90s, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore.. The season wore a festive & fancy look with silk kurthas, silk sarees, cars galore.. In the midst of all this, a cycle rickshaw pulls over, out comes the great man Mahavidwan MSG, clad in purest of white Khadar veshti and kurtha, briskly walked up to the stage with his warm smile all along. A magical solo followed with UKS Sir... To the days when Vidwath was high and rest all were secondary! Just for sheer simplicity, that scene will always travel with me, till my very last!!
Oh, how I envy you, Sir! But thanks for this heartwarming description. MSG was truly one of his kind. Long after we are all gone, his music will still bring a great sense of happiness and contenetment to true music lovers. No amount of Oppari and other types of cheap gimmicks will ever be able to erase the kind of pure music MSG and his contemporaries gave us.
In my openion there was not even a single violinist or any type of istrumentalist who can trasform the listeners in a inexplicable wòrld of imagination and iprovisation as if MSG was capable,almost as an inborn gift-' so let me maintain that thetre was no exisyance of any an exceptional genius ,before -or ,probably after MSG era Such flowers are once in a blue moon........
MSG is great but he enjoyed a good rapport with MChandrasekharan, Lalgudi Jayaraman, his own brother M Sunderesan .There was a healthy competition and that paved way to a feast to listeners
Grateful to you for collating and uploading such memorable videos. These are stalwarts who are cherished National treasures who lived simple lives that convey volumes of our culture and tradition.
MSG ji's virtuoso technique is unique and undefinable, and like the great composer trinity, he stands tall among the violin trinity of Lalgudi Jayaraman and TN Krishnan. I am always reminded of MSG while listening to my favorite Itzhak Perlman melodies. :-)
True, atvMusic Academy, it is not only like T20, but more or less extension of Bollywood style. Basics of carnatic music is forgotten only glittery, showbiz... 😂😢😮
Music from the heavens. His Bahudari has always been Uplifting. In South Africa he played jugalbandi with Hariprasadh Chaurasia the great flute master.
Nobody can beat MSG in the control over the instrument. Even Lalgudi will not be able reproduce the similar mastery over the violin. He can score over other aspects like raga laya and other aesthetic aspects of raga Bhavana. But this much control Nobody else has so far exhibited
After around 2005 i stopped going to Sabhas! Music has become T20 then itself ! Traditions , smoothness taking a back seat! Pure commercialisation! Only rupee rupee everywhere!
Critic Subbudu, who was really critical of many senior vidwans, once wrote: Violin is a western instrument. If there is one instrument in India matching that, it is of MSG's! Height of instrumental perfection and tonal efficiency. Without shame, I concede: I don't have words in my dictionary to describe his music.". On another occasion of areview, he wrote: .......That day MSG was on violin. What else to say? Immaculate bowing and impeccable fingering! Madhura Suswara Gopalakrishnan.
Should have provided 3 more minutes for the Thani avarthanam as we had 3 senior percussionists... They had to play together from the start... No solo...
