The Music Conference 1995
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Day |
Date |
Time |
Place |
Music By |
| 01 | Firday | 15th December 1995 | 3.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Sheik Mahaboob Subhani Srimati Kaleesha Mahaboob (Nagasvaram) T. V. Muthu Kumar (Tavil) V. G. Murugan (Tavil) |
| 02 | Friday | 15th December 1995 | 5.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | INAGURATION |
| 03 | Friday | 15th December 1995 | 7.00 to 9.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Akila Shankar (Bharatanatyam) |
| 04 | Saturday | 16th December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Tirupamburam S. Shanumuga Sundaram (Vocal) Mysore H. K. Narasimhamurthy (Violin) R. Ramesh (Mridangam) Mannargudy Raghavan (Kanjira) |
| 05 | Saturday | 16th December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Geetha Krishnamurthy (Veena) Vijiendran (Mridangam) |
| 06 | Saturday | 16th December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Rudrapatnam S. Ramakanth (Vocal) Bombay B. Gayatri (Violin ) Umayalpuram Mali (Mridangam) |
| 07 | Saturday | 16th December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Dr. Prapancham Sita Ram (Flute) Lalitha Raghavan (Violin) Bangalore V. Praveen (Mridangam) |
| 08 | Saturday | 16th December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Dr. K. J. Yesudas (Vocal) Bangalore Thyagarajan (Violin) Tiruvarur Bakthavathsalam (Mridangam) Tripunithura N. Radhakrishnan (Ghatam) |
| 09 | Sunday | 17th December 1995 | 10.30 to 2.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | T. R. Subramaniam (Vocal) Dr. M. Chandrasekaran (Violin) Yella Venkateswara Rao (Mridangam) |
| 10 | Sunday | 17th December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | R. Prasanna (Guitar) B. Raghavendra Rao (Violin) Nagai S. Narayanan (Mridangam) |
| 11 | Sunday | 17th December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | S. Nithyasree (Vocal) T. A. Jayanthi (Violin) M. V. Uday Sankar (Mridangam) |
| 12 | Sunday | 17th December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Prema Hariharan (Vocal) M. S. Anantharaman (Violin) Parassala Ravi (Mridangam) |
| 13 | Sunday | 17th December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | O. S. Thiyagarajan (Vocal) Mysore M. Manjunath (Violin) Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam) G. Ravichandran (Ghatam) |
| 14 | Monday | 18th December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | S. V. Parthasarathy (Vocal) Radha Narayanan (Violin) V. S. Rajagopal (Mridangam) |
| 15 | Monday | 18th December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Suja Srinivas (Hong Kong) (Vocal) Neela Jayakumar (Violin) M. Ravichandra (Australia) (Mridangam) |
| 16 | Monday | 18th December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Raji Gopalakrishnan (Vocal) R. Hemalatha (Violin) Neyveli S. Skanda Subramanian (Mridangam) |
| 17 | Monday | 18th December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | N. Ravikiran (Chitraveena) Mysore M. Manjunath (Violin) Palghat R. Raghu (Mridangam) Master A. Anand (Mridangam) |
| 18 | Monday | 18th December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Dr. K. Omanakutty (Vocal) Meera Sivaramakrishnan (Violin) V. Ramiah (Mridangam) |
| 19 | Tuesday | 19th December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | P. S. Narayanaswamy (Vocal) V. V. Subramanyam (Violin) K. V. Prasad (Mridangam) V. Nagarajan (Kanjira) |
| 20 | Tuesday | 19th December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Balaji Shankar (Vocal) S. Varadarajan (Violin) Poongulam S. Subramanian (Mridangam) |
| 21 | Tuesday | 19th December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Saroja Soundararajan (Vocal) Alandur Natarajan (Mridangam) Mudhra Bhaskar (Mridangam) |
| 22 | Tuesday | 19th December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | S. Rajeswari (Vocal) T. K. Padmanabhan (Violin) Tanjore S. Subramanian (Mridangam) |
