Ambi Subramaniam may have been born into a rich legacy of Carnatic music, but he didn’t take it for granted. His parents, noted violinist Dr L Subramaniam and singer Kavita Krishnamurthy wouldn’t ...

CHENNAI: How would you feel listening to the famous Tamil carnatic song Enna Thavam Seidane and the mesmeric Hindi bhajan Raghupathi Raghav Rajaram delivered in a single piece? Wouldn’t that leave you ...

Gone are the days when Margazhi was all about classical Carnatic music kutcheries entertaining only a select audience. CHENNAI: Gone are the days when Margazhi was all about classical Carnatic music ...

Sathyanarayanan has been proving that even the keyboard could be adapted to play Indian classical music. Like his guru, the late Mandolin U Shrinivas, who showed the world that Carnatic music could be ...

“The only mystery in life is why the Kamikaze pilots wore helmets,” said Al McGuire. Other mysteries are right up there too — why khayal performers use the harmonium to accompany their incredibly ...

If you are a Carnatic music enthusiast, chances are that you will come across the name Sriram or Shriram at least once every day in the newspapers or social media. I refer to Sriram Parasuram, RK ...

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not seem ...

CHENNAI: Almost two years ago, when Akhila Krishnamurthy launched Aalaap, a Chennai-based performing arts initiative, one of its objectives included taking classical performing arts to non-traditional ...

The Tchaikovsky Music Club at the Russian Cultural Centre here has introduced Carnatic music performances as part of its ‘Let them shine’ monthly programme. The programme on the last day of this month ...

Several film directors in Tamil and Malayalam cinema in the 1980s possessed a unique quality: a keen sense of tone. There was Balu Mahendra, who ensured that the poetry of his breathtaking visuals was ...