Smt R Vedavalli, Raga Sudha Hall, 4/7/12 on my 60th Bday
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Smt R Vedavalli, Raga Sudha Hall, 4/7/12 on my 60th Bday
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I am delighted to say that, with Jaya's kind help, and Smt Vedavalli's gracious acceptance, I will be sponsoring her concert at Raga Sudha Hall, next Wednesday, 4th July.
She will be accompanied by R. K. Shriramkumar, K. Arunprakash, and N. Guruprasad
All are Welcome
6.15pm, Raga Sudha Hall,
85/2, Luz Avenue,
Mylapore, Chennai 600 004
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I am delighted to say that, with Jaya's kind help, and Smt Vedavalli's gracious acceptance, I will be sponsoring her concert at Raga Sudha Hall, next Wednesday, 4th July.
She will be accompanied by R. K. Shriramkumar, K. Arunprakash, and N. Guruprasad
All are Welcome
6.15pm, Raga Sudha Hall,
85/2, Luz Avenue,
Mylapore, Chennai 600 004
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Mr Nick H,
Wishing you very many more happy returns.
With greetings in advance,
Thanjavooran 26 06 2012
Wishing you very many more happy returns.
With greetings in advance,
Thanjavooran 26 06 2012
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Happy Birthday Nick! That's a wonderful way to celebrate - listening to one of your favourite 'old ladies'!
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Happy Birthday Nick! As Mohan said, indeed a wonderful way to celebrate
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Nick, with many such happy returns of the day and years to come! A truly wonderful way to celebrate...
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Nick. That is indeed a unique way to celebrate a birthday
Wish you a great musical evening, a wonderful birthday and many years of happiness and prosperity
Wish you a great musical evening, a wonderful birthday and many years of happiness and prosperity
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Is there a dress code? Veshti and Kurtha perhaps
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Nick
Wow 60th birthday wishes.I hope you take steps to video graph the concert . Not that I am asking for it to be put here, but you will be happy to see that in your 80th birthday
Wow 60th birthday wishes.I hope you take steps to video graph the concert . Not that I am asking for it to be put here, but you will be happy to see that in your 80th birthday
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Nick, pirandha nAL vAzhthukkaL. Many happy returns.
Wish you a great year ahead filled with all your favourite music, beginning with this concert by Smt Vedavalli!
Wish you a great year ahead filled with all your favourite music, beginning with this concert by Smt Vedavalli!
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Thank you all for your best wishes: it seems like a wonderful way to begin the next sixty years of my life .
For those who do not know, and to avoid misunderstanding, this is my wife's term for my favourite, most serious and classical artists. Necessarily, this includes elders, but some of them are only in their twenties and thirties!listening to one of your favourite 'old ladies'!
Oh, we had not thought of it. I fear it would strain the budget. If I can get a recording, though, it would be nice.I hope you take steps to video graph the concert .
Suresh, as a married man and respected member of the rasikas.org community, I think you should be expected to wear pancha kancham [sp?] 8)Is there a dress code? Veshti and Kurtha perhaps
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Advance Birthday Greetings Nick. This can be a mid year Rasikas Meet.
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Advance birthday wishes Nick! What a wonderful way to celebrate !!!!
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Suresh, it will truly be a 'kETTu vAngi kaTTiNDa pancakacam'!Nick H wrote:Suresh, as a married man and respected member of the rasikas.org community, I think you should be expected to wear pancha kancham
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Of course... Walked into it with full knowledge that it was a kuduthu sevandha kairshankar wrote: Suresh, it will truly be a 'kETTu vAngi kaTTiNDa pancakacam'!
Among the many things I do for the rasika community.
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Happy birthday Nick. The concert idea is indeed awesome. All the best for a great concert and birthday celebrations!
Are there any CM compositions with Shastiapthapoorthi or even just birthday as the main or sub-them?
Are there any CM compositions with Shastiapthapoorthi or even just birthday as the main or sub-them?
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Nick,
Looks like its a double bonanza. Updated the Ragasudha Hall schedule a few minutes back (http://ramsabode.wordpress.com/concerts-in-chennai/) and found out that there are two concerts by Smt. R. Vedavalli in early July at the hall!
Looks like its a double bonanza. Updated the Ragasudha Hall schedule a few minutes back (http://ramsabode.wordpress.com/concerts-in-chennai/) and found out that there are two concerts by Smt. R. Vedavalli in early July at the hall!