| 23 | Tuesday | 19th December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Dr. N. Ramani (Vocal) Coimbatore B. Dakshinamurthy (Violin) Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam) G. Harishankar(Kanjira) |
| 24 | Wednesday | 20th December 1995 | 10.30 to12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Nookala Chinnasatyanarayana (Vocal) Ivaturi Vijayeswara Rao (Violin) Dandamudi Rammohan Rao (Mridangam) |
| 25 | Wednesday | 20th December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Lalitha Krishnan (Vocal) Pakala Ramdas (Violin) A. S. Ranganathan (Mridangam) |
| 26 | Wednesday | 20th December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Nirmala Sundarajan (Vocal) Tiruvarur N. Balam (Violin) Thanjavur R. Kumar (Mridangam) |
| 27 | Wednesday | 20th December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Maharajapuram S. Ramachandran (Vocal) Nagai Muralidharan (Violin) B. Hari Kumar (Mridangam) |
| 28 | Wednesday | 20th December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | T. V. Sankaranarayanan (Vocal) Sriram Parasuram (Violin) Tiruvarur Bakthavathsalam (Mridangam) V. Nagarajan (Kanjira) |
| 29 | Thursday | 21st December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Chingleput Ranganathan (Vocal) Usha Rajagopalan (Violin) Madirimangalam S. Swaminathan (Mridangam) |
| 30 | Tuesday | 21st December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | P. T. Seshadri (Flute Trio) Durai Balasubramaniam (Violin) Kumbakonam K. Ramakrishnan (Mridangam) |
| 31 | Thursday | 21st December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Thara Mohan (Veena) V. R. Jayakumar (Mridangam) |
| 32 | Thursday | 21st December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Trichur V. Ramachandran (Vocal) Mysore M. Nagaraj (Violin) Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam) E. M. Subramaniam (Ghatam) |
| 33 | Thursday | 21st December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Kadri Gopalnath (Vocal) A. Kanyakumari (Violin) K. V. Prasad (Mridangam) Rajasekar (Morsing) |
| 34 | Friday | 22nd December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | B. Krishnamurthy (Vocal) V. Thiagarajan (Violin) Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam) |
| 35 | Friday | 22nd December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Revathy Krishna (Veena) Kallidaikurichi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam) |
| 36 | Friday | 22nd December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Sanjay Subramanyam (Vocal) H. K. Venkatram (Violin) K. Arun Prakash (Mridangam ) |
| 37 | Friday | 22nd December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | V. Kunjumani, & N. Neela (Sikkil Sisters) (Flute) M. A. Sundaresan (Violin) Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam) Vaikom R. Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam) |
| 38 | Friday | 22nd December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Padamavati Ananthagopalan & Jayanthi R. Kiran (Veena Duet) Madrimangalam S. Swaminathan (Mridangam) T. D. Balasubramaniam (Ghatam) Selva Ganesh (Kanjira) |
| 39 | Saturday | 23rd December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Dr. Tadepally T. Lokanatha Sarma (Vocal) Embar S. Kannan (Violin) J. Skanda Prasad (Mridangam) |
| 40 | Saturday | 23rd December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Dr. R. Ganesh ( Vocal) Bangalore Balu Raghuraman (Violin) R. Babu Rajasekaran (Mridangam) |
| 41 | Saturday | 23rd December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Aruna Sayeeram (Vocal) B. U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin) Mangalore Rajappa Sainatha (Mridangam) |
| 42 | Saturday | 23rd December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Bombay Sisters C. Saroja & C. Lalitha (Vocal) Usha Rajagopalan (Violin) Arjun Kumar (Mridangam) N. Govindarajan (Mridangam) |
| 43 | Saturday | 23rd December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | U. Srinivas (Mandolin) Delhi P. Sunder Rajan (Violin) Guruvayur Durai (Mridangam) T. V. Vasan (Ghatam) |
