It gives me immense pleasure to contribute to this Symposium an article on some aspects of Karnatak music. For, though I can claim a successful and unbroken career, extending over 52 years, I have had no opportunity till now to assemble and present my views on kacheri paddhati (concert sampradaya or tradition). Here, I propose to deal with kacheri paddhati, as I have learnt and practised it on the platform all these years, in the light of its historic background after a rigorous period of gurukulavasa, first under Pudukottai Malayappa Iyer and Namakkal Narasimha Iyengar, and later, for over 11 years, under Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar of Ramnad. More than this, I have had the good fortune to...
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