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GRAND CELEBRATION OF
SEMMANGUDI'S BIRTHDAY |
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Carnatica.com celebrated
the 95th birthday of the doyen of Carnatic music, Sri Semmangudi Srinivasa
Iyer, in association with Sri Krishna Sweets on 6th August 2002
at Mylapore Fine Arts Club, Chennai, in a novel way.
Prasadams from as many as
one hundred and twenty temples from all over Tamilnadu were brought and
offered to him amidst Veda ghosham by the pundits. The first prasadam was
from the temple of Semmangudi, his hometown. The entire evening had an aura
of divinity with Veda ghosham on one side and music on the other. The
frangrance of incense and flowers filled the place.
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The dignitaries and
musicians present there seemed like the "Who's Who" of Chennai, and included T K Govinda Rao, B Rajam Iyer, S R Janakiraman, M
S Anantaraman, Sri. M S Gopalakrishnan, M S Anantharaman, Smt. Seetha
Narayanan, Smt. Lakshmi Rangarajan, Smt. Vasundara Rajagopalan, Smt. M
Narmada, Smt. Y G Parthasarathy, Sri. Nalli Kuppuswami Chetty and Sri. B R
Kumar, among others. |
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The music fraternity
including rasikas, who had thronged the big hall in huge numbers, felt fortunate to receive the blessings of the legendary
Sangeeta Pitamaha, as Semmangudi Mama is popularly known, on this
auspicious occasion. This also happened to be another important day in the
Tamil calendar, being the day of Pradosham, falling on the star of Arudra.
Semmangudi Mama, despite
his frail health, sat through the whole affair and spoke to the gathering
and blessed them.
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Carnatica Team |
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Posted on August 10, 2002 |
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