REMEMBERING TODAY ON HER 95th ANNIVERSARY THE FUNNY SIDE OF MY MOTHER SMT MANI KRISHNASWAMI’S PERSONALITY My mother Sangitha Kalanidhi Smt Mani Krishnaswami would have turned 95 years of age today Feb 3 2025 . She was a musician with a very warm, friendly heart that endeared her to one and all in the CarnaticContinue reading “REMEMBERING TODAY ON HER 95th ANNIVERSARY THE FUNNY SIDE OF MY MOTHER SMT MANI KRISHNASWAMI’S PERSONALITY”
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Reading “Tiger” Varadachari’s brief history lesson fills me with grim foreboding for the future of Carnatic Music
For me reading the above account of the great Sri “Tiger” Varadachari (one of the gurus of my mother Smt Mani Krishnaswami) was like virtually being taken on a fast-track tour of the brief history of the Carnatic music world . What struck me most forcefully from “Tiger’s” reminiscences was that in those days itContinue reading “Reading “Tiger” Varadachari’s brief history lesson fills me with grim foreboding for the future of Carnatic Music”
“Freedom”: TM Krishna’s kutcheri @The Madras Music Academy & Richie Havens of Woodstock fame.
The song “Freedom” was performed by the popular rock-star musician of yesteryears, Richie Havens, as part of his performance at the world famous music festival called “Woodstock” on Friday, August 15, 1969. The song was an instant hit amongst rock music fans worldwide . Even today the song is considered to be an immortal classic. https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=richie%20havens&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c07507d8,vid:rynxqdNMry4,st:0Continue reading ““Freedom”: TM Krishna’s kutcheri @The Madras Music Academy & Richie Havens of Woodstock fame.”
The price of hubris, finally, has to be “biting the dust”
They’ve all been now made to bite the dust … Madras Music Academy, The Hindu Group and T M Krishna. Sheer hubris has brought TMK to this sorry plight … I have nothing but sympathy for him now in his hour of reckoning. The MAA and THG are institutions … they will survive somehow stillContinue reading “The price of hubris, finally, has to be “biting the dust””
T M Krishna and the Madras Music Academy Executive Committee Members would do well to read this 2011 article
“Carnatic music ideals”—by Spencer Venugopal published on Friday, December 23rd 2011, 3:30:00 am Classicism is not too vague for words, it is indeed too precise Music seasons come and go with their fanfare and festivity, triumphs and tears, debuts and swansongs, awards and tributes. But through the mighty ocean of sound bytes inside the concertContinue reading “T M Krishna and the Madras Music Academy Executive Committee Members would do well to read this 2011 article”