M.L.Vasanthakumari

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Saw this come up hot out of the oven:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5JlLNHDVz8

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I listened to this in entirety. While I enjoyed the rAgam, I don't think MLV's music evolved enough to handle a 1/4th and a kriti like this. Her intonations simply don't measure up to express the grandeur of the kriti - where most of the musical investment is in the laya and to me gamaka is more laya than Sruti!

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varshaji - thanks a bunch for rare narayani alapana and keerthana !! great treat indeed.


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I should have come to this thread a very long time ago (it's almost an injustice that only after hundreds of posts I'm talking about this) -- I am a die hard fan of MLV Amma's music. I got introduced to her singing from a collection of old cassettes (I think the famous Baro Krishnaiya was one of the very first recordings I heard) and was (and still is) totally blown away by her vidwat, her unrestrained imagination and her melodious voice. Those cassettes have since then (fortunately) been converted. There was a time in high school where I was listening only to MLV for sometime. My violin guru is also a huge rasika of MLV and taught me quite a few krithis in her style.

Her Thiruppavai and Thiruvempavai renditions are center piece on our family's list during Margazhi.

One of my special memories is when a family acquaintance asked for some collections of MLV. I later came to know that she had played them for a friend who was in the last stages of cancer and who very badly wanted to hear MLV amma's music in her final few days (it was almost her last wish) and that the music had been soothing balm to her.

One of the most amazing things I had read about was from V Sriram's Carnatic Summer about how her mother (Madras Lalithangi) and MLV painstakingly notated and learnt over a thousand padas of Purandaradasa and other dasar padas (MLV was 13 then). I wonder if any old copies of that book might be still around (it's the smartphone era, scanning might save an old treasure).

MLV was a complete musician. What stands out in all the recordings I have is the verve and racy energy in her singing -- there are songs that are taken at a tempo that I can only describe as "formidable" -- that adjective. Her kalpanaswaras were spectacular and the kind of patterns and endings that she found in them could have been patented as uniquely hers.

Here's a spectacular Shubha Panthuvarali Ragam and Tanam : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwF-qemHPlo (This raga was an MLV speciality)
And another one in Mohanam : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YPzF8lvE2U&t=1819s -- Watch for the Shruti bhedam to Hindolam at around 15:20

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And speaking of formidable, listen to this. It's what happens when you tear through the raga and krithi leaving scorched earth in your wake.

https://soundcloud.com/user461654480/an ... -sivan-mlv

I've yet to hear another rendition of Ananda naTam AduvAr thillai like this one -- like the fury of the Siva tandava itself, it hits you like a train.

(And yes, it's a step sharp on the pitch, but that's typical on private cassettes).

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Srinath, she is to GNB what somebody like Vijay Siva is to DKJ - even if style is imbibed the nAdam emission is not quite there! Speed is not the issue or even a solution to this. This is true of her attempts at traditional heavy weight compositions.

She shines on the lighter a bit slower side of the music!

Again in judging this - I don't bring in much of knowledge of music to bear! In this entire city of Dallas with many learned music people, only two of us appreciate Dr BMK - the other one actually sings like him - the rest of them don't even consider him, unless they are from Andhra and have some connection to him.

So I have not that much consideration for knowledge of methods of music, if you pardon me.

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Here's a spectacular Shubha Panthuvarali Ragam and Tanam : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwF-qemHPlo (This raga was an MLV speciality)
and spectacular pallavi ....
https://archive.org/details/MlvRtpShubhapantuvarali
same track . complete .

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SrinathK wrote: 19 Aug 2017, 00:11 I wonder if any old copies of that book might be still around (it's the smartphone era, scanning might save an old treasure).
Here you go:

http://www.ibiblio.org/guruguha/MusicRe ... A-0019.pdf

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melam72 wrote: 19 Aug 2017, 10:49
SrinathK wrote: 19 Aug 2017, 00:11 I wonder if any old copies of that book might be still around (it's the smartphone era, scanning might save an old treasure).
Here you go:

http://www.ibiblio.org/guruguha/MusicRe ... A-0019.pdf
Thank you very much!

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And here's one of my favourites : https://soundcloud.com/user461654480/ba ... shitar-mlv

I read somewhere on this forum that Veena Dhanammal taught this song only to MLV's mother, Madras Lalithangi (perhaps it was RaviSri who mentioned it).

