Veena Tradition in Indian Music

Dr. L. Annapoorna took to interest in Classical Music at a young age. She hails from a family of personalities of literary eminence. Her father, the Late Prof. S. Lakhminarasimhan, popularly known as SL was the head of the department of English at Madurai College at Madurai. Ms. Annapoorna completed her master’s degree in Performing Arts from the Madurai University (1979) and earned another master’s degree in Education from Annamalai University. She was awarded the PhD degree in Music by the Kerala University for her doctoral thesis on “Temple Compositions in South Indian Music. She has to her credit several research papers and publications, which include: Swati Tirunal Kritigal – Text (in Tamil), Music and Temples; New Horizons in Indian Music (Collected Works of Sri T.S. Patjasarathy); Vina through the Ages; Gleanings of Indian Music; Bharata’s Natyasastra; An Abstract of Music research; Documentation of Performing Arts.