https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1JH6uPKxpJ/?mibextid=wwXIfrhttps://www.facebook.com/share/v/1JH6uPKxpJ/?mibextid=wwXIfr The Marghazhi Music Festival Season in Chennai is fast turning into a jamboree of circus stunts by various performers. And the audiences today who go to these performers go there not to enjoy true classicism of Carnatic music but to be entertained by the travesties of it delivered by so-called young “innovative” , “revolutionary”Continue reading “The “Marghazhi Music Season, Chennai”: A festival of “divinity” travesty”
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Readers disagree with my blogpost yesterday on A R Rahman @ Madras Music Academy Annual Music Festival inauguration : Dec 16, 2025 … and my reply
AWARD PRESENTATION CEREMONY AT RAGA SUDHA RASA 2025: Music and Dance Festival Dec 13-20, 2025 @ Surathkal, Karnataka – “Mani & MK ANNUAL AWARD-2025 for OUTSTANDING YOUNG TALENT in Carnatic Music”(instituted by the Dr. Smt. Mani Krishnaswami Foundation, Chennai): Full Text of Speech by the “Guest of Honour”, Sri. M.K. Sudarshan (Managing Trustee Dr. Smt. Mani Krishnaswami Foundation, Chennai)
ಮೊದಲು ಸ್ವಾಮೀಜಿಗೆ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಮಾಡಿ ಅವರ ಆಶೀರ್ವಾದ ಕೇಳುತ್ತೇನೆ. ವೇದಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವ ಎಲ್ಲ ಗೌರವನೀಯರಿಗೆ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ. ರಸಿಕರೂ, ಕಲಾವಿದರೂ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ನನ್ನ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ. ಉಳಿದ ಭಾಷಣ ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತೇನೆ, ಕನ್ನಡ ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ಹೇಳಲು ಇನ್ನೂ ಬರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ. ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು. (At the outset I offer my humble prostrations to the Swamiji to seek his blessings. I wish to offer my greetings to all the eminent persons onContinue reading “AWARD PRESENTATION CEREMONY AT RAGA SUDHA RASA 2025: Music and Dance Festival Dec 13-20, 2025 @ Surathkal, Karnataka – “Mani & MK ANNUAL AWARD-2025 for OUTSTANDING YOUNG TALENT in Carnatic Music”(instituted by the Dr. Smt. Mani Krishnaswami Foundation, Chennai): Full Text of Speech by the “Guest of Honour”, Sri. M.K. Sudarshan (Managing Trustee Dr. Smt. Mani Krishnaswami Foundation, Chennai)”
Carnatic Music as American “hip-hop”
My very good old friend GMD (name withheld) who lives in America sent me the following messages on WhatsApp this morning: QUOTE [02/10/2021, 7:14:19 AM] Talking about music, here is a backstory about a brilliant young man whose name is Emani (name withheld) . An MIT graduate. I dont remember how, but he got inContinue reading “Carnatic Music as American “hip-hop””