Abstract
In recent years, the aradhana with music concerts of saint composers such as Thyagaraja are held not only in India but even in the South Indian communities abroad. This paper focuses on the Narayana Tirtha Aradhana (NTA) held in Tamil Nadu state. Though Narayana Tirtha holds a prominent position in some traditional performing arts in South India, his works have been less acknowledged in Carnatic music concerts than those of other composers. Even with the disadvantages and controversial points, the organizer V. Venkatesan, to some extent, has succeeded in establishing the public images of the NTA. It is accepted even as "traditional" in Carnatic music world recently. Who is the "bearer" of "tradition"? Within the context of active development of the arts, the paper discusses how he reconstructed the "tradition" of the NTA.
