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Voice of the Veena: S Balachander: A Biography

Voice of the Veena: S Balachander: A Biography


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The veena maestro began his music career at a time when stalwart vocalists ruled the roost and instrumentalists played second fiddle to them. But being an independent-minded and self-taught artiste, Balachander carved a unique niche for himself as a veena soloist. He boldly changed the grammar of instrumental music, contemporized the veena and created a legacy known as the Balachander bani, or style. The multi-faceted musician was also an acclaimed chess prodigy and a pioneer in Tamil cinema. But Balachander's iconoclastic and brash ways earned him the ire of the Carnatic music fraternity. He was quick to pick quarrels with established fellow musicians in his lifelong quest for perfection and truth. So was Balachander a beloved genius or a much-maligned maverick? The book attempts to recreate the towering personality that he was - a lot of this researched from his elaborate personal diaries. While his death in 1990 created a void in the Carnatic realm, the issues he fought for remain relevant till date, and his memory lives on in the minds of music connoisseurs. As the maestro himself would have smugly said: 'Veena is Balachander, Balachander is Veena.' The enclosed CD contains two of the maestro's live recordings.

About the Author :
Vikram Sampath is the author of two acclaimed books, Splendours of Royal Mysore: The Untold Story of The Wodeyars and My Name Is Gauhar Jaan!: The Life and Times of a Musician. He was awarded the prestigious Visiting Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, where he researched the early gramophone recordings of Indian music. The author is an engineer/mathematician from BITS Pilani and an MBA from SP Jain, Mumbai. He is also a trained Carnatic vocalist and writes regularly for newspapers and magazines. He currently works in a leading software company in Bangalore.


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  • ISBN-13: 9788129119360
  • Publisher: Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd
  • Height: 215 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8129119366
  • Publisher Date: /01/2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Sub Title: A Biography


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