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The 99th yearly euphony festival of the Music Academy astatine Chennai, scheduled to statesman connected December 15, 2025 volition beryllium inaugurated by euphony composer and Oscar Award victor A.R. Rahman.
“He is an icon of music. We decided to invitation him due to the fact that helium is simply a renowned euphony composer and Oscar Award winner. He has cognition crossed a wide scope of music, including Carnatic music,” said N. Murali, president of the Music Academy.
The inauguration volition besides people the predetermination of R.K. Shriramkumar, the Sangita Kalanidhi designate, arsenic the president of the yearly conferences and concerts of the Academy. This twelvemonth marks the 250th day of Muthuswami Dikshitar, 1 of the trinities of Carnatic music, and Mr. Shriramkumar is an authorization connected Dikshitar’s compositions.
The Academy has agelong debated the value of movie euphony and its entreaty to some the wide nationalist and connoisseurs.
“We indispensable surely not underestimate its powerfulness and the information that it is not lone the predominant euphony of India today, but that it is dilatory overtaking accepted creation music,” said flautist T. Viswanathan successful 1988, successful his code arsenic the Sangita Kalanidhi designate. Mr. Rahman has composed galore movie songs based connected Carnatic ragas.
Director and cinematographer Rajiv Menon, who has worked intimately with Mr. Rahman, said helium was an due idiosyncratic to inaugurate the event, arsenic helium has been astatine the forefront not conscionable of Indian music, but planetary music, creating compositions crossed languages and geographies by integrating Indian classical euphony with people and Sufi elements seamlessly blended with modern Western philharmonic styles.
“Rahman made Indian fashionable euphony a pan-Indian phenomenon. He has stayed applicable for much than 30 years by adapting himself to the changing tastes of the creators, assemblage and advances successful technology. From Kodambakkam to Mumbai to Hollywood, helium remains a powerhouse of music. It is not a tiny achievement. He is some a pupil and a teacher, and his euphony schoolhouse continues to bid scores of aspiring musicians,” Mr. Rajiv Menon said.
