4 months ago
2
The Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival (LGMF) begun by maestro L Subramaniam successful representation of his father, violinist V Lakshminarayana Iyer, turns 35 this year. The ongoing five-city amusement concludes astatine Shri Sathya Sai Grama astatine Muddenahalli, adjacent Chikkaballapura, 56 kms from Bengaluru, connected January 25.
“I cherish my father’s endeavour to spot the violin instrumentality centre signifier alternatively than an accompanying instrument,” says L Subramaniam. “His imagination of bringing the violin to planetary platforms was realised arsenic LGMF grew twelvemonth aft twelvemonth with the information of planetary musicians.”
“For the archetypal time, this variation of the festival includes a symphony orchestra, choir and ballet from antithetic countries; it is simply a gratifying development,” helium adds.
Once upon a dream
About a period ago, the violin was a overseas instrumentality successful India and was adapted to beryllium an accompaniment successful Indian classical euphony compositions, says Subramaniam. “My father envisioned a solo relation for the Indian violin overmuch similar its counterpart successful Western classical music.”
V Lakshminarayana Iyer | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
“In bid to bash that, helium had to develop innovative bowing and fingering techniques suitable for solo performances. MS Subbulakshmi sang the supplication opus astatine the archetypal variation of LGMF in Chennai; from then, the festival has steadily grown with shows successful 30 countries and much than 75 cities,” says Subramaniam, whose wife, playback singer Kavita Krishnamurthy, is the festival director.
Lakshminarayana came from a humble background where helium struggled to support the family, yet helium ensured his children had a philharmonic upbringing. He worked successful Sri Lanka arsenic a visiting prof astatine Jaffna College successful the 1930s, since helium was struggling in India as a musician. “We returned to India in 1958, during the riots. My father restarted his beingness aft losing everything helium had earned. He resolved to marque the violin a solo instrumentality during this period.”
“Subsequently, he tutored galore students who went connected to go celebrities, including musicians specified arsenic Ilaiyaraja,” helium recalls.
Subramaniam says helium began penning symphony orchestras by chance. Classical euphony conductor, Zubin Mehta, asked him to constitute a afloat symphonic piece and beryllium the soloist for the New York Philharmonic for the India festival in the United States. “That was successful 1985, the composition was Fantasy connected Vedic Chants, and since past I have created nearly 40 compositions for the orchestra and played connected 5 continents.”
The musical bequest of the household continues with Subramaniam’s 14-year-old grandchild Mahati being the latest addition.
The Astana Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra from Kazakhstan with conductor Abzal Mukhitdin | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Subramaniam has created much than 300 symphonic performances, published by Schott Music, including the Navagraha Symphony premiering astatine the LGMF. “It is a special creation written for the Navagrahas based connected nine ancient Sanskrit shlokas. It is a complex 50-minute piece and one of the longest compositions made for a full orchestra. This festival volition spot Kavita, my children Bindu and Ambi, and my grand-daughter Mahati execute this piece.”
This variation of the festival volition spot the Astana Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra from Kazakhstan, which has performed much than a 1,000 concerts successful 25 years, led by conductor and composer Abzal Mukhitdin. The Shantipriya Dance Ballet by the Gakku Ensemble volition instrumentality up a creation performed successful 1987 successful India.
The Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival volition instrumentality spot connected January 25 astatine Shri Sathya Sai Grama, Muddenahalli, from 6pm. Entry free, log successful to lgmf.org for details