The Bhairavi alapana is a tour-de-force in this recording (this was the first elaborate alapana of Bhairavi I had heard at the time I was just about capable of understanding alapanas and I was stunned). The swaras are riveting.

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Here's an old recording of endha vEdugO O rAgavA in saraswati manOhari from a film (1948). MLV must have been barely 20 when this recording was done, and it was for a film, but already all the signs of her energetic style are all in place :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM3ouTVDwt0

The early MLV had an effortless range in the upper octave. It was only in her later years when recalcitrant health and tragic circumstances got in the way that it got weaker (though never so much that it compromised the melodiousness of her voice - she found a way around it by using a fair amount of falsetto in her few years).

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And another personal favourite : https://soundcloud.com/user461654480/un ... esigar-mlv

This raga is wickedly difficult - having R1 G2 M2 D1 and N2 with no panchamam, it's swaras are the most inconvenient and oddly spaced combination there is of any scale out there. If it were mapped to a C scale it would be all sharps or flats. But MLV handles it with no problems.

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This kriti starts as ఎంత వేడుకొందు రాఘవ/enta vEDukondu rAghava/ऎन्त वेडुकॊन्दु राघव/எந்த வேடு3கொந்து3 ராக4வ/ ಎಂತ ವೇಡುಕೊಂದು ರಾಘವ/എന്ത വേഡുകൊന്ദു രാഘവ
Courtesy Mr.V.Govindan

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Govindaswamy wrote: 26 Aug 2017, 09:07 This kriti starts as ఎంత వేడుకొందు రాఘవ/enta vEDukondu rAghava/ऎन्त वेडुकॊन्दु राघव/எந்த வேடு3கொந்து3 ராக4வ/ ಎಂತ ವೇಡುಕೊಂದು ರಾಘವ/എന്ത വേഡുകൊന്ദു രാഘവ
Courtesy Mr.V.Govindan
Ok. It's enta vEDukondu rAghava

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Here's a vintage concert from 1960 (Song list copied from the link) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdDefl9E7AU&t=6112s

Venue: Perambur Sangeetha Sabha
Year: 1960

Accompanists: Unknown

01 EraNapai Todi Varna Adi Patnam Subramania Iyer
02 EkadantamBhajeham Bilahari Chapu Muttuswami Dikshitar
03 Mamava Sada kanada Rupaka Swati Thirunal
04 Lalisidalu Magana Yashode Arabhi Adi Purandaradasa
05 Begada Alapana
06 Neevera Begada Misra chapu Tyagaraja
07 Yagnadhulu Jeyamanohari Adi Tyagaraja
08 Kambodhi alapana
09 EvariMata Kambhoji Adi Tyagaraja
10 Kanda Vandarul Bhimpalas Tala PapanasamSivan -- The song list says Bhimplas, but note the D1 (these old variations are extinct species today)
11 Kannara kande achutana kanchi punya varALi Adi Purandaradasa
12 Todi alapana
13 Tana
14 Pallavi (sri rAma jaya rAma jaya rAma -- sItA rAma) tani
15 Paarkadal Ragamalike
16 bArO KrishNayyA MAnd Adhi KanakadAsa
17 Idhu Sakasamulu Saindhavi Adi SwathiThirunal
18 Mangalam

This is one of those rare recordings of MLV at her absolute peak -- not many recordings like this exist. It's a revelation for me personally, since virtually all other recordings I have are quite a bit after this period. The quality of this particular recording is also quite good.

The highlights are the alapanas of Todi and Kambhoji. MLV's alapana is as remarkable as her manodharma is effortless. Her voice is in impeccable form here and dispatches even the toughest phrases with aplomb - it's equally at ease in any sthayi with a huge range, tremendous brighas and climbs all the way up to the N2 above the upper Sa with no problems.

I'll update this after I'm done listening to the whole concert...

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ARI-esque - same rAgam for the varNam and the RTP.

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This is one of those rare recordings of MLV at her absolute peak
INDEED.A real gem.
Khamboji alapana has lightening , thunder , rainfall .. And after all that, sunshine peeping through.

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Speaking of lightning, the shruti bhedam from Thodi to Mohanam (via Kalyani by shifting up to R1) occurs in that alapana of Thodi -- it happens so fast and so naturally (at 2:02:19 to 2:02:35 in the video) that it seems like child's play.

