Music Academy Dec season schedule 2013-14

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jodha
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Priya sisters missing !

MA doesn't consider the children of SKs.Neither Subasree Ramachandran nor TNSKrishna.Even TVS's son & daughter are performers now.But no luck it seems. :-o :-o :-o

sureshvv
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HN Bhaskar is a Mysuru man also!
Vittal Ramamurthy is also from Karnataka!
And H.K. Venkatram, a forumite too, and R.K.S (his grandfather settled in Chennai, I think).
I think this "tradition" to track artistes by native village/town/state is unhealthy for music as a whole. Also heartened to see that younger artistes have figured this out drop these appendages (similar to caste names from prior generations).

rupavathi
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sureshvv wrote:I think this "tradition" to track artistes by native village/town/state is unhealthy for music as a whole...
What a wet blanket you are... trying to strip a rational discussion of its regional chauvinism and provincial prejudices! [-x

hnbhagavan
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The analysis of artists from Mysore was only academic .No serious conclusions should be made.

sureshvv
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rupavathi wrote: What a wet blanket you are...
Guilty as charged!

PS: by Saidapettai Rupavathi, I presume :-)

arasi
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When I glance through the list, it looks as though they are bringing in more of non-Chennai artistes (there, regional and provincial chauvinism on the wane, it seems). I see more of Kerala names too.
Perfection (!) is hard to achieve, but I do see that the list reflects an open-mindedness. A well-shuffled deck of cards, one would say?

Yes, Neyveli Venkatesh could have been included. I did notice a few (?) accompanists being given more than one chance. Wonder why. They could have encouraged a few more of them by not doing so.

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Guruvoyuy Dorai - Mridangam does not find a place in MA list

B.Devnath
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Post by B.Devnath »

glad to see balamurali and sumithra vasudev slotted at 4.15. they earned it !!

hnbhagavan
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Post by hnbhagavan »

Rasikas,

Most of the musicians who get to perform in prime slots every year - The artists generally in their prime still are the ones to get Sangeethakalanidhi title in the years to come.
The following are generally featured every year:
Sanjay Subramanyam,OS Tyagarajan,NRavikiran,Malladi Brothers,Nithyasree,Bombay Jayashree,Unnikrishnan,RaGa sisters,Vijaya siva,Neyveli Santanagopalan,Aruna Sairam

TM Krishna is an exception perhaps this year.

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Perhaps I should add
Sowmya and Mandolin Srinivas too.This process may take the next decade.

harimau
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shyamkalyan74 wrote: This s.malavika is vijay tv airtel super singer fame one,not sk's daughter.Surya prakash got promoted to evening slot which he desrves rightly.
Wondering how v.shankarnarayanan got a chance this year inspite of his below average performance last year?
S Malavika trained in vocal music under Smt Padmavathy Ananthagopalan for years. She is currently learning from Vidwan V. Subrahmanyam, who is a disciple of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer.

The S-K's daughter learnt Bharatha Natyam so not much chance of performing in December. Maybe in January but then she is pursuing higher studies in the US now.

harimau
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KNV1955 wrote:
Some feedback on Majusha Patil.

KNV
Manjusha Patil was featured in Svanubhava 2013 which was held in August in Kalakshetra.

She was the one who, when asked why she had 4 different instruments providing the drone, said she was searching for the perfect 'Sa' with those four.

That comment sent Uday Shankar into paroxysms of ecstasy who then detailed his experiments of attempting to align the sruthi of a tambura with that of a didgeridoo or some such thing....my memory is hazy on that point. You can look up that discussion in the topic Carnatic vs Hindusthani Music.

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sureshvv wrote

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HN Bhaskar is a Mysuru man also!
Vittal Ramamurthy is also from Karnataka!
And H.K. Venkatram, a forumite too, and R.K.S (his grandfather settled in Chennai, I think).
I think this "tradition" to track artistes by native village/town/state is unhealthy for music as a whole. Also heartened to see that younger artistes have figured this out drop these appendages (similar to caste names from prior generations)]

Isn't BU Ganesh Prasad from Bangalore?

Rsachi
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Harimau
Seriously, isn't that a bit like my trying to learn Tamil in Saidapet bus stand!?
Image

harimau
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Rsachi wrote:Harimau
Seriously, isn't that a bit like my trying to learn Tamil in Saidapet bus stand!?
Saidapet Tamil is probably miles ahead of Washermenpet Tamil! :p

But, I am unable to understand the reference. Are you talking about trying to find the perfect 'Sa'?

harimau
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arasi wrote:
Yes, not seeing Gayatri Girish and Viji Subramaniam's names in the list was disappointing.

You could recommend their names to Nada Inbam!

PS. There I go, setting the cat among the pigeons. I shall now watch Older than Methuselah swing into action.

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sureshvv wrote:Guilty as charged!

