How do you begin to understand, fathom and then set out to describe the musical phenomenon that Palghat Mani Iyer was and even is, today? Thirty or so years have passed since he moved on to another ...

Legendary mridangam exponent Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, who has completed 75 years of his musical career, has authored the book, Musical Excellence of Mridangam, jointly with eminent scientists T.

Tim Ries, the Rolling Stones saxophonist, who is in India on a five-city tour as part of a world music band, says Hindustani classical music has inspired him and he has been listening to Indian music ...

CHENNAI: As you near Mundakanni Amman temple in Mylapore, beats of the mridangam welcome you. If you follow the sound, you reach a narrow passage beside the temple. We walked till the end of the road ...

Umayalpuram K Sivaraman (UKS), a household name in Carnatic music circles, is quite possibly one of the last connections we have to what is commonly referred to as the golden era of recorded Carnatic ...

The mridangam is a percussion instrument being used for millennia in Indian classical music. To call it simply a two-sided drum is to do it injustice since maestros who play it can actually make it ...

It was not expected of a young boy growing up in a small town in America to pick up an instrument like the Mridangam to play but then that was what Rohan Krishnamurthy did when he was an 8 year old.

Chennai: Percussion instruments come in various shape and sizes. The rhythmic sophistication of Carnatic classical music has for long depended on the mridangam to guide the tempo. The double barreled ...

A Arogyam, a sixth-generation mridangam repairer, takes us through the nuances of the instrument. His team of craftsmen also work on leather instruments like tabla, dholki and kanjira. CHENNAI: It’s ...

TM Krishna performs at the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet, in association with Victoria Memorial Hall and The Telegraph, on Friday evening The Telegraph picture T.M. Krishna problematises everything ...