[New post] Johnson Master | Malayalam Cinema's Magic Fingers

Johnson Master | Malayalam Cinema's Magic Fingers cinematters | August 19, 2011 at 12:00 pm | Tags: JOhnson, Tribute to Johnson | Categories: Maestroes Making News, Music. Magic. | URL: http://wp.me/pRKWf-1nW

26th March 1953 - 18th August 2011

Another maestro passes on to the Other Side, someone who, paraphrasing Beethoven, "made us realise Music to be a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy and the electrical soil in which the spirit lived, thought and invented."  Johnson Master, to me, was the first music director who gave us the joi-de-vivre of Western musical sensibilities in his brilliantly structured sonic sets of melody. I still remember standing rooted on the spot the first  time I listened to Rajahamsamey from Bharathan's Chamayam, wafting through the speakers of our neighborhood Men's Salon, and I kept saying "Oh my God!" over and over again. Read more of this post

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