In praise of tradition

Sampradaya, for the first time, is organising a three-day fund- raising festival to commemorate its 20th anniversary at the Narada Gana Sabha from October 10, 12 and 13 at 6.30 p.m. The theme of the concerts is sampradaya.

Unnikrishnan, Nithyashree Mahadevan and Sanjay Subramanian, life members of the organisation will be performing at the festival. While Unnikrishnan will present some choice kritis of Vina Dhanamal Bani, Nithyashree will present Muthuswamy Dikshitar's kritis and Sanjay will present traditional kritis. The season tickets cost Rs 250, Rs 200 and Rs 100. The daily tickets will be Rs 100, Rs 75, Rs 50 and Rs 25. The tickets are available at the auditorium, Landmark, Music World, Carnatic Music Book Centre and Sampradaya between 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. The proceeds of the ticket sales will be used to build a corpus fund to maintain the archives. On the occasion, Sampradaya will also be bringing out a souvenir with messages from the President, the Prime Minister, critics, musicologists, artistes and heads of music institutions. It will also feature articles, rare photographs and interviews. The souvenir will be released during the December music festival.

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