City's own maestro honoured

'Interest in music should be inculcated from childhood'

City-based violin exponent Mutnuri Srinivasa Narasimha Murthy popularly known as MSN Murthy was honoured with Visakha Music Academy's prestigious Dwaram Venkata Swamy Naidu award on the second day of the ongoing six-day festival of music and dance.

Judge ACB Court Visakhapatnam G.V. Krishnaiah, who was the chief guest, and chief patron of the academy S Vijayakumar gave away the award and felicitated the maestro. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Krishnaiah said that interest in music should be inculcated from childhood. Nowadays the school time itself was stretched beyond 7 p.m. leaving little scope for children to pursue their interests in fine arts, he observed.

He complimented the VMA for choosing city-based maestro for the award named after legendary violinist Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu.

-Velcheti Subrahmanyam

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