Chennai, Dec. 18 -- Students proficient in traditional music can now pursue engineering at IIT-Madras and parents should encourage their children to learn music from a young age, Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT-Madras said.
Delivering the inaugural address at the 93rd annual South Indian Music Conference and Festival of Indian Fine Arts Society, among the oldest sabhas of Chennai, here last evening, Prof. Kamakoti said that people will soon become tired of watching music programmes on digital platforms and would start yearning to attend live concerts.
"Bring your children along with you to concerts. Initiate them into music from a young age onwards," he said in the presence of industrialist Dr. Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetty.
Among other initi...