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Where’s the diversity in Indian classical music, asks T.M. Krishna

Where’s the diversity in Indian classical music, asks T.M. Krishna

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In the late 1980s, when I was around 12 years old and trying to listen to every classical music concert in town, the often-heard lament was about declining audiences and that those who did attend were older people. The fear was that, once a few generations passed, the art form would fade away. The conservatives […]

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Where’s the diversity in Indian classical music, asks T.M. Krishna

Where’s the diversity in Indian classical music, asks T.M. Krishna

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In the late 1980s, when I was around 12 years old and trying to listen to every classical music concert in town, the often-heard lament was about declining audiences and that those who did attend were older people. The fear was that, once a few generations passed, the art form would fade away. The conservatives […]

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Where’s the diversity in Indian classical music, asks T.M. Krishna

Where’s the diversity in Carnatic music, asks T.M. Krishna

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In the late 1980s, when I was around 12 years old and trying to listen to every classical music concert in town, the often-heard lament was about declining audiences and that those who did attend were older people. The fear was that, once a few generations passed, the art form would fade away. The conservatives […]

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Music on the streets of Mylapore: Why Carnatic vocalist Saketharaman is celebrating an age-old tradition

Music on the streets of Mylapore: Why Carnatic vocalist Saketharaman is celebrating an age-old tradition

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Narada gets off his father’s scooter, and high-fives Andal. It’s exactly 6 a.m. at Mada Street in Chennai’s Mylapore, and school children dressed as various mythological characters are getting ready to perform. Popular Carnatic vocalist Saketharaman gives them the cue, and the group begins walking along the road, singing ‘Margazhi Thingal’, a verse from the […]

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