The Hindu : Friday Review Chennai / Music : Connoisseur's delightDear All :
This Monograph & the CD ROMs can be acquired from
Dr.Jyothi Rao of Queens , NY for your libraries .
V.Sadagopan
Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Friday Review Chennai and Tamil Nadu
Published on Fridays
Connoisseur's delight
Tallapakkam Annamacharya (1408-1503) (?) was the earliest composers
of Telugu kirtanas and also the trendsetter of the Bhajana Paddhati. He was the
first ever composer to divide his' into Pallavi (refrain) and charanams
(Stansas). He composed a phenomenal number of 32,000 songs, out of which 14,000
are available. They were all engraved in copper plates, and stored in a small
room within the temple premises of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumalai.
His compositions have been basically classified as Aadhyatma
Sankeertanam (spiritual compositions) and Sringara Sankeertanams (erotic
compositions).
This CD album of four discs gives an introduction to Annamacharya,
the Rituals and Festivals at Tirumala, Sringara Sankeertanams and Sanskrit
compositions with scholarly insights into the life, music and devotion of
Annamacharya by Dr. Pappu Venugopal Rao, who is erudition personified in many
spheres. His in-depth analysis of Annamacharya's work, is more of a `Tapas'
than any casual, fleeting interest in the subject.
The rendering of rare and popular songs set to music by
distinguished musicians, by Vidwans Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Narimella
Balakrishna Prasad, Balamurali Krishna and Mandapaka Sri Devi with singular
emphasis on melody, emotion, bhava and bhakti is truly vintage claret. This
superb effort of Dr. Pappu Venugopala Rao is undoubtedly a collector's item.
S.P.
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