M.S. Subbulakshmi

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 25 Sep 2015, 11:11

Dear Rasikas
Kindly find below a link from "The Hindu" on the recent celebrations in Shanmukhananda - Mumbai
http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday ... 685200.ece

Aditto · Post by **Aditto** » 25 Sep 2015, 11:32

Hi Cienu Sir,

Can you please post any new video of MS. It has been long since we saw a video of MS.

Also, a small question, are you planning to release any new CD recordings or video recordings of MS as part of centenary celebrations. People would be looking forward

I always hoped to see videos of MS singing Virboni, or a Sankarabharanam with swarakalapana etc. My wishes are many as I was not lucky enough to see MS perform.

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 25 Sep 2015, 12:11

An article in The Hindu today:
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp ... 686360.ece

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 25 Sep 2015, 12:19

Saregama launches a New App
http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/zKbBPLk ... w-app.html

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 25 Sep 2015, 12:22

An article in "The Hindu" Friday Review. Smt Viasalam being honored by Actor Kamal Hasan among other celebrations.
http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday ... 685247.ece
A wonderful tribute by Nadayogi Sri VVS
http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday ... 685201.ece
Dance tribute to MSS
http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday ... 685254.ece

MaheshS · Post by **MaheshS** » 26 Sep 2015, 01:35

MS receiving national integration award from Rajiv Gandhi..

I love the way she gets the award and then rushes past Rajiv and PV Narashima Rao and hands it over to Sadasivam Mama like it's a bomb or something and drops it. Wow, will we see another like this one?

priyaram78 · Post by **priyaram78** » 26 Sep 2015, 11:39

Thanks for this vdo link. Humility personified, MS Amma is a role model for all.

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 29 Sep 2015, 18:01

An article on MS Blue saree
http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/repor ... on-2129793

SrinathK · Post by **SrinathK** » 29 Sep 2015, 23:43

Brighas don't get better than this, and neither does raga bhava : https://soundcloud.com/user461654480/m- ... nam-kulira

The first time I heard this, I simply couldn't believe what I was hearing. And even now it still stuns me every time.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 30 Sep 2015, 05:41

Gives me goose bumps, as I listen to it...

Cienu,
The article says MS blue is mayil kazuthu (peacock blue-double color of blue and green). If my memory serves right, it was a lovely powder blue with sheen! Hope someone brings a picture here to show the revived color

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 30 Sep 2015, 07:59

Dear Arasi
Here is the link on MS Blue in the website dedicated to MSS. The picture by Avinash Pasricha on the right has my grandmother and mother singing in MS Blue saree.
http://www.msstribute.org/articles/arti ... ettiar.php

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 30 Sep 2015, 08:50

A divine picture. Sari of course is not what I comment on. I am reminded of 'aham bhaktha paraadheenah'. MS amma shows devotion the best a human can; Smt. Radha is hooked on to her in total alignment with and devotion to a devotee.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 30 Sep 2015, 10:04

The clip that Srinath posted was Sakuntala taking leave of the trees, creepers, and the fauna around kanva's ASram - beautiful seems inadequate!

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 30 Sep 2015, 14:44

http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Arti ... 2015101021

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 02 Oct 2015, 20:19

I have heard long back 'Yamarintha mozhikalile' sung by MS amma. Is a recording available anywhere?

Pratyaksham Bala · Post by **Pratyaksham Bala** » 02 Oct 2015, 21:27

kvchellappa wrote:I have heard long back 'Yamarintha mozhikalile' sung by MS amma. Is a recording available anywhere?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NGl44iRejc

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 03 Oct 2015, 00:22

Thanks.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 03 Oct 2015, 01:43

Bala,
Thanks!
Gandhi Jayanthi, Bharathi's yAmaRinda mozhigaLilE(there's no sweeter language than tamizh) sung by the one and only MS and followed by mannum imaya malai engaL malaiyE (The great HimalayAs, they are our mountains!) signify how our love for our own language and for the state where we come from is simply a step towards growing--expanding that love into loving the whole land. The world comes next.

Loving is more than a sentiment--tolerance, then understanding which pave the way to that state of realizing it. it's the opposite of shutting ourselves up in the suffocating cell of narrow regionalism...

