Vinjamuri Varadaraja Iyengar

[rajeshnat]

Two writeups in The Hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday ... 403556.ece

and

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp ... 245034.ece

There is also a website http://vinjamurivaradarajaiyengar.com/

Is there any available recording of Vinjamuri Varadaraja Iyengar.? No clue about his music other than above writeups. Was he an unknown pearl like TK Rangachari ? He was called chinna ariyakudi or kutty Tiger as per the above writeups.

I am assuming the young prodigy violinist Kamalakiran vinjamuri grandfather is parthasarathy iyengar who is the elder or younger brother of Vinjamuri Varadarajan Iyengar(mentioned in one of the writeup).

[cacm]

Vinjamuri VARADARAJA IYENGAR WAS A BRILLIANT MUSICIAN who treated ARI as GOD & whose concerts were attended by ALMOST ALL THE TOP Musicians like GNB, MMI ETC regularly. I knew him & attended his concerts too. BUT HE never was encouraged by the Madras Sabhas & like Gnanaskandan & several other COMPETENT MUSICIANS has suffered the fate of their names NOT EVEN BEING KNOWN. Besides he was a great person who was willing to explain music to ignoramouses like me..... I was going to write about these musicians& discuss why they suffered this paradoxical fate in this forum but decided not to as the conditions here are not conducive to OPEN & FRANK DISCUSSIONS....VKV

[Pratyaksham Bala]

http://vinjamurivaradarajaiyengar.com/Music/Thodi.wav