Violin maestro Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan passed away on Monday 8-Sep-2008. He was 73.
Every tamizh music lover would have seen this maestro performing on stage or on TV(especially during festive seasons, where his violin serves joyous & elegant music to ignite the festive mood). He was a great South Indian Classical Musician who was versatile and was brilliant in performing hit movie songs to enthuse audience as well.
We will definitely miss the maestro. Though he departs this world, his music & memories will never. Long live his pride & his music contributions.
Excerpts from online articles:
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan is a top performer, arresting violinist, innovator and an artist of varied interests. He was born in 1935 to Sri Ramaswamy Sastri and Smt. Meenakshi at Kunnakudi, an important Lord Muruga Kshetram of Tamil Nadu. His father was an erudite scholar in Sanskrit, Tamil and Carnatic Music and a great Composer and Exponent of Carnatic Music and Kathakalaksheparn. So, for Kunnakudi, Vedha Sastram and Sageetharn have become the main discipline besides schooling.
Even at the early age of 12 his sound knowledge made him to accompany great stalwarts like Shri Ariyakudi, Shri Semmangudi and Shri Maharajapuram.
He is known for his dexterity and subtlety in handling the instruments. He is catering his art not only to the Erudite scholar in music but also to the layman. His play reflects his own different moods and the demands of his audience with whom he establishes and enjoys rapport. He dwells with ease and competence at the highest and the lowest octaves.
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan has deep faith in the therapeutical merits of music.
Besides continuing his profession, he joined the film orchestra with modern Theatres, Salem. In 1963, his Carnatic base and light music knowledge helped him to join in HMV as a freelance Music Director mainly for producing Bakti Songs. To prove his new region of Music, he chose celluloid media and produced Tamil Musical films of his own. The feature film ‘Todi’, his full length presentation of rich music with T.N. Seshagopalan is a success.
More Links on Kunnakudi:
http://chennaionline.com/musicseason99/profile/kunnakudi.html
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