Day 8 of the Visakha Music Academy 50th Annual Music and Dance Festival

Venue: VMRDA Childrens' Arena Auditorium

The Day 8 program in the Golden Jubilee Year Festival was a grand violin concert by the #Lalgudi Duo.. Shri Lalgudi GJR Krishnan and Ms Lalgudi Vijaya Lakshmi, accompanied by Shri R Ramesh on #Mridangam and Shri Hari Babu on #Ghatam.

The concert combined melody and bhakti giving the audience a very pleasent and peaceful experience. The concert flowed just like a stream of water in slopes - but for the time issues, it looked as though it could continue forever. An interesting composition played was a piece that was composed by Saint Tyagaraja when he visited Artistes' ancestral home at Lalgudi. Here are some pictures from the program;

 Day 7 of the Visakha Music Academy 50th Annual Music and Dance Festival

Venue: VMRDA Childrens' Arena Auditorium

Shri Ramakrishnan Murthy offered audience what they want from a concert... excellent levels of energy, great voice and bhakti in the compositions rendered. Young yet indepth levels of knowledge surprised audience leading to a standing ovation. Program started with thanks to the sponsor and artiste felicitation.

Here are some pictures from the program:

Day 6 of the Visakha Music Academy 50th Annual Music and Dance Festival

Venue: VMRDA Childrens' Arena Auditorium

True to her title, Dr Pantula Rama offered Vizagites a wonderful performance on Day 6 of the 10 day Music and Dance Festival. Dr Pantula Rama is called as "The Golden Voice", as the "Nightingale of Andhra Pradesh and Melody Queen. Here are some pictures from the program;

Day 5 of the Visakha Music Academy 50th Annual Music and Dance Festival

Venue: VMRDA Childrens' Arena Auditorium

Fifth day program was a feast to audience who are familiar with the various raagas. Shri Arvind Bhargav played mandolin with ease, his special item which was a tribute to his Guru Late Shri U Srinivas (Mandolin Srinivas) was especially brilliant. The special item included 50 raagas, played in just 25 minutes, it was dedicated to his Guru on his 50th year birth anniversary! What an excellent gesture!

Day 4 of the Visakha Music Academy 50th Annual Music and Dance Festival

Venue: VMRDA Childrens' Arena Auditorium

Fourth day program was a Big day as the Academy's Prestigious Title award function was scheduled too. The felictation program started off in a grand manner. President of the Academy welcomed the gathering, Vice President and Chairman of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations gave insights into selection of the Artistes for the prestigious title. The GJY 2019 Annual Title was conferred on Hyderabad Brothers, Shri D Sesha Chary and Shri D Raghava Chary.

The feliciation function was attended by all committee members and closed with the Artistes comments. Pictures of the event along with the Citation prepared by our committee member Dr Perala Bala Murali are posted here.

 Another important contribution of Visakha Music Academy is towards encouragement of young artistes. The annual youth festival recognizes emerging artistes, there are annual scholarships and cash awards for the deserving. We thank all our donors and sponsors for the excellent support year after year.

The concert of the day was well attended

Day 3 of the Visakha Music Academy 50th Annual Music and Dance Festival

Venue: VMRDA Childrens' Arena Auditorium

The third day program was a Violin Concert by Shri Rajhesh Vaidhya from Chennai.

Day 2 of the Visakha Music Academy 50th Annual Music and Dance Festival

Venue: VMRDA Childrens' Arena Auditorium

The Second day of the annual festival was a Hindustani Vocal Concert by Dr Soma Ghosh.

Day 1 of the Visakha Music Academy 50th Annual Music and Dance Festival

Venue: VMRDA Childrens' Arena Auditorium

The Golden Jubilee Year Festival was inaugurated by Shri Dronamraju Srinivas garu, Chairman , Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority. The First program of the series was Nadaswaram Concert by Shri Gurivilli Appanna garu.