The violin was brought to India by the British in the 1700s. Around 200 years ago it began to be played by the classical musicians of South India, who changed way the violin was held and retuned the strings to suit the Carnatic style of Indian music.
The Many Flavours of Music on Friday 17 September 2010 from 9 pm will feature the music of Prof. T. N. Krishnan, a violin virtuoso and one of the legends of Indian classical music. Prof Krishnan has been perfoming for the last 75 years and he is currently touring Australia and will be performing in Sydney on 25 September 2010 (see www.pallavi.org for details).
The program playlist will feature several solo tracks of Prof. TN Krishnan. It will also include a couple of examples of him accompanying vocalists. The program will be presented by Mohan Ayyar, a PhD student in music at Macquarie University.
If you can't access the program via FM radio, it is also streamed live on the Radio 2ser website.
15 September 2010
10 September 2010
Violins from around the world
Episode 2 on The Many Flavours of Music, takes you on a musical journey that showcases the violin as played in different musical traditions. Dr Andrew Alter, from Macquarie University, is your guide for the evening.
During the course of the program you will hear the violin in a variety of musical contexts from Celtic traditions, Romanian Gypsies, the Carnatic style of South India and recent collaborations that blend the violin into the music of Indonesian and Africa.
During the course of the program you will hear the violin in a variety of musical contexts from Celtic traditions, Romanian Gypsies, the Carnatic style of South India and recent collaborations that blend the violin into the music of Indonesian and Africa.
03 September 2010
Welcome!
The Many Flavours of Music is a brand new radio program on Sydney Radio 2ser 107.3FM. It is brought to you by the Department of Music, Media, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University and is a weekly program airing on Friday nights from 9pm to 10.30pm (Sydney time). You can also hear it streamed online through the 2ser website (click on On Air).
The program will showcase an ecletic mix of music from all around the world presented by a range of passionate music practitioners, academics and music lovers. The focus is to showcase music of the world that is less often heard and sometimes difficult to access in Australia. Over the weeks and months ahead listeners will be able to hear music from Latin America to Indonesia, from Jazz to Hindustani and everything in between, with a special emphasis on improvisation.
The first program aired on 3 September 2010 and was presented by Dr Adrian McNeil and Bobby Singh - two of Australia's finest Indian classical musicians. They presented a collection of varied music from South Asia including the Sufi style from Pakistan, the Hindustani Khyal in its purest form and some more recent fusion music that blends Western rock music with South Indian classical music.
Happy listening!
The program will showcase an ecletic mix of music from all around the world presented by a range of passionate music practitioners, academics and music lovers. The focus is to showcase music of the world that is less often heard and sometimes difficult to access in Australia. Over the weeks and months ahead listeners will be able to hear music from Latin America to Indonesia, from Jazz to Hindustani and everything in between, with a special emphasis on improvisation.
The first program aired on 3 September 2010 and was presented by Dr Adrian McNeil and Bobby Singh - two of Australia's finest Indian classical musicians. They presented a collection of varied music from South Asia including the Sufi style from Pakistan, the Hindustani Khyal in its purest form and some more recent fusion music that blends Western rock music with South Indian classical music.
Happy listening!
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