PS: by Saidapettai Rupavathi, I presume :-)
Yeah, I'll take Saidapettai... now that Kolaikaranpettai has been renamed in (yet another) honour of our city's Ubiquitous Presence! B-)

And about the topic at hand: the Music Academy has a website (recently revamped very aesthetically) where annual conference schedules from 1935 are available. I suggest that some of the opinionators here who are energetically dissecting this year's schedule, spend some time going through the same. It will help you avoid coming off like a noob - unless that's what is desired - when passing off breezy opinion as fact. It will also help you realize that Carnatic Music in general, and the Academy conference in particular did not start around 2001, which is when Internet fora such as this one started becoming popular outlets for well-meaning yet ill-informed opinion! :))

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Glad to see Ashwin Anand's (Veena) name in the list. He is extremely talented. I believe he is taking advanced lessons from Smt Vedavalli.

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Rsachi wrote:What is the current lobbying process to get a slot at MA?
Smt Mala Ramadorai , an unknown name in Hindustani Circle, got a prime slot in MA a few years ago. How ??

It was a package deal as part of heavy corporate sponsorship

Smt Mala is the wife of Sri Ramadorai, the MD of TCS at that time.

காசேதான் கடவுளடா

Rsachi
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Yes Harimau,
Hoping to find the perfect SA by using four tamburas is the same as going to Saidapet bus stand to learn Tamil, thinking that it would help to find several people speaking the language there at the same time.

You see, I don't have too beautiful a memory of that bus stand as my sweaty and crowded bus trips through to IIT on Mount Road weren't exactly pleasant.

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harimau wrote:That comment sent Uday Shankar into paroxysms of ecstasy
Whoa ??!! For the record I think four tamburas are an entirely bad idea :).
harimau wrote:experiments of attempting to align the sruthi of a tambura with that of a didgeridoo
Wrong again! It was with more traditional, mainstream instruments like the keyboard.

sureshvv
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Post by sureshvv »

May be The Music Academy will have a parallel track for instrumentalists at the mini hall as a tribute to Lalgudi G. Jayaraman

vichu1947
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sureshvv wrote:May be The Music Academy will have a parallel track for instrumentalists at the mini hall as a tribute to Lalgudi G. Jayaraman
why tribute to only LGJ ?? why not MSG too ??

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Post by sureshvv »

Sure. Why not?

hnbhagavan
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Here is a great record already created.The Music Academy records show that Sri TN Krishnan made his debut in 1943 (listed as master Krishnan).I thought It must be TNK.
Till 1947,he is listed as Master and from 1948 onwards listed as Mr.He has performed continuously every year most of the times accompanying great Vidwans and later as duet
and trio concerts.He has performed from 1943 - 2013 without any break(?).He is scheduled to perform in this season also.
This is a marvelous achievement by any standards.
Assuming regular performance from 1948 till 2014 is 66 years of performance.
As per the records Sri LGj performed first time in 1948 and Sri MSG performed first time in 1954 at Music Academy.

KNV1955
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hnbhagvan where do you get such details

KNV

semmu86
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KNV1955 wrote:hnbhagvan where do you get such details
KNV
You get all the details in the website of the MA. The schedule of concerts are listed right from the year 1935.

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You get all the details in the website of the MA. The schedule of concerts are listed right from the year 1935.
Yes, some of us have been endlessly fascinated by these schedules since they appeared on their website about 6 years ago!
Here is an eerily similar discussion to this one from back then! http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3347

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Dear Sri KNV,

As posted,there is a complete list in the web site.THE list starts from 1935.

arasi
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Mahavishnu,
That's something. What endlessly interesting details!

I realize:
I've grown that much older, getting into 'the impatient old lady' mode easily /:)
You called me madam :-? ;)
It's still a pleasant surprise, my knowing your connection to dear Minakshi teacher, and of course, your distinguished grandfather, her brother.
We miss Vijay to this day, and a few other illustrious forumites like Dr. Srikaanth :(

Yes! The old schedules are fascinating, for the young and the old alike. They reveal much more than mere dates and the time of performances...
Hail, history!

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As much as I enjoy studying the concert schedules at the Academy from 1935 onward, how I wish they had listed concerts from years prior to that also!

A very selfish reason for this wish! My Father Veena Raja Rao performed there in December 1934.

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Ah, Sreeni! A miss by a mere year.
Then again, we don't need to see your father's name in the Academy programs to know his worth!

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You called me madam :-? ;)
I am losing my manners in my old age. I will just call you Arasi avarE from now :)

Sreeni, I will be in India this december and going through my late grandmother's archives to see if I can dig up the souvenirs from earlier years. I wonder why the Academy has not been able to post this, since their annual scholarly journal is available going back to the first conference.

