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K. V. Narayanaswamy

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Palghat Kollengode Viswanathan Ramanarayanaswamy (15 November 1923 – 1 April 2002), often referred to as K. V. Narayanaswamy or KVN was an Indian musician, widely considered to be among the finest Carnatic music vocalists of the 20th century. [1]

63 relations: Ali Akbar Khan, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Ashtapadi, Ayilyam Thirunal, Balasaraswati, Berkeley, California, Bismillah Khan, Carnatic music, Chembai, Chennai, Coimbatore, Devagandhari, Fiddle, Fulbright Program, G. N. Balasubramaniam, Geoffrey Chaucer, Gopalakrishna Bharati, Hollywood Bowl, Iyer, Kambhoji, Kannappa Nayanar, Kharaharapriya, Latangi, List of Edinburgh festivals, Madras Music Academy, Madras Presidency, Maharaja, Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair, Middletown, Connecticut, Mridangam, Musicology, Musiri Subramania Iyer, Navaratri, Nikhil Banerjee, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, Palakkad, Palani Subramaniam Pillai, Palghat Mani Iyer, Palghat R. Raghu, Pitch (music), Presidencies and provinces of British India, President of India, Princely state, Raga, Ravi Shankar, San Diego State University, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Sangeetha Kalanidhi, ..., Sangeetha Kalasikhamani, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Shashank Subramanyam, Shree ragam, Shree ranjani, Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma, T. N. Krishnan, Travancore, Travancore royal family, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, University of California, San Diego, V. K. Narayana Menon, Wesleyan University. Expand index (13 more) »

Ali Akbar Khan

Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 192218 June 2009) was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod.

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Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar

Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar (1890– January 23, 1967), popularly known as Ariyakudi, was a Carnatic music vocalist, born in Ariyakudi, a town in Ramanathapuram (present-day Sivaganga) district of Tamil Nadu.

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Ashtapadi

Ashtapadis or Ashtapadi refers to the Sanskrit hymns of the Geetha Govinda, composed by Jayadeva in the 12th Century.

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Ayilyam Thirunal

Ayilyam Thirunal Rama Varma (1832–1880) was the ruler of the princely state of Travancore in India from 1860 to 1880.

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Balasaraswati

Tanjore Balasaraswati, also known as Balasaraswati (13 May 1918 – 9 February 1984), was a celebrated Indian dancer, and her rendering of Bharatanatyam, a classical dance style originated in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, made this style of dancing well known in different parts of India and many parts of the world.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Bismillah Khan

Ustad Bismillah Khan (21 March 1916 – 21 August 2006) (born as Qamaruddin Khan), often referred to by the honorific title Ustad, was an Indian musician credited with popularizing the shehnai, a subcontinental wind instrument of the oboe class.

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Carnatic music

Carnatic music, Karnāṭaka saṃgīta or Karnāṭaka saṅgītam is a system of music commonly associated with southern India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, as well as Sri Lanka.

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Chembai

Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar a.k.a. Vaidyanatha Iyer (1 September 1896-16 October 1974) was a Carnatic music singer from Palakkad (state of Kerala, India).

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Coimbatore

Coimbatore (Tamil: கோயம்புத்தூர்), also known as Kovai, is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Devagandhari

Devagandhari (pronounced devagāndhāri) is a raga (musical scale) in Indian classical music.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs whose goal is to improve intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.

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G. N. Balasubramaniam

Gudalur Narayanaswamy Balasubramaniam (6 January 1910 – 1 May 1965), popularly known as GNB, was an Indian Carnatic singer.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.

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Gopalakrishna Bharati

Gopalakrishna Bharati (கோபாலகிருஷ்ண பாரதி) (1810–1896) was a Tamil poet and a composer of Carnatic music.

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Hollywood Bowl

The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheater in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Iyer

Iyer (also spelt as Ayyar, Aiyar, Ayer or Aiyer) is a caste of Hindu Brahmin communities of Tamil origin.

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Kambhoji

Kambhoji or Kambodhi is a sublime classical raga or musical mode (anciently known as Kambhoja or Kamboja), which is very popular in Indian musical landscape It is known as Thakkesi pann in ancient Tamil music(3BCE) which is the oldest reference to this musical mode.

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Kannappa Nayanar

Kannappa Nayanar or Kannappa was one of the 63 Nayanars or holy Saivite saints, the staunch devotees of Shiva.

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Kharaharapriya

Kharaharapriya is a rāga in Carnatic music.

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Latangi

Latangi (pronounced latāngi) is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music).

