Harisankar wins regional finals for M.S. Subbulakshmi Award

Edit The Hindu 22 Oct 2016
It was the high quality of voice that mesmerised the audience at the Kerala regional finals for the M.S. Subbulakshmi Award 2016. All the five participants had exceptional voice quality, prompting a judge, mrindagam maestro K.V. Prasad, to even comment on it. And emerging the winner on Friday, Harisankar K.S ... Accompanying the artistes were senior artistes on violin and mridangam ... Babu on the mridangam lifted the spirit of the participants....

Each stage appearance was a serious affair for MS

Edit The Hindu 22 Oct 2016
Giving an insight into what made MS Subbulakshmi’s music so great, mridangam maestro K.V ... Prasad said ... A person is recognised by his or her natural voice ... ....

Harisankar wins regional final of M.S. Subbulakshmi Award

Edit The Hindu 22 Oct 2016
Harisankar K.S. won the Kerala regional final of the M.S. Subbulakshmi Award 2016 here on Friday. He was among the five participants who performed in the regional finals ... His guru ... K. Omanakutty ... Abhirami Ajai, Anand K ... Babu on the mridangam ... ....

Taking audience back to the heyday of Carnatic music

Edit The Hindu 22 Oct 2016
It looked as if it was the sixth night of Navaratri again. As senior citizens like the 96-year-old Colonel G.T ... In the process, he also provided evidence of his musical journey, from an M.D ... Rama Varma rounded off the evening with a sprightly thillana. S.R ... Harikumar on the mridangam, Perukavu Sudheer (Ghatam), and Thirunakkara Ratheesh (morsing) accompanied him. ....

Music Review: Kaashmora

Edit The Times of India 21 Oct 2016
Movie. Kaashmora. Music. Santhosh Narayanan. Ratings. 3. Dhikku Dhikku Sir fol lows the typical Santhosh Narayanan template. A funky rock number rendered by the composer himself, the song has a bit of retro feel. This number is upped with guitar, drums and trumpet inter ludes ... The mridangam and veena portions add beauty to this number ... RELATED....

Brimming with devotion

Edit The Hindu 20 Oct 2016
Chandrasekharan Nair (mridangam) and Mangad Pramod (ghatam) accompanied ... Jayakrishnan (mridangam), Vellattanjur Sreejith (ghatam) and Kalamandalam Shaiju (morsing) ... Accompanists Killikkurissimangalam Ramesh (violin), Pungad Sanoj (mridangam) and Thripunithura Kannan (ghatam) did well ... Nagaraj (mridangam) and Vellinezhi Satheesh (ghatam) ... Bharadwaj (mridangam) and Udupi Sreekanth (ganjira)....

Mellow and traditional

Edit The Hindu 20 Oct 2016
R.N.S ... Saileswari is presently working as a music professor in Sri Padmavathi Mahila University, Tirupathi ... Government Bhasha Samskritika Sangham and the music college ... Violin support by B.V.Durga Bhavani and mridangam support by B.Sureshbabu were of high standard ... At the end of the main item the tani avartanam played by Sureshbabu (mridangam) and I ... Keywords. R.N.S....

Garland of ragas for M.S.

Edit The Hindu 20 Oct 2016
Rich tributes were paid to M.S. Subbulakshmi on her centenary year by the Kerala Sangeeta Nataka Akademi through a week-long Carnatic vocal concert series, Raaga sudha, in Thrissur ... M.A ... K.V ... K.N ... Next came an aptly-paced Chethasri ... S.R ... Harikumar on the mridangam enhanced the mood of the concert and he was ably seconded by Krishnakumar on the ghatam ... The rhythmic embellishments by Mannargudi Eswaran on the mridangam enhanced the concert ... M....

Perfect veena, dexterous fingers

Edit The Hindu 20 Oct 2016
Veenai bani (style); there are ever so many. And each has something unique about it. Mastery of the technique apart, a perfectly-crafted veena is also essential for a successful career. Srivani Yalla, a veena player from Tirupathi, is blessed in both these aspects ... Young mridangam artist Sarvesh Karthik (son of ghatam S ... Keywords....

A man in the world of women

Edit The Hindu 20 Oct 2016
However, his saga of struggle and success is entirely different from his predecessors who were groomed in a favourable environment ... “Neither me, nor anyone in our family had heard of Odissi dance till I was sent to Bhubaneswar to learn it,” confesses Lingaraj ... While rendering kirtana, the group sang and did small movements to the beats of mridangam. I remember the mridangam players consulting my grandfather on tala patterns....

An enriching experience

Edit The Hindu 20 Oct 2016
Shanmukhananda Sangeetha Sabha in association with the India International Centre organised a Carnatic music vocal concert by the Chennai-based artiste Gayathri Girish at the latter’s auditorium, recently ... Ramaswami Sivan’s “Kadaikan vaithennai alamma” in the raga Begada was handled in nice manner ... Delhi R ... Chandersekhar on the mridangam, both Delhi-based artistes, provided good support to Gayathri Girish....

Vizag youngster turns film-maker in U.S.

Edit The Hindu 19 Oct 2016
An engineering graduate from Vizag goes on a student visa to pursue higher studies in the U.S., but ends up as an independent film-maker in New York. This is not the storyline of a film. The techie is our own ‘backstreet boy’ Pravin Vattikolla, who has carved a niche for himself in the U.S ... He learnt Kuchipudi from the legendary dancer Vempati China Satyam apart from learning Mridangam ... Plans dubbing in Telugu ... ....

His experiments in music

Edit The Hindu 19 Oct 2016
Arun Varghese wears many caps as composer, sound designer, arranger, music producer, keyboardist, and mixing and mastering engineer ... The Awards celebrate the talents on the seaboard, a revolutionised piano keyboard founded by the London-based firm, Roli ... I even set up a music room at home with a guitar, tabla, mridangam, keyboard, harmonium, violin and some percussion instruments and started composing.” ... My father, A ... Keywords ... R....
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