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Arasi avare,
Thanks! My interest is to see which items he might have performed! And, was it a vocal or a vINa concert, because in those days, he used to perform vocal concerts also! I have program listings from about 30+ Radio broadcasts from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and it is fascinating to study which items he presented.
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Mahavishnu,

I envy you! I am sure that will be a fascinating journey into your pATTi's archives! Enjoy and share with us as much as possible!

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Sreeni Rajarao avarige,
What arasi Ji has written is the pristine truth.

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The Music Academy schedules are available from 1935-2006.Post 2006 concert schedules have not been updated.A statistical analysis of the concerts in which Sri LGJ,TNK and MSG participated:

LgJ - started in 1948 and performed 43 times up to 2006.
TNk- started in 1943 and performed 52 times up to 2006 and continues.
MSG - started in 1954 and performed 44 times up to 2006

M Chandrasekharan is the highest and performed 58 times up to 2006 and continues to perform.Perhaps he has crossed 60 plus .
The VVV concert of LGJ,NR and Venkataraman was never featured in any year while it was in existence.
LGJ peformed violin duet with Srimathi in 1965 and with GJRK in 1985 ,1989 and in 2003.
MSG performed violin duet with Narmada in 1983,1997,1998
TNK peformed with children in 1966,1983,1988,1996,2001,2002,2004,2006.
No details are available post 2006.

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Very interesting, Sri HNBhagavan.

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hnbhagavan wrote:The Music Academy schedules are available from 1935-2006.Post 2006 concert schedules have not been updated.A statistical analysis of the concerts in which Sri LGJ,TNK and MSG participated:

LgJ - started in 1948 and performed 43 times up to 2006.
TNk- started in 1943 and performed 52 times up to 2006 and continues.
MSG - started in 1954 and performed 44 times up to 2006
M Chandra sekharan is the highest and performed 58 times up to 2006 and continues to perform.Perhaps he has crossed 60 plus .
Few more info(Tx bhagavan for your post)

Shri MSG performed in 2007 season where he performed with Dr Narmadha on Jan 1,2008
Prof TNK had a break in 2007 and has performed from 2008 to 2013
Shri MC is performing from 2007 to 2013 without a break

Assuming HNBhagavan's count is right so far
So MSG count is 45
MC touches count of 65 this Dec 2013 season
TNK touches count of 58 this Dec 2013 season.

Nick H
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Is this a first for Amrutha Venkatesh?

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Dear rasikas,

Thank you for the additional info.

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The interesting fact is that Sri M Chandrasekharan continues to accompany senior vidwans barring a couple of duet performances,
In case of Mridangam,Sri Umayalapuram continues to accompany young and some senior Vidwans .His count also will be 60 plus.
While I have taken care to count,I do not rule out some mistake.I have double checked on some occasions.

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Nick H wrote:Is this a first for Amrutha Venkatesh?
No. She has performed in the 12 Noon slot several times.

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In the book written by Mrs Lakshmi Devnath - An Incurable Romantic - on the life of Sri LGJ,certain points have been brought out.The Music Academy after giving violin duet chance to Sri LGJ and Sri TNK in 1965,they did not include violin in the main stream again till 1983.

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hnbhagavan wrote: #1 The interesting fact is that Sri M Chandrasekharan continues to accompany senior vidwans barring a couple of duet performances,

#2 In the book written by Mrs Lakshmi Devnath - An Incurable Romantic - on the life of Sri LGJ,certain points have been brought out.The Music Academy after giving violin duet chance to Sri LGJ and Sri TNK in 1965,they did not include violin in the main stream again till 1983.
#1 Interestingly Shri MC has yet not given a violin instrument performance either in single or with his disciples , but has only accompanied(Sorry wrong point ,correcting it , he has given one performance in 1986 as per HNBhagavan's below post)

#2 I never knew that on violin. I just see L vaidhyanathan and brothers have performed in 1966 , but from 1967 till 1982 there was no violin instrument concert . Interestingly from 1982 only they made it is a 15 day festival (for many years before it was either 10 or 12 or 13 days festival).
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Sri Rajesh,

M Chandrasekharan has given one violin duet program in music Academy in on 28 Dec 1986 with Bharathi,his daughter.He has given duet performances else where with his daughter several occasions.

KNV1955
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MC is playing with N Rajam (TNK sister) on 9th Nov 13

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How does one go about getting tickets for the Music Academy concerts? My sources tell me that we need to go in the early hours of the morning to the Music Academy counter to get the tickets on a daily basis. I could not find any information available on the Music Academy Web Site in regards to this. Thanks in advance for your help!

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The tickets at Music Academy is only for the evening concerts and these will be issued in the morning.You need to be at the counter by 05-06 AM on the day of the program.
The morning and noon concerts are free.

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KNV[/quote]

the artist peddling the Blind Monkey Song.[/quote]

i didnt get understand who is that artist :(( him/her help me :D

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