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Deepika Varadharajan’s concert at Lakshmi temple leaves rasikas in Ashland with a positive feeling
By Durga Krishnan
With the influence of movie songs and the western pop culture attracting many from the current generation in India, one often wonders what would be the future of Carnatic music and other traditional arts that are so unique to India. But after listening to the 2-hour Carnatic vocal concert on August 3rd by 19-year-old Ms. Deepika Varadharajan, who is a disciple of Smt.Sudha Raghunathan and is visiting the U.S. on a United States Government-sponsored fusion exchange programme to the Northeastern University in Boston.
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A face-to-face learning session with R.K. Srikantan for Boston
kids
By Durga Krishnan
BOSTON, May 7: If one is either a lover or a student of music,
Boston was the place to be this past week. Sangeetha Kalanidhi
R.K. Srikantan spent the past week-end in Boston, teaching 15
children in the age group of 10 to 17 the Navarathri kritis
composed by Swathi Thirunal Maharaja. He did this in a week-long
teaching workshop, spending three hours each day with the children.
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Kalpakam Swaminathan Weaves Divine Spell
On New Jersey Rasikas
By Ram Ramaprasad
When Dikshitar composed "Veena Pusthaka Dharini",
he had in mind the celestial Saraswathi. Some times, Gods come
down to earth taking a human form, so that mortals can feel
the divine right he. Saraswathi is no exception, and listening
to the octogenarian Kalpagam Swaminathan, la
grande dame de Veena, one can't help but feel that we are being
enthralled by a divine presence.
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T.V.
Sankaranarayanan in great form by T.M. Anantharaman
Padmabushan and Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri T.V.Sankaranarayanan
(TVS) was in great form singing for the Thyagaraja-Purandaradasa
Aaradhana festival of the Girinagara Sangeetha Sabha in Bangalore
on Sunday evening (February 24, 2008).
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Nityashree casts a magical spell
by Sudha Jagannathan
Nithyashree Mahadevan gave a dazzling concert
on the evening of January 1, 2008 at Parthasarathy Swami Sabha.
Nithyashree entertained the audience for close to 200 minutes
with a splendid variety one could ever imagine. She was in top
form on this evening. After her three-and-a-quarter-hour concert,
Nithyashree still appeared fresh. Read
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Bombay Jayashri makes a mark with Dvi-raga
pallavi by Sudha Jagannathan
It was a fine Christmas-eve evening at Mylapore Fine Arts Club.
The Sabha was full, as Bombay Jayashri prepared
to give yet one more concert for December 2007 season. Often,
Jayashri tends to make some experiments at this venue. Rasikas,
too, come here with higher expectations. Read
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