Posted by Usha Balasubramaniam in Music
on Sep 18th, 2013 | 0 comments
Prof. D Pasupathi (Former Principal, Sri Venkateswara College of Music, Tirupati and former Vice Principal, Kalakshetra) is a music composer without any sort of contemporary compromising attitude, and a musician who is not touched by the modern approach to Karnatic music. His long tutelage under experts such
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Posted by Usha Balasubramaniam in Music
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VENKATESHACHAR (b. 1933) and SESHAGIRIACHAR (b. 1935 - 1985)
The Bellary Brothers duo is Venkateshachar and Seshagiriachar.
Their father Raghavendrachar hailed from a family of Pauranikas - discoursers on ancient spiritual lore. Raghavendrachar was a musician with pedagogic talents and was Music
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Born at the sacred birth place of the Trinity, Thiruvarur, T.V.Namasivayam had his tutelage under his father Veedividangan Pillai, whose name will remind the reader of the Monument of Dhharma, Manu Needhi Cholan.
Later he got specialized training under the Senior of the Madhurai Brothers and Thirupambaram
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Posted by Usha Balasubramaniam in Music
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Born in a musical family, of Mahalingam Pillai and Seethalakshmi Ammal at Thanjavur, Thanjavur M. Theagarajan inherited the expertise and legacy of his great grandfather (bharatanatyam) and grandfather (mridangam), who were both asthana vidwans at Baroda and his father, a leading mridanga vidwan. Theagarajan
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