This year's lec dem sessions at the Academy begin on Dec. 16, 2010 and go on till Jan. 1, 2011
The venue is Kasturi Srinivasan Hall, The Music Academy campus.
Discussions open to audience after comments from the Experts Committee members.
The schedule:
Dec. 16, 2010 - Thursday
8.00 am - Jyothi Kamath Group - Devotional music
8.35 am - 9.10 am - Prof. Kannikeswaran : The kritis of Muthuswami Dikshitar and the Dhrupad compositional form - a comparitive study
9.15 am - 10.00 am Smt. Bhairavi : Pathantaras in the Sri Krisna-lila-tarangini of Narayana Tirtha
Dec. 17, 2010 - Friday
8.05 am - 8.50 am - Sumathi Krishnan : Variety in Varnams
9.00 am - 10.00 am - Ms. Deepthi Bhalla : Dundubhi Natyam (compositions based on rare talas of Kerala)
Dec. 18, 2010 - Saturday
8.05 am - 8.50 am - Prof. David Nelson : Structure of Tani Avartanam
9.00 am - 10.00 am - N. Vijay Siva : Raga-s: Devakriya, Devamrtavarsini, Manjari & Kharaharapriya – A comparative study
Dec. 19, 2010 - Sunday
8.05 am - 9.05 am - Dr. B.M. Sundaram with Injikkudi Sri. E.M. Subramaniam : Mallari
9.10 am - 10.00 am - V. S. Narasimhan and the Madras string quartet : My way of taking Carnatic Music to globalization
Dec. 20, 2010 - Monday
8.05 am - 8.50 am - Dr. Premeela Gurumurthy : A comparative analysis of Harikatha of the four southern states
9.00 am - 10.00 am - T.K. Govinda Rao : Varnam in Six Kala-s
Dec. 21, 2010 - Tuesday
8.05 am - 8.50 am - Mala Chandrasekhar : Flute - the technique and the stalwarts
9.00 am - 10.00 am - Padma Subrahmanyam : Brhadisvara Temple: Its influence on Music and Dance
Dec.22, 2010 - Wednesday
8.05 am - 8.50 am - Priyasri Rao : Textual Traditions in Indian Classical Dances.
9.00 am - 10.00 am - R.S. Jayalakshmi : Raga Begada
Dec. 23, 2010 - Thursday
8.05 am - 8.50 am - Gayathri Girish : Compositions of Margadarsi Sesayyangar
9.00 am - 10.00 am - Premalatha V : Music Manuscripts and Manavalli Ramakrsna Kavi
Dec. 24, 2010 - Friday
8.05 am - 8.50 am - Madhu Mohan : Svara as an abstraction
9.00 am - 10.00 am - Somali Panda : Rabindra Sangita
Dec. 25, 2010 - Saturday
8.05 am - 8.50 am - Suguna Varadachari : Niraval singing for Pallavi and Krti-s
9.00 am - 10.00 am - S. Sowmya : Ghanta and allied Raga-s
Dec. 26, 2010 - Sunday
8.05 am - 8.50 am - M.S. Gopalakrishnan and Dr. Narmada : Gamaka-s in Hindusthani and Carnatic Music
9.00 am - 10.00 am - Bombay Sisters C. Lalitha and C. Saroja : Tyagaraja’s popular krti-s in rare raga-s and rare krti-s in popular raga-s.
Dec. 27, 2010 - Monday
8.05 am - 8.50 am - Umamaheswari : Music in Divyaprabandham
9.00 am - 10.00 am - Sadanam Harikumar: Sopanam Music
Dec. 28, 2010 - Tuesday
8.05 am - 8.50 am - Aneesh Pradhan with Sri. V. Sudheer Nayak : Tabla Gharana-s
9.00 am - 10.00 am - Subha Mudgal with Sri. Aneesh Pradhan & Sri. V. Sudheer Nayak : Khayala and Guru Pandita Ramasraya Jha's work as a composer
Dec. 29, 2010 - Wednesday
8.05 am - 8.50 am - Prof. Tim Hoffman : Authentic Indian music on traditional Japanese instruments - koto & shakuhachi
9.00 am - 10.15 am - Arvind Parikh : Gharana-s of Sitara with specific focus on the gharana of Ustad Vilayat Khan - his contribution and personality
Dec. 30, 2010 - Thursday
8.05 am - 9.35 am - Nedunuri Krishnamurthy : Raga - Concept, Scope and Establishment
Dec.31, 2010 - Friday
8.00 am - 8.30 am - Kavita Devarajan Group : Devotional music
8.35 am - 9.20 am - Rajkumar Bharathi : Original tunes in the songs of Subrahmanya Bharati
9.30 am - 10.15 am - R. Satyanarayana : Sangita Samayasara
Jan. 1, 2011 - Saturday
8.00 am - 8.30 am - Advanced School of Carnatic Music, The Music Academy : Devotional music
8.35 am - 9.30 am - Open House
The academic sesson on 27 Dec 2010by Dr. Uma Maheshwari on 'Music in Divya Prandam' was highly informative. That the verses in Divya Prandams exist in the format of facilitating setting of ragas and these Pasurams when sung is much more God evoking were revealing and very useful. Any word in the vocabulary has nevertheless both the direct meaning and the impied ones Hence the length of discussion by experts on 'Raga' and 'Pann' seemed a little overdone. Further it would have been a good idea if the prayer song was also about God Narayana, the Parabrahmam, who was the center of the subject.
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