Balasubrahmaniyan Speaks to India Music Academy

B. “Balu” Balasubrahmaniyan, adjunct instructor of music, spoke on Carnatic music during a lecture demonstration Dec. 23 at the Madras Music Academy in Chennai, India.

Balasubramanian discussed the musical piece, Gopalakrishna Bharati’s Nandanar Charithiram – its tunes, story and the compositions. It was first published in 1861 by a French collector. In 1932, M.S. Ramaswamy brought it out with tunes. There are a number of notations found for the songs. A.M. Chinnasamy Mudaliar published it with notations for 42 songs. Of them, 17 are original. Balasubramanian was featured in the Jan. 8 edition of The Hindu in an article titled “On the finer aspects of music…”

Balasubramanian was featured in the Jan. 8 edition of The Hindu in an article titled “On the finer aspects of music…“