Lalgudi Jayaraman Is `Aravamudam’, Says Gopalakrishna Gandhi
By Sudha Jagannathan
CHENNAI, March 10: Gopalakrishna Gandhi, Governor of West Bengal,
has described violin maestro Lalgudi G. Jayaraman as `Aravamudam’.
`Aravamudam’ means the nectar that does not satiate.
Conferring the Lifetime Achievement Award on the maestro at a function got up here on Sunday by Music Academy, Mr. Gandhi said, ``Your (Lalgudi’s) music cannot, will not, satiate for, it has been raised from its seven-stringed sadhana by the bow of devotion, which informed your ancestor Tyagaraja, who worshipped Rama, the one who held another kind of bow.’’
Mr. Gandhi said Lalgudi Jayaraman had taken violin to the zenith of musical integrity, intelligence and intention by holding it in a way the West would call `upside down’.
He said Lalgudi Jayaraman was an inspiration to ``our generation which is co-extensive with your span on this earth.’’ Mr. Gandhi said ``rasa is not and cannot be monochromatic.’’ He asserted that one had to be fidel in note, pitch, tone and timbre. ``In emotion, reach, appeal and impact, one has to be feral,’’ he added. In this context, he lauded Lalgudi Jayaraman for composing highly successful music for the film `Sringara’.
`Aravamudam’ means the nectar that does not satiate.
Conferring the Lifetime Achievement Award on the maestro at a function got up here on Sunday by Music Academy, Mr. Gandhi said, ``Your (Lalgudi’s) music cannot, will not, satiate for, it has been raised from its seven-stringed sadhana by the bow of devotion, which informed your ancestor Tyagaraja, who worshipped Rama, the one who held another kind of bow.’’
Mr. Gandhi said Lalgudi Jayaraman had taken violin to the zenith of musical integrity, intelligence and intention by holding it in a way the West would call `upside down’.
He said Lalgudi Jayaraman was an inspiration to ``our generation which is co-extensive with your span on this earth.’’ Mr. Gandhi said ``rasa is not and cannot be monochromatic.’’ He asserted that one had to be fidel in note, pitch, tone and timbre. ``In emotion, reach, appeal and impact, one has to be feral,’’ he added. In this context, he lauded Lalgudi Jayaraman for composing highly successful music for the film `Sringara’.
