K V Narayanaswamy

K.V. Narayanaswamy | Photo Credit: D. Krishnan Carnatic music world was and is often about the personalities more than the music. Music may have ushered them into the limelight but with time the artistes became larger than their music. A…

Ramakrishnan Murthy with R.K. Shriram Kumar on the violin, and Manoj Siva on the mridangam at the KVN tribute concert held at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore, on May 19, 2023. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement This year also marks the…

According to Prof. Sambamurthy, one of the greatest musicologists, a raga is a musical organism that keeps evolving. As a raga is nourished by legendary musicians, it gradually attains its full stature. They ensure that only the rakti…

Padma Narayanaswamy speaks about her passion for music and her life with the maestro KVN Our conversation begins with a disclaimer: I tell Padma Narayanaswamy in the little Tamil I know that I will speak to her mostly in English. “I…