Svaram, Auroville, showcases the power of music in the educative and therapeutic sense. With the aim of bridging ancient local traditions and modern culture, the Svaram Musical Instruments Research Station was established in 2003 at Auroville, Pondicherry. The research station provides vocational training opportunities to unemployed youth living in the villages around Auroville by producing …
The Music Season as it is fondly called was started way back in the 1920s and it featured music concerts, harikathas, lec-dems and dance for a month. Titles were conferred and awards were given to highly competent musicians. It allowed aficionados of music to appreciate performances of not only the professionals but also the amateurs. …
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“If music can create a transformation in you, if it can turn your life, then cling on, it will give you bliss,” says Dr. T. Samuel Joseph, founder of Christian Cultural Academy (CCA). Popularly known as Shyaam, he is responsible for the growth of many physically challenged and under privileged youth in the field of …
With rigorous and systematic training, students of keyboardist and music teacher M.S. Martin have scaled great heights. Lalithasai reports Every time they finish a class, students of keyboardist and music teacher M.S. Martin are left with a sense of having learnt something new. It may be a new composition or a new way of rendering …
Even if one begins music lessons at a young age, the day of the first performance matters a lot in this part of the world. An aspiring artiste seldom gives the first public performance, locally referred to as the thenga moodi kutcheri, in a renowned sabha. It is more probable that it is at a …