Here's a documentary on MLV courtesy of DD (it has clippings from her last concert (bArO krishNaiya and mangaLam) and some vintage photos. There's even a demonstration of a shruti bhedam in kharaharapriya to kalyAni, along with footage from some other DD programs, and interviews from family, students and others)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJpZE3hjRsw&t=615s

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She is a tigress in that ragamaliga parkadal alaimelE.

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To all the people in small towns of Tamilnadu, MLV 's rendering of the 30 Thiruppaavai songs ,is , a treasure to be cherished for ever, though they may not know much of the intricate details of Carnatic music. Luckily, all the 30 songs are now available in the following link.
https://archive.org/details/Thiruppavai ... MLV_201612
As a lay-rasika, I have heard all the songs for so many years but am able to identify only about a dozen ragams. May I request SrintahK and other MLV rasikas to mention the raga of each song? It will be a good primer for all students to identify the ragam from well-known and sweetly rendered short-duration songs.
( Not that , I do not like MLV's classical songs like 'Apadhooru', 'Sangeetha Gnanamu' and other famous records) Kindly help in creating a site for MLV's Thiruppaavai records along with tamil lyrics. as bonus. Arasi madam will approve, I hope

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@RSR, here you go.

1 01-Margazhi Thingal - 02:53 - nATa
2 02-Vaiyathu Vazhveergal - 02:54 - gauLa
3 03-Ongi Ulagalantha - 02:35 - Arabhi
4 04-Azhimazhai Kanna - 03:00 - varALi
5 05-Maayanai Mannu - 02:48 - shrI
6 06-Pullum Silambina Kaan - 02:53 - shankarAbharaNam
7 07-Keesu Keesendruengum - 02:51 - bhairavi
8 08-Kizhvaanam Vellendru - 02:49 - dhanyAsi
9 09-Thoomanimadathu - 02:46 - hamir kalyANi
10 10-Notru Chuvarkam - 02:58 - thODi
11 11-Katrukaravai Kanangal - 03:02 - husEni
12 12-Kanaithilang Katrerumai - 02:56 - kedAragauLa
13 13-Pullinvaai Keendanai - 02:45 - aTHANA
14 14-Ungal Puzhakkadai - 02:51 - Ananda bhairavi
15 15-Elle Elang Kiliye - 02:53 - begaDA
16 16-Nayakannai Nindra - 02:50 - mOhanam
17 17-Ambarame Thaneere - 02:54 - kalyANi
18 18-Unthu Mathakalitran - 02:50 - sAvEri
19 19-Kuthu Vilakkeriya - 02:42 - sahAnA
20 20-Muppathu Moovar Amararku - 02:48 - senchuruTTi
21 21-Yetra Kalangal - 02:56 - nAdanAmakriyA
22 22-Anganma Gnalathu - 02:57 - yamunA kalyANi
23 23-Marailamali Muzhanjil - 02:51 - bilahari
24 24-Andrivvulagam Alanthai - 02:50 - sindhubhairavi
25 25-Oruthimaganai Piranthu - 02:58 - behAg
26 26-Maale Manivanna - 02:47 - kuntalavarALi
27 27-Koodarai Vellum Seer - 03:03 - pUrvikalyANi
28 28-Karavaigal Pin Sendru - 02:49 - kambhOji
29 29-Sitransiru Kaalai - 03:00 - madhyamAvati
30 30-Vanga Kadal Kadaintha - 03:01 - suruTTi

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And also for thiruvempavai :

1. pOtri yen & Adiyum antamum - bauLi
2. aruNan indiran & pAsam paranjyoti - kEdAram
3. koovina poonguyil & muttana veNNa - bilhari
4. innisai veeNaiyar & oNNithilanagaiyAi - dEvagAndhAri
5. boodangal thOrum & mAlariyA nAn - yadukula kAmbhOji
6. pappara veeTirundu & mAnE nI - khamAs
7. adu pazhacchuvai & annE ivaiyum - reetigauLa
8. muntiya mudal & kozhi chilamba - dhanyAsi
9. viNNaga thEvarum & munnai pazham porutkkum - nATakurinji
10. bhuvaniyil poi & pAtAlam Ezhinum - shuddha sAvEri
11. moyyAr tadam poigai - pUrvikalyANi
12. Artha piravi - shankarAbharaNam
13. painguvaLai - sAvEri
14. kAdAr kuzhaiyADa - karnATaka dEvagAndhAri
15. OrorukkAl - husEni
16. munnikkaDalai - amrtavarshiNi
17. shenkaN avanpAl - vasantabhairavi
18. aNNamalaiyAn - sAmA
19. unkaiyil piLLai - hindOlam
20. poTTriyAruLuganin - maNirangu

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Has MLV sung thiruvempavai all songs?

