The unique festival season - Madras music season - is back again with over 1000 performances of Indian classical music, dance and allied arts spread over a period of almost two months. Scholars, critics, organisers, festival directors, artists and art lovers from all over the world reach Chennai to participate. More than 25 major month-long festivals along with mini festivals of seven to ten days plus seminars, discussions, lecture-demonstrations etc. will be presented by several music and dance organizations/sabhas. Following is the complete schedule. Go back to the main page to choose schedules of organisations/festivals/sabhas.

Lecture-Demonstrations

Venue: Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall, 314, TTK Road, Chennai 600 018.
Tel: +91-(0)-44-2499301 / 24990850. Time: 9.30am to 11.30am

Dec 22 : Importance of Abhyasa-Ganam: Neyveli Santhanagopalan
Dec 23 : Philosophy in dance: Krishnakumari Narendran
Dec 24 : Constructional similarities in the compositions of the Trinity and Papanasam Sivan: Papanasam Ashok Ramani
Dec 25 : Compositions of Thiruvarangan: Lalitha Rukmani (Kalakshetra)
Dec 26 : Veena - learning techniques: Geetha Bennett
Dec 27 : The place of Chittaswarams and Swara Sahithyams in compositional music: Madurai Sundar
Dec 28 : Thevaram: Saraswathi Ramanathan
Dec 29 : Padams and Javalis with mukha bhavam: Nirmala Ramachandran
Dec 30 : Raga development through compositions of 20th century: Vijayalakshmi Subramanian
Dec 31 : Dasavataram as seen by Vaggeyakaras: Pappu Venugopala Rao

Venue: Madras Music Academy
168, T.T.K.Road, Chennai-600 014. Tel: +91-(0)-44-2811 2231. Daily 08.00am

16-12-06 Compositions of Sri Patnam Subramanyam Aiyar - Kalpagam Swaminathan.
17-12-06 Compositions of Mysore Pattabhiramaiah and Mysore Sivaramaiah - Dr. M. B. Vedavalli
18-12-06 Compositions of Sri Gopalakrishna Bharathi - Suguna Purushothaman.
19-12-06 Compositionsof Meeshu Krishna Aiyar - Chingalput Ranganathan.
20-12-06 Compositions of Haridass - T. K. Govinda Rao.
21-12-06 Compositions of Dikshita Parampara - R. Vedavalli.
22-12-06 Compositions of Sri Maha Vaidyanatha Aiyar - B. Krishnamoorthy.
23-12-06 Compositions of Maharaja Swati Tirunal - Prof. T. N. Krishnan
24-12-06 Compositions of Shri Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar - B. Rajam Iyer
25-12-06 Compositions of Sri Papanasam Sivan - Sulochana Pattabhiraman.
26-12-06 Compositions of Shri Neelakanta Sivan - V. Subramaniyam
27-12-06 Compositions of Sri Muthiah Bhagavatar - T. N. Seshagopalan.
28-12-06 Compositions of Kshethrayya - Dr. S.A.K. Durga
29-12-06 Compositions of Annamacharya - M. Chandrasekharan
30-12-06 Rare Compositions of Sri Thiagaraja Swamy - P. S. Narayanaswamy
31-12-06 Compositions of Subbraya Shastri and Annaswamy Shastri - Vidya Shankar.
01-01-07 Open house.

Venue: Krishna Gana Sabha, 20, Maharajapuram Santhanam Salai, T Nagar,
Chennai 600017. Tel: +91-(0)-28140806.

14-12-06 - Theme : Parampara Evam Prena - (Tradition and its challenges today. Convenor: Bharati Sivaji - Keynote address by Yamini Krishnamurthy. Lec-Dem by Bimbavati Devi - Manipuri and Sheejith Krishna - Bharathanatyam.
15-12-06 - Natya Kala Conference - Dr. Sandhya Purecha - Bharathanatyam and Manjari Chathurvedi - Kathak
16-12-06 - Natya Kala Conference - Vijayalakshmi - Mohini Attam and Navtej Johar - Bharathanatyam.
17-12-06 - Natya Kala Conference - Rama Vaidyanathan - Bharathanatyam
18-12-06 - Natya Kala Conference - Sujatha Mohopatra - Odissi.
19-12-06 - Natya Kala Conference - Pallavi Krishnan - Mohini Attam and Geetha Chandran - Bharathanatyam.
20-12-06 - Natya Kala Conference - Kalamandalam Venkitt - Kathakali and S. Santhosh Nair - Chhau

Venue: Indian Fine Arts, Balamandir German Hall.

