![]() This rendition was accorded a national song status. In 1949,Vazhkai of AVM saw the debut of Vyjayanthi Mala plus Pattammal singing Bharata Samudayam Vazhgave. ![]() The song was enormously popular with Pattammal’s emotional rendering, Kalki’s lyrics, and Papanasam Sivan’s tune. Papanasam Sivan treated D.K.Pattammal as his daughter and he suggested that she should sing the song ‘Desa Seva Seyya Varir’. ![]() The Acharya called out Mani Iyer and blessed him saying that his music was his mode of worship and he need not worry about worldly rituals and observances. The Paramacharya was well received and he asked for Mani Iyer and was informed that he had not yet bathed that day and was hence indoors as regulations demanded that nobody could appear before the seer before taking bath first. During the time he resided there, the Paramacharya of Kanchi happened to pass that way with his entourage. He had a house on Luz Church Road just behind a bus stop which was called “Mani Iyer Stop”. I shall begin with a story on Madurai Mani Iyer. ![]() Rightly has the author written, ‘If Carnatic music is still heard all over the world and makes an emphatic and grand statement of survival each year during the annual December session in Chennai it is because of these great men and women, powerful personalities who bore the art form aloft amidst crisis and threats.” Since copious material is available on the major artists-like M.S, Semmangudi, Chembai, etc I shall concentrate on those about whom not much is known or written. Their lives and lifestyles which had an impact on their art are succinctly covered. We have a veritable galaxy including a dozen vocalists, four violinists, one Nagaswaram vidwan, one flautist and two percussionists. Kshetragna, Venkatamakhin, the benign Tanjore kings, the reign of the Classical trinity and the giants of twentieth century, some of whom we were lucky to hear. The introduction is a consummate summary of the history of this art from Sarangadeva to Purandaradasa. He has culled out twenty Carnatic musicians of the 20th Century who were top performers marking a high noon in this art form entitling the book to be appropriately christened “Carnatic Summer ”. Along with Sanjay Subrahmanyan he is running a website on music. ![]() He is co-author of a Quiz book on Carnatic music and writes regularly on music in Indian Express and Madras musings. Sriram is currently contributing Editor of Sruti,the classical music journal. 295/Ĭlose on the heels of “Great Masters of Carnatic Music “ by Indira Menon, I have with me another book of the same genre. V Published by East West Books (Madras ) Pvt Ltd Pages 311 Price Rs. ![]()
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