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Vocalist Sid Sriram at a concert in Bharat Kalachars annual music festival DC

Gaja-na-na and Old King Cole

The affluent among them had German Grundig radiograms, the middle class gramophones, but almost all a radio.

27 Dec 2018 1:58 AM IST

Vocalists Iyer Sisters at a concert in Chennai Cultural Academy Trust Fine Arts Festival on Thursday. (Photo: DC)

Sneaking out of sabha concerts

The maroon Mysore silk nods her head. â€œAamam, mami, It is.

21 Dec 2018 6:58 AM IST

Carnatic vocalist Dr Sriram Parasuram performing at the annual music festival at Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha on Monday. (DC)

Everset Eswaran's feats with eats

The traditional urulai masala is also dispensed with, its familiarity breeding contempt.

18 Dec 2018 12:50 AM IST

Artistes performing at Alangar, Indian classical music and dance festival, inaugurated by Roy Kho, consul-general, consulate-general of the republic of Singapore, Chennai, at Music Academy. (Photo: DC)

Margazhi Maha Utsavam: Nataraja, Nataraja, narthana sundara Nataraja

The songs were from a select repertoire of six, containing eight saranams, out of several approved by the school...

8 Dec 2018 5:18 AM IST

At a signal given by the HM, the music teacher began in her booming voice, the cuckoo sisters giving the teacher a head start and merging with her voice.

Orchestrated scholl prayer

The songs were from a select repertoire of six, containing eight saranams, out of several approved by the school...

4 Dec 2018 2:22 AM IST

Agreed all of us were in early teens, having wolves in our stomachs, but the brigade did not want any member to have stomach upsets and free flow. Agreed all of us were in early teens, having wolves in our stomachs, but the brigade did not want any member to have stomach upsets and free flow.

Best in doing Navaratri's favourite snack? Name her Sundal Choodamani

The brigade was bound by inflexible rules.

14 Oct 2018 5:29 AM IST

A Natyadarshan performance at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in the city on Friday. (Photo: DC)

Music enlivens life

There were no discs, pen drives or other repositories of music, and there were only gramophone records.

23 Dec 2017 6:11 AM IST