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Skip to Main Content TM KRISHNA SANGITA KALANIDHI ELECT T.M. KRISHNA'S ADDRESS AT THE MADRAS MUSIC ACADEMY December 15, 2024 ___ Respected Justice S. Muralidhar, former Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court; President of The Music Academy Mr. N. Murali; Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. S Sowmya, Sangita Kalanidhi Bombay Jayashri Ramanth, vice-presidents, secretaries, committee members of The Music Academy, artists of song and instrumental, practitioners of dance, and its accompanying arts, friends and connoisseurs of music, my namaskarams to all of you. It is indeed an honour to be standing before you on this stage, a proscenium on which I have witnessed – ‘experienced’ would perhaps be the right word – memorable musical moments, some that have transformed my life forever. I began learning Karnatik music as a young boy with no idea of why I was doing so. Little did I know then that I was entering an aural topography that would so infuse my imagination ...