Rudrapatna Music Festival & Rudrapatna gets music centre
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Hope a lot of you saw this Fesrtival and unique structure built for music "Saptaswara Dhyana Mandira". Most of you are well aware that Rudrapatnam has contributed significantly to carnatic music. Names such as R.K. Venkatarama Sastry, Rudrapatnam brothers, R K Padmanabha, R K Sriram Kumar are some of the common names that we are familiar with. We probably should bring names of veteran vidwans and vidushis past or present who may not be familiar to world of music.
Also any one attending the festival please post pictures from your camera, reviews of concerts, lec-dems, talks etc. I know vidwans such as Sangeetha Samrat Ravikiran are perfoming over the next several days.
[quote]The Hindu:
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/20/stor ... 480300.htm
Karnataka - Hassan
Rudrapatna gets music centre
HASSAN: Ganapathi Sachhidananda Swamiji of Datta Peetha, Mysore, inaugurated the “Saptaswara Dhyana Mandiraâ€
Also any one attending the festival please post pictures from your camera, reviews of concerts, lec-dems, talks etc. I know vidwans such as Sangeetha Samrat Ravikiran are perfoming over the next several days.
[quote]The Hindu:
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/20/stor ... 480300.htm
Karnataka - Hassan
Rudrapatna gets music centre
HASSAN: Ganapathi Sachhidananda Swamiji of Datta Peetha, Mysore, inaugurated the “Saptaswara Dhyana Mandiraâ€
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Some pictures from the Festival posted on Kutcheribuzz.com
http://www.kutcheribuzz.com/news/200805 ... tna/album/
http://www.kutcheribuzz.com/news/200805 ... tna/album/
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Normally Hiremagalooru Kannan acts as a moderator in these programs - Some of them are comedy shows, but some are about more serious stuff as well.arasi wrote:Rajesh,
It is 'comedy evening'. HirimagaLUru Kannan is known for his discourses. He is in charge of the temple in that town. I did not know he did comedy as well...
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Thank SSK for the link. I was disappointed that my mother if she took any pictures when she visited Rudrapatna during the festifities...SSK wrote:Some pictures from the Festival posted on Kutcheribuzz.com
http://www.kutcheribuzz.com/news/200805 ... tna/album/
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How come? Is Keshava the main deity in Rudrapatnam
On a related note I've also wondered about the prevalence of the name, Manjunath, in Karnataka....given its popularity one would expect a major shrine or temple dedicated to the deity somewhere in the region...but I've never been able to figure out where...or even which god the name refers to...
On a related note I've also wondered about the prevalence of the name, Manjunath, in Karnataka....given its popularity one would expect a major shrine or temple dedicated to the deity somewhere in the region...but I've never been able to figure out where...or even which god the name refers to...
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Yes...SrI manjunAtha of dhamasthaLa...Vijay see this link for details:
http://www.shridharmasthala.org/
It is a gorgeous temple, and serves as an example of religious harmony - the trustees I think are Jains. One of the few examples where a Hindu temple is run by people of another faith (although according to the Indian Constitution - if I remember lessons learnt in Civics class - the word Hindu encompasses Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs).
I forget - is there a dEvi sannidhi there? (I do not think kanyAkumari here is the ambAL)
http://www.shridharmasthala.org/
It is a gorgeous temple, and serves as an example of religious harmony - the trustees I think are Jains. One of the few examples where a Hindu temple is run by people of another faith (although according to the Indian Constitution - if I remember lessons learnt in Civics class - the word Hindu encompasses Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs).
I forget - is there a dEvi sannidhi there? (I do not think kanyAkumari here is the ambAL)
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I do not know if there is a kEShava temple is Rudrapatna. But, Keshava happens to be the "mane dEvaru" [ not sure how to translate it - literally house-god ] for a majority of Sanketi families. Rudrapatna among others in Kaveri and hEmavati basins is one of the villages where Sanketi's have lived for generations.vijay wrote:How come? Is Keshava the main deity in Rudrapatnam
There is a Keshava temple at Kowshika, which is considered as the village where Sanketis first settled.
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I was hoping some one would post concert clips, pictures, writeups on this festival. But guess what, there is a nice write and a video link at:
http://www.kutcheribuzz.com/news/200805 ... apatna.asp
Check it out.
http://www.kutcheribuzz.com/news/200805 ... apatna.asp
Check it out.
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There is a video link to the event, that I just saw today.
Go to the following URL and below the picture click on the "Click Here to see Video" link. The video is about 22 minutes long, it covers the rather briefly the entire festival. The interesting part to me was the description of the Saptha Swaras and the relation ship to the seven deities from Godess Saraswathi to trinities.
http://www.kutcheribuzz.com/news/200805 ... apatna.asp
The begining parts of the video have some illlustrations in Kannada, but the description of saptha swaras and the deity's is actuall done in Engish for the benefit of listerners, who do not know Kannada. The vision and implementation are really innovative.
Go to the following URL and below the picture click on the "Click Here to see Video" link. The video is about 22 minutes long, it covers the rather briefly the entire festival. The interesting part to me was the description of the Saptha Swaras and the relation ship to the seven deities from Godess Saraswathi to trinities.
http://www.kutcheribuzz.com/news/200805 ... apatna.asp
The begining parts of the video have some illlustrations in Kannada, but the description of saptha swaras and the deity's is actuall done in Engish for the benefit of listerners, who do not know Kannada. The vision and implementation are really innovative.