T.Brinda - A sum total of the Carnatic aesthetic tradition

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T.Brinda

The early training Brinda received from her mother Kamakshi, her grandmother, the legendary Veena Dhanammal, and her tutelage under Kanchipuram Naina Pillai, gained her, besides a formidable repertoire, a unique style of music that blended the brisk, gripping and powerful with the delicate, tranquil and intricate. She was a storehouse of many rare compositions of the Trinity as well as innumerable padams and javalis that were rendered with an effortless sheen that comes only with a unique understanding of raga music. Today, she is almost synonymous with the works of the Trinity, Subbaraya Shastri, the padams of Ksehtragna and Ghanam Krishna Iyer, and the javalis of Dharmapuri Subbarayar, Pattabhiramaiyya and Patnam Subramania Iyer, thanks to her matchless style of rendering compositions such as Rama Rama (Bhairavi), Ososi (Mukhari), Moratopu (Sahana), Payyada (Nadanamakriya), Yala padare (Begada), Mosamaya (Ahiri), Sakhi prana (Chenjuruti), Smara sundaranguni (Paras), Adi neepai (Yamunakalyani) and many more. One never tires of listening to these renditions and is constantly awed afresh by the unusual approach to each raga in these compositions.

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