The late Smt. Lakshmi Shankar

[rshankar]

Smt. Lakshmi Shankar, Hindustani vocalist of the Patiala gharAnA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi_Shankar), passed away on December 30th 2013. She was also the mother of Smt. Viji Subramaniam, the late wife of Sri L. Subramaniam. As Kumari Laksmi Shastry, she was one of the first Brahmin girls to learn bharatanATyam, and it was as a dancer in Sri Uday Shankar's troupe that she met her future husband, the late Sri Rajendra Shankar.
Condolences to her family and friends, and her disciples. May her soul RIP.
I hope that Varsha will post a few representative tracks of this enormously multi-talented artist.

[PUNARVASU]

Just now got to know about this. May her soul rest in peace. Condolences to the family and the friends.
Was she living in the USA?

[vs_manjunath]

Condolences to bereaved family. Let her soul rest in peace.

[Rsachi]

You will find a concert archived in Parvathi blog.

[varsha]

https://archive.org/details/JanamaMaran ... hmiShankar

More later

[Lakshman]

Condolences to the family.

[Nick H]

Just came to know of this news through this thread. Terribly sad to hear it.

Condolences to family, friends, students, and all who ever heard and loved her music.

[vasanthakokilam]

Condolences. What a legendary career and presence she had in music and dance!

[smala]

Sad loss. Saw her once and what a sweet melodious voice and unassuming person. She was actively singing even in her eighties.

[rshankar]

Punarvasu, it appears that she lived in CA. She was using her CM roots to compose unique and beautiful music for local bharatanATyam dancers, from what I have heard.

[smala]

She lived in Los Angeles and has traveled to the Bay Area for performances.

Here's a beautiful write up.

http://indianamericanstory.wordpress.co ... -the-west/

[mahavishnu]

What a loss!
There is this amazing track of Lakshmi Shankar's, accompanied by Chaurasia and L Subramaniam, that I always turn to in moments of weakness: supney mein aayen, preetham saiyan.

The world has lost a true gem. RIP, Lakshmi-ji.

[cacm]

L.S. while quite proficient in Carnatic Music PROFESSIONALLY PERFORMED CLASSICAL HINDUSTHANI MUSIC & WAS A WELL KNOWN PERFORMER. Actually in the sixties-she is the sister in law of Ravi Shankar- she lived in NYC Area where I had arranged some concerts for her & when R.S. used to go away for his concerts I was lucky to arrange things for her. CLEVELAND V.V.SUNDARAM arranged many concerts esp. in CLEVELAND among other places for her.AN UNBELIEVABLY TALENTED ARTIST BUT AN EVEN GREATER HUMAN BEING SHE WAS THE EPITOME OF GRACE. She was VERY SHARP & HIGHLY COMPETENT TILL THE VERY END. She moved to CA when R.S. moved there and the Music Society based in L.A. was a key school for propagation of H.M. & still is. She was the moving force along with R.S. VKV

[vasanthakokilam]

I take it that you meant the 'music circle'.

I heard about L.S. passing away through an email alert from them.
They have been wanting to have a pushpanjali for their founders Ravi Shankar and Harihar Rao. Lakshmi Shankar had agreed to come out of retirement and perform in honor of the founders on Jan 25th. But I got an email from them a couple of weeks back that Lakshmi Shankarji would not be able to sing at that occasion due to health reasons. Now we know it was quite serious.

[maduraimini]

Sympathies to the family of Smt. lakshmi Shankar. I liked her bhajans.

[venkatakailasam]

Lakshmi Shankar belonged to Patiala gharana, but at her concerts in South she was asked to sing mostly bhajanṣ. She opted to sing thumris as they were considered to be more appropriate to a female singer than khayals!

Some of the renderings of Lakshmi Shankar are here...

http://www.mediafire.com/.../rclkfiduuh ... %20Shankar

Some of her Meera Bhajans are at You Tube..

[rshankar]

More later

Thank you and waiting for more!

[cienu]

A huge loss to the music world. Heartfelt condolences.

[CHANDRU1955]

The Violin Trio L Shankar, L Subramaniam and L Vaidyanathan are world famous.

What is their background? I think they belong to Iyer community. What is their sub-sect?

Can anyone tell?

Thanks

[venkatakailasam]

Their father was Laksmi Narayana Iyer from whom they learnt their initial music..

[kittappa]

The violin trio's father Lakshminarayanan was the eldest brother of Ramnad Krishnan.

[VRV]

Hello All,

For those of you in the Simi Valley, Greater LA area, here are details of the funeral services. May her soul RIP.

Vinod Venkataraman

From: KUMAR SHANKAR <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:49 PM
Subject: Funeral Services for Lakshmi Shankar
To: Kumar <[email protected]>


Dearest Friends and Family,

Details of arrangements for the funeral services for Lakshmi Shankar on Monday, January 6th, 2014, are as follows:

There will be a viewing
from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
at the Shankar residence
5707 Cherokee Circle, Simi Valley, CA 93063.

This will be followed by a short puja and cremation ceremony
at 2:00 PM
at Oakwood Memorial Park and Crematory
22601 Lassen St., Chatsworth, CA 91311.

We hope that you are all able to join us, but understand that some of you may be unable to attend. Please know that we will have an additional memorial service at a later date, and will inform everyone of the plans once they are set.

For those of you who would like to send flowers, please send them to the Shankar residence address.

Please RSVP to this email address.

Thank you,
Kumar, Anita, Devika, and Siddhartha

[varsha]

https://archive.org/details/LakshmiShan ... RakhaYaman

https://archive.org/details/LakshmiShankarAhirBhairav
( the title should read Dhani not Ahr Bhairav)

[rajeshnat]

tribute in today's hindu by kanniks
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp ... all&test=2

She was born in 1926 and grew up in mambalam but learnt thumri and kayal. Wow.

Does anyone about "the specifics of her voice was featured in the movie gandhi" that is mentioned ?

[vasanthakokilam]

Here is the page on Lakshmi Shankar in imdb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788161/

Gandhi is mentioned along with her other credits but not any details.

[Rsachi]

Her voice along with other voices/chants is heard at the end as credits scroll up. Somebody has used the audio for this YT clip: http://youtu.be/lxRMywOkJmU

[varsha]

https://archive.org/details/MishraShivr ... shmiSankar

Another famous track of hers
She famously collaborated with Nirmala Devi and brought out several albums

[thanjavooran]

May her soul rest in peace. Condolences to the family and the friends.
Thanjavooran
08 01 2014

[rshankar]

https://archive.org/details/MishraShivr ... shmiSankar

Another famous track of hers
She famously collaborated with Nirmala Devi and brought out several albums

THANK YOU!