Excerpts from the talk on MS at The Nehru Centre, London:
"Subbulakshmi... represented a continuity in artistic traditions, and because of her national status and charisma she was able to communicate to a wide variety of people through her music. She was truly a people's artiste."
The best tribute that India can pay to M.S. Subbulakshmi, the Carnatic music legend, is to institute chairs in universities for the study of and research on her work, according to her biographer Lakshmi Viswanathan. Speaking on the life and work of M.S. at the Nehru Centre, the author of Kunjamma — Ode to a Nightingale, described her as a "national treasure".
Read here a report by Hasan Suroor.
2 comments:
I also believe if a research centre is set up only to study MS renditions, it might soon become a centre for nepotism.
MS memorial centre would be a good idea. A centre, maybe a small but well-maintained place, where people can visit to know about MS and her music. A centre with a photograph room, audio room, video room, etc..Just to experience MS phenomenon and her music.
is it called museum otherwise? I love this idea as it will stand in the memory of a great singer MS.
We need research/search centres to bring out the lost compositions of Thiyagarajar and others and also to understand their messages lying in their compositions.
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