Carnatic vocalist and teacher T.R. Subramaniam, who infused a sense of populism in pallavi singing without compromising its complexity and classicism, died here on Friday. He was 84 and is survived by his son and daughter.
“He had an original mind and an intellectual approach to music. He experimented and his experiments were very much within classicism,” said music historian V. Sriram, who had had long discussions with TRS in Delhi when he was teaching in the music department of University of Delhi.
A post-graduate in English literature, TRS learnt music from Musiri Subramania Iyer. As he was a great admirer of G.N. Balasubramaniam, one could always find traces of GNB in TRS’ music. He knew many languages and his deep knowledge of Telugu came in handy while singing Tyagaraja kritis.
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