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Yes! She is singing on both 2nd and 4th July... I hope we will all be there for both concerts
Sometimes we have to wait months, now we have two of her concerts in one week.
I have added the accompanists to the opening posts. Only now do I have the full list, and I am pleased to see that it is very much complete.
Sometimes we have to wait months, now we have two of her concerts in one week.
I have added the accompanists to the opening posts. Only now do I have the full list, and I am pleased to see that it is very much complete.
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Nicholas!
I was waiting for the first of July to come, to start a thread on the 4th of July--with sparklers, fire works and all, since it's a special Independence Day for us--your special birthday!
Just saw this thread, and so we join in with glee to wish you: a luminous (dIpAvali combined Fourth of July) celebrations on your 60th!
My! How young a birthday it sounds to some of us here!
Will miss being there on the auspicious day--in a nine yards sari? Hope you have a new six yards sari for S, along with the pancha kacham you bought for yourself If not, go shopping--better still, take her with you so that she can pick the sari. She has such good taste
Have a wonderful day, great music, a great year and many more glorious ones to come! Helath, happiness--R&K
Suresh,
dress code: vEshTi, kurtA AND shoulder bag...
I was waiting for the first of July to come, to start a thread on the 4th of July--with sparklers, fire works and all, since it's a special Independence Day for us--your special birthday!
Just saw this thread, and so we join in with glee to wish you: a luminous (dIpAvali combined Fourth of July) celebrations on your 60th!
My! How young a birthday it sounds to some of us here!
Will miss being there on the auspicious day--in a nine yards sari? Hope you have a new six yards sari for S, along with the pancha kacham you bought for yourself If not, go shopping--better still, take her with you so that she can pick the sari. She has such good taste
Have a wonderful day, great music, a great year and many more glorious ones to come! Helath, happiness--R&K
Suresh,
dress code: vEshTi, kurtA AND shoulder bag...
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Sushi has over sixty saris, and I, the shopper, have even more vestis. I might go for silk, but not for all this back-and-forth-between-the-legs-stuff.
Age is so relative.
20-something friend of mine, "Vedavalli was quite old when she first came to London."
me, "She was the same age then as I am now ... so not so much of the 'old'!"
It's a shame you can't be here...
Many thanks to you, and to all well wishers.
At least, as of next week, I have an excuse to be doddery and forgetful--- but, I know, among the sharp-minded raskikas, and the fighting-fit musicians two decades ahead, It is excuse at all.
Age is so relative.
20-something friend of mine, "Vedavalli was quite old when she first came to London."
me, "She was the same age then as I am now ... so not so much of the 'old'!"
It's a shame you can't be here...
Many thanks to you, and to all well wishers.
At least, as of next week, I have an excuse to be doddery and forgetful--- but, I know, among the sharp-minded raskikas, and the fighting-fit musicians two decades ahead, It is excuse at all.
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Nick,
While here in the US it's going to be a noisy celebration of the birth of a nation, your special day is going to be marked by a remarkable concert of antique value--a quiet affair, and on a week day too--which means some rasikas will be at work and are going to join you a bit late.
Hope the retirees and regular Raga Sudha rasikas come to wish you and listen to the treat you have arranged for.
Happy birthday again!
While here in the US it's going to be a noisy celebration of the birth of a nation, your special day is going to be marked by a remarkable concert of antique value--a quiet affair, and on a week day too--which means some rasikas will be at work and are going to join you a bit late.
Hope the retirees and regular Raga Sudha rasikas come to wish you and listen to the treat you have arranged for.
Happy birthday again!
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Nick, happy 60th birthday! Would there be a neetimati RTP for your birthday?
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All content will be a surprise to be known on the night only
Thank you all for your best wishes.
Fellow devotees will want to be at RS Hall tonight too, for it is a 2-concert Vedavalli week!
Thank you all for your best wishes.
Indeed, the intention is for all to enjoy, and the importance is, as ever, the music, and not the man, who, having done a little work and provided some funds, then becomes an ordinary audience member again.Hope the retirees and regular Raga Sudha rasikas come to wish you and listen to the treat you have arranged for.
Fellow devotees will want to be at RS Hall tonight too, for it is a 2-concert Vedavalli week!
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Happy birthday, Nick! My best wishes for the evening. God bless you.
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Nick, Wish U many more happy returns of the day.May U be surrounded by soulful music !
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Many Many Happy Returns , Nick.
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Thank you all.
