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This Day That Age
dated December 22, 1951: Music Academy conference opens
The 25th Annual Conference of the Music Academy opened in the Sundareswarar Hall in Mylapore, Madras, on Friday the 21st. Declaring the conference open, Mr. T. R. Venkatarama Sastri, recalled, ``My introduction to music was in the Tiruvavaduthurai mutt and temple, the patrons of music then. Hearing first-rate nagaswaram players was my first instruction. We heard the divine music of Maha Vaidyanatha Aiyar, accompanied by Tirukodikkaval Krishna Aiyar's violin. My impression is that such music was never heard again. Coming to Madras in 1894, I listened to Patnam Subramania Iyer, and found him not so satisfying. But I learnt that while Maha Vaidyanatha Aiyar beguiled his listeners with sweetness of voice, Patnam was the truer artist. Later, after coming into contact with Tiger Varadachariar, I learnt to appreciate the ideas rendered by an artist, even if not rendered very satisfyingly. ... No musician who does not appreciate and enjoy his own music is likely to impress others. Maha Vaidyanatha Aiyar did enjoy himself - in a subdued key. But Krishna Aiyar's enjoyment of his own playing was visible in every movement of his eyes and smiling face.''
Vidwan Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar said in his presidential address, ``Music has an individual, innate beauty, different from other fine arts. Originating in the air, it dissolves into the air, giving `Nirgunabrahmam' - which fills all space - the form of `Nadabrahmam'. Practice of music is, therefore, worship of `Nirgunabrahmam', and sangita is a yoga by itself. ... I have no doubt that the art and practice of Carnatic music will flourish and grow with good cooperation between vidwans and rasikas.
Pakhtoons' memorandum to U.N.
In a memorandum submitted to Mr. Frank Graham, the U.N. Representative, the Pakhtoon people emphasised a nexus between their demand for an independent nation and the Kashmir issue: Kashmir and Pakhtoonistan were geographically linked, with the former adjoining the north-eastern boundary of the latter. ``The Kashmir issue, caused by the aggressive attitude of Pakistan, can be solved only by granting the rights of the struggling Pakhtoons. The U.N. has adopted contradictory attitudes in Korea and in Kashmir,'' the memorandum pointed out.
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