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List of Edinburgh festivals

This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Madras Music Academy

Madras Music Academy is one of the earliest established music academies in South India.

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Madras Presidency

The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St.

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Maharaja

Mahārāja (महाराज, also spelled Maharajah, Moharaja) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or "high king".

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Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair

Mavelikkara Velukutty Nair (Malayalam: മാവേലിക്കര വേലുക്കുട്ടി നായർ) was an Indian mridangam player.

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Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state, 16 miles (26 km) south of Hartford.

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Mridangam

The Mridangam is a percussion instrument from India of ancient origin.

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Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music.

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Musiri Subramania Iyer

Musiri Subramania Iyer (April 9, 1899 - March 25, 1975) was a Carnatic vocalist whose stage performing career spanned the 1920s to the 1940s.

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Navaratri

Navaratri (नवरात्रि, literally "nine nights"), also spelled Navratri or Navarathri, is a nine nights (and ten days) Hindu festival, celebrated in the autumn every year.

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Nikhil Banerjee

Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee (14 October 1931 – 27 January 1986) was an Indian classical sitarist of the Maihar Gharana.

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Padma Bhushan

The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri.

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Padma Shri

Padma Shri (also Padma Shree) is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.

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Palakkad

Palakkad, also known as Palghat, is a city and municipality in the state of Kerala in southern India, spread over an area of 26.60 km2 and is the administrative headquarters of the Palakkad District.

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Palani Subramaniam Pillai

Palani Subramania Pillai (1908–1962) was a well known Carnatic music percussionist.

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Palghat Mani Iyer

Palghat T. S. Mani Iyer (1912–1981) was one of the leading mridangists in the field of Carnatic music.

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Palghat R. Raghu

Palghat R. Raghu (9 January 1928 – 2 June 2009) was a Carnatic musician and percussionist.

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Pitch (music)

Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

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President of India

The President of the Republic of India is the head of state of India and the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Princely state

A princely state, also called native state (legally, under the British) or Indian state (for those states on the subcontinent), was a vassal state under a local or regional ruler in a subsidiary alliance with the British Raj.

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Raga

A raga or raaga (IAST: rāga; also raag or ragam; literally "coloring, tingeing, dyeing") is a melodic framework for improvisation akin to a melodic mode in Indian classical music.

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Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শঙ্কর) (7 April 192011 December 2012), born Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury, his name often preceded by the title Pandit ('Master'), was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music.

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San Diego State University

San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California, and is the largest and oldest higher education institution in San Diego County.

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Sangeet Natak Akademi

Sangeet Natak Akademi (The National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama in English) is the national level academy for performing arts set up by the Government of India.

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Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship

The Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowship, officially known as Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Sadasya, is an Indian honour for the performing arts presented by Sangeet Natak Akademi.

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Sangeetha Kalanidhi

Sangeetha Kalanidhi or Sangita Kalanidhi (Sanskrit) (sangeetha.

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Sangeetha Kalasikhamani

Sangeetha Kalasikhamani or Sangita Kalasikhamani (Sanskrit: saṅgītakalāśikhāmaṇi) (sangeetha.

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Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer

Semmangudi Radhakrishna Srinivasa Iyer (25 July 1908 – 31 October 2003) was a Carnatic vocalist.

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Shashank Subramanyam

Shashank Subramanyam is a Grammy-nominated renowned exponent of the Bamboo Flute from India and specialises in Indian Classical Music.

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Shree ragam

Shri ragam is an ancient ragam in the Carnatic tradition.

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Shree ranjani

Shree ranjani is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music).

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Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma

(സ്വാതി തിരുനാള്‍ രാമവർമ്മ) (16 April 1813 – 26 December 1846) was the Maharaja of the Kingdom of Travancore, British India.

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T. N. Krishnan

Trippunithura Narayanaiyer Krishnan (born 6 October 1928) is a Carnatic music violinist.

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Travancore

The Kingdom of Travancore was an Indian kingdom from 1729 until 1949.

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Travancore royal family

The Travancore Royal Family was the ruling house of the Indian princely state of Travancore.They lost their ruling rights in 1949 when Travancore merged with the Indian Union and their privileges were abolished by the Indian Union in 1971 by a constitutional amendment.The Travancore Royalty could also considered descendants of the ancient Cheras, Ay/Venad, Pandya and Chola dynasties, due to consistent intermarriages with these lines over the centuries.

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Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman

Umayalpuram Kasiviswanatha Sivaraman (born 17 December 1935) is a Carnatic mridanga vidwan.

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University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the United States.

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V. K. Narayana Menon

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Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, founded in 1831.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._V._Narayanaswamy

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