Category: Music

  • Chennai December Music Season 2011-12 Schedules

    I have updated the navaratri concerts series by various sabhas/ temples in Chennai and have started posting the schedules for the Music (December) Season for this year 2011-12 on this blog at https://ramsabode.wordpress.com/concerts-in-chennai/ . Please keep checking for more updates in the coming weeks.

  • Award from Sri Krishna Gana Sabha

    Received today the Kumbakonam Sri Rajappa Iyer award (for best mrudangam playing) from Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai.

  • Chennai (December) Music Season 2010 – 2011

    Must be wondering why a post on this when August has just about started. Just to inform that I have started compiling this year’s Chennai (December) Music Season schedule (2010 – 2011) from different sources  in the Concerts in Chennai page of this blog (https://ramsabode.wordpress.com/concerts-in-chennai/). Will keep updating as and…

  • Book: A Rasika’s Journey Through Hindustani Music by Rajeev Nair

    Though there are many books on Hindustani Music, Rajeev Nair’s “A Rasika’s Journey Through Hindustani Music” is one of the few I would highly recommend to all rasikas of Hindustani Music – from the uninitiated to the seasoned ones. Rajeev’s mastery over the English language is no surprise I guess,…

  • Lec Dem – Dwitala Avadhanam

    Smt. Suguna Purushothaman gave a very educative lecture demonstration on “Teaching and Practice of Dwitala Avadhanam” at The Music Academy, Chennai on 23rd Dec 2009. The very fact that Smt. Suguna made her students (K. Gayatri, Sharanya Krishnan and Nandini Sharma) perform most of the exercises was very encouraging to…

  • Slow, melodious, soulful songs – 1

    Destination Infinity tagged me to list my favorite songs (slow, melodious and soulful). I guess the tag was mainly for listing my favorite Carnatic music songs but I thought of taking it up first for songs from Hindi movies.  Here are the ones that readily came to my mind when…