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Dr N. Rajam
| Sydney Date/Time:
| 8pm, Friday 18 August 2006
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| Sydney Venue:
| Wesley Centre, Pitt St, Sydney
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| Melbourne Date/Time:
| 8pm, Friday 25 August 2006
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| Melbourne Venue:
| Athenaeum Theatre, Collins St, Melbourne
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Concert accompanying artistes:
| mrdangam (South Indian drums):
| Mannargudi Easwaran
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| tabla (North Indian drums):
| Mukundraj Deo
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In both cities, the weekend-long series of concerts in CHARINDAA's FIMA 2006, is commenced with a Jugalbandhi instrumental music concert by two of India's prominent
instrumentalists: Dr N. Ramani and Dr N. Rajam.
Dr N. Rajam, India’s leading exponent of the North Indian (Hindustani) violin, plays in a Carnatic-Hindustani Jugalbandhi (Artistic Conversations) concert with Dr N. Ramani, India’s leading exponent of the South Indian (Carnatic) flute.
Dr Rajam is one of the senior legends of the North Indian classical (Hidustani) genre. She was born into a family that has a rich heritage in classical Indian music. Her father, Narayana Iyer, was a prominent classical Carnatic violinist and her brother, T. N. Krishnan, is one of the foremost Carnatic violinists performing today. Her initial instruction was from her father, before training with Pandit Onkarnath Thakur, a renowned Hindustani vocalist.
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She is, today, a truly magical performer. She has a silken, infallible and definite touch on the violin with not a single note being ever out of place. In her notes to a Music Today album she quotes her guru-s advice about playing: "Approach the musical notes with utmost tenderness, love and humility, caress them and cajole them." It is advice she has taken to heart. Given her background in the two styles of Indian classical music (Carnatic and Hindustani) and given her interests in and knowledge of both art forms, she is an ideal partner to Dr N. Ramani in a Jugalbandhi concert.
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