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A musical harmony

By Our Special Correspondent

DHARWAD, DEC. 11. A unique effort made to harmonise Hindustani and Carnatic systems of music made by the late Dattatraya Ramarao Parvatikar, popularly known as Nadayogi for the mastery he had in music, is slated for presentation here on Sunday.

Nadayogi Parvatikar, who died in 1990, at the age of 74, was considered to have taken to music and spiritualism as a sadhaka. He had combined the best of the two schools of music to evolve what he considered "Nadanand" style. A sitar player, he modified the musical instrument "Swaramandala" and used to play it solo. He had the distinction of evolving a new instrument called the "Dattatreya Veena," by combining three stringed instruments, vichitra veena, sitar and swaramandala, and had given several performances on All India Radio.

Pandit Hanumant Burli, a Hindustani classical vocalist of the Gwalior Gharana, and Pt. Nand Kumar of Mysore will present the performances in the Hindustani and Carnatic styles at the function being held in Dharwad on Sunday. Rao Saheb More, a disciple of Late Parvatikar, will play as per the nine and half matra propounded by the late Parvatikar. R. Satyanarayana, a musicologist of Mysore, will preside over the function.

The function has been organised jointly by Annajirao Sirur Auditorium Charitable Trust, Dharwad, Sri Raghavendra Swamy Mission, Dharwad Branch, and Avani Rasika Ranga of Dharwad at the "Srijana" auditorium on the campus of the Karnataka College, Dharwad.

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