In 1974, he had to jump over a wall to listen to MS Subbulakshmi in his native Ernakulam. Barely ten years later, he was her regular mridangist. For almost five decades now, Krishnan Visweswara Prasad, this year’s Sangeetha Choodamani awardee from Krishna Gana Sabha, has been a steady and dignified…
April 2020 In this unprecedented time, quarantined as we all are due to the COVID-19 pandemic, music has been a particularly big source of happiness, comfort and solace to many of us. However, the musicians’ own lives have been upended with all concert engagements and international tours cancelled in this…
I rounded off my intermittent attendance of this music season with my final concert for the year, yesterday, that of Sri. Abhishek Raghuram at the Music Academy. Driving in at about 6.10 pm for the 6.45 pm concert, I approached the valets. They told me unequivocally that there was no…
Sangeetha Ramprasad believes in the calming power of sahaja yoga Stress seems to dog everyone these days — from young children to the elderly. Sangeetha Ramprasad comes to their rescue, bridging the world of Carnatic music with meditation, the art of stilling/calming the mind. Sangeetha had her initial training from…