Tag: M Balamuralikrishna

  • #LataMangeshkar on M Balamuralikrishna

    #LataMangeshkar on M Balamuralikrishna

    It is always the case- after I have written anything – be it a book or an article, something new is bound to turn up to show what a little more research could have revealed. But as N Ram of The Hindu once told me, the advantage with an article over a book is that…

  • Why fresh compositions?

    The December Music Season was reported in The Hindu almost from the inception of such a concept in the 1920s. By the 1970s, the pattern had been set, with a plethora of music reviews, most of them penned by the redoubtable NM Narayanan (NMN). No mean musician himself, his views carried weight. In retrospect, his…