TIRUKKURAL IS MADE INTO SONGS
Jegath Gaspar Raj founder of Tamil Mayam announced today in a press
conference that 330 Thirukkural would be made into 50 songs. This would be
launched as ‘Thirukkural Isaitamiz’ featuring voices of nearly 60 singers, on
the eve of Tamil Classical conference scheduled to be held in Coiombatore.The
couplets were selected by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil [CICT].
The songs will be set to tune in different genres of music, including
folk, classical, Carnatic, Western, light melody and Hindustani. Fr. Jegath
Gaspar Raj, violinist Embar Kannan, singers Srinivas, O.S.Arun, Arimalam
Padmanabhan, T.L.Maharajan and Kanniks Kannikeswaran have composed music.
Nellai Jesuraj will handle the
orchestra. Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi`s interpretations of the couplets will
be presented in the form of a booklet along with the CDs.
Singers, including Sudha Ragunathan, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Aruna Sairam,
Bombay Jayashri, O.S.Arun, Sowmya, Sikkil Gurucharan, Harish Ragavendra,
Karthik, Srinivas, Unni Menon, Tippu, Harini and Anuradha Sriram have sung
along with many others.
