Scholar Reviews About the
Art Centre
“I
appreciate the excellent work done in the field of Taala”
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Pandit Nikhil Ghosh, Bombay
“The
Percussive Arts Centre, Bangalore, under the able direction of Sri Bangalore
K. Venkataram deserves all compliments, for having undertaken to print and
publish Taala Sangraha. I am sure that this will be a very valuable
contribution to the field of music.”
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Padmabhushan Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar
“The
Percussive Arts Centre formed some years back to make people better informed
about this area of music. This Centre through series of programmes including
papers, demonstrations etc., has highlighted the manifold aspects of Taala and
Laya as to inform even lay people. Some of them have been published in the
forms of monographs. But the major event is Annual Thaalavaadyotsavas where
emphasis is on Taala and Laya. Perhaps, this is the only such Festival
held in the country”.
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Justice E.S. Venkataramiah.
“As
I see from Delhi, This conference has a significance and a validity beyond
what has been discussed here. I can say so with some authority as I am here,
presently chairing a Committee in UNESCO, which is having very knowledgeable
discussions on cultural dimensions of development. It would also be
appropriate to me that the establishment of Percussive Arts Centre
itself has been an important event. The development of the Centre
within a short time to the present status, we owe to Venkataram. Bangalore and
Venkataram have become inseparable. Institutions like the Percussive Arts
Centre, Seminars and Conferences such as of today, I am sure contributing a
great deal towards these objectives”.
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J. Veeraraghavan, Delhi
“It
is noticed that the Percussive Art Centre has been striving to enlighten the
general public on the proper appreciation of the art of Laya and
highlight the contribution of Layavaadyakaras. I wish well in their sincere
efforts to promote the interest in Laya”.
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Padma Vibhushan Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna
“To
my knowledge, there does not appear to be any periodical exclusively devoted
to these (pursuance of the cause of promotion of Laya and Taala) aspects of
music and your venture will go a logn way in bridging this gap and in giving
emphasis to the Laya and Taala, which are so essential in perception,
preservation and propagation of music”.
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H. Kamalanath, President, Bangalore Gayana Samaja.
“The
Percussive Arts Centre has been doing Yeomen services in the promotion and
dissemination of greater awareness and the knowledge of various aspects of
percussive arts and instruments”
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Sangeetha Kalanidhi R.K. Srikantan
“Percussive
Arts Centre who have been organizing planned programmes to highlight the role
of Laya in music have been doing remarkable service in this direction and I
wish the Centre an precedented success in there efforts. I here by record my
deep singe of appreciation of your venture of promoting the cause of
performing arts and artistes.
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Dr. K.N. Bhowmick, Prof. Dept of Applied Mathematics,
Institute
of Technology, B.H.U, Varanasi
“The
object of the Percussive Arts Centre is to highlight these distinct characters
and the fascinating world opened up by these instruments and make the people
really conscious of the vast potentialities of these instruments and the
beauty they reveal. Through numerous programmes, the Centre has highlighted
interesting features and landmarks of this fascinating rhythmic world during
these past several years. Even the range and quantum of the present
collections itself is an achievement which is certainly a valuable
contribution in the realm of rhythm in Indian music.
Seminars where different Taalavadyas are taken up as the main subjects,
is a gray area not only to music enthusiasts but also musicians themselves.
The instruments are studied from different angles like the Historical,
Technical, Scientific, and Aesthetic etc. These seminars, not only enlighten
the public but also enrich knowledge available about these instruments and
this leads to further improvements”.
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Sangeetha Kalarathna B.V.K. Sastry
“Quarterly
Newsletter of the Percussive Arts Centre is really good and fine that such a
newsletter comes out from Percussive Arts Centre, Bangalore”.
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Padmasree Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
“All
in all, Thaalavaadyotsavas was a very useful festival, one which has made the
need and presence of an institution devoted to Taalavadya felt emphatically.
There is no doubt that it has attracted the attention of fresh blood which
should augur well both for our classical music and the Centre in particular,
which means the purpose of the festival has been served. The musical tree in
India has tow basic divisions – Raga and Taala, while raga governs its
melodic element, Taala helps to maintain the balance. Yet taa has not received
as much attention on the academic level. It is to fill these lacunae that the
Percussive Arts Centre was founded. In a short span, the Centre, which
is only one of its kind in the country, has done pioneering work in
creating awareness on the various aspects of the system as also the
characteristics of the different percussion instruments or Taalavadyas”.
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Karnataka Kalaathilaka S.N. Chandrasekhar
“The
cause you are trying to promote is admirable. I have the greatest regard for
the art of rhythm Yours is the only institution of its kind in the
country, at best there is no parallel of it in North India”.
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Prof. S.K. Saxena, Roopnagar, Delhi
Services
rendered by the Percussive Arts Centre, to the fulfillment of the percussive
arts of India is unparalleled in India. During these years the
Centre has placed the Maestros of the Mridangam in equal status with the
Vocalist, honored their art and dedication with awards and public acclaim.
Along with the practice of the art, the Science of the art and the synthesizer
of Laya and Taala have been the topics of Lec-dems, helping deeper
understanding and appreciation of this art.
The
Centre remains very active through the year, as one can ee from the number of
programmes organized in a year. It covers a wide span of artistic and
education oriented events.
The
Centre has already done well in the cause of Percussive art and its research.
My best wishes to the Art Centre, with fond hope that its progress would be
better and higher still with march of time.
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Gana Kala Bhushana A. Subba Rao
Your
Centre for percussion arts has been doing yeoman service to the appreciation
of music for several years. It is clear from the dedication if hard working
people like you in Bangalore, that the Centre is recognized as a premier
institution for Taala Vaadya. The list of publications from the
Centre and the galaxy of worthy awardees that have been recognized by the
Centre are very impressive indeed
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A. Madhav, Pittsburgh, USA
I
observed that the whole team of PAC is fully devoted for up-keep of Indian
Percussive art with disciplined zeal, positive spirit, modesty and creative
mind. To the best of my knowledge PAC, Bangalore is the only institution think
and work in support of Percussive arts and Percussionists of Indian music
K. Venkataram through the PAC has been doing a great contribution to the understanding and propagation of the Percussive Arts, Instruments, and concepts relating to Taala and Laya. I am all admiration for the activities of the Centre and am only too happy to associate myself with its academic projects.
- Prof. Dr. N. RamanathanI
am astounded at your energy and drive. Your day appears to have 48 hours. By
concentrating on one subject viz. Percussion; you have placed it on the
musical map of the world. To my knowledge there is no institution like the
percussive Arts Centre anywhere in the world, not a periodical exclusively
devoted to percussion. You have beaten hollow Buddy Rich, the American
percussion king who collected 400 different kinds of drum from all over the
world.
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Sangeetha Kala Acharya T.S. Parthasarathy.
National
and state level awards are instituted for percussion masters. Biographies of
the maestros of yester years are being published. The work being done by
the Percussive Arts Centre of Bangalore in this direction deserves a special
mention.
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Prof. Dr. R. Sathyanarayana