The Tiruvarur Music Trinity Commemoration Sabha was formed with the aim to acquire the birth-sites of these three great makers of Karnatic music, and also to celebrate at the sites annual festivals of their birth.That may be called the origin of Subbulakshmis benefit music recitals.Here it will be interesting to recall what a contributor in a leading Indian Journal wrote about Subbulakshmi career until 1940.It is an exciting and fascinating profile and into its make-up have gone a number of things over a period of some decades.
First there is the mother, the guardian - angel of her childhood. Veena Shanmukhavadivu of Madurai is the inheritor of a great tradition. Her playing and her music have won the praise of musicians like Tirukodikaval Krishna Iyer. Venkataramana Dasa of Vijavanagaram and VeenaSeshamma of Mysore. It was a home where music was truly valued and where musicians and votaries of music always gathered. Into this was born Subbulakshmi, on the 16th of September 1916. Before she was ten she could accompany her mother at recitals. During those early years mother and daughter made a delightful combination. I remember one such concert quite clearly in Trivandrum in 1929, or was it 1930 Soon the young girl was to blossom forth into a soloist in her own right. By the time she was seventeen she was giving major performances at institutes like the Madras Music Academy. Even prior to the recitals for the Kasturba Memorial Fund.Subbulakshmi had sung for the benefit of many public institutions in the South. A special mention may also be made of the benefit recitals given by Subbulakshmi for raising funds for the construction of the Gandhi Mantap in Raj Bhavan Grounds. Meera Bhajans By Ms Subbulakshmi Mp3 Free Recitals GivenGuindy, Madras. Similarly should be noted the many free recitals given by Subbulakshmi in the various,music Sabhas in the city of Madras which in turn resulted in the building of the New Hall of Sri Tyagaraja Vidwat Samajam of Mylapore, a premier organization forth encouragement of junior musicians. In the same category are a few gramophone records given by Subbulakshmi, the royalty from which has been diverted for specific public purposes like the erections of the Gandhi Mantapam at Guindy, the Bharathi Mantapam at Ettayapuram and for institutions like the Hindi Prachar Sabha. She has recently recorded on an L.P. Venkatesa Suprabhatam, the royalty from which goes to the Veda Patasala run by the TirumalaiTirupati Devasthanam. Meera Bhajans By Ms Subbulakshmi Mp3 Series Of FreeDeserving particular mention is a series of free recitals which Subbulakshmi gave year after year for the Tamil IsaiSangham for thirteen consecutive years. Along with this may be mentioned the free recitals which Subbulakshmi has been giving as an annual feature at the music festival of the Music Academy, which draws record audiences. Subbulakshmi has so far given well over a hundred music recitals for the benefit of many good public causes all over the country like the Kasturba and Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Funds, for the Ramakrishna Mission, schools and colleges, for Hospitals and Sanatoriums, the All-India Womens Conference, many religious causes like the renovation of temples, institutions connected with music like the Music Academy, Madras, the Tyagaraja Aradhana Festival Fund at Tiruvaiyaru, the Music Trinity Commemoration Fund,at Tiruvarur and for other public causes like the Journalists Federation, the Sapru Memorial Fund, the Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs, the P.E.N., the Bombay Tamil Sangham, the Book Industry Council, Flood Relief Funds, etc., etc. These institutions and public bodies all over the country and Ceylon have in all benefited to the extent of about forty lakhs of rupees from the music recitals of Subbulakshmi. Of special importance among these many beneficiaries is the Music Trinity Fund of Tiruvarur. It is a strange coincidence that the three great composers of Karnatic Music, Sri Tyagaraja, Sri Muthuswamy Dikshitar and Sri Syama Sastri were not only contemporaries but were born in the same village Tiruvarur in Tanjore District.
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