Morning Academic Sessions
December 16,2015 – January 1, 2016

Vidvan Shri Sanjay Subrahmanian
Sangita Kalanidhi-Designate
Presides over the Morning Conference Sessions
Convenor : Dr. PappuVenugopala Rao
TIMINGS : Invocation: 8:00 a.m. Lecture – Demonstrations including discussions 8.05 – 10.00 a.m.
Discussions open to audience after comments from the Experts Committee Members.
Admission : Open to all, first come first served basis (right of admission reserved)

Lecdem No.

Time

Speaker

Topic

16.12.2015 – Wednesday

8.00-8.20

Students of ASCM, Music Academy

DEVOTIONAL MUSIC

Lecdem 1

8.20-9.05

Vidvān D. Balakrishna

Rare pallavi-s of stalwarts

Lecdem 2

9.10-10.00

VidūṣiGayatri
(RanjaniGayatri)

Grahabhēdam – a few perspectives

17.12.2015 – Thursday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

VidūṣiGowriRamnarayan

Bharat RatnaM.S.Subbulakshmi Centenary Lecture Demonstration

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

VidūṣiSugunaVaradachari

Music composed by Ariyakudi RamanujaIyengar apart from Tiruppāvai

18.12.2015 – Friday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

Vidvān Ganesh Kumar

Choral music with PambanSwamigal’sṣaṇmugakavacam

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

VidūṣiAratiRao

Music of Vijayanagara period

19.12.2015 – Saturday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

VidvānUpendro Sharma& troupe (Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy)

MaṇipuriNaṭaSaṅkīrtana

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

VidūṣiR.Vedavalli

Varṇam and Voice culture

20.12.2015 – Sunday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

VidvānTrichySankaran

The Glory of the Alathur tradition

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

Vidūṣi-s Saroja&Lalitha
(Bombay Sisters)

Insights into the music composed by T.K.GovindaRao

21.12.2015 – Monday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

VidvānSubbuArumugam

Villuppāṭṭu

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

Vidvān Ashok Tiwari& troupe

Native music of Chattisgarh

22.12.2015 – Tuesday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

Vidvān-s TiruppoongurMuthukumaraswamy&NeyveliVenkatesh

Tavil&Mṛdaṅgam – rhythmic explorations

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

Vidūṣi-s &Vidvān-s B.M Sundaram(Chair),O.S.Tyagarajan, RajshriRamakrishnan,RadhaBhaskar, SumithraVasudev

Panel Discussion –
Lakṣya and Lakṣaṇa

23.12.2015 – Wednesday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

Vidvān Mandolin Rajesh

Mandolin & Srinivas

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

Vidvān-s V.P.Dhananjayan, SadanamHarikumar& troupe

KathakaḷiMēla-paḍam (a unique music ensemble)

24.12.2015 – Thursday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

VidvānMaheshaPadyana

Tāḷa-s in Yakṣagāna

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

VidvānSomashekaraJois.B.R

Konnakkōl– most ancient, most modern

25.12.2015 – Friday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

VidūṣiR.S.Jayalakshmi

VīṇaPichumaniIyer

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

VidūṣiS.Sowmya

Same rāga-s, different approaches – Tyāgarāja&Dīkṣita

26.12.2015 – Saturday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

VidvānMurad Ali Khan

Sāraṅgī

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

VidvānT.V.Gopalakrishnan

Rāgatāḷapallavi-s

27.12.2015 – Sunday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

VidvānArimalamPadmanabhan

Music of Parsi theatre

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

Vidvān-s &Vidūṣi-s Karaikudi Subramanian, NeyveliSanthanagopalanLalgudiVijayalakshmi, SriramParasuram, RajkumarBharati, Kiranavali, Suresh Gopalan

Panel discussion –
Merits & demerits of technology

28.12.2015 – Monday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

VidvānM.N.Moorthy& troupe

Percussion instruments of Kerala

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

VidvānTrichurRamachandran

Influence of Varṇa and Kṛti on Rāgaālāpana

29.12.2015 – Tuesday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

VidvānR.Ganesh

Metre and Music

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

VidūṣiSavitriMedhatul& troupe

Lāvaṇi music and Dance

30.12.2015 – Wednesday

Lecdem 1

8.05-8.50

VidūṣiGowriKuppuswamy

Dvādaśanāmakīrtana-s of Mysore Vasudevachar

Lecdem 2

9.00-10.00

VidūṣiRukminiRamani

Śivaninrāgapravāham

31.12.2015 – Thursday

8.00 –8.20

Winners : Sri VidyaVaniSangitaVidyalaya

Devotional Music

Lecdem 1

8.25-9.10

VidvānManjulBhargav

Music & Mathematics

Lecdem 2

9.15-10.05

Vidvān Sanjay Subrahmanyan

Musical Contribution of Calcutta K.S. Krishnamurti

01.01.2016 – Friday

8.00 –8.30

Runners :NadanandaSangitaVidyalaya

Devotional Music

8.35 -9.30

Experts Committee Members & Audience

Open House