The custodian of KVN’s legacy
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Padma Narayanaswamy speaks about her passion for music and her life with the maestro KVN
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Padma Narayanaswamy speaks about her passion for music and her life with the maestro KVN
Our conversation begins with a disclaimer: I tell Padma Narayanaswamy in the little Tamil I know that I will speak to her mostly in English. “I can’t converse fluently in English though I did have my early education in a convent,” she tells me, but proceeds to speak impeccable English for the next 90 minutes, with the occasional use of Tamil words.
Change as formula in Carnatic music
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Music, unless an internal process, can only imitate an emotion, not create one
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Ashwath Narayanan performing a virtual concert at The Music Academy’s 2020 Margazhi Festival
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Music, unless an internal process, can only imitate an emotion, not create one
Like everything else, the Carnatic concert is also changing. It has always been in a state of change intrinsically as individuals looked at it in new ways and bestowed it with fresh meaning. Tradition, therefore, was never a clinical hand-me-down, but altered with individual talent. Then why does change, happening at this juncture in its history, seem so overwhelming?