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kvchellappa wrote: 08 Sep 2017, 19:51 Has MLV sung thiruvempavai all songs?
Thiruvempavai Thirupalliyezhuchi by MLV

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Thanks.

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SrinathK-> Thank you very much for the ragam information of Thiruppaavai songs. As a bonus, also for Thiruvempaavai songs. Your post gave instant inspiration this afternoon and thus began a website for MLV Songs with a grand opener ( your post on MLV concert). Kindly help me by suggesting songs ( not from films, however good, they might be) and links preferably to audio and if unavoidable , from you tube. Have a look at
https://sites.google.com/site/mlvasanth ... songs/home
Let us collect the BEST of MLV here.

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wiki says "She (MLV) popularised the composition 'Kalyana Gopalam', composed by Narayana Teertha, in raga Sindhubhairavi. She also popularized the composition 'Venkatachala Nilayam' by Purandaradasa in the same raga".
I think, the latter song is available in tube upload but have not come across Kalyana Gopalam song. Can any one help with a link? ( downloadable mp3)

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RSR wrote: 08 Sep 2017, 21:22 wiki says "She (MLV) popularised the composition 'Kalyana Gopalam', composed by Narayana Teertha, in raga Sindhubhairavi. She also popularized the composition 'Venkatachala Nilayam' by Purandaradasa in the same raga".
I think, the latter song is available in tube upload but have not come across Kalyana Gopalam song. Can any one help with a link? ( downloadable mp3)
Check from about 5 mins off into this video.

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MaheshS wrote: 08 Sep 2017, 21:39
RSR wrote: 08 Sep 2017, 21:22 wiki says "She (MLV) popularised the composition 'Kalyana Gopalam', composed by Narayana Teertha, in raga Sindhubhairavi. She also popularized the composition 'Venkatachala Nilayam' by Purandaradasa in the same raga".
I think, the latter song is available in tube upload but have not come across Kalyana Gopalam song. Can any one help with a link? ( downloadable mp3)
Check from about 5 mins off into this video.
@ 5:45 to 6:05 in that video, Sindhubhairavi to Thillang graha bhedam, my goodness! Now that was some idea...
Last edited by SrinathK on 08 Sep 2017, 23:08, edited 1 time in total.

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MaheshS . Lightning fast help. Superlative. Thank you, Sir.( my habit. Cannot give up easily, especially to people like you. ) A GEM is getting added to the website. that too in my favourite ragam

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RSR wrote: 08 Sep 2017, 22:15 MaheshS . Lightning fast help. Superlative. Thank you, Sir.( my habit. Cannot give up easily, especially to people like you. ) A GEM is getting added to the website. that too in my favourite ragam
You are welcome, it's a GEM indeed. The Mohanam in the beginning ain't too bad either :)

Sorry for the digression from MLV, but speaking of Kasturi Thilakam,Pandit Jasraj - Bhajan

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Let us collect the BEST of MLV here.
https://archive.org/details/06MukthaviT ... RAgamAlike

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https://archive.org/details/VaVaVazharm ... haDhanyAsi
great centre forward.
makes the play , dashes down left , right , back.. to defend.
corners , headers , dribbles , ....
one great freekick , this track

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Thanks Varshaji for two gems of MLV. Please correct the lines as follows.
1, Muthamizh cholayile Muthamma Muruganai kandenadi
2. Vaa Vaa Valarmatiye- from the film Vanangamudi.

