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dated August 26, 1956: Memorial for music trinity

The memorial committee set up for raising a suitable memorial to the music trinity of South India - Sri Thyagaraja, Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar and Sri Shyama Sastri - by acquiring the actual sites and houses sanctified by their birth at the holy pilgrim town of Tiruvarur in Tanjore district completed its first important work on August 23 at the town. The committee visited Tiruvarur and finished the purchase of Thyagaraja's house with the adjacent property in the New Street, and Shyama Sastri's house in Mettu Street in the town. The site where Sri Dikshitar's house stood has already been purchased and the construction work has begun there with a view to putting up a shrine on the plot. The three memorial buildings will enshrine bas-relief in stone of the three great musicians, worshipping their favourite deities. The committee hopes that in due course a college of Carnatic music named after the trinity and dedicated to their memory would come up at Tiruvarur.

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