December Season hopping started with Dr.Chithra Madhavan's lecture on Thiruvannamalai, with vocal support by Archana & Aarthi.
Asusual the 1.5 hrs were loaded with so much information & great music.
Putting up her concluding statement 1st !
The description of the temple prakaras.
Arunchala Naatham, Shri Muthuswamy Dikshitar krithi in saranga.
Totally overwhelmed to read though Shri Ravi & Sridhar's write up. (Copied from their FB post)
I wish i could time travel & watch this glorious incident.
Long thread
" It is only 4 days to Deepavali. For music lovers, Deepavali signifies not just new clothes,sweets and crackers
It signifies the passing into Eternity of a Sangeetha Mahapurusha, Sri Muthuswamy Dikshitar. The great composer attained mukti on 21st October 1835,a Deepavali day. It is 185 years since Dikshitar left his body. An early tribute, both written as well as in song.
The below extract
forms part of a series on the life of Muthuswamy Dikshitar, titled, 'The Eternal Pilgrim' which we wrote in the now extinct website sangeetham.com.
THE ETERNAL PILGRIM and THE ETERNAL MINSTREL
An account is traditionally handed down of the meeting between Tyagaraja
Circa 2012 this is.
While i absolutely love my corporate work, i totally miss class & dancing.
The best thing i ever did was moving to Shri Shijith Nambiar (Anna) and Smt Parvathy Menon (Akka), alumni of Kalakshetra for advance learning .
They gave me an opportunity to savour that Baani , something that ive always admired and watched since childhood, due to family association.
Today when i look back, the period of training under them was a major factor in shaping my attitude towards a lot of things in life.
From time management, to deep concentration, whatever i practiced then with caution, has become instrinc to me now.
Must say, i was a troublesome student , a late teen - early 20s girl, used to get nicely scolded by both of them !
What are the very traditional names you've heard in your family that are pretty rare now.
Among woman in my family : brahmarambika, lopamudra, kanakavalli, kuntalamba (pronounced as kuntaḷāmbā ).
Men : mahadevan or ramakrishnan has stuck on till my generation too.
One fat asshole driving a suv hit the dog that hangs around in my street. The worst is, that guy looked at the dog, bought eggs from the next kirana store, got in & drove off. Thankfully some neighbours saved him n i was at home. Could bring him to the hospital immediately.
Neighbours were stunned at that guys reaction. Due to compulsions of maintaining some civility, i kept quite, else would have taken those eggs and smashed it on him.
Poor soul, so much in pain. 😑
So a small bone has cracked after the spinal cord. Nothing can be done there. Thankfully not paralysed as of now. Doc says, give meds n rest. Hope that he gets up n walks 😑😑.