Guruve Charanam - Collection of Interviews
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Gamakam
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Guruve Charanam - Collection of Interviews
My review here: http://carnaticmusicreview.wordpress.co ... ok-review/
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arasi
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Re: Guruve Charanam - Collection of Interviews
Gamakam,
As can be expected, a very nice piece of writing from you. It goes to prove that the elder set can learn a lot from you youngsters. Still, I see two reasons for the lack of enough musical insights about those artistes from the couple: 1. Just as you point out that age does dim the memory of the musicians, I would add that the same applies to rasikAs. 2. One did not question the vidvAns about their music in those days! The mike-in-hand-interviewer asking probing questions simply wasn't the way things were. Their vidvat was something you believed in and questions of that nature were perhaps rude to ask? You only asked them if the hot water was just the right temperature, when would they like to eat and such questions to make sure that they were comfortable in your care.
Of course, there were discussions about music too once in a while with fellow performers and an odd rasika with intellectual curiosity who would stop by. Anyway, as organizers, the couple would have been too busy with the mundane details of their stay.
Times have changed for the better in this questioning age of technology and we should get more out of the musicians about their music and of their thoughts to make CM history richer.
Will get the book when I visit India. I am sure it has enough stuff which would interest me. As for the typos, I've been a victim of it too, but it is a relief now. What I type can go straight to the press to be printed without its being manually proof-read. I'm afraid that's where the trouble is. Gone are the days of ace proof-readers.
I hope you are following our fellow rasika Ramasubramanian on the forum. His recollections of yesteryears are not just about bhAgavatar so and so being partial to vaTRal kuzhambu or if he obliged him by singing a song he had requested. He has gleaned a lot of knowledge about music by being around many performers over the years, let alone on his own, out of his keen interest in CM.
I recently read about the centenary celebration of ChiTTi Sundarajan--one among the creme de la creme of the intellectuals in the earlier decades of the twentieth century in tamizh nAdu. He was a CM fan and a great friend of MMI.
I wonder if any of his musical impressions in the maNIkkoDi journal are still around.
Some months ago, I had translated a short piece of MMI and SubbuDu's meeting in Delhi (from an anthology) in the forum.
As can be expected, a very nice piece of writing from you. It goes to prove that the elder set can learn a lot from you youngsters. Still, I see two reasons for the lack of enough musical insights about those artistes from the couple: 1. Just as you point out that age does dim the memory of the musicians, I would add that the same applies to rasikAs. 2. One did not question the vidvAns about their music in those days! The mike-in-hand-interviewer asking probing questions simply wasn't the way things were. Their vidvat was something you believed in and questions of that nature were perhaps rude to ask? You only asked them if the hot water was just the right temperature, when would they like to eat and such questions to make sure that they were comfortable in your care.
Of course, there were discussions about music too once in a while with fellow performers and an odd rasika with intellectual curiosity who would stop by. Anyway, as organizers, the couple would have been too busy with the mundane details of their stay.
Times have changed for the better in this questioning age of technology and we should get more out of the musicians about their music and of their thoughts to make CM history richer.
Will get the book when I visit India. I am sure it has enough stuff which would interest me. As for the typos, I've been a victim of it too, but it is a relief now. What I type can go straight to the press to be printed without its being manually proof-read. I'm afraid that's where the trouble is. Gone are the days of ace proof-readers.
I hope you are following our fellow rasika Ramasubramanian on the forum. His recollections of yesteryears are not just about bhAgavatar so and so being partial to vaTRal kuzhambu or if he obliged him by singing a song he had requested. He has gleaned a lot of knowledge about music by being around many performers over the years, let alone on his own, out of his keen interest in CM.
I recently read about the centenary celebration of ChiTTi Sundarajan--one among the creme de la creme of the intellectuals in the earlier decades of the twentieth century in tamizh nAdu. He was a CM fan and a great friend of MMI.
I wonder if any of his musical impressions in the maNIkkoDi journal are still around.
Some months ago, I had translated a short piece of MMI and SubbuDu's meeting in Delhi (from an anthology) in the forum.
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Ramasubramanian M.K
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Re: Guruve Charanam - Collection of Interviews
Arasi: Thanks for your encouragement--the Semmangudi saga after a couple of "digital" crashes and prolonged gestation outrivaling that of an elephant--is ready to burst out in the next couple of days. I am trying to structure this chronicle a little better than I did for the MSS/TS saga--I see that there are many forumites who are equally equipped to "pitch" in.
Arasi, also did you read my post on the Raga Alapana(Pushpalathika/Manirangu) thread?
Arasi, also did you read my post on the Raga Alapana(Pushpalathika/Manirangu) thread?
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arasi
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Re: Guruve Charanam - Collection of Interviews
Yes, I did. Your kind--the younger set too--put me in my place (elementary level!) when it comes to the theory of CM. Keerthi, so young, amazes me with his span of knowledge. There are others too, of course.
Looking forward to the SSI chronicle!
Looking forward to the SSI chronicle!
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Gamakam
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Re: Guruve Charanam - Collection of Interviews
Arasi,
Chitti's centenary function is held tomorrow at Bharathiar Illam, Triplicane..approx. arnd 6.30 P.M.
I doubt if I can make it. If I do, shall post the details.
Chitti's centenary function is held tomorrow at Bharathiar Illam, Triplicane..approx. arnd 6.30 P.M.
I doubt if I can make it. If I do, shall post the details.