first instinct is to close one's eye and soak in the music. Unfortunately, I lost the recording and haven't able to find it since. If anyone has it, can they please upload it?
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Wow, thanks for that link, shripathi. Easily one of the best sAvEri alapanais I've ever heard, both by MDR and TNK. MDR uses some lovely rare repetitive phrases in his essay and TNK's response centered around the mandra panchamam is just outstanding. He uses the DP... DP...DPMPDP.... DPMPDPM..... DP... type phrases that he's generally quite fond of and uses more often in bhairavi. The thanam in varying kalapramanams is excellent. And MDR's kalpana swaras at the close of the pallavi gliding gently to the madhyamam are so lovely with Pazhani anticipating well. This is music at its best. Thanks again!
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Curious about what happened at 4:38 where TNK starts to play the charanam in 'Vandanamu.' Why did he restart? Was ghatam vidwan not ready?bilahari wrote:Just found an old DD concert of TNK on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI5VneaW9A0
Vandanamu in Sahana is an unusual entry in the playlist (never heard him play anything but Giripai in Sahana before), and Manavyala is main (good half-hour). Haven't watched it yet.
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it is here:shripathi_g wrote:Found it - http://sangeethapriya.org/gvr/Saveri/RT ... ri-MDR.mp3
http://sangeethamshare.org/gvr/Saveri/R ... ri-MDR.mp3
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There are a couple of excellent TNK concerts here:
http://www.sangeethamshare.org/sl/T_N_K ... ENNAI_05_/
This concert features a really elaborate bhairavi RTP that easily ranks amongst the best I've heard in this raga. The raga alapana is searching and filled with sowkhyam, and the bhairavi thanam is excellent, followed by a brilliant ragamaliga thanam especially in nIlAmbari and bowLi. The thani is great as well. I do not know much about the mrudangam vidwan, but his accompaniment is very good.
http://www.sangeethamshare.org/sl/T_N_K ... ANGALORE_/
A nearly three hour concert with several vidwans in the audience, going by the chatter during the concert. A top notch concert in ARI style, with several crisp and interesting raga alapanais (mukhari ragam and mandra sthayi dominated nIlAmbari ragam are noteworthy), and all the kalpanaswaras are handled excellently (very melodious swaras in hamsadwani). The kAmbOji rendition has ARI written all over it and is just brilliant. There's also an interesting and rather humorous moment in rAma katha sudha--listen to it.
http://www.sangeethamshare.org/sl/T_N_K ... ENNAI_05_/
This concert features a really elaborate bhairavi RTP that easily ranks amongst the best I've heard in this raga. The raga alapana is searching and filled with sowkhyam, and the bhairavi thanam is excellent, followed by a brilliant ragamaliga thanam especially in nIlAmbari and bowLi. The thani is great as well. I do not know much about the mrudangam vidwan, but his accompaniment is very good.
http://www.sangeethamshare.org/sl/T_N_K ... ANGALORE_/
A nearly three hour concert with several vidwans in the audience, going by the chatter during the concert. A top notch concert in ARI style, with several crisp and interesting raga alapanais (mukhari ragam and mandra sthayi dominated nIlAmbari ragam are noteworthy), and all the kalpanaswaras are handled excellently (very melodious swaras in hamsadwani). The kAmbOji rendition has ARI written all over it and is just brilliant. There's also an interesting and rather humorous moment in rAma katha sudha--listen to it.
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Enna Solven and Bilahari. Sometimes when you are engrossed and immersed in the music you tend to loose count of the talam. In this case TNK started on the last veechu. realised when he looked up and saw the talam that the ghatam artist was putting.
Now on the flip side many a times the ghatam artist could have picked up the count incorrectly which I highly doubt. I have seen it happen however at many instances. I just looked at the clip from about 4:13. I will go back and listen to it carefully and put talam from the beginning to see if the ghatam artist picked up the talam incorrectly.
Now on the flip side many a times the ghatam artist could have picked up the count incorrectly which I highly doubt. I have seen it happen however at many instances. I just looked at the clip from about 4:13. I will go back and listen to it carefully and put talam from the beginning to see if the ghatam artist picked up the talam incorrectly.
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VK, So that settles it. However in regards to instrumentalist they have a lot to do in terms of multi tasking, which includes keeping the talam, the kirtanam itself , development of ragam etc. In one kutcheri, I heard Vellore ramabhadran sing the charanam when the main artist forgot the line. So it boils down to being a team work on stage, and that was the hallmark of yester year musicians, I think.
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appu: I know what you mean. Understood. On top of that, personally for me, it is not a big deal at all. This is a convention anyway. Layam wise, he was right on target, his eduppu was correct with respect to the beat. It is just that it was wrt to the prior beat. If he had continued and everyone adjusted to it, nothing would have been lost, it just means resetting the avarthanam beginning. Had the mridangist played a theermanam then it is a different matter, it makes sense to strictly obey the beginning of the avarthanam. I realize this is a radical and liberal position to take but I do not see a huge laya violation if someone does that.
In fact, I find the awkward and unnatural pause waiting around for a complete avarthanam a bit annoying. This sometimes happens when the artist misses the eduppu ( especially with the 1.5 desAdi eduppu ). Then they have to wait for the whole avarthanam to finish to take that back up. If the mridangist is just playing regular strokes rather than a micro-korvai-like theermanam, someone should start a new trend whereby the artist chooses to reset the thala avarthanam with some kriya so everyone adjusts. This can be done at the transition point between P and AP and between P and C. We will call it emotional rhythm. Who knows, it may actually sound quite dynamic and provide for a little bit of variety.
In fact, I find the awkward and unnatural pause waiting around for a complete avarthanam a bit annoying. This sometimes happens when the artist misses the eduppu ( especially with the 1.5 desAdi eduppu ). Then they have to wait for the whole avarthanam to finish to take that back up. If the mridangist is just playing regular strokes rather than a micro-korvai-like theermanam, someone should start a new trend whereby the artist chooses to reset the thala avarthanam with some kriya so everyone adjusts. This can be done at the transition point between P and AP and between P and C. We will call it emotional rhythm. Who knows, it may actually sound quite dynamic and provide for a little bit of variety.
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TNK and Viji play gajAnanayutam in this video:
http://video.webindia123.com/music/viol ... /index.htm
Electrifying kalpana swaras!
http://video.webindia123.com/music/viol ... /index.htm
Electrifying kalpana swaras!
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Ragjay, I am extremely grateful to you! You have uploaded some excellent concerts of his, particularly that 3-h ARI-esque Bangalore concert. An LGJ-TNK concert - wow! Would love to hear that if anybody has it! By the way, any luck contacting Shankara Nethralaya for TNK's US concert recordings?
Sri TVG has uploaded a brilliant AIR national program of TNK recently. The bahudari (with a really creative alapanai) and tODi are out of this world, and the concert ends with a gorgeous parulannamATa.
Sri TVG has uploaded a brilliant AIR national program of TNK recently. The bahudari (with a really creative alapanai) and tODi are out of this world, and the concert ends with a gorgeous parulannamATa.
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I have loved TNK's music, but I think that today, I heard TNK actually turning in a bad performance. I heard "Raga of the Day" (Kharaharapriya) on Sunaada.in and was not impressed with the apaswaras, pauses and excessive use of a single phrase. I don't know which concert it was, but I hope the other songs in it were good.
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The November 2009 issue of "Sruti" features a cover story that I wrote on Prof. TNK. A teaser is avbl here: http://sruti.com/2009/sruti_magazine_no ... coverstory
To read the full story, you need a subscription to the print edition
To read the full story, you need a subscription to the print edition
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Sir,
I was trying to get the keeravani lp song for so many years. I was so glad to see the links
Guruji: Here are the links. Please bear with me for poor recording.
http://rapidshare.com/files/181290487/0 "¦ m.MP3.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/181290489/0 "¦ a.MP3.htm
unfortunately both the links are not working any more. can some one who have already dowloaded the song please upload it or send to my mail vasu.balaji@gmail.com.
i was searching for the song for more than 3 decades.
please help .
I was trying to get the keeravani lp song for so many years. I was so glad to see the links
Guruji: Here are the links. Please bear with me for poor recording.
http://rapidshare.com/files/181290487/0 "¦ m.MP3.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/181290489/0 "¦ a.MP3.htm
unfortunately both the links are not working any more. can some one who have already dowloaded the song please upload it or send to my mail vasu.balaji@gmail.com.
i was searching for the song for more than 3 decades.
please help .
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kIravANi ragam: http://www.sendspace.com/file/b6hqjj
kaligiyunTE: http://www.sendspace.com/file/tf81xu
The krithi is incomplete. Contact me via forum e-mail if you want more TNK music.
kaligiyunTE: http://www.sendspace.com/file/tf81xu
The krithi is incomplete. Contact me via forum e-mail if you want more TNK music.
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Thank you so much for uploading the song again. eventhough its incomplete i cant express the joy in my heart. it took 30 long years to hear it again. my pursue for the complete song will however continue and if i get it i will definitely share it here. thank you so much sir. I will contact you through forum e-mail.
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This invitation/posting is being place here on the suggestion of member Bilahari
Please welcome to a violin-mridangam duet featuring T.N. Krishnan-M.Chandrasekharan-Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman and Tanjavur Upendran performed in "Parvathi" Mysore 1972 http://chowdaiahandparvati.blogspot.com/
Please welcome to a violin-mridangam duet featuring T.N. Krishnan-M.Chandrasekharan-Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman and Tanjavur Upendran performed in "Parvathi" Mysore 1972 http://chowdaiahandparvati.blogspot.com/
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Re: T.N. Krishnan
Nostalgia: Remembering a TNK concert experience, http://carnaticmusicreview.wordpress.co ... algia-tnk/
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Re: T.N. Krishnan
Nice e-mail - thanks, Gamakam!
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Re: T.N. Krishnan
Respected Members,
Vidwan T.N. Krishnan's performances in just this one house "Parvathi", Mysore, have been so innumerable and so memorable over these decades that only recently we really started to assess the counts against him and of the other giants. We hope to post these numbers sometime. In the meantime, please welcome, at your convenience, to several of his classical performances with a most recent posting of him accompanying Vidwan K. V. Narayanaswamy in 1972.
http://chowdaiahandparvati.blogspot.com/
Vidwan T.N. Krishnan's performances in just this one house "Parvathi", Mysore, have been so innumerable and so memorable over these decades that only recently we really started to assess the counts against him and of the other giants. We hope to post these numbers sometime. In the meantime, please welcome, at your convenience, to several of his classical performances with a most recent posting of him accompanying Vidwan K. V. Narayanaswamy in 1972.
http://chowdaiahandparvati.blogspot.com/