Fusing Carnatic and Hindustani styles, Parur Sundaram Iyer created the unique ‘Parur bani’ in violin. M.S. Gopalakrishnan, his son, became the chief proponent of this style.
Fusing Carnatic and Hindustani styles, Parur Sundaram Iyer created the unique ‘Parur bani’ in violin. M.S. Gopalakrishnan, his son, became the chief proponent of this style.
Playing notes steeped in dignity and simplicity, TN Krishnan (1928-2020) was an exemplar of the Carnatic violin, remembers S Saketraman