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TIRUVARUR, INDIA, May 4, 2003: Organized by the Kanchi Kamakoti Peeta Carnatic Sangeetha Seva Trust, the six-day Jayanti festival of the famous Carnatic music trinity, Shyama Sasthrigal, Thyagaraja Swamigal and Muthuswamy Deekshitar, was inaugurated at Tiruvarur on Saturday night. Opening the festival, musicologist and secretary of Chennai-based Music Academy, Dr. V. V. Srivatsa, highlighted the contributions made by the three composers to the field of Carnatic music.