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Change as formula in Carnatic music

Change as formula in Carnatic music Updated: Updated: Music, unless an internal process, can only imitate an emotion, not create one Share Article AAA Ashwath Narayanan performing a virtual concert at The Music Academy’s 2020 Margazhi Festival   | Photo Credit: K V Srinivasan Music, unless an internal process, can only imitate an emotion, not create one Like everything else, the Carnatic concert is also changing. It has always been in a state of change — intrinsically — as individuals looked at it in new ways and bestowed it with fresh meaning. Tradition, therefore, was never a clinical hand-me-down, but altered with individual talent. Then why does change, happening at this juncture in its history, seem so overwhelming?

Ramakrishnan Murthy packs enough surprises

Ramakrishnan Murthy packs enough surprises Updated: Updated: Ramakrishnan Murthy’s concert was different, yet beautiful Share Article AAA Ramakrishna Murthy performing at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s annual music festival in Chennai   | Photo Credit: K V Srinivasan Ramakrishnan Murthy’s concert was different, yet beautiful Ramakrishnan Murthy did not allow any room for the audience to wonder which raga would be taken as the central piece of his concert — that was clear to everyone quite early on. When the opening phrases of raga Sri escaped his lips, the only question was about the composition. The vocalist opened the (well-attended) concert with the first verse of the Aandal pasuram, ‘Marghazhi thingal,’ in Nattai. The pasuram followed a brief but beautiful alapana, which foretold the unfolding of a lovely concert. The line ‘Narayanane Namakke’ was selected for niraval, which was a detailed affair, but just as the audience was looking for a treat of swaras, the singer jumped into the second pasuram, ‘Vayyathu Vazhveerghal’, in Gowlai and chose the words ‘Mayittu Ezhudhom’ to land the swaras. Niraval in Nattai, swaras in Gowlai! The only slight exception one could take was his not singing swaras in the slower gait — which would have seen Gowlai in full blossom.