Episode : 37
Date and Time : 1st SEPTEMBER (SUNDAY),
Webcast on : http://www.paalam.in/tv
Event :
6.05 p.m.
Panel Discussion - Concluding Part
Topic: Performing Arts - Preserving quality amidst changing trends
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Panel Discussion : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzLW-ZXRfHg
6.40 p.m.
Music Appreciation Programme - Lec-Dem on thetopic 'KALPANASWARAM' by Dr.T.S.Sathyvathi
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7.30 p.m.
Vocal concert by V.K.Manimaran
Padma Shankar - Violin
Trichur Narendran - Mridangam
Papanasam Sethuraman - Kanjira
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Vocal Concert :http://youtu.be/5_nUMKw3vvU
PAALAM'S 52 week free webcast this week
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CRama
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Excellent line up. I cannot thank enough for the service Paalam is rendering for propagation of quality music.
Folks. Don't miss the lec dem on Kalpana swaras by Vidushi TSSathyavathy.
Folks. Don't miss the lec dem on Kalpana swaras by Vidushi TSSathyavathy.
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msakella
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As all are aware, there are two kinds, performers and teachers, among musicians. Everybody who learns music always prefers to shine only as a performer and also to earn everything as much as he/she can in his/her lifetime (that is why no performer prefers to retire even after 60 years of age). Among them, the performer always strives hard in working only for self aggrandizement in all respects pleasing the listeners and getting their appreciation and earning something or the other from them (that is why most of the people bother about holding a number of Lec-dems and workshops on musical appreciation only but not on teaching methods which are very important to the aspirants). He/she always practices what he can and performs only what he can and always tries to get the rapport with the listeners only. Thus, either the performer or the listener never bothers about the teacher or the aspirant but, unfortunately, the performer resorts to teaching also only to earn when he/she doesn’t get any chances to perform in any concert.
But, always an efficient and honest teacher truthfully serves the society sincerely feeling the responsibility of shaping the aspirant in such a way that the aspirant can face any problem at any place and time and solve it efficiently. By all this a society always needs an efficient and honest teacher only than a performer.
Being a professional teacher, I have expected much from the webcasts of ‘Palam’ but disappointed much when I have gone through the webcast of the Svarakalpana by Dr. TS Satyavathy. She very efficiently and very nicely sang the Kalpanasvaras with Ragabhava on 1st Sept., but did not give any details of mathematical importance in singing Svarakalpana which is the major part of Svarakalpana and which is more helpful to the aspirants in acquiring the knowledge in Manodharma Sangita (in fact, last year, I had held a one-week-workshop from 7 am to 7 pm daily on Svarakalpana and Ragalapana in Kerala with reference to http://rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19085). Surprisingly enough, nobody even commented about this even after the lapse of