In Carnatic music, concerts with instrumentalist headliners such as the veena, flute or violin are a small fraction of performances at most music festivals, including the biggest one of them all the ...

On the sixth day of Margazhi, sweet notes of a melody exploring the shankarabharanam raagam drifted out from Sathyanarayanan Krishnababu’s music studio in Chennai. Inside the room, Keyboard Sathya, as ...

The app's home page shows three main categories: Carnatic, Hindustani, and Fusion Wake up to a full-throated rendition of the Sri Venkateshwara Suprabhatam by M.S. Subbulakshmi. Or the soft strains of ...

Conducting a large-scale Carnatic music choir is generally an energy-sapping exercise with disproportionately meagre returns in terms of melodic aesthetics. But not when you have someone as ...

Carnatic musician Saketharaman will be presenting a concert tomorrow, which will be about advocating egalitarianism through music. Carnatic musician Saketharaman will be presenting a concert tomorrow, ...

If the tradition of Carnatic music is continuing it is because of the countless number of music teachers who are introducing the young generation to the rich treasure. One of the prominent teachers is ...

Going by the names of the two major traditions of Hindustani music — Khayal and Dhrupad — Carnatic music might be called ‘Kriti’ after the dominant musical form in practice. Or, at an earlier period, ...

The romantic view of music is that it is divine, soul-stirring and above shallow commercialism. Wrong. In today’s Carnatic music world, lots of things that have nothing to do with music matter.

Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh was in Delhi last week to receive the prestigious Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan award; joining an exclusive club of only 11 other artists including late Vidwan Balamurali Krishna, and ...

For violin virtuosos Ganesh and Kumaresh Rajagopalan, the instrument is more than just a bridge between East and West—it is the very genesis of sound. The elder brother Ganesh, 61, recalls a story ...

In the world of classical music, Ranjani and Gayatri are RaGa, the Carnatic collective name that has come to define the genre through their musical eloquence and their stance against accusations of ...