Arangetram & First Paid Concerts (1904)
He had his arangetram or debut, a concert of two hours' duration, when he performed together with his brother Subramanian in 1904. The brothers had their first paid concert in 1905 at a temple festival in a town called Ottapalam in the Palakkad district of Kerala. A little later, there was another noteworthy concert at Kantallur Parthasarathy Temple. Anantha Bhagavatar himself provided the violin accompaniment, while mridanga support was given by well-known stage actor Chokkanathapuram Ayya Bhagavatar.
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