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 musicteacher 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