 Jaya to inaugurate Music Academy Fest
 Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa will inaugurate the Music Academy's music festival and its 79th annual conference (Vidwath Sabha) in Chennai on December 17.
She conveyed this to the newly-elected office-bearers of the Academy, led by its president, N Murali (joint managing director of 'The Hindu' daily), when they called on her on November 14.
This will be the second occasion when Jayalalithaa would inaugurate the annual music festival. The earlier occasion was in 1991.
 Significantly, Jayalalithaa said she was glad to note that the prestigious institution was in "safe hands". The Academy had in the recent years witnessed an unseemly struggle for power by a group led by a textile merchant. This group had also resorted to a high-voltage campaign including distributing handbills and pasting posters against Murali and his supporters but the latter made a clean sweep of the elections held on November 6.
Jayalalithaa is understood to have conveyed to the team of office-bearers, including joint secretaries Malathi Rangaswami, N Ramji, V V Srivatsa and M S Venkataraman and treasurer R Ramakrishnan that the Academy was a renowned institution which had considerable goodwill all over the world, and that it deserved support. She had also enjoyed attending the Academy's music festival whenever she had had the opportunity in the past.
The Chief Minister also agreed to attend a special concert of the Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, conducted by Zubin Mehta, at the Music Academy on December 26, which was being organised by the Max Mueller Bhavan and others to raise funds for tsunami rehabilitation works. R
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