Over the last four years, I have learnt Carnatic music—sporadically, I regret to admit—from two teachers, their methods of instruction as different as the cities they lived in. The first of these ...

Music enthusiasts, young learners, performers and even laymen who are interested to know about the sangathis of Carnatic music can now have a workbook to note down those numerous variations and also ...

In September 2017, I heard the Carnatic vocalist TM Krishna sing to a packed auditorium in Mumbai’s cosmopolitan locality of Bandra. The 800-odd-seat St Andrews auditorium usually features English ...

For some years now, Carnatic classical musicians have been targets of a moral police that wants to arrogate to itself the authority to define the social and cultural contours of this art form. Ramon ...

The Tchaikovsky Music Club at the Russian Cultural Centre here has introduced Carnatic music performances as part of its ‘Let them shine’ monthly programme. The programme on the last day of this month ...

CHENNAI:Despite threats from Hindu fundamentalist groups, ‘Yesuvin Sangama Sangeetham’, a concert envisioned by renowned Carnatic artist T Samuel Joseph (Shyaam) went on as planned in the city on ...

Ambi Subramaniam may have been born into a rich legacy of Carnatic music, but he didn’t take it for granted. His parents, noted violinist Dr L Subramaniam and singer Kavita Krishnamurthy wouldn’t ...

Chennai-based Aishwarya Ravichandran traces her musical identity not to the recording studio but to years of rigorous Carnatic classical training ...

What we have for music criticism and writing in Malayalam are either hagiographies on singers, which is mostly anecdotal, or dry technical books, with notations and all, targeting music students and ...

Learning the 12 Swara Sthanams changed how I hear Carnatic music. Understanding these notes opened up a whole new way of ...