Pratyaksham Bala · Post by **Pratyaksham Bala** » 04 Oct 2015, 13:06

.
Sweet Note Of M S Subbulakshmi As Sakuntalai :-

http://mr-jatt.com/playAlbum.php?id=alf
1) iRaivA nAnOr pEdai anRO
2) endan iDadu tOLum

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 04 Oct 2015, 15:18

Sri PB -beautiful- thank you! A question:
Shouldn't the second track be endan iDadu tOLum (kaNNum tuDippadenna, inbam varugudenru sol sol sol kiLiyE)?

Pratyaksham Bala · Post by **Pratyaksham Bala** » 04 Oct 2015, 15:36

Yes, thanks!
Corrected.

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 05 Oct 2015, 07:26

http://periscope-narada.blogspot.in/2008/03/verses.html
A blog on MSS - Vadavarayai Mathakki.

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 05 Oct 2015, 07:36

Blog links of Sri Pasupathy.
http://s-pasupathy.blogspot.com/2014/09/39.html
Three articles in 'Kalki" about her Record + 2 Charity concerts in the 40's
http://s-pasupathy.blogspot.com/2013/01/13.html
A poem by ' Vaali" ( as the 3d article) in :
http://s-pasupathy.blogspot.com/2013/07/18.html

SrinathK · Post by **SrinathK** » 13 Oct 2015, 22:14

My perfect start to the Navaratri, courtesy @cienu : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMKcy9NyI0

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 14 Oct 2015, 03:55

Yes indeed. Loved it!

Cienu,
Thanks for the gift. A majestic and expertly crafted composition where MD has injected an extra dose of rAga bhAvam and impact in words). How she brings it to life, ambikai as a karuNArNavam

On a lighter note: this shade of sari she and your mother are seen here in--that's what I had imagined as MS blue all these years!

thanjavooran · Post by **thanjavooran** » 14 Oct 2015, 04:07

Srinathk,
Yes. A very good start. Many thanx for sharing.
Thanjavooran
14 10 2015

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 14 Oct 2015, 10:22

An interesting article in today's "Indian Express"
http://indianexpress.com/article/opinio ... l-problem/

pattamaa · Post by **pattamaa** » 14 Oct 2015, 13:25

cienu wrote: the court has been wise to steer clear of a controversy that even M.S. Subbulakshmi’s magic cannot set to rest. - See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/opinio ... lieab.dpuf

well said... happy to see good sense prevailed in the court..

Ramasubramanian M.K · Post by **Ramasubramanian M.K** » 14 Oct 2015, 21:58

A joke:

One of the Tamil magazines had a cartoon-at the height of the hidden treasures controversy in the Padmanabhaswamy temple in Trivandrum a couple of years back:

Lord Venkateshwara is seen "bemoaning" to Lord Padmanabha Swami-- 'WHAT I HAVE STRENUOSLY ACCUMULATED FROM MY DEVOTEES OVER THE YEARS WHILE STANDING ALL THE TIME, WHEREAS YOU HAVE ACCUMULATED MORE BY MERELY LYING IN BED"!!!!!!

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 15 Oct 2015, 06:57

Lin Yutangs great chapter on Lying in bed in his book - Importance of living - should be a good resource for the Head Priest to consult
Before taking a call on this matter .
To quote
"It is amazing how few people are conscious of the importance of the art of lying in bed, although actually in my opinion nine-tenths of the world's most important discoveries, both scientific and philosophical, are come upon when the scientist or philosopher is curled up in bed at two or five o'clock in the morning.

Some people lie in the daytime and others lie at night. Now by "lying" I mean at the same time physical and moral lying, for the two happen to coincide. I find that those people who agree with me in believing in lying in bed as one of the greatest pleasures of life are the honest men, while those who do not believe in lying in bed are liars and actually lie a lot in the daytime, morally and physically. Those who lie in the daytime are the moral uplifters, kindergarten teachers and readers of Aesop's Fables, while those who frankly admit with me that a man ought to consciously cultivate the art of lying in bed are the honest men who perfer to read stories without a moral like Alice in Wonderland.

