Venue: gokhale sastri institute
Date : 22/6/08
Another centenarry function for the legend and a really wonderful evening it was... Felicitation speeches by sri.b.m.sundaram ,, dorai sir, sri.kalidas were just amazing which had some beautiful anectodes from the life of the legend anf of course about his playing techniques... especially sri.b.m.sundaram's speech was very good,, intersperced with a lot of humour and musical wisdom,,no wonder he had learnt mrudangam from the legend himself...
then there were excerpts from palani anna's thanis...it all started with that famous thani in a gnb AIR concert with umayalpuram kothandarama iyer.... then in a madurai mani iyer's concert @ 1962 palani temple with lalgudi sir and alangudi... am least qualified to comment about that thani...what a masterpiece..amazing tisram...then the kanjira concert along with mani iyerval in mrudangam for an iyengarval concert at mumbai...sri.kalidass mentioned that this is the only available recording of palani anna playing the kanjira....
then there was the jugalbandhi between palani anna and anokhi lal which the AIR broadcasted ...they played this only for a short while as time was running out...
and later as sri.b.m.sundaram mentioned we need not talk about his vidwat,, but this was just a remembrance of the life and times and vidwat of the legend "Sri.Palani Subramania Pillai"