Guruji's guru Vid. Prasanna Venkatesh were always repeating the following
words - "Nagaraja is my MANASA PUTHRA". Our Guruji Vid. Shree Shringeri
H S Nagaraj always behave like a son to their guruji Vid. H R Prasanna
Venkatesh.Now it is only a sweat memory as god received Vid. Prasanna
Venkatesh with very much love to listen their sweatest music melody.
Pls have the correspondant in THE HINDU containing the
horrible sad news -
Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, Apr 26, 2006 H.R. Prasanna Venkatesh passes away Special
Correspondent SHIMOGA: H.R. Prasanna Venkatesh, eminent singer of
Carnatic style, died here on Tuesday following a massive heart attack.
He was 61. He is survived by wife and two sons.Prasanna Venkatesh who
served as a music teacher at the D.V.S. Composite Junior College here,
devoted himself to the cause of training his students after his retirement
three years ago. He did a course in Sangeet Vidwat. He founded Vani
Karnataka Sangeet Vidyalaya, where he taught music for nearly 40 years.
He presented performances on many prestigious music forums.
The Bangalore Gayana Samaj honoured him with the "Man of the Year"
award three years ago. Founder of the Guruguha Sangeet Vidyalaya
and a member of the Karnataka Sangeet Academy, Sringeri, H.S. Nagaraj,
who learnt music under the tutelage of Prasanna Venkatesh, condoled
his death terming it a great loss to the field of music.
courtesy: THE HINDU