17-12-06: 09.00 am "Gong" The Multi-Faceted Instrument ('Mani' in Tamil) by Bangalore Dr. Anasuya Kulkarni
0000000010.30 am - "Nava Vidha Bhakthi" by Dr. Sudha Seshayan
18-12-06: 10.30 am - 'Varali Vaibhavam' by Suguna Purushothaman
19-12-06: 10.30 am - "Kallvannam Aangu Kanden Kai Vannam Ingu Kanden" by Kalyanapuram R. Aaraavamudhachariar.
20-12-06: 10.30 am - "Status of Karnatic Music Prior to Trinity" by Dr. M. Narmada
21-12-06: 10.30 am - "Thiruvadi Charanam" (Compositions of Sri Gopalakrishna Bharathiar) by Dr. Raama Kowsalya
22-12-06: 10.30 am - "Vivadhi Melas Handled by Different Composers" by Dr. S. A. K. Durga
23-12-06: 10.30 am - "Nattu Padalgal" by T.K.S. Kalaivanan
24-12-06: 10.30 am - "Sri Thyagaraja Namasthe Namasthe" by Dr. V. V. Srivatsa
25-12-06: 10.30 am - "Suddha Nrittam and Mangudi Dorairaja Iyer's style of Dance" by Revathi Ramachandran.
26-12-06: 10.30 am - "Welcome Innovation in Swara Kalpana" by Prof. T. R. Subramanyam
27-12-06: 10.30 am - "Devi Visualized by Saint Thyagaraja" by R. Vedavalli
28-12-06: 10.30 am - "Vaayinal Padi Manathinal Sindikka' by Dr. Premeela Gurumurthy
29-12-06: 10.30 am - "Jhawali" by Bombay Sisters
30-12-06: 10.30 am - "Exhibiting through facial expressions Padams and Javalis with Abhinaya" by Nirmala Ramachandran
31-12-06: 10.30 am - "Laya and Sahithyas" by Srimushnam V. Raja Rao

Venue: Parthasarathy Sabha, Vidya Bharathi Kalyana Mandapam,
Bheemasena Garden Road, Mylapore, Chennai-4. Daily at 08.30am

17-12-06 - "Jakkini Daru" - a dance form - Dr. Saraswathi, Bharathanatyam Exponent.
18-12-06 - "Fantacies of Chimes in Music" - Dr. Anasuya Kulkarni, Ethnomusicologist, Bangalore.
19-12-06 - "Procedure in singing Kalpana swaras" - Tiruvengadu Jayaraman, Musician and Musicologist.
20-12-06 - "Music and Mass Media" - Dr. B. M. Sundaram, Musicologist
21-12-06 - "Concept of Ghana ragas and Tyagarja Pancharatna Kritis" - Dr. Premeela Gurumurthy,
0000000000Prof. And Head. Dept. of Indian Music, University of Madras.
22-12-06 - "Pallavi and its varieties" - Suguna Purushothaman, Musician and Musicologist
23-12-06 - "Alapana - Rakti Ragas" - Alepey Venkatesan, Musician
24-12-06 - "Tillana past and present" - Dr. S.A.K. Durga, Emeritus Prof. University of Madras
25-12-06 - "Some similar themes of Annamacharya and Tyagaraja" - Prof. S. R. Janakiraman, Musician and Musicologist.
26-12-06 - "Desadi Madyadhi Talas" - Dr. Ritha Rajan, Retd. Prof. and Head, Dept. of Indian Music, Q.M.C.
27-12-06 - "Panchadasa Gamakas and Dasavida Gamakas" - Dr. R. S. Jayalakshmi, Former Lecture, University of Madras
28-12-06 - "Ragamalika and its Structural Analysis" - Dr. M. B. Vedavalli, Retd. Prof and Head, Dept. of Indian Music, Univ. of Madras
29-12-06 - "Abyasa Gana in sangeetha Sarvartha Sara Sangrahamu" - Rajashri Ramakrishna, Lecture,
0000000000Dept. of Indian Music, University of Madras
30-12-06 - "Musical nuances" - Dr. Rama Ravi, Musician and Musicologist
31-12-06 - "Krishna Bhakthi of Sri Muthuswamy Dikshitar" - Dr. V. V. Srivatsa, Musicologist.

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Nearby Hotels to Music Academy, Narada Gana Sabha, Pettachi Sivagami Auditorium (Brahma Gana Sabha), Mylapore Fine Arts, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan Auditorium, RR Sabha, Srinivasa Shastry Hall:

Hotel New Woodlands
72, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai. Tel: +91-(0)-44-28113111

Hotel Savera
146, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai, Tel: +91-(0)-44-2811470

Hotel Maris
11, Cathedral Road, Tel: +91-(0)-44-28110541

Ramada Raj Park
180, TTK Road, Tel: +91-(0)-44-24987777