Srimushnam raja rao biography of rory

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Srimushnam V. Raja Rao born is an Indian mridangam player and Carnatic vocalist. He received his initial training in Mridangam from his father S. Venkataramana Rao. Besides Mridangam, he also plays the Kanjira and Morsing. Citation on the Sangeet Natak Academy website. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.

Sri Raja Rao is one of the very few mridangam vidwans who can excel using both Kuchi and Kappi mridhangams. Looks like Made for each other. His anticipation is superb. Few recollections of his magnificent play in random order: 1. In NCA concert madurai gs mani, he played with two other accompanist sv ramani in ghatam, morsing artist and MAs in violin.

Superb anticipation and his tani was very well done. I remember gsmani holding srimushnam hands and then telling he took all these numbers because srimushnam was playing. Always looking for playing strokefully even if it is a last few tukkadas. In the last kutcheri season with malladi , when malladi sang a last paluke bhangAru, his playing was superb, no just playing straight as it is close to end.

Srimushnam raja rao biography of rory

In the last mudhra, he teamed with suryaprakash- svramani-kbkm mr gopinAth where his play for submain in hamsAnandi and the tani at the end of sbharanam was superb all counts. There is one sanjay -srimushnam combination very long ago , I think it was in kAmbhodhi as a main and he played beautifully In commercial recordings two stand out: 1.

There is a commercial recording of srimushnam with balaji shankar , in that an rtp in vachaspathi , srimushnam takes it to himalayan heights, an early nAttai of NT and a rare gowrimanOhari of dr srivastava. Superb playing by srimushnam. What a singer was balAji and how beautifully srimushnam played. There is a carnatic recording of sangeet utsav where his play with suryaprakash is excellent , especially for vijayAmbikE - vijayanAgari and the rtp in revati where there is a swara ragamaliga poruttam his play is simply mindboggling.

Overall he shines in 1. Stealing strokes with his right anticipation. Sound sound, no dip at all till the mangalam. Incidentally one thing he does it always , when the upapakkavadhyam takes his turn at regulal intervals he plays very few gentle tappings as though he is a upa upapakkavadhyam, it just brings so much aesthetics. I remember very distinctively he did that with svramani and morsing artist during madurai gs mani concert.

Does any one do like srimushnam? However I feel at times, his volume is very loud,at times even powerful voice musicians are drowned by his beat. Possibly if he consciously keeps the mike more far that would be wonderful. I am assuming like easwaran , srimushnam was also shaped up the most by smt MLV. If the sound is not loud, and if shrimushnam is playing, it becomes a showcase of mrudhangam concert.

Last edited by rajeshnat on Fri Oct 02, am, edited 1 time in total. Post by rajeshnat » Fri Oct 02, am Has srimushnam played with semmangudi, maharajapuram santhanam etc? Any recordings available there Also when does he decide when to play kucchi and when to play kappi Attn mahesu , since his disciple R. Post by mohan » Fri Oct 02, pm He's a competent vocalist as well, having had training under Papanasam Sivan and Calcutta Krishnamurthy.

Post by moksha » Wed Oct 14, pm his wife is a singer too. Post by rajeshnat » Wed Oct 14, pm rsn. I guess with your id , you are just modest not to declare, hence I am taking that privilege. Can you update all the sishyas of srimushnam raja rao sir and pass it to mohan in the mridhangam tree thread. Last edited by rajeshnat on Wed Oct 14, pm, edited 1 time in total.

Just few points that I heard from him. Srimushnam rAja rao has played from a very early age as early as 7 or 9. At that young age many vidwans when they visited chidambaram area srimushnam is close to chidambaram , he used to get chances. He is the son of another mridanga vidwan Ramadas rao I am assuming there is no recording of his father playing.

I assumed he has not had a chance to play for GNB , for which he answered yes. I immediately assumed he did not play for madurai mani iyer. He told no and that he has played for just one or two concerts for shri madurai mani ,where he only played 2 or 3 songs in a kalyAna kutcheri near his home town. There was just one full length concert fixed with mmi but however mmi passed away.

He also recollected that he has played for few concerts of maharAjapuram vishwanatha Iyer. As we continued talking ,he recollected with near tears in his eyes when he said the following: For few years when he was a teenaged boy, his playing was generally appreciated by many artists but most of the main artists would forget him. Ofcourse srimushnam sir was not complaining when he said that.

But at the age of 15 or 16 , after few years gap he travelled to madras to meet Chembai vaidhyanAtha Bhagavathar with a bag of fruits.