Music gurukula taking shape in City; to nurture classical music

Music gurukula taking shape in City; to nurture classical music
New Indian Express

BANGALORE: A music village with the sole aim of nurturing Indian classical music is coming up on a three-acre plot near the Art of Living Foundation on Kanakapura Road.

The city-based Sree Ramaseva Mandali, popular for its classical music programmes at the Fort High School Grounds in Chamarajpet for the last six decades, is building what it calls its ambitious Sangeetha Grama.

It is a Gurukula type school, residential in nature but modern in infrastructure. It will have an awesome collection of books, manuscripts, inscriptions relating to music, the Mandali’s managing trustee S.N. Ramaprasad and trustee, cine actor Shivaram, told reporters.

Ramaprasad said the project was the first of its kind in Karnataka and only next to similar schools in Kolkata and Chennai and is dedicated exclusively to music. The Sangeetha Grama will be an institution of higher learning and research in music and will be able to accommodate about 200 students. It will be initially affiliated to a university and will be developed as a deemed university later on, he added.

The Mandali has plans to launch the school in a year’s time. It will be built in phases with an open theatre in the first phase, the Managing Trustee said.

The Mandali is raising funds to make the project a reality, and has organised a live concert by popular singers K.J. Yesudas, Hariharan and Chitra at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore on Feb 20. This is for the first time that Yesudas and Hariharan are appearing together for a stage performance, chairman of the organising committee of the event, Mani Narayanaswamy, a retired IAS officer said.

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