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	Ananda Samarakone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ananda Samarakone (January 13, 1911 – April 5, 1962) is a Sri Lankan composer and musician best known for composing the Sri Lankan national anthem, "Sri Lanka Mathaa." He is considered the father of artistic Sinhala music, and founder of the modern geeta sahitya.
		Samarakone was born George Wilfred Alwis to a Christian family on January 13, 1911 in Sri Lanka, and in 1936, Samarakone left for Shantinikethan in India to study art.
		During Samarakone's stay in India, one of his early compositions, Namo Namo Mata (composed in 1940, recorded in 1946) was nominated as the national anthem and was officially adopted by the State as the Sri Lankan national anthem in 1952.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ananda_Samarakone (515 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Ananda Samarakone through his gramophone recordings had already laid the foundation for the artistic Sinhala music.
		Despite his ability to create idyllic scenes, Samarakone's lyrics were grammatically faulty with his language lacking poetic diction.
		Samarakone also used poetic licence to cut, telescope or modify words to match the tune.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/04/12/fea12.html (1234 words)

	LankaWeb News
		It was reported in the front page of the Island of 17th January 2003 that "Musicians Nanda Malini and W. Amaradeva under the direction of Rohana Weerasinghe sang and recorded the national anthem of Sri-Lanka much to the dismay of several nationalist parties".
		Ananda Samarakone the composer of the national Anthem lived in the house of Mr.
		The fact that Amaradeva collaborated to produce an amended version of the National Anthem is enough for all patriotic Singhalese to be dismayed with disbelief.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items03/210103-1.html (716 words)

	Ananda Samarakone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Ananda Samarakone was born on 13 July 1911 in Padukka.
		Anthem : Sri Lanka Matha, by Ananda Samarakone: Capital: Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte...
		Ananda Samarakone was the pioneer of this attempt and and He composed National Anthem too.
	sewing.best-resource-links-25.info /Sri_Lanka/Ananda_Samarakone (371 words)

	Amara Sara Arana - Articles
		This was an extremely fortunate event for it enabled talented students from Sri Lanka to take up to the serious and scientific study of music, from great masters in India with the delightful prospect of developing the standard of music in the country.
		As I was about to leave for India after working with Surya Shankar Mollidgode and Ananda Samarakone in all their programs and recordings, and also with Dr.Lionel Edirisinghe after his return from India, I came across a young man called W.D. Albert Perera.
		At the time she was a singer with Ananda Samarakone and also doing her own radio recitals.
	www.amaradeva.com /article11.htm (2463 words)

	The Dancer - a legend in his own
		This unbending attitude towards politicians, this lack of servility cost him dearly; he was deprived of his home of fifty years because he displeased a powerful politician.
		His home was open house to, and indeed home to, many budding artistes of the time, including Amaradeva, Sunil Shanta and Ananda Samarakone; the national anthem it is believed was written by Ananda Samarakone in that house on Galle Road near the Kollupitiya junction.
		It was a living, throbbing hive of the performing arts, a cultural centre, the nearest in this country at the time to India's Shantiniketan.
	www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/chitrasena.htm (1206 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Perera, Wasantha had the privilege of secretly meeting them at the congress writer Mulk Raj Ananda's residence.
		They were Lionel Edirisinghe, Suryasankar Molligoda, Ananda Samarakone, Sunil Santha and Sakalasuriya.
		Coincidentally, except Sunil the rest of that batch were from Ananda College during Dr. P.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2005/08/14/fea15.html (1219 words)

	Sinhala Anti Federalism & Political Bankruptcy
		The question of "statelessness" was settled by implementing the 1964 Indo-Ceylon Agreement in stages in the late 1980s.
		The National Anthem was composed by a Sinhalese person, Mr Ananda Samarakone, in 1952.
		The meaning of this phrase was explained by a leading Buddhist monk and Mahanayake of Malwatte Chapter, Ven Sirimalwatte Ananda Mahanayake: "Buddhism should be given priority and other religions be given reasonable prominence" (Ceylon Daily News, 18 March 1989, p.1).
	www.tamilnation.org /selfdetermination/tamileelam/9209satha.htm (5468 words)

	SASNET: Sri Lanka
		In addition it also portrays the Punkalasa, dhammachakka, sun, moon and two sheaves of paddy.
		Namo Namo Matha, in sinhalese language, composed by Ananda Samarakone, chosen as the national anthem on 22 November 1951.
		English is widely used as a link language.
	www.sasnet.lu.se /lanka.html (1597 words)

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