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Simplify Music, Uphold Intrinsic Values: Sudha Ragunathan
NEW DELHI, (IANS) &#; Stressing that it is important to focus on simplifying music, while upholding its intrinsic values, to ascertain that it reaches a greater section, Carnatic vocalist Sudha Ragunathan, recipient of the Padma Bhushan honor, unlike many from her realm, says that even while global cultures are pervading, Indian classical music continues to draw a large audience.
&#;During my travels across the world, I see Carnatic music bringing together many minds and teachers and students of Indian music connect across the globe in technologically advanced environments. This gives a reassurance that Indian classical music continues to be a unique identity of our land,&#; she says.
Ragunathan, who has performed at the United Nations, the Theatre de la Ville, Paris, Lincoln Centre, Broadway and happens to be the only Indian vocalist to have participated in the Global Vocal Meeting organized by the &#;Burghof&#; bel
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RAHIM ▪ Exponent of Dagar vani dhrupad of Indian classical music.
FAHIMUDDIN ▪ He presented the 19TH generation of Dagar tradition.
DAGAR ▪ He was born in Alwar in Rajasthan in
▪ His Cousins Nasir Moinuddin Dagar and Nasir Aminuddin
Dagar was senior Dagar brothers.
▪ He was awarded the Pa
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In praise of YouTube
It was a serious road accident that led me — accidentally, as it were — to the musical riches of YouTube. I had broken an ankle and dislocated a shoulder, and was laid up in bed for weeks on end. I couldn’t read a book, but I could open my laptop and check my emails (and, if required, answer them briefly, typing with the fingers of one hand).
The accident occurred in the spring of For some years previously, I had been one of the several hundred lucky beneficiaries of regular postings from the music scholar and Malayalam writer, S. Gopalakrishnan. Two or three times a week, Gopal would send us all a piece of classical music, with a few sentences about its meaning or significance. The recommendation would arrive at the crack of dawn; and we were free to listen to it at any time at all.
Before the accident, my mornings were hectic, so I rarely listened to Gopal’s postings as they came. Sometimes, a pile would accumulate, and then I would listen to them all at on