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Budding talent in bloom

Edit The Hindu 09 Jun 2016
The most striking feature of this year’s Cleveland Aradhana Festival was the overwhelming presence of children as competitors, performers and avid listeners ... Ten years ago, V.V ... Geetha Iyer shared the stage with Aruna Sairam, Vivrdh with his guru Neyveli Santhanagopalan, Triven Kannan with Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna and Sruthi Sarathy with Chitravina Ravikiran and they came out in flying colours in impromptu embellishments ... VV....

Agam raises the beat

Edit The Hindu 02 Jun 2016
They began with Muthuswami Dikshitar’s ‘Sri Rangapura Vihara,’ and then moved on to another classic, Tyagaraja’s ‘Bantureethi kolu,’ accompanied by melodic riff-work, intense drum beats and hysterical cheers from a teeming mosh pit ... Subbulakshmi, hundreds of hand-horns went up in the air ... In this respect, sharing the stage with someone of Aruna Sairam’s stature was a huge validation ... Keywords....

The call of Pandharpur

Edit The Hindu 19 May 2016
Krishna consciousness and corporate decisions define Ganesh Kumar’s life. When he is not performing concerts, he is attending business meetings ... “We talk about art being a leveller, a medium that can unite hearts ... More than a spiritual activity, namasankirtanam, had a social and cultural purpose,” says Kumar standing on the steps of Narada Gana Sabha before the inaugural concert of Aruna Sairam ... Keywords....

Rama Gana Kalacharya award for Aruna Sairam

Edit The Hindu 08 May 2016
The 78-year-old Ramaseva Mandali at Chamarajpet presented the Rama Gana Kalacharya Award to noted Carnatic vocalist Aruna Sairam on Saturday ... “This award is precious to me as it comes from a mandali that mirrors decades of cultural heritage,” says Aruna ... Interestingly for Aruna, Kalacharya represents a larger perspective of an artiste that she herself is made up of....

Teaching dance as art, not just shaking a leg

Edit The Times of India 21 Apr 2016
Schools need to have certification, refresher courses. "Sir, I want to leave my job at the bank to learn Bharatanatyam in Tamil Nadu," says a 30-year-old Keralite living in Bangalore who is a mother of a one-year-old ... They forget that those who have made it big on stage -the Dhananjayans, Padma Subrahmanyam, Malavika Sarukkai and Bombay Jayashri or Aruna Sairam -have at least 20 to 40 years of work behind them ... ....

Vignettes of Vithala

Edit The Hindu 25 Mar 2016
Titled ‘Vithala Vithala’ it features leading vocalists Aruna Sairam, Jayateerth Mevundi and Ganesh Kumar ... Vithala Vithala, Pandharpur, Aruna Sairam ....

A musical bridge across eras

Edit The Hindu 19 Mar 2016
Last December, while preparing for his session at The Hindu Lit for Life 2016, Gopalkrishna Gandhi selected 34 couplets from the Tamil classic Tirukkural and asked musician Chitravina N ... Ravikiran has sent scratch recordings of these compositions to 75 artistes, including Sudha Ragunathan, Neyveli Santhanagopalan, Aruna Sairam, Sowmya, Unnikrishnan and Nithyasree Mahadevan — their rendering will eventually be loaded on YouTube....

Myriad moods of Ashtapadi

Edit The Hindu 03 Mar 2016
Dance and music performances, harikatha, namasankirtanam, academic lectures — Jayadeva was evoked in a myriad ways ... Paradoxically, it is a religious text ... As Prof. H.S ... Dr ... Aruna Sairam sang a few Ashtapadi verses — each note and movement delivered with power and feeling that we have come to associate with her singing ... Keywords. Sri Vishnu Mohan Foundation, Sujata Mohapatra, Vishal Krishna, Aruna Sairam, Dr ... ....

Ashtapadi and art forms

Edit The Hindu 18 Feb 2016
Ashtapadi captures the different moods of the Radha-Krishna love. Each of the verses in Jayadeva’s celebrated Sanskrit work, Gita Govind, lends itself beautifully to various art forms ... The festival begins on February 22 at Narada Gana Sabha ... The festival will draw to a close with a music-lecture session by senior vocalist Aruna Sairam and Dr....

Karunanidhi, Stalin among bigwigs at BJP family wedding

Edit The Times of India 18 Feb 2016
A Christian preacher and two priests said a special prayer on stage and sprinkled holy water on them Meghalaya Governor V Shanuganathan, PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss, BJP leaders including national organizing general secretary Ram lal, national general secretary Murlidhar Rao, secretary H Raja, L Ganesan and C P Rad hakrishnan, besides VGP Group chairman V G San thosham and Carnatic singer Aruna Sairam were among those who attended ... ....

BJP leader Tamilisai's son gets married in Chennai, Jayalalithaa sends gift

Edit The Times of India 17 Feb 2016
Meghalaya Governor V Shanmuganathan, PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss, BJP leaders like Ila Ganesan and S Mohanrajulu, VGP Group chairman V G Santhosham and Carnatic singer Aruna Sairam were among the dignitaries who attended the wedding of Tamil Nadu BJP ......

Walking the middle line

Edit The Hindu 11 Feb 2016
Between the inaugural and valedictory, there were sessions that discussed several issues pertaining to the Changing Profile of Indian Music. In a session, titled Connoisseurs, moderated by Pt ... They are constantly asking for novelty ... Carnatic vocalist Aruna Sairam agreed ... Aruna felt that cultivating listeners is the most crucial responsibility of a musician ... NCPA, Aruna Sairam, Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, Ronu Majumdar ....

Reflections on the song

Edit The Hindu 11 Feb 2016
But perhaps, there is no time such as the present, when society has such a huge bearing on the nature of art ... While the tabla wizard stressed on the ethics and choices an artiste makes, Aruna Sairam, the renowned Carnatic musician and vice-chairman Sangeet Natak Akademi, said that she always sets conditions whether it is a corporate event or a wedding, ensuring that music has a definite place ... “You cut peepal trees ... Keywords....
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