Indian Heritage - December Madras (Chennai) Music Season - Artistes/ Audience' Opinion of the Music Season

Anandamrtakarshini (Amrtavarshini) : 'Oh Devi Amrteswari! I pray for rains (to relieve the misery of people in this drought-stricken area)'. Muthuswami Dikshitar's song brought in copious rains on his way to Ettayapuram.

ARTISTES / AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS

OF THE DECEMBER MUSICSEASON

Opinions collected in 1997 during the Season

Shri Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Smt D.K.Pattammal, Shri K.V.Narayanaswamy, Shri Lalgudi G.Jayaraman, Shri N.Ramani, Shri M.S.Anantharaman, Shri M.S.Gopalakrishan, Shri S.Rajam, Shri Madurai N.Krishnan, Smt Sikkil Sisters, Smt.Sudha Rani Ragupathy

Shri Karaikudi Mani,Smt Bombay Sisters, Kum Kanya Kumari, Smt.E.Gayathri, Shri K.N.Ravi Kiran,Shri Kadri Gopalnath, Smt Sudha Ragunathan, Shri I.Sivakumar,Shri Narasimhan,Smt Lalitha Sivakumar

Shri T.K.Murthy, Shri T.N.Seshagopalan, Shri O.S.Thyagarajan, Shri Neyveli Santhanagopalan, Kum Priya Sisters, Smt S.Gayathri, Kum Ranjani & Gayathri, Smt Lakshmi Ramakrishnan

Shri Vijay Siva, Shri Rajkumar Bharathi, Shri Sanjay Subrahmanian, Smt Nithyashree Mahadevan, Shri Shashank, Smt Bombay Jayashree, Smt MalaChandrashekar, Shri Shashikiran, Smt R.K.Jayanthi, Kum Poorna Siva, Kum Kiranavali

Highs and lows of Chennai December 2006 season
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Highs and lows of Chennai January 2007 season
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Season talk 2007
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Expressions: The season 2007
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How blessed is the MAD-ras season for people in Madras?
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Season quotes: January 2008
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Chatusra Jaathi Triputa (Adi) Taalam

The most widely used taalam in Carnatic music. It has eight aksharams, one chatusra laghu and two druthams.