![]() These adjectives are valid only if the shruthi is perfectly aligned. I also decry people saying that the raga phrases are good, the swara patterns are exemplary blah blah when the singer's voice is not aligned with the shurthi instrument used in that concert. I strongly advocate the importance of shruthi alignment as the basic ingredient of any form of music across the world. I know its enough defining music, let’s discuss about the concert. The every definition of music itself is shruthi alignment, uniformity, being in unison. Probably AR’s exposure the music of the West imbibed in them the importance of shruthi. There is a lot of debate happening in various forums on the shruthi aspect of leading, established vidwans, hence I write about it here. The every aspect I want to highlight, though very sad to highlight, was their perfect shruthi alignment. But as the old Tamil adage goes ‘oru pAnai sotrukku, oru sOru padam - ஒரு பானை சோறுக்கு ஒரு சோறு பதம்’ today concert till I heard was good. ![]() I had to leave the concert by 5.10 pm to attend an important client’s call. ![]() Hemamalini on the violin, Mudra Baskar on the Mrudangam & VVS Manian on the kanjira performed today from 4.30pm at the Narada Gana Sabha mini hall. Honestly a perfect beginning for this series. ![]() The first in the series is on Toronto Brothers (AR) - Ashwin Iyer and Rohin Iyer. Under this heading I propose to write about the emerging good performers of Carnatic Music.
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