Did you Know? • The finest compliment anyone can pay for a musician came from Jawaharlal Nehru. After a concert by M.S. Subbulakshmi, he exclaimed, “Who am I, a mere prime minister, before this queen of song?” • The notation of Shankarabharanam ragam conforms to the C Major scale in Western music. • Jon Borthwick Higgins, from Andover, Massachusetts, was so captivated by Carnatic music that he learnt it fully and became a concert singer. Chennai called him Higgins Bhagavatar. He died at age 45 in a hit-and-run accident in the US. I nstruments of Change Today, the use of violin in Carnatic music is taken for granted, but two centuries ago it had almost lost out to the piano as the newfangled accompaniment in South Indian classical music. In fact, the musicians of that era had a wide choice of native bowed instruments and they had no reason t
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