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Lalgudi G Jayaraman
Birthdays & Anniversaries17.9.1930 - 22.4.2013Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman (17 September 1930 – 22 April 2013) was an Indian Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer. He was awarded Padma Bhushan...
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Jon Higgins
Birthdays & Anniversaries18.9.1939 - 7.12.1984Jon Borthwick Higgins (September 18, 1939 – December 7, 1984), also known in India as Higgins Bhagavatar, was an American musician, scholar, and...
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Indrani Rahman
Birthdays & Anniversaries19.9.1930 - 5.2.1999Indrani Rahman was an Indian classical dancer, of Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, Kathakali and Odissi, which she popularised in the west, and later settled...
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Saroja Vaidyanathan
Birthdays & Anniversaries19.9.1937Saroja Vaidyanathan is a choreographer, guru and exponent of Bharatanatyam. She was conferred the Padma Shri in 2002 and the Padma Bhushan in 2013 by the...
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Papanasam Sivan
Birthdays & Anniversaries 26.9.1890 - 10.10.1973Papanasam Sivan was a prominent composer of Carnatic music and a singer. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1970. He...
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K. S. Narayanaswamy
Birthdays & Anniversaries K. S. Narayanaswamy was a Carnatic veena exponent of the Thanjavur style, in which nuances and subtleties are given more importance over rhythm based acrobatics. He was...
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Firoz Dastur
30.9.1919 - 9.5.2008Birthdays & Anniversaries Firoz Dastur also Feroze Dastur was an Indian film actor and a Hindustani vocalist from the Kirana Gharana.Dastur was part of Indian Film Industry in...
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FROM THE EDITOR
October is the “birthday month” of your favourite magazine on the performing arts. Sruti was launched 36 years ago on 16 October 1983 as a “new kind of magazine” in India insofar as classical music and...
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Guru HR Keshavmurthy Centenary
Birth centenary of renowned Bharatanatyam guru H.R. Keshavmurthy was celebrated on the 7 September 2019 at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Bengaluru. Keshavmurthy, an SNA and Shanthala awardee was trained under...
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Dinkar Kaikini
Birthdays & Anniversaries2.10.1927 - 2010Dinkar Kaikini was born on October 2, 1927. His first teacher was K. Nagesh Rao of the Patiala school. Kaikini’s musical personality was largely moulded by...
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Taking music to school children
Invocation by the children(News & Notes)Music Forum, in association with The Music Academy, organised a mega workshop titled ‘Yuva Rasika’, for school students, at The Music Academy, Madras, on...
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Vilayat Khan memorial festival in Shimla
Vilayat Khan with son Shujaat KhanFile Photo : Avinash Pasricha(News & Notes)Every now and then a musician of such outstanding ability and influence is born, that his music is a force to contend...
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Alamelu Mani
Birthdays & Anniversaries I truly regard it as my good fortune to be a student of Carnatic music. And that too under a guru like Alamelu Mami. This is a guru samarpanam to my beloved teacher who...
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Raja Reddy
Birthdays & Anniversaries5.10.1943Raja Reddy and Radha Reddy are a well known Kuchipudi dancing couple, gurus and choreographers. They are the only family completely dedicated to dance- Raja, his...
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T. N. Krishnan
Birthdays & Anniversaries6.10.1928Tripunithura Narayanan Krishnan’s journey started on 6 October, 1928 with his birth into Bhagavatar Matham, an illustrious family of musicians acclaimed in both...
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Begum Akhtar
Birthdays & Anniversaries7.10.1914 - 30.10.1974Initially known as Akhtari Bai, her art earned for her the respect due to a begum sahiba. Her music carried the old world charm of the Lucknow court...
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Kadri Gopalnath passed away
Kadri GopalnathNoted saxophone exponent Kadri Gopalnath passed away on 11 October 2019 in Mangaluru. He was 69. He is survived by his wife Sarojini, two sons and a daughter. Born in Panemangalore,...
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