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A treasure trove for music lovers
Home to about 45,000 music cassettes featuring a range of musicians of the country, Sri Rama Chandra Murthi Sound Service Centre in the city is a treasure trove for music lovers as well as musicians. The collection in the centre includes many a music concert of eminent musicians of different parts of the country.
Rajamahendravaram: Home to about 45,000 music cassettes featuring a range of musicians of the country, Sri Rama Chandra Murthi Sound Service Centre in the city is a treasure trove for music lovers as well as musicians. The collection in the centre includes many a music concert of eminent musicians of different parts of the country.
- Sri Rama Chandra Murthi Sound Service centre has a collection of 45,000 cassettes of a large number of musicians from all over the country
- Students, music lovers and musicians find the centre an invaluable source of reference
Sagi Srirama Chandra Murthi, 76, who owns the shop, is an ardent fan of legendary musician late Dr Mangalampalli Bala Murali Krishna. “We have a collection of around 45,000 cassettes of veteran musicians from across the country spanning 60 years. Music college students, music lovers and musicians from across the state are using our outlet as a referral centre,” he told The Hans India here on Monday.
On demand, a copy of the cassette is given to those interested and the shop is making efforts to convert the cassettes into CDs as many people are asking them in the form of CDs. So far, 400 cassettes have been converted into CDs. Some NRIs are also procuring the cassettes and a nominal fee is charged for recording the cassette.
Srirama Chandra Murthi says he set up the shop 60 years ago for love of music. He enthusiastically collected cassettes of music concerts of vocal, veena, violin, flute and speeches of music stalwarts. The concerts of veteran musicians such as Dr Mangalampalli Bala Murali Krishna, MS Subbulakshmi, Srirangam Gopala Ratnam, MS Bala Subramanya Sharma, Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana are also available.
The collection in the shop includes veena concerts of Eemani Sankara Sastry, Challa Chittibabu, Ayyagari Satya Prasad, Pappu Someswara Rao, Nedunuri Krishna Murthi, V Nageswara Rao.Violin concerts of Annavarapu Rama Swamy, MS Gopalan, Mandolin Srinivas, S Jaya Kumar, Kumaresan and Ganesan and saxophone concerts of Kadiri Gopalan and flute concerts of Prapancham Sitaram, Sickli Sisters, Ramani and Manda Balarama Murthi etc., are available.
Dr Mangalampalli Bala Murali Krishna visited the music centre and gave the title of "Sabda Brahma' to Murthi for his dedication and undiminished enthusiasm for music. “I will continue my relentless service to the field of music until my last breath,” declareds Murthi. If the government extends any financial assistance, the centre will be developed in a large scale, he said.
Every year, Dr Mangalampalli Bala Murali Krishna Sangeetha Sabha, which is headed by Murthi, would confer ‘Murali Manogna Sangeetha Ratnakar' title on a musician on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the legendary musician.
By S S Chary
