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Friday, October 18, 2013

Riding the waves

Source: The Hindu | VENKATESAN SRIKANTH
Updated: October 17, 2013 18:33 IST

U. Srinivas was at his best at the Akashvani Sangeet Sammelan in the Capital.

All India Radio recently organised a Carnatic music concert of mandolin by U. Srinivas as part of the Akashvani Sangeet Sammelan-2013, in the auditorium of Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan, New Delhi. This year, AIR organised such concerts in Carnatic and Hindustani styles in 30 different places across the country. The recordings of these concerts are scheduled to be broadcast on the radio daily starting this Saturday (October 19), till December 11. The recordings are made before an invited audience.

The overwhelming participation of Delhi's music lovers during Srinivas' concert, as well as in Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar's Hindustani vocal recital that took place just before it, proved yet again that the Sangeet Sammelan of AIR remains an important event in their calendar. The concert was also reminiscent of the another programme "Isai Saral", conducted by AIR Chennai regularly, where concerts are audio and video recorded before an invited audience and later broadcast over the radio and telecast on Doordarshan. One is tempted to suggest to AIR to consider replicating this programme in Delhi and other important stations too.

The rich tonal quality produced by Srinivas, the pioneer in......................

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