Kala Samvada with Kalaimamani Charumathi Ramachandran &

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This session of Kala Samvada was a lecture-demonstration on ‘Raga Kalyani - The Empress of Ragas’.
Smt.Charumathi Ramachandran is a top grade artiste of All India Radio. She received training from Ramnad Sri. Krishnan and D. K. Jayaraman. She has learnt Hindustani music in the Agra Gharana and performed jugalbandis with Hindustani artistes. Smt. Charumathi Ramachandran is the only musician to have written, conceived, directed, produced and also sung numerous operas and musicals.
She spoke about the Kalyani raga, a melakarta raga in Carnatic music and also known as Yaman in Hindustani Music. It is most often played at South Indian weddings and is considered a divine raga devata. She explained why the raga has the prefix ‘mecha’. In order to satisfy the KaTaPaYa-di samkhya paddhati this raga became Mechakalyani.
Smt. Charumathi said that Kalyani has many janya ragas (derived scales) associated with it, of which Hamir Kalyani, Mohanakalyani, Saranga, Sunadavinodini and Yamuna Kalyani are very popular.
She went on to speak about the history and the current Carnatic music tradition and how the Trinity of Carnatic music (Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Syama Sastri) have played a role in bringing a noticeable change in the existing Carnatic music tradition.
She conveyed that the inspiration and development of music originates from the vedas, more precisely, the Samaveda. Aspects of music lacking in other vedas can be found in the Samaveda.
During the Q&A session with Dr. P. N. Prabhavathy, Smt. Charumathi explained about Viloma Chappu introduced by Syama Sastri. It was an enthralling experience listening to such a knowledgeable and talented person.
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