Round-up - A veritable youth brigade of Carnatic musicians was in the Capital recently to regale listeners. Pantula… [more]
For the connoisseurs of classical music from Kakinada, All India Radio Visakhapatnam had organised noted… [more]
The second day of the Hyderabad youth Parthi yatra witnessed a classical carnatic vocal concert by Dr.… [more]
BEING A Telugu, Pantula Rama’s rendition of Tyagaraja kritis could not be faulted on grounds of sahitya suddha or pada splitting which, when not done properly, distorts the meaning. With a good command of laya she sings with abandon and with a commendable manodharma. The alapanas are full of verve and imagination. In her concert [...]
We know of people who are ‘wedded’ to their professions. And when the profession is music, home is where practice sessions and the planning that goes into a concert, take place. So what happens when two people who are wedded to music are also married to one another? What if the wife is a vocalist [...]
Pantula Rama’s concert in Kochi was a wonderful amalgamation of aesthetics, flawless grammar and technique. Rama began the concert with the Vasanta raga varnam ‘Ninnu kori’ with numerous repetitions of the lines and the swaras. The concert’s tempo was kept up with ‘Gam Ganapathaye namo namo’ in Hamsadhwani, a composition of Harikeshanalloor Muthaiah Bhagavathar. This [...]