| 44 | Sunday | 24th December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Sangita Kalanidhi B. Rajam Iyer (Vocal) Thirupparkadal S. Veeraraghavan (Violin) Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam) T. H. Vinayakram (Ghatam) |
| 45 | Sunday | 24th December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | T. M. Krishna (Vocal) Kalpana Kishore (Violin) N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam) |
| 46 | Sunday | 24th December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Bhushani Kalyanaraman (Vocal) Durai Swaminathan (Violin) Bangalore K. Ravishankar (Mridangam) |
| 47 | Sunday | 24th December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Hyderabad Brothers D. Sesha Chary & D. Raghava Chary (Vocal) Peri Sree Ramamurthy (Violin) Sangita Kalanidhi T. K. Murthy (Mridangam) |
| 48 | Sunday | 24th December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Sudha Raghunathan (Vocal) M. R. Gopinath (Violin) Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam) S. Karthick (Ghatam) |
| 49 | Monday | 25th December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Suguna Purushothaman (Vocal) V. L. Kumar (Violin) Tanjore Kumar (Mridangam) |
| 50 | Monday | 25th December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | T. R. Padmini (Vocal) Kalyani Shankar (Violin) R. Yoga Raja (Mridangam) |
| 51 | Monday | 25th December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Papanasam Ashok Ramani (Vocal) R. K. Sriram Kumar (Violin) Bangalore V.Praveen (Mridangam) |
| 52 | Monday | 25th December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 am | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan (Vocal) S. D. Sridharan (Violin) J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam) N. Govindarajan (Ghatam) |
| 53 | Monday | 25th December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Madurai T. N. Seshagopalan (Vocal) V. V. Ravi (Violin) Vellore Ramabhadran (Mridangam) T. H. Subhash Chandran (Ghatam) |
| 54 | Tuesday | 26th December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Tiruvengadu Jayaraman (Vocal) Sikkil R. Bhaskaran (Violin) Bangalore T. A. S. Mani (Mridangam) |
| 55 | Tuesday | 26th December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Varalakshmi Rajagopalan (Vocal) N. Poorna Siva (Violin) Karakurichi N. Mohan Raman (Mridangam) |
| 56 | Tuesday | 26th December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | S. Sowmya (Vocal) M. Narmada (Violin) Melakaveri K. Balaji (Mridangam) |
| 57 | Tuesday | 26th December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. Mani Krishnaswami (Vocal) Meera Sivaramakrishnan (Violin) Karaikudi K. Jayaraman (Mridangam |
| 58 | Tuesday | 26th December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Alarmel Valli (Bharatanatyam) Prema Ramamoorthy (Vocal) Shobhana Swamy (Nattuvangam) Padmanabhan (Violin) T. K. Ramakrishnan (Mridangam) R. Thigarajan (Flute) |
| 59 | Wednesday | 27th December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Sangita Kalanidhi Nedunuri Krishnamurthy (Vocal) V. V. Ravi (Violin) R. Ramesh (Mridangam) |
| 60 | Wednesday | 27th December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Trichy K. Ramesh (Vocal) V. L. Sudharsan (Violin) Kalakkadu R. Srinivasan (Mridangam) |
| 61 | Wednesday | 27th December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Sugandha Kalamegham (Vocal) V. Nalina Mohan (Violin) Anoor Ananthakrishna Sarma (Mridangam) |
| 62 | Wednesday | 27th December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | N. Vijay Siva (Vocal) Mysore M. Nagaraj (Violin) Trichur Narendran (Mridangam) V. Suresh (Ghatam) |
| 63 | Wednesday | 27th December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Shahid Pervez (Sitar ( Hindustani Classical )) |
| 64 | Thursday | 28th December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Dr. S. R. Janakiraman (Vocal) Dwaram Mangatayaru (Violin) G. Shanmuganandam (Mridangam) |
| 65 | Thursday | 28th December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Sangeetha Sivakumar (Vocal) V. V. S. Murari (Violin) Tanjore K. Murugaboopathy (Mridangam) |
