Carnatic - Valaji Varnam

Artists:
Deepti Navaratna (voice)
Garrett Field (electric guitar)
Aaron Paige (mridangam)

October 27, 2008. Wesleyan University

Bios:

Deepti Navaratna was trained under the tutelage of Smt. Rohini Manjunath, Bangalore. She is an A-grade artiste of All India Radio since 2000 and has won numerous awards and prizes. Currently she is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Garrett Field is an ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate at Wesleyan. His M.A. thesis "U. Shrinivas' Mandolin Ecstasy" was a hands-on study of Shrinivas' improvisations and explored recent changes in Karnatak instrumental music. He began his studies with Kalpana Venkat and now trains under B. Balasubrahmaniyan and David Nelson.

Aaron Paige is currently a Master's degree candidate in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. He has been studying South Indian percussion for the last nine years under the tutelage of Professor David P. Nelson and mrdangamist Palladam R. Ravi of Madurai, Tamil Nadu and was a 2004-05 Thomas J. Watson Fellow.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Deepti
• Navaratna
• Garrett
• Field
• Aaron
• Paige
• Valaji
• Varnam
• Carnatic
• guitar
• Wesleyan
• Lalgudi
• Jayaraman
• raga

[Lilac210]

@hsnse I also have

[Raghav91]

@hsnse I have it.. still need it?

[va12io]

varnam-is step of basic musiknowledge to advance.if u practice more more ,u get better and better

[hsnse]

Waiting for the lyrics pls.....anyone?

[hsnse]

Where do I get the lyrics for this song?

[thangamani39]

beautiful vaji varNam! i like it very much!

thanks!

thangamani39.

[balumuthu]

The melodic and rhythmic accompaniments provided by Dr Garett Field and Prof David P Nelson are indeed praiseworthy proof of their dedication to the fine art of Carnatic music. Congrats and Best wishes for them to explore our age old art which owes to divine origins and was fostered by Rishis and in recent centuries has been kept enriched with their original compositions and experimentations in melody and rhythm.