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The
season is also awards time.
The Music Academy’s awards are of course the most looked forward to and this year the prestigious Sangita Kalanidhi goes to
T V Sankaranarayanan, prime disciple and nephew of Madurai Mani Iyer. The award adds one more to the T Sabhesa Iyer sishya parampara, with T Sabhesa Iyer, his disciples Harikesanallur L Muthaiah Bhagavatar and Musiri Subramanya Iyer, Muthaiah Bhagavatar’s disciple Madurai Mani Iyer and Musiri’s disciples
T K Govinda Rao and Mani Krishnaswami all being Sangita
Kalanidhis.
The Sangita Kala Acharya award goes to veteran violinist
M S Anantharaman of the Parur family. In addition the TTK Award goes to S R D Vaidyanathan and Guruvayur Vaidyanathan of the Semponnarkoil family of
nagaswaram artistes. The Papa K S Venkataramaiah Award goes to violinist A
Kanyakumari.
The Indian Fine Arts Society is conferring its title of Sangita Kala Shikhamani on veteran mridangist Guruvayur Dorai. The Tamizh Isai Sangam is awarding the title of Tamizh Isai Perarignar to music director
M S Viswanathan. The Mylapore Fine Arts Club’s Sangita Kala Nipuna goes to T N
Seshagopalan.
The centenarian Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha confers its Sangita Kala Sarathy on violinist M Chandrashekharan. Tyagara Brahma Gana Sabha’s Vani Kala Sudhakara is being given to S Sowmya, violinist M Narmadha and mridangist
K R
Ganesh.
 The Narada Gana Sabha’s Nada Brahmam goes to
C V Chandrashekhar, the dance guru, and it also honours vocalist Vairamangalam Lakshminarayanan. Kartik Fine Arts confers its Isai Peroli on Gayatri Girish and its Isai Vendar on Aruna Sairam. Nungambakkam Cultural confers its Sangita Kala Shiromani on
K J
Yesudass.
Tanjavur Sankara Iyer gets the Kala Ratna from
R R Sabha and Madurai N Krishnan receives the Gana Padmam from Brahma Gana Sabha. Smt
Y G Parthasarathy receives the award for excellence from Mudhra. Mrs YGP’s own Bharat Kalachar confers its Yuva Kala Bharati on a host of musicians such as Sriram Parthasarathy in vocal category, Nagai Sriram for violin, Karaikurichi N Mohanraman, R Mohanakrishnan and Rohan Krishnamurthy for mridangam, Mysore A Chandankumar for flute and Ravi Balasubramaniam for ghatam. Similarly,
S V K’s Nada Inbam awards many musicians under various categories. The recipients are Srivalsan J Menon, vocal, Gayatri Venkataraghavan, vocal,
B U Ganesh Prasad, violin, Padma Sankar, violin, Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar, mridangam, Melakkaveri
Balaji, mridangam, Adambakkam Sankar, ghatam, and B S Purushottam,
kanjira.
SAFE honours T Rukmini and A Kanyakumari, both violinists. Karaikkudi R Mani’s Sruti Laya Kendra gives its Surajananda Award to violinist M Chandrashekharan and its Gowri Manohari Award to Subbu Arumugam, folk artiste.
Having begun with T V
Sankaranarayanan, we conclude with him. He is also to receive the Sangita Ma Mani from Sri Rama Bhakta Jana Samaj and the Sangita Kala Jyoti from Sri Kapali Fine Arts.
That is more or less it. As I write, I find that the Sangita Nataka Akademi awards have been announced and Trichur V Ramachandran features in it. But that can feature in another article, can it not?
Sriram V
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