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MaheshS-> Sir, Excuse me for the delay in response. Spent a lot of time in creating the page ( it is posted in DKPttammal sectionalso) .today
https://sites.google.com/site/dkpattammalsongs/home/32
I would like to create a page like that for the two MLV SONGS in Sindhubairavi with lyrics, translation, annotation et al.
Kindly suggest many more songs preferably of the Trinity and Prurandharadasa. sung by MLV in her early years 1950-1960.
As for Talam information of the songs, i am absolute zero. Why not introduce the practice hereafter that the ragam, tlama, composer info is announced at the end of ecah song in the concert? Why not distribute the information as a pamphlet to all the attendees, as was done in UN I believe by Smt.MS? Why should we create video ayt all? We van just create the audio. edit it , and then upload to tube . with information about the instant where ecah song begins. it will be easier to extract individiual songs by videocutter. ( i am referring to parivadini concertts). May i have your ideas?

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Please correct the lines as follows
corrected. :) thanks
An amazing track. Sorry for the recording quality.Been amplified beyond a point of no return.
https://archive.org/details/Vijayambike ... Agavathar3
MLV here shows all the spirit of an Edmund Hillary.
What can one say about this lady .Goddess.

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Here's a rare video of MLV's 60th birthday celebrations at Narada Gana Sabha :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5JlLNHDVz8

Shri. Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Sri. Lalgudi G.Jayaraman, Sri. Yagnaraman & M. L. Vasanthakumari speak in the video.

And take a look at all those in the audience....

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Here is another nice song donated by saregama to youtube. M.L.Vasanthakumari- Raa raa raajeeva lochana -Mysore Vasudevachar- one of the best in Mohanam. https://youtu.be/WatsdxQuIQA

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Unfortunately that link is phony. Saregama seems to have put in some other song of Lata into that video. I have a superb recording of MLV of rA rA rAjeeva lOchana which I will share after correcting for the pitch.

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Here's a rare home concert of MLV in Bahrain in the 1980s - there's even a video taken of everyone chilling out and having lunch before the concert. It's all Purandaradasa krithis. @Ramasubramaniam M K, your comment about MLV in the MSS thread comes to my mind.

The full set of videos may be found at the rasika's channel

The abhang - sadA majhE DOlA in peelu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMQ7sGjKNM8


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@varsha, this lec dem is amazing and a testimony to MLV's incredible knowledge and capability! MLV demonstrates not only the width of the repertoire composed in this raga, but also the nearly infinite spectrum of gamakas in Thodi and their occurence in various compositions, and even how rubato gamakas (gamakas decoupled from the tala) where done on it, different ways of handling the swaras and phrases, tanam, a 4 kalai pallavi.

The recording seems to be incomplete though, there must still be more.

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The recording seems to be incomplete though, there must still be more.
This is ALL I can muster :(

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Remembering the gem on Oct 31st with one of her glories :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sul4bSiJTG4

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Post by rajeshnat »

29Th June 2018, Friday Review of The Hindu was almost exclusively dedicated to MLV

Charumathi Ramachandran writeup of her Guru MLV(I did not know that MLV honed her pallavi skills wth Alathur brothers and Mudikondan venkatarama Iyer)
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/t ... cky_footer

Lalitha Krishnan write up
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/t ... cky_footer

MLV- great master Perfect disciple by Rupa Gopal
https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/ ... 278778.ece

Many roles she played By Sudha Ragunathan
https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/ ... 278887.ece

MLV is with her always - A kanyakumari
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/t ... cky_footer

MLV - Brave Heart - P vasanthkumar (son of Late Sulochana pattabhiraman )
https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/ ... 278695.ece

Fourteeen years with MLV guru - TM Prabhavati
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/t ... cky_footer

Light Rich and Classical - MLV with her film melodies - By Shankar Venkataraman
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/t ... cky_footer

Bonhomie Between MLV and Actress Padmini - By G Swaminathan
https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/ ... 278936.ece

....
There are another 5 to 8 more articles. Rajesh is stopping here as it is becoming difficult to recollect the hardcopy text search in google and put the soft copy url. All great writeups with the great Mahavidushi Melody Layam Vidwat.

kvjayan
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Re: M.L.Vasanthakumari

Post by kvjayan »

The following link provides access to the individual articles including the one (actually a reprint from 2002) by the late Sulochana Pattabhiraman:

https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/ ... epage=true

THE PACKAGE

The evergreen M.L. Vasanthakumari

Genius vocalist, M.L. Vasanthakumari's 90th birth anniversary falls on July 3. As a tribute to the glorious singer, we trace her musical journey.

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Re: M.L.Vasanthakumari

Post by kvchellappa »

T M Prabhavatgi link goes to A Kanyakumari.

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