Deep honor to the greatest percussion player of our time, Master Trichy Sankaran. He is the pride of his tradition line, the famous Pudukottai Bani of South Indian percussion culture.
I am very fortunate to have sat in on a lecture from him at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto when I attended. He performed and told us about himself. The whole class was in awe of him.
A true Master. I was very fortunate to hear him when he visited my University many years ago (early 1990's), and again at an outdoor festival a year later. When we spoke, he was most polite and gracious.
This is truly awesome! A few years ago, Sankaran Sir was in Houston as the Artistic Director for the Sri Thyagaraja Aradhana. On the day of the unchavritti, my guru, Sri Trichy K Ramesh was leading the singing, and Sankaran Sir played the kanjeera. It was mind boggling how much he was able to get out of that humble percussion instrument even as we were circumambulating the temple prakAram. A true gentleman and a giant when it comes time to making the mridanga sing. So delighted to come across this..
A great exponent of Pudukkottai Mahasri Dakshinamurthi Pillai's style of playing Mrudangam! Agree with astrohari25's comment: Excellent balance between the thoppi and the meetu-chappu combination ... a specialty of both Mahasri Dakshinamurthi Pillai and Thanjavur Sri Vaidhyanatha Iyer.
I think he has contributed more to art and humanity in Canada than if he had stayed in India. Do you know how many wonderful musicians have learned from him here? People should really start to think beyond culture and approach an understanding of human emotion. I mean who would care to remember anything substantial about Pudhukkottai school of mrdangam playing in Canada?
hail this great maestro!!!the palani subramaniam style of playing is still flurshing in trichy sir pity as he had to settle in canada..as he would have given many more to carnatic music in india specially to percussion instrument as its being sidelined nowadays as just "PAKHAVADHYAM" as most vocalists now wants to have this as a decoration piece ..and not something as a integral part of the concert...n.shankar
@hi82248: It is the "aadi talam" (8 beats). You can have a look between 1.04 and 1.09, for example, where he plays one cycle of the talam (notice the count he shows with his foot, 1 for each beat of the talam :-) Do you follow a lot of Indian music?
@FutbolFanatic90 it would be doing him no honor either way.there is no way to correctly spell indian words in english letters, and if you notice, most of them have 3 or 4 different ways to spell in english because they are trying to imitate the correct sounds as closely as possible and there isnt an exact way to do it. if you are hung up on spelling his name right, type it out in his native language and copy paste. thanks
Deep honor to the greatest percussion player of our time, Master Trichy Sankaran. He is the pride of his tradition line, the famous Pudukottai Bani of South Indian percussion culture.
I am very fortunate to have sat in on a lecture from him at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto when I attended. He performed and told us about himself. The whole class was in awe of him.
A true Master. I was very fortunate to hear him when he visited my University many years ago (early 1990's), and again at an outdoor festival a year later. When we spoke, he was most polite and gracious.
This is truly awesome! A few years ago, Sankaran Sir was in Houston as the Artistic Director for the Sri Thyagaraja Aradhana. On the day of the unchavritti, my guru, Sri Trichy K Ramesh was leading the singing, and Sankaran Sir played the kanjeera. It was mind boggling how much he was able to get out of that humble percussion instrument even as we were circumambulating the temple prakAram. A true gentleman and a giant when it comes time to making the mridanga sing. So delighted to come across this..
What a balance of the thoppi and karanai modulation of sound.Reminds me of Vidwan Umayalpuram Sivaraman.
A great exponent of Pudukkottai Mahasri Dakshinamurthi Pillai's style of playing Mrudangam! Agree with astrohari25's comment: Excellent balance between the thoppi and the meetu-chappu combination ... a specialty of both Mahasri Dakshinamurthi Pillai and Thanjavur Sri Vaidhyanatha Iyer.
I think he has contributed more to art and humanity in Canada than if he had stayed in India. Do you know how many wonderful musicians have learned from him here? People should really start to think beyond culture and approach an understanding of human emotion. I mean who would care to remember anything substantial about Pudhukkottai school of mrdangam playing in Canada?
this NEVER gets old!!
He is a World Master and Global Treasure.
I am flying whenever i enjoy his layam, i pray for his long live
Truly astounding. Such skill and such heart!
Met him yesterday absolutely amazing
hail this great maestro!!!the palani subramaniam style of playing is still flurshing in trichy sir pity as he had to settle in canada..as he would have given many more to carnatic music in india specially to percussion instrument as its being sidelined nowadays as just "PAKHAVADHYAM" as most vocalists now wants to have this as a decoration piece ..and not something as a integral part of the concert...n.shankar
We are proud to note Trichy Sankaran too lives in Toronto.He is the professor in York University, Toronto
Siva (Toronto)
this was great. need more vids from him!
man how cool is this legend
another legend
Bows with utmost respect !
Dwg784:
Can you please do the honor of correcting his name from Sankuran to Sankaran. Thanks mate
Awesome!!!!
@hi82248: It is the "aadi talam" (8 beats). You can have a look between 1.04 and 1.09, for example, where he plays one cycle of the talam (notice the count he shows with his foot, 1 for each beat of the talam :-) Do you follow a lot of Indian music?
I guess if he would've been in India many other greats in the field would've had a tougher competition to earn their names...
This can happen with unidirectional microphones; I think they were very loud but the microphone simply doesn't pick it up.
He looks like G Bush but he is amazing...
amazing
did this take place in Seattle, Washington?
superb
He is playing Adi thalam. In between he plays Khanda nadai and Thishra nadai.
@GatoradeIsNotJuice
I for a fact know that his name is not pronounced Sankuran but Sankaran...however, i totally agree with your point. its cool
Oldest video on YT with some digital rot.
is this instrument is MIRDHANG
Mridangam, or? You live a mridangist in Toronto?
wonder how much insurance he has on that right hand of his. ;) really wonderous
@sonofthedestroyer the only con about is his overactive shaking of his head.
cazy
that means u understood only that?
its not sankuran... its sankaran
@FutbolFanatic90 it would be doing him no honor either way.there is no way to correctly spell indian words in english letters, and if you notice, most of them have 3 or 4 different ways to spell in english because they are trying to imitate the correct sounds as closely as possible and there isnt an exact way to do it. if you are hung up on spelling his name right, type it out in his native language and copy paste. thanks