The Temple Bells concert series has been organised by Guruskool Music and Vamshi Academy of Music Trust.
“We are very fortunate in South India to have a rich and long tradition of music and dance, which has evolved into what we call carnatic music. We can easily experience it’s energy enhancing effect on our spirit. But the sad fact is that today fewer people come to savour the ‘live’ classical music concerts. All other forms like recordings are merely shadows of the real thing.  Perhaps we have become insensitive to these harmonic sounds due to the negative vibrations of modern life like the hurrying traffic, high-voltage cables, fluorescent light bulbs,” states the release.
The first concert in the series will take place on August 24, 6 pm onwards at Mahalakshmi Temple, 1st Main, Palace Orchards, behind Cauvery Theatre. The programme will feature a vocal concert by Pallavi Prasanna. Hailing from Kuwait, Pallavi answered her calling to the South Indian classical (Carnatic) music discipline at the age of five, under the tutelage of Ganga Ramachandran.
Pallavi has been pursuing Carnatic music for over 18 years now and been giving kutcheris for the past 10 years, winning awards and prizes. She won the Prathibhakaankshi award in the year 2006 for the best singer in the kutcheri series conducted by Sree Ramaseva Mandali, Bangalore for the Ramanavami celebrations.
This will be followed by a flute duet by B K Anantharam and Amit Nadig. The father and son carnatic flautist duo have just returned from a coast to coast tour of the USA. They will be supported on the mridangam by K U Jayachandra Rao and on violin by J K Sridhar.
For details contact Geetha Navale on 9844111984 or B K Anantharam 9341228994.
DHNS