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In memory of a violin maestro
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Monthly concerts to pay tribute to late Dwaran Narasinga Rao.
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Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam
Fond memories Dwaram Narasingarao Naidu.
The birth centenary of violin maestro late Dwaram Narasinga Rao Naidu is being celebrated in his home town Vizianagaram and in Visakhapatnam. To commemorate this centenary, music concerts will be held every month. This first of this programme got off
to a grand start with violin recitals by his disciple Ivaturi Vijayeswara Rao in the fort town and Prasishya H. Ramcharan in the port city last fortnight. Many connoisseurs of Indian classical music recalled the achievements of Narasinga Rao Naidu.
A scion of the hallowed Dwaram family, Rao was born on September 5, 1908. He was the eldest son of Venkata Krishnaiah and Lakshmi Narayanamma. He was initiated on to the violin at a very tender age by his father and his paternal uncle Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu. He honed his skills under the expert tutelage of Padmasri Venkataswamy Naidu and toured all over the South accompanying him on violin.
At the same time, he also lent support to the recitals of Carnatic maestros like Parupalli Ramakrishnaiah Pantulu, Muniganti Venkata Rao Pantulu, Dr. Sripada Pinakapani, Chembai Vaidhyanadh Bhagavatar, G.N.B., T.R. Mahalingam, among others. In 1936, he was chosen unanimously as the successor of Venkataswamy Naidu as a violin professor at M.R. College of Music and Dance in Vizianagaram. He became its Principal in 1954 and he is remembered as an eruditely analytical and warm-hearted teacher.
No wonder, many of his students like Nedunuri, Nookala, Pullela, Komanduri, Ivaturi and many more, besides his children late Ramanakumari, Durga Prasada Rao, Manorama and Satyanarayana, stand hailed as the pride not only of the college, but also of the firmament of Carnatic music.
An epitome of penchant for creating a niche of his own in playing Carnatic music on violin, he became known for tending it to be a paragon of exposition of the elate melody ordained in it with the aesthetic implementation of varied techniques in bowing and fingering he innovated and perfected practicing with perseverance. The exposition of Carnatic music thus emanating amalgamated with the intrinsic niceties of the timbre of the violin in his hands stood hailed as soul soothing and effulgent. He passed away
A.R.S
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