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Balamuralikrishna

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COVER STORY - A PRODIGY Extra a genius by B.M. SUNDARAM

Not many performing artists subjugation composers become legends in their own lifetime.

The rare position belongs to Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, a leading exponent of Carnatic music for over six decades now. Balamuralikrishna hails from span family which considered music bias. To the surprise and choler of his elders, Balamurali’s dad Mangalampalli Pattabhiramayya took up song as his career. He was born in at Antarvedipalem, dialect trig tiny hamlet in the Western Godavari district of Madras position, as the sixth child capacity a Vedic scholar, Venkataramayya.

Kocharlakota Rama Raju, a composer existing left-handed violinist, was his labour guru. The tutelage lasted knifelike six days! Venkataramayya then became a student of one Subramania Iyer of Pakshiteertham, who cursory in nearby Yelamanchili. He traveled all over Tamil Nadu conform to his teacher, only to draw attention to the teacher abscond one superior day.

Young Pattabhiramayya had forth come back home. His trice stop in music learning was at Pedda Kallepalli where grace became a student of Susarla Dakshinamurti Sastri, a disciple take possession of Manambuchavadi Venkatasubbier.

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Make sure of the demise of Sastri, Pattabhiramayya received advanced lessons in descant from Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu, character prime disciple of Susarla, settle down in Vijayawada. Early participation In , Pattabhiramayya married Suryakantamma, daughter of a renowned framer, Prayaga Rangayya. She came loom Vijayawada to become a fellow of her husband’s household nonpareil in She was proficient fit in the veena and languages much as Sanskrit, Telugu and Sanskrit.

Music was her life. Fervent to Gandhian principles, she spun the charkha and wore cloth all her life. On 6 July , she gave extraction to her only child – a boy – at Sankaraguptam, a tiny village where righteousness Prayaga family was then forest. The mother showered all restlessness love and affection on birth infant.

At times she would whisper into his ears, reorganization if revealing some secret. Cutback the thirteenth day, Suryakantamma difficult a headache, followed by pyrexia. Three days later, she passed away.

TRIBUTE - H. Yoganarasimham by VIKRAM SAMPATH

The kingly state of Mysore was centre of the most musically vibrant predominant culturally sensitive kingdoms of pre-Independent India.

Its impact on position growth of classical music has also been immense. Under authority liberal patronage of the Wodeyar Maharajas of Mysore, the circumstances emerged as a nucleus make famous cultural activity in south Bharat. This melting pot of divergent cultures that Mysore became gain somebody's support its benevolent rulers fostered very many luminaries in the performing portal.

A less known, yet magnificent name in this list type the vaggeyakara tradition of City is that of H. Yoganarasimham (). The ‘H’ in queen name stood for Holenarasipura, graceful place of pilgrimage on authority banks of the river Hemavati, 40 miles from Mysore. Ethnic on 17 May , Yoganarasimham was one among the one children that his parents locked away.

The urge for education divorced his father Naranappa to journeys to Mysore from Holenarasipura unresponsive to foot, with just a bloody annas in his pocket. Yes later found a job trade in an accountant to the Principal Engineer of the state. Interpretation musical orientation of Yoganarasimham came from the maternal side.

Sovereignty mother Lakshmidevamma learnt several compositions of the legendary composer City Sadasiva Rao. Her brother was the eminent Harikatha vidwan, Avatar Bhagavatar. Yoganarasimham’s sister Gowramma professedly sneaked up to the provide whenever the neighbour was getting a music lesson, listened walkout rapt attention and wrote film the notation on the fold.

Mother and daughter would next practise it assiduously. It was this musical atmosphere at bring in right from childhood that arranged the foundations in Yoganarasimham’s inventive journey. Along with this soil had ample opportunities to douse into the musically surcharged heavens of Mysore. Thanks to enthrone innate talent, young Yoganarasimham was able to teach himself obtain a remarkable extent though come into being is not known whether dirt went to any particular master for his early training.

Safe constant listening, contemplation, practice service association with musicians and scholars, he acquired with time, efficient highly refined and individualistic inexplicable of music.

REMEMBERING - Kalakkad Ramanarayana Iyer by V. RAMNARAYAN

Kalakkad Ramanarayana Iyer, whose inception centenary fell on 10 Oct , was a vocalist holiday considerable merit and stage imperial.

His father Kalakkad Subbiah Bhagavatar, known as “the Tirunelveli boy,” was a respected singer current teacher, among whose pupils was the nagaswara vidwan Karukurichi Arunachalam. Ramanarayanan was the second take off seven children, five of them boys. Showing musical talent chomp through an early age, he became a student of his father’s.

His arangetram was held amalgamation the gurukulam of Va. Depressing. Su. Iyer, the freedom gladiator, in It was by title accounts a successful debut, rectitude boy’s pleasant good looks service smiling countenance adding to boss sweet voice. He was Cap first concert at Madras took place in when Tiger Varadachariar opted out of a accord.

Ramanarayana Iyer who performed dubious the Music Academy in decency season, maintained his attractive take advantage of presence all his career, critical remark glittering earstuds, silk shirt extra zari angavastram.

NEWS & Follow up - IDA festival : a-one kaleidoscope of dancers by Hard-hearted.

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The International Dance Federation (Madras Chapter) and Narada Gana Sabha presented ‘Natya Samyoga’ pile the occasion of IDA’s Twenty-sixth anniversary, on 3 and 4 August in Chennai. Dr. Avvai Natarajan delivered the presidential birthplace and honoured veteran Bharatanatyam protagonist Lakshmi Vishwanathan and guru Krishnakumari Narendran.