Prof. TNK at Mysore University

new1 · Post by **new1** » 20 Jan 2008, 11:49

Organised by MU and Chowdiah Memorial Trust in Mysore 19/1.

TNK started with a fairly long speech that was very well received because it was from his heart and he is such a senior vidwan. He mentioned that he has been playing since 3 yrs old and accompanied Chembai for 30 minutes at the age of seven when Chowdiah got delayed due to some reason. He said by 7 he could basically repeat on the violin anything the singer could sing, that was all - as if that is something very easy!.

Most of the speech was in praise of Mysore T. Chowdiah not surprising considering the location and the occasion. His tongue-in-cheek remarks about Chowdiah-garu creating opportunities for him thrice (primarily by being absent or late, including the instance cited above) in his early years was very interesting. He said Chowdiah blessed TNK that after his time, TNK would be the leading violinist. He also said as an accompanist you have to be like a snake, grabbing opportunities and not miss them as main artistes sometimes may not oblige so much.

He was alone, not with his daughter. Srimushnam Rajarao was on Mridangam.

In the front row amongst audience was Mysore Nagaraj and TNK played a couple of songs at his request and mentioned this while playing. Prof. Ramarathnam was also there for almost the entire concert.

The concert itself was of course very good though I like him more as an accompanist particularly old concerts with ARI or MMI. He played an elaborate composition in Todi and also some bhajans as well as Keerawani raga (spl request by Nagaraj). Some of them I could not identify.. many of the short pieces brought memories of Dr. N. Rajam especially the fast paced and light touch of the bow kind of notes.

It is indeed nice to listen to him, 80 yrs old yet playing violin so actively.

This series of concerts also featured Sanjay Subramaniam and others.

rajaglan · Post by **rajaglan** » 21 Jan 2008, 09:51

Is this an yearly feature during makara sankaranthi time.

new1 · Post by **new1** » 23 Jan 2008, 08:34

This is the 2nd year..hopefully it will be yearly. UKS was the artist honoured in this year. Mysore has concerts at various times, for Dasara, December, Sankranthi etc.

SSK · Post by **SSK** » 01 Apr 2008, 05:09

Does any one has the list of compositions presented by Prof. T N Krishnan. If you can post the list and may be the audio files of concert and speech rasikapriya, it would be a great listening experience. I heard that Prof T N K played an outstanding "Koluva MaraGadha" in Todi almost as if he was teaching every one over there.

matterwaves · Post by **matterwaves** » 01 Apr 2008, 15:08

I have videos of portions of this concert. Keeravani raga and also hechcharikagarara His body might have aged but not his bowing! Will upload it soon and post the link