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BLESSED LOT

The students of Nagamani Srinath under her direction at Jagan mohan Palace presented a musical feature on `Haridasas`. After witnessing the flawless performance in front of a capacity audience I could not help wonder as to how lucky these artistes were to have a teacher and mentor like Nagamani Srinath. She not only teaches with utmost dedication but also promotes all upcoming young artistes in her own unique way. Her students are truly a “Blessed lot”.

THE INDIAN EXPRESS: ABOUT THE MUSICAL FEATURE UNDER AUSPICIOUS OF JAYACHAMARAJENDRA CULTURAL ACADEMY.

UNIQUE ARTISTE!!

Nagamani sings like a nightingale. What a voice! What a range! What melody! What pliability! She is a grammarian and never deviates from the well-established norms.

INDIAN EXPRESS: SUBBUDU

INTOXICATING ART

Nagamani’s music was intoxicating both for its melody and colorful content. Brika and bhava seldom go together but Nagamani proved that she could make an expressive blend of them. A happy combination of virtues contributed to the success of the program and this covered a strikingly sweet voice with inherent emotional appeal, brika movement of extraordinary precision and natural felicity and intelligence to exploit in fusion with an aesthetically rich style of gamaka graces and a command of laya that gave top class stature to her vidwat.

THE HINDU: N.M. NARAYAN ON THE MADRAS MUSIC ACADEMY CONCERT

MUSIC FULL OF FIRE AND BRILLIANCE

Nagamani Srinath gave a highly stimulating vocal concert at the Karnataka Sangeeta Nrutya academy festival. Her music is full of fire and brilliance and provided a refreshing experience. While her raga essays appealed by her rich melody and traditional format; her neravals and swara manipulations bore testimony to classical acumen.

DECCAN HERALD: ABOUT THE KARNATAKA SANGEETA NRUTYA ACADEMY FESTIVAL CONCERT

NAGAMANI IN MADRAS

Artistes from Karnataka have in recent years been attracting the attention of the seasoned cognoscenti by their competitive efficiency and artistry. Nagamani Srinath from Mysore has carved a niche for herself in the hearts of the rasikas of Madras and incidentally bagged the best musician award in consecutive years. This year her concert at the Viveka Cultural center was remarkable. Combining melody, verve with her deep scholarship and dedication imbibed from her mentor the late Ramnad Krishnan she made every item an experience to cherish.

THE DECCAN HERALD: SRARAGRAHI ABOUT PERFORMANCE AT THE MADRAS MUSIC FESTIVAL

BRILLIANT RECITAL

One of the leading exponents of Carnatic vocal music gave a brilliant vocal recital on the third day on the third day of the conference. It was a sort of glowing tribute to the Haridasas of Karnataka. She packed her recital with exclusively with Haridasa-compositions.
Nagamani’s individuality was on full view when she delineated a ticklish Manirangu raga for rangam tanam pallavi. With her well-cultivated voice, she invested this mode with innumerable nuances, twists, turns and musical somersaults by way of embellishment.
Nagamani deserved praise for her handling of the pallavi. Her mastery over laya was impeccable.

THE HINDU - MARCH 22, 2002: ABOUT GANAKALA PARISHAD CONFERENCE CONCERT

NAGAMANI’S `MUSIC OF SUBSTANCE'

Nagamani’s concert at Malleshwaram sangeet Sabha was more a music of substance than superfluities. As her programme was not overloaded with kritis, one could enjoy the spacious version of ragas their interesting features and beauty clearly in both alaapana and neraval

DECCAN HERALD - JUNE 23 1993: ABOUT THE MALLESHWARAM SANGEET SABHA CONCERT.

A TRULY GREAT ARTISTE

A genuinely gifted artiste, endowed with immeasurable talents, a cohesive whole with a discerning bias for sruti, a revealing manodharma coupled with the essence of orthodoxy.

TIMES OF INDIA 1990

NAGAMANI SRINATH IMPRESSES

A rich and melodious voice and a penetrating insight into the classical idiom and meaningful planning of the concert were the plus points of Nagamani Srinath’s concert at Lalbagh glass house.
Nagamani had never a dull moment throughout her concert. Nagamani has the gift of upholding the melodic phrase caressingly. This was evident in the rolling patterns of her madhyamavati raga in the interpretation of Rama katha sudha rasa with contemplative intensity.

THE DECCAN HERALD - NOVEMBER 1986: GUNAGRAHI ON THE ALL INDIA CULTURAL FESTIVAL CONCERT.

WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE

An eminent Carnatic vocalist, a good house- wife and an enterprising lecturer- Nagamani Srinath is all rolled into one. Endowed with a clear, sweet voice Ms Nagamani has been widely acclaimed for her `soulful singing`, rich in emotional appeal.
Simple serene, and soft-spoken, her list of musical distinctions can be aptly described as `unbelievable yet true`. Last year the Madras citizens committee honored her for her services rendered to the field of music. She is the only Carnatic vocalist from Karnataka to be thus honored. In addition for three consecutive years between 1978 and 1981 the Best musician Award was conferred on her by the Madras Music Academy.

FEMINA - MAY 1983: NAGAMANI AS A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE!

TIME FLIES ON THE WINGS OF BEAUTY AND BHAVA

Dancing as inseparable partners throughout the performance given by Nagamani Srinath of Mysore for the Vivek Cultural Centre , Alwarpet the beauty and bhava she created in her music gripped and enchanted the rasika so completely that all sense of time was forgotten. The cries for `Mayamma` and `Govardhanagiridhari` from some sections of the audience unmindful of the fact that the concert had arrived at its closing time proved the popularity this artiste has gained in such a short time. She bagged the best musician award from the Madras Music Academy on three consecutive years.
Nagamani revealed in her performance that she has the sparkling artistry to communicate rasa in all aspects of cutcheri art covering raga alapana, song rendition, neraval and swara singing. Her sweet voice displayed the unusual combination of extraordinary birka felicity with the silken Carnatic music asaivu and gamaka graces. Her nimble and colorful imagination enabled her to present her gift in a vivid and telling manner.

THE HINDU - DECEMBER 4, 1980: N.M. NARAYAN ON THE MADRAS MUSIC FESTIVAL

THE CHALLENGE FROM KARNATAKA WOMEN

Evidence of the rare gift to sway the rasika with bhakti rasa and bhava was amply given by Nagamani Srinath whose sharp and honeyed voice and its unusually expressive range covering the brika, asaivu and gamaka graces gave communicative force to her raga alapanas of Begada and Kalyani. Her artistry in feeling inflections seemed to whisper the music into ones very soul.

THE HINDU - FRIDAY DECEMBER 28,1979: MADRAS MUSIC ACADEMY FESTIVAL

KARNATAKA ARTISTES SCORE IN MADRAS

December dawns in Madras and there is an aura of music pervading all over with a dozen organizations simultaneously conducting their art festivals.
This year the contingent from Karnataka made more than an appreciable impact over the large audiences that had turned up. And the pride of place goes to Mrs. Nagamani Srinath. Her concert at the Viveka cultural center was a veritable feast. Her cadence concern for the transmutation of art into life allured the privileged listeners. Singing with delicate sensitivity and an extraordinarily subtle poise she carried the entire audience with her. Her performance was truly classic with unallayed delight.

THE INDIAN EXPRESS - JAN 24, 79: ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE IN MADRAS MUSIC FESTIVAL

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