Looking forward to this evening's concert
Looking forward to this evening's concert
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Best wishes for a Happy 60th Birthday, Nick! May you celebrate many more with such beautiful musical concerts then as today! Whatever you wear- Veshti or pants, you are a true Indian at heart with carnatic music in your veins and that is more than enough. Like arasi pointed out, we are celebrating your 60th Birthday with a Big Bang of firecrackers all over the U.S.! I just saw the post about your birthday and so I am late. Enjoy your day with your favorite concert!
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Thank you all for your wishes.
The concert was absolutely wonderful. More about it now, on this thread.
The concert was absolutely wonderful. More about it now, on this thread.
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Nick
Your gift is here . Though late .
Your gift is here . Though late .
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Nick- Belated Birthday Greetings !
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I am netless forseveral days apart from occasional fumblings on tablet or phone. Perhaps airtel decided i needed more time to digest the experience before returning to normal life.
The effect of the wonderful concert and the warmth of artists and rasikas endures...
The effect of the wonderful concert and the warmth of artists and rasikas endures...
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Nick: As a Johnny-come-lately for everything in my life,let me offer my belated Congratulations on your 60th Birthday. Fortunately unlike some of us -- who have stopped celebrating birthdays because the Candles cost more than the cake and the local Fire Depts in my case have declared my house a fire hazard for such celebrations-- you are still young in mind and spirit.
Best wishes from your fellow rasikas-- I was in Chennai for 2 weeks--left on July 2nd--heard about the Vedavalli Concert but did not know that it was in your honor.
had a lovely flute-vocal session with fellow rasika Udayshankar and my cousin P.S.krishnamurthy--one of the Hindu reviewers during the Season--an impromptu session Too short a notice to let fellow chennaites rasikas know.
Best wishes from your fellow rasikas-- I was in Chennai for 2 weeks--left on July 2nd--heard about the Vedavalli Concert but did not know that it was in your honor.
had a lovely flute-vocal session with fellow rasika Udayshankar and my cousin P.S.krishnamurthy--one of the Hindu reviewers during the Season--an impromptu session Too short a notice to let fellow chennaites rasikas know.
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MKR,
Good to hear from you! If you come to India this December, please let us know of any session you are planning on.
Love the humor about candles costing a pretty penny for the sheer number the like of us need--and for what purpose? To get to listen to the siren sounds of the fire trucks to celebrate? I had a sparkling special birthday myself (in India), thanks to K--he gave me a gift of a concert which was to me a Battery Park 4th of July display in winter!
Nick,
As for you, You got yourself a super classic gift!
Good to hear from you! If you come to India this December, please let us know of any session you are planning on.
Love the humor about candles costing a pretty penny for the sheer number the like of us need--and for what purpose? To get to listen to the siren sounds of the fire trucks to celebrate? I had a sparkling special birthday myself (in India), thanks to K--he gave me a gift of a concert which was to me a Battery Park 4th of July display in winter!
Nick,
As for you, You got yourself a super classic gift!
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MKR-sir, thank you for your wishes. I would have loved to have heard your session with Uday and your cousin. I guess that the nature of impromptu contradicts announcement. You chose exactly the wrong date to leave, as we had two wonderful concerts from Smt Vedavalli, on 2nd ittself, and then, on my birthday, the 4th.
Arasi, I had forgotten that you, too, had a special concert as a birthday celebration. Let us indeed be trendsetters! What a way to go this is, compared to spending money on restaurants, jewels, silks. Can we say that jewels and silks are durables whereas music is lost in the wind? Not so fast! Even if I was never to get an audio recording of this program, the event is going to delight and affect me for a long, long time.
If I could afford it, I would do this regularly (I joked to Mrs H, we could have memorial concerts for our lost cats!) but I can't. Even if I could, I doubt that anything could be as special as this event. Most birthdays are over and forgotten the very next day: this one endures
Arasi, I had forgotten that you, too, had a special concert as a birthday celebration. Let us indeed be trendsetters! What a way to go this is, compared to spending money on restaurants, jewels, silks. Can we say that jewels and silks are durables whereas music is lost in the wind? Not so fast! Even if I was never to get an audio recording of this program, the event is going to delight and affect me for a long, long time.
If I could afford it, I would do this regularly (I joked to Mrs H, we could have memorial concerts for our lost cats!) but I can't. Even if I could, I doubt that anything could be as special as this event. Most birthdays are over and forgotten the very next day: this one endures