Wo, Wo, Wo - the numbers man! Facts , data, numbers.
https://youtu.be/lQdkFRUzoTU?t=204
Ask the man, he has a way around everything! Class act!
Yup the institution he speaks to would love numbers , so it can be:
Yup, that is his trauma, the gamaka of bEgaDa and sahAnA has not appealed to many - just like a painting would, not that the masses lines up to a painting exhibition even, but there are a plenty of elite that do , to whom as well, gamakas in bEgADa and sahAnA would not appeal yet.
Can't you see the ridiculousness of all this? gamakas of bEGaDa and sahAnA are out and out the creation of only Mylapore Brahmins, from whichever time they were empowered to pursue / support music - pick your year. Well, let me amend a bit, I am saying this to undercut some of TMK's angst, just so that he does not fret over why they have not reached the masses.
In the early 90s - again my experience can be some truth as well can it? - a bunch of us, youngsters ( from various cities working at the same place now) will seek out concerts of TNS especially with Mysore MN and MM, for the reason that they reply to his Math so well, but we have never heard or heard about the person behind the "Ms" in their names - who I was told was all sunAdam - after his death!
I heard Mali also liked T. Rukimini's accompaniment because she would "vAngi vAngi" reply his math.
And these YACMers , Mridangists included , would tell us all (off stage! actually) how kaNakku is not a big deal , it would come if you practice 4 times. They were fighting TNS era rasikatvam - the only possible earful reach of serious ones they had, as they cannot yet reach into MVS fans, or MSS fans who were still out there!
So you pick which was naturally drawn rasikatvam and which was manufactured!
Yo! I have the memory of my home white washer in Madurai ( they had AstAna roles - i.e. same person would be called year after year!) while he was preparing "chuNNAmbu" ( the Calcium tri-carbonate whatever) with his rubber boots into a pit that he dug, would talk about S.G KiTTappA singing at 8-kaTTai - do you think he knew there was a thing called rAgam!
I mean do you guys get it at all?