Why Papanasam Sivan’s Compositions are very Popular?

 

As a musician, Sri.Papanasam Sivan has great creative flair. He springs surprises on his listeners every moment. All art, as we know, is a perennial quest for beauty and so Sri.Sivan’s music has nothing in common with the stale dressed-up stuff the professionals purvey for mass consumption with an eye on the box office.

Sri Sivan has been trying to keep the flag of Vaidyanatha Ayyar flying in two ways:

1) His singing is an exact pattern of the great veteran’s and

2) All that was great in Vaidyanatha Ayyar’s music has been immortalized in Sivan’s own compositions.

The creative and aesthetic genius that Sri.Sivan is, he is able to interpret the Carnatic Trinity in a most thrilling manner. There is nothing stereotype in his rendering of classical gems.

We are familiar with pundits stringing together a few words and looking about for someone to find music for them. There are also musicians who borrow words for their tunes. It is scissor and paste work, piecing together music phrases torn from songs and words equally plagiarized. These pseudo-composers seem to have been there all along!

 In contrast to these stands the genuine composer. In moments of contemplating the Divine, he is in a sort of trance. Word and sound flow from his mouth through inspiration. There is perfect concord between the theme of the song and its scale. Only such songs bear the seal of immortality. Sri Sivan is an ornament to this galaxy of composers.