| 66 | Thursday | 28th December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Bombay S. Jayashri (Vocal) Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin) Neyveli R. Narayanan (Mridangam) |
| 67 | Thursday | 28th December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | R. Vedavalli (Vocal) M. A. Krishnaswamy (Violin) K. R. Ganesh (Mridangam) B. Padmanabhan (Ghatam) |
| 68 | Thursday | 28th December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Shantha Dhananjayan (Vocal & Nattuvangam) Vanathi Raghuraman (Vocal) Sashidharan (Vocal) Vijayaraghavan (Violin) Vidya Hari (Veena) Ramesh Babu (Mridangam) Sunil Kumar (Flute) Lakshmi Narayanan (Tambura) |
| 69 | Friday | 29th December 1995 | 10.00 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Sangita Kala Acharya Titte Krishna Iyengar (Vocal) Dwaram Satyanarayana Rao (Violin) Kuttalam R. Viswanatha Iyer (Mridangam) |
| 70 | Friday | 29th December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Sowmya Madhanagopal ( Hindustani Vocal) Pratap Giri Krishnamurthy (Harmonium) Abhijit Bhattacharya (Tabla) |
| 71 | Friday | 29th December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Seetha Rajan (Vocal) G. Bharathi (Violin) T. K. Ramakrishnan (Mridangam) |
| 72 | Friday | 29th December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Charumathi Ramachandran (Vocal) Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (Violin) T. Shyam Sundar (Mridangam) Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghatam) |
| 73 | Friday | 29th December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | R. K. Srikantan Rudrapatnam (Vocal) S. Ramakanth (Vocal Support) T. Rukmini (Violin) Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam) Bangalore H. P. Ramachar (Kanjira) |
| 74 | Saturday | 30th December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | A. Sundharesan (Vocal) V. K. Venkata Ramanujam (Violin) Tanjore R. Ramadas (Mridangam) Krishnapuram K. V. R. S. Mani (Ghatam) |
| 75 | Saturday | 30th December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | S. P. Ramh (Veena) Madurai A. G. A. Gnanasundaram (Violin) B. Ganapathy Raman (Mridangam) |
| 76 | Saturday | 30th December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | P. Unni Krishnan (Vocal) B. Chandramouli (Violin) Bombay C. N. Balajee (Mridangam) |
| 77 | Saturday | 30th December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Kunnakkudi R. Vaidyanathan (Violin) Darasuram M. Ganapathy (Mridangam) Tirukkadaiyur Dakshinamurthy (Kanjira) |
| 78 | Saturday | 30th December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Malavika Sarukkai Bhagyalakshmi (Bharatanatyam) N. Sikamani (Vocal) P. K. Ranganathan (Mridangam) A. S. Murali (Nattuvangam) |
| 79 | Sunday | 31st December 1995 | 10.30 to 12.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | B. V. Raman & B. V. Lakshmanan (Vocal) R. Ganesh (Violin) E. M. Panchapagesan (Mridangam) |
| 80 | Sunday | 31st December 1995 | 12.45 to 2.15 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | M. Lalitha & M. Nandini (Violin Duet) Papanasam R. Kumar (Mridangam) |
| 81 | Sunday | 31st December 1995 | 2.30 to 4.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Geetha Rajasekar (Vocal) B. Ranjani (Violin) Thiruvidaimarudur S. Sankaran (Mridangam) |
| 82 | Sunday | 31st December 1995 | 5.00 to 7.30 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Neyyattinkara N. Vasudevan (Vocal) Srivalsan J. Menon (Vocal Support) R. K. Sriramkumar (Violin) Trichur R. Mohan (Mridangam |
| 83 | Sunday | 31st December 1995 | 7.30 to 10.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Rajan Misra & Sajan Misra (Vocal (Hindustani)) Rajesh Misra (Tabla) Kanta Prasad Misra (Harmonium) |
| 84 | Monday | 1st January 1996 | 5.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Sadas |
| 85 | Monday | 1st January 1996 | 7.00 to 9.00 pm | The T. T. Krishnamachari Auditorium | Vata Vriksha - Banyan Tree "The Story of Dance" |
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