Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar was twenty years elder to G.N.Balasubramaniam (1910-1965). For Ariyakudi’s commemorative souvenir, G.N.B wrote an article titled ‘The Hero as a Musician’ and let me quote a short paragraph from it:
” Sri Ariyakudi is a musician with a clear vision and idea of what he is about. He never allowed himself, even in his early days, to fall into the dangerous illusion that originality comes only with the avoidance of the well-known, obvious and basic sancharas and form of a raga, a shoal on which many young musical minds are apt to wreck themselves. He has to his credit introduced the largest number of new compositions of the Trinity…..He, it is, who had codified and adapted to modern times, the aspects of a concert, their spacing and timings- and this so well done that both the lay and the learned never have a dull moment or feeling of boredom, throughout the concert”
1. Gnanamusakarada- by Ariyakkudi: http://www.muzigle.com/artist/ariyakkudi-t-ramanuja-iyengar#!track/gnanamosagarada-ragG.Na-purvikalyani
Manasuloni- by G. N. Balasubramaniam: http://www.muzigle.com/artist/gn-balasubramaniam#!track/manasulonima
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