Now what is the significance of lying in bed, physically and spiritually? Physically, it means a retreat to oneself, shut up from the outside world, when one assumes the physical posture most conducive to rest and peace and contemplation. There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed "like a corpse," but always curled up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's legs in bed. The posture of the arms is also very important, in order to reach the greatest degree of aesthetic pleasure and mental power. I believe the best posture is not lying flat on the bed, but being upholstered with big soft pillows at an angle of thirty degrees with either one arm or both arms placed behind the back of one's head. In this posture any poet can write immortal poetry, any philosopher can revolutionize human thought, and any scientist can make epoch-making discoveries."
Unquote

I myself would not like to be in the priests position .
Showering the Lord with flowers - best left where they were made and found - all day long .
Any way the trouble began When man made God in the image of himself .

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 15 Oct 2015, 08:39

Varsha,
And also when periyAzhvAr stopped picking flowers from the plants he tended for the worship of his lord

MKR,
Thanks for the joke.
Wonder what ranganAthA's response to this was in Srirangam!

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 15 Oct 2015, 09:11

Nice to know about curling up in bed. I get comfort that way though not poetry, scientific insight or spiritual awakening.
Varsha's last line reminds me of Spinoza (the only thing by Spinoza I read): "I deny only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their desires."

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 15 Oct 2015, 09:16

Or, to serve them their desires??

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 15 Oct 2015, 09:49

kvc
It is only appropriate that I acknowledge that it was not my line , but as you say , Spinozas
The line on flowers is similarly picked from Kuvempus ( KV Puttappas ) musings that has stayed with me .

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 15 Oct 2015, 14:00

Arasi, either way it may be appropriate! All gods are sthuthipriyas and in need of bhakthas. Otherwise I will not be reciting Vishnusahasranamam and Lalithasaharanamam!
Varsha, I did not for a moment suggest that the thought did not occur to you independently, that someone said it earlier does not make him a patent-holder for that thought. I just wanted to share compulsively what I read. You come up with beautiful thoughts expressed felicitously.

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 15 Oct 2015, 14:46

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 20 Oct 2015, 12:00

An article by the former director of the CBI Shri R K Raghavan
http://www.thequint.com/opinion/2015/09 ... r-birthday

pattamaa · Post by **pattamaa** » 20 Oct 2015, 14:28

very nicely written, bringing out MS amma's memories and various dimensions of amma... she will always be immortal.. we can see her presence whenever we hear her music..

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 23 Oct 2015, 08:50

A snack dedicated to MS

http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.c ... hmis-ears/

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 23 Oct 2015, 18:09

Cienu
tEnilum iniya pATTisaittAr (avar)
tEnkuzhalum rasittAr!

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 28 Oct 2015, 07:37

Vocalist P Unnikrishnan on M.S.Subbulakshmi in today's "The Times of India"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ente ... 552455.cms

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 30 Oct 2015, 07:09

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp ... 819752.ece

kartheeksharma · Post by **kartheeksharma** » 02 Nov 2015, 11:54

please post links of ms rare songs like tulasi jagtjanani,narayanathe namo namo(annamacharya),muripemu galige,sri parthasarathy(m.d)

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 27 Nov 2015, 12:08

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/ky2fhei ... -THODI.mp3

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 27 Nov 2015, 12:40

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/ojfkh62 ... mbhoji.mp3
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/7earr8b ... ukhari.mp3
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/6nvs622 ... radasa.mp3

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 28 Nov 2015, 06:43

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/8gl67s5 ... agowla.mp3

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 28 Nov 2015, 08:49

Listened to Sri Parthasarathi. When Smt. Radha sings in top octave and MS in the lower one, it is exhilarating. My mind went to comments about TS. In that phase the singing of Smt. Radha is powerful and arresting. I thought how much TS was partial to MS. It pains me when I read TS was a benevolent autocrat. I see that TS loved MS all the way and whatever he did sprang from that love. When we do not understand that love, we crib about superficialities.

Aditto · Post by **Aditto** » 28 Nov 2015, 09:33

Sri Parthasarathi is by Sri.Subbarama Dikshitar right?

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 28 Nov 2015, 11:44

Varsha, post one song of MS everyday. Thanks.

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 28 Nov 2015, 11:56

Nice write-up by Unnikrishnan. I am happy to read: "As a musician, it is important for you to make the audience feel content upon hearing your music."