Posted by admin in Legends Series, Music
on May 18th, 2012 | 0 comments
Resource Person: Sashi Kulkarni
Our choice of ten artists in showcase with reasons:
In a nation like ours, where capturing of historical eras for posterity is compromised by
- Skewed representation by recording companies.
- Self appointed custodians like Sabhas & Magazines.
- Hero worshipping at the cost of ignoring artists who do not promote themselves.
- A strangely large number of very high class artists popping up at the same time.
- An inability to support all the roots that stemmed from the time of the trinity, etc.
A number of great artists are fast disappearing from our collective memories.
Here is our pick:
- Karaikurchi Arunachalam – aesthetics in every breath.
- Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu – a soloist in the real sense of the term.
- T.K. Rangachari– an amalgamation of so many glittering qualities.
- Voleti Venkateshwarulu– a fine example of a baani created right under our eyes.
- Madurai Somasundaram – Chittoor School is dying, if not dead. So many krithis of Thyagaraja are alive only in that school.
- T.R. Mahalingam – our collective image is shaped by his idiosyncrasies, rather than his outpourings.
- M.L.Vasantakumari – no words to describe.
- Tanjore S.Kalyanaraman – for his brilliant craftsmanship.
- M.D. Ramanathan – for sheer audacity in choosing that style.
- R.K. Srikantan – pristine outpourings from the Kannada Doyen.
Given another day and another time, we could come up with yet another totally different set of ten. So this is just one start – just one perspective, of the many possible.
