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Re: Scale and Rakthi

paramu_2000 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:37:20 -0000

Sanjayji, What you have precisely analysed regarding the evolution of ragas is a proof for yet another phenomenon - classical carnatic music remtains all the flavour and fervour of a pure art form only because of its evolutionary nature and because of the importance it gives to the points of veiws of the rasikas!

Re: A knowledgeable rasika - 1

paramu_2000 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:07:15 -0000

Sreenivasan is an archetype of my generation and I can well sympathise with him. He feels irritated on seeing people embark on a musical career without being trained up fully! He also fees that the majority is pulling in the direction of the 'under trained career musician'. His frustration increases and he vents it on any listener he can get. (I even feel that sanjay might have written the peice after having talked with me!)

Re: Happy New Year!

paramu_2000 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:44:45 -0000

Dear Sanjay Sir,
Heard your concert at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Kovai yesterday (13.01.09). The Khamas and Mohanam were every bit vintage Sanjay. When you started on Khamas I thought how could anyone better it! Then when you embarked on Mohanam the thought became which is better Khamas or Mohanam. Thank you Sir for the immense listening pleasure you are giving to us lovers of Classical music! Haerty Pongal greetings to yourself and family.

Re: Happy New Year!

paramu_2000 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:10:07 -0000

Dear Sanjay,
My the New Year rain cheer and sheer happiness for you and family!

Re: Kalayami raghuramam

paramu_2000 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:09:44 -0000

Dear Shri Sanjay,
Wish you a very happy and Prosperous New Year!

Your Begada at Kuthairamalaika was indeed awe inspiring! Kalayami was defenitely the icing on the Begada cake!!

Interestingly, the very next day at the same venue, Malladi Suribabu garu sang another Begada - a tottally different one. It was proof positive of the myriad faces of Carnatic music - each visage beautiful, quaint and attractive in their own ways!

I tottally support Vijay's suggestion that some old concerts with expert comments inl aid should be produced!

My own personal introduction to Kalayami was through yet another unknown greats of Carnatic music - a vainika callled M Unnikrishnan. He was a staff artist of AIR Kozhikode and I remember sitting mesmerised when he was teaching my mother Kalayami on the veena. Unnikrishnan master was a violinist turned vainika and has a considerably large shishya community in Kozhikode. He passed away in the early nineties.

Re: MM Dandapani Desigar

paramu_2000 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:59:36 -0000

Dear Sanjay,
Heard your MMU concert today! It was 'out of the world'. There where only snatches of 'O Ho Kaalame' in today's (22.12) morning repeat of the programme. I just couldn't have enough of the 'kaalam'!
I was veiwing the programme, when my 15 year daughter - (always busy with studies, talking with freinds and adoration of TVand film stars!) - rushed into the hall. She saw you singing and pulled a chair beside me and sat down to listen!! her comment " he looks so inteligently smart! A real aristocrat!" You have defenitly earned a life long fan!

Re: The Sanjay Subrahmanyan Show - Episode 9 - Chat with Subashri Tanikachalam

paramu_2000 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:48:36 -0000

The marriage of Carnatic music, moving images and multi track recording shows that Carnatic music has entered into a novel growth trajectory. Htsoff off to te like of Tanushri, sanjay and a host of thers who are using all the vaialable elctronic media ro enhance the vsisibility and winnability of carnatic music.
P S iwould also like to know the schecule of jaya TV margazhi utsavam telecasts. where is it available?

Re: The Sanjay Subrahmanyan Show - Episode 8 - Happy Deepavali!

paramu_2000 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:12:14 -0000

Yes, I understand that my earlier opinion has such a distortion. I feel that certain elements like not allowing upa pakka vadyams, a strict time schedule, the insistence on certain ragams and kritis, the importance given to vocal concerts, the prime place accorded to the veena etc imparted a quaint ambience to the festival. Looking from the vantage point of the 21st century, I fully agree that the insistence that female artists should not perform in front of the Goddess of Arts is indeed strange and illogical. But again I feel that there might have been some valid reason for the exclusion (which is completely irrelevant now) and it is for us to find out the whys and wheres!

Re: The Sanjay Subrahmanyan Show - Episode 8 - Happy Deepavali!

paramu_2000 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:15:21 -0000

The conversation with Varma was a warm and enjoyable experience. However, I feel that the restrictions imposed at the Navarathri mandapam was the very reason why the venue and the festival developed as a special one! Instead of trying to change the ambience and the quaint systems of the navarathri mandapam festival, varmaj can very well develop the Kuthir malika festival as a new one with a fresh set of restrictions! !

Re: Podcast next episode - Send me some quesions

paramu_2000 — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:19:31 -0000

Dear Sanjayji,
This is one question that has been bothering me for some time. When I hear concert recordings of masters like Semmangudi, MDR, Dr S Ramanathan etc and then when I compare them with the concerts of the present generation I have often felt, that on many occasions, the prformance of the new generation is tottally a rehararsed one while that of the old stalwarts were more of instant improvisation. Ofcourse there are exceptions on both sides and of course the older generatiom amy also have come prepared with a programme. My feeling is that the oler generation sang more or less extempore while the new generation sticks to practiced improvisation! Your comments?

Re: Mic and no mic - Some thoughts

paramu_2000 — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:38:09 -0000

About Palaghat Mani Iyer's demand for mikeless concerts, it was the generally lowering of standards in sruthi that set in during the 70s that formed the background of Swami's well publicised outrage against the mike! Even now a lot of people mumble through the Pancharathna kritis and even now I have heard of people complaining about the lack of clarity of sahitya and bhava among musicians. This, I must say, to some extnt prooves that waht mani Swami had feared has actually taken place! I feel musicians, especially professionals, must set a higher standard of performance, a system of peer reveiw and cut doen on the numbet of concert assignments taken on>