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MADRAS MUSIC MELA 2001
Music Academy launches ITS website
The Music Academy has launched its own website. It was inaugurated by Madras High Court Chief Justice B Subashan Reddy while launching the platinum jubilee celebrations of the Academy and the annual music festival here on December 14.
Justice Subashan Reddy, in his inaugural address, said Chennai was deservedly called the cultural capital of the country.
Lauding the efforts of the Academy in promoting and fostering art forms, particularly Carnatic music, he released a commemorative volume which carried reprints of articles published in the Academy journal between 1930 and 1940. The Academy website www.musicacademymadras.com would be another feather to its cap.
Academy president T T Vasu said lecture-demonstrations, concerts and workshops would be held throughout 2002 to mark the platinum jubilee year.
President of the annual conference Umayalpuram K Sivaraman, who would receive the title of Sangeeta Kalanidhi, in his address, made a forceful plea for inclusion of mridangam in the curriculum of schools and other academic institutions since it was a divine instrument.
Bharatanatyam danseuse Kamala Lakshminarayanan, popularly known as Kumari Kamala, would be presented the platinum jubilee award of the Academy. Noted mridangam exponent, Kumbakonam Rajappa Iyer, has been chosen for the Sangeeta Kala Acharya award and V Tyagarajan and Nirmala Ramachandran for the TTK awards.
Academy secretary M S Venkataraman proposed a vote of thanks.
Courtesy: Chennaionline.com
