Musicians’ growing penchant for manodharma has now reduced concerts to very few songs.

Ganabharathi had organised a vocal recital on Jan. 10 at Veene Seshanna Bhavana. The concert, performed by the young and ...

Starting off pleasantly with Muthuswami Dikshitar’s ‘Parvati Kumaram’ in Nattakurinji, she played kalpanaswaras that had flowing raga-alapana-like elements and showed an influence of tanam.