Carnatic Classical

Noted Carnatic musician K.G. Jayan passes away at 90

Noted Carnatic musician K.G. Jayan died at his residence at Thripunitura in Ernakulam district of Ke...

entertainment | 6 months ago

Sai Prarthana and Kashyap Mahesh highlight the richness of Tamil literature in Carnatic music

Put together, Prarthana Sai Narasimhan and R. Kashyap Mahesh presented 21 compositions in their conc...

entertainment | 5 months ago

On a musical trip to Madurai, Rameswaram and Thanjavur

Naada Inbam’s Kshetra Sankirthana Vaibhavam series was an exciting musical journey through the templ...

entertainment | 4 months ago

Violinist Sanjeev Venkataramanan’s award-winning film, Lost in Harmony, celebrates Nature through music

Lost in Harmony is about losing oneself in Nature and all the feelings that it brings. Described as ...

entertainment | 4 months ago

What if Beethoven composed a Carnatic kriti?

A lot of things can happen over a coffee break. In music composer Ramesh Vinayakam’s case, it certai...

entertainment | 4 months ago

Palakkad Sreeram’s singing flute captures the finer nuances of Carnatic ragas

Palakkad Sreeram, who is a versatile musician and playback singer recently presented a flute recital...

entertainment | 4 months ago

Flautists Heramb and Hemanth recreate the avian world through ragas and songs

A Sankarabharanam package that the twin brothers, Heramb and Hemanth, unfolded in the second half of...

entertainment | 3 months ago

Mridangist Sumesh Narayanan debuts his solo rhythm venture

“It’s hard not to move to a rhythmic groove,” says percussionist Sumesh Narayanan. After all, he has...

entertainment | 3 months ago

Want to master different aspects of Carnatic music? Listen to the stalwarts

Carnatic music students are often told to listen to yesteryear masters, in order to develop and fine...

entertainment | 3 months ago

Why one cannot ignore T.M. Krishna’s musical explorations

The unpredictability is what makes a T.M. Krishna concert special and his recent performance at the ...

entertainment | 2 months ago

South Side Story is bringing South India’s cultural legacy to Delhi

In its sixth edition now, radio 93.5 Red FM’s South Side Story is set to regale the capital’s cultur...

entertainment | 2 months ago

How L. Subramaniam’s ‘Raga Harmony’ concept can help create a global composition

Violin maestro L. Subramaniam recently published his doctoral thesis as a book, Raga Harmony (Westla...

entertainment | 2 months ago

Aruna Sairam recalls how Krishna became her muse

Rewind:Chaya Building, Parsi Colony, Dadar, Mumbai. Each morning as the first rays of the sunlight f...

entertainment | 1 month ago

Vasudha Ravi and Vidya Kalyanaraman’s Gokulasthami concert highlighted the myriad facets of Krishna

Vasudha Ravi and Vidya Kalyanaraman collaborated recently for their Gokulashtami special thematic co...

entertainment | 1 month ago

Effervescence was the defining feature of flautist Hariprasad Subramanian’s concert

A brief sketch Hariprasad Subramanian delivered in Surutti at the beginning reinforced the raga’s so...

entertainment | 1 month ago

How Vedaranyam Vedamurthy redefined Nagaswaram playing?

If one were to make a list of all-time great nagaswaram artistes, centenarian Vedaranyam Vedamurthy’...

entertainment | 3 weeks ago