Tag: Music Academy
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Music Academy Heritage Tour – On Dec 24, 2022
The Music Season is back after a two-year hiatus! And what better place to savour it in than the Music Academy, the institution that began it all? The Music Academy is 94 years old and yet it is conducting its 96th conference and concerts even while the Season turns 95! This is just one bewildering…
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Chennai 600014 -Royapettah, #MadrasDay
Today’s area is Chennai 600014 -Royapettah, #MadrasDay
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Managing Carnatic Music, virtually
Managing #CarnaticMusic virtually is among the most painful of activities in my personal view but it is certainly better than no Carnatic Music #DecemberMusicSeason
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What #DecemberMusicSeason Souvenirs Say
Today’s December Music Season programme books aka souvenirs may be drab affairs but at one time they advertised everything from potency drugs to gramophones. They take you to a lost world.
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December Music Season – the great survivor
The December Music Season survives despite minuscule numbers chiefly because it has kept pace with changes over time
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C Ramakrishna – a patron of the Music Academy
In the passing of C Ramakrishna, the world has lost a respected lawyer, an avid agriculturist and a patron of the arts
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Going digital @musicacademy
What was it like for the Music Academy to take its season to the digital platform? An inside view
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TL Venkatarama Iyer – a life in music
There have been many lawyers and judges who have taken an active interest in Carnatic Music. A few performers and music scholars have qualified in law as well. But in the history of Carnatic Music there has been only one Judge of the Supreme Court of India, who was a singer, a scholar, a music…
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A Season sans Sangita Kalanidhi
What a strange season it is going to be at the Music Academy! No lecture demonstrations, which means no President of the Annual Conference and that means no Sangita Kalanidhi. True, the august organisation is coming out with a digital offering of concerts starting from December 24th and ending on the 31st but Covid realities forced it to drop the…
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Farewell Sundaram ‘Anna’
He was easily the oldest person at the Music Academy premises, having been around for so long that nobody precisely recalled since when. Sundaram was never forthcoming, probably not remembering the year himself. I learnt later that it was in 1968, the year MS Subbulakshmi became Sangita Kalanidhi. He was the proverbial silent presence, an…
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