Rajeswari Padmanabhan: Vainika, teacher, friend – a tribute in Sruti, A Monthly Magazine on Indian Performing Arts

By Dr. Pia Srinivasan (15 May 1931 – 8 April 2022) I joined Kalakshetra in 1968 to learn Carnatic music. It was there that I met Rajeswari. It was a great event in my life as I came to realise more and more. Rajeswari, along with her music, is the central figure in my book titled Il …

Concerto conferenza di musica Indiana a Napoli – Italian review

Concerto-conferenza di musica indiana di Pia Buonomo Srinivasan Centro yoga Satyananda di Napoli , aprile 2001 Liz Letizia © Redazione a cura di Enrico Renna / musicbOOm Anche in questo aprile, come nello scorso anno, il Centro yoga Satyananda di Napoli ha ospitato il concerto-conferenza di musica indiana di Pia Buonomo Srinivasan. Il programma era …

TR Sundaresan

T. R. Sundaresan (Chennai) is a versatile percussionist with “A-grade” ranking at the national Indian broadcasting service (All India Radio). He performs several South Indian percussion instruments with equal virtuosity: Mridangam (the double-sided main drum of Carnatic music), Ghatam (claypot), Kanjira (small tambourine), Morsing (Jew’s harp) and Konnakkol (rhythmic solmisation) T. R. Sundaresan’s mridangam was soft, …

Rajeswari Padmanabhan

Rajeswari Padmanabhan (1939-2008), daughter of Lakshmi Ammal and grand daughter of Karaikudi Subbarama Iyer (the elder of the Karaikudi Veena brothers), was a ninth generation descendent from the Karaikudi Veena tradition. From the very young age of five, she was under the tutelage of her grandfather Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer (the younger of the Karaikudi Veena brothers) …