மதுரை சண்முகவடிவு சுப்புலக்ஷ்மி (அம்மா), "MS" in short, needs no introduction. She was born on Sept 16,1916 (D: 11-12-2004), today is amma's 94th birth anniversary.
On the eve of the great musician's birth anniversary, The HINDU joined with SaReGaMa and RmKv to institute a Music award in Amma's name, "The Hindu-Saregama MS Subbulakshmi Award" to be given to the Best Young Carnatic Vocalist from this year 2010-11 particularly the Marghazi Isai Vizha (December kutcheries) annually. The initiative is very laudable. During the launch of this Award yesterday at Chennai, Saregama brought out "MS Subbulakshmi songs on Tirupati Lord Balaji", a seven-pack music album.
Speaking at this function, Shri KS Raghunathan, recording engineer for MS's albums for over 20 years recalled many interesting things about MS amma and re-lived Amma's Shraddha and Sadhana.
The little girl in pavadai chattai, oiled curls pressed into a tight braid, was too timid for noisy games with other children. But she devised a secret game for herself. Rolling waste paper into a cone, she sang into it for hours – pretending to record a ‘plate' for ‘His Master's Voice', HMV, then the biggest gramophone company in India.
Little did the child know that one day she would render the company's bestseller in ‘Venkatesa Suprabhatam,' still enjoying the longest shelf life among Indian audio recording. (HMV is now re-named as SaReGaMa).
The monumental "Vishnu Sahasranamam" is another crown of Amma. When it was recorded and was ready for bulk production, the scholar Agnihotram Thathachariar discovered a single mispronunciation. (‘Preetyarthe' had become ‘prirthyarthe'). In those days any mistake meant re-recording the whole. Raghu recalls Amma was ready to do it again, but luckily, some crafty editing did the trick.
Shri Sankaranarayanan, another HMV veteran to work with MS amma, recalled how at their first meeting (1973), MS “served dosai and coffee herself, and happily chatted about her early association with my native village Sundarapandiyapuram, where she had sung even at nalangu functions.”
Once Sadasivam's urgent demand for some LPs to gift Australian visitors on a Sunday had Sankaranarayanan knocking at AVM Meiyappa Chettiar's door and demanding the key to his Saraswati Store. Chettiar, himself a legend, got into the car, came to open the stockroom, and located the LPs.
**** My thanks to The HINDU for the above quotes.
rajappa
7-00 PM
16 Sept 2010
Speaking at this function, Shri KS Raghunathan, recording engineer for MS's albums for over 20 years recalled many interesting things about MS amma and re-lived Amma's Shraddha and Sadhana.
The little girl in pavadai chattai, oiled curls pressed into a tight braid, was too timid for noisy games with other children. But she devised a secret game for herself. Rolling waste paper into a cone, she sang into it for hours – pretending to record a ‘plate' for ‘His Master's Voice', HMV, then the biggest gramophone company in India.
Little did the child know that one day she would render the company's bestseller in ‘Venkatesa Suprabhatam,' still enjoying the longest shelf life among Indian audio recording. (HMV is now re-named as SaReGaMa).
The monumental "Vishnu Sahasranamam" is another crown of Amma. When it was recorded and was ready for bulk production, the scholar Agnihotram Thathachariar discovered a single mispronunciation. (‘Preetyarthe' had become ‘prirthyarthe'). In those days any mistake meant re-recording the whole. Raghu recalls Amma was ready to do it again, but luckily, some crafty editing did the trick.
Shri Sankaranarayanan, another HMV veteran to work with MS amma, recalled how at their first meeting (1973), MS “served dosai and coffee herself, and happily chatted about her early association with my native village Sundarapandiyapuram, where she had sung even at nalangu functions.”
Once Sadasivam's urgent demand for some LPs to gift Australian visitors on a Sunday had Sankaranarayanan knocking at AVM Meiyappa Chettiar's door and demanding the key to his Saraswati Store. Chettiar, himself a legend, got into the car, came to open the stockroom, and located the LPs.
**** My thanks to The HINDU for the above quotes.
rajappa
7-00 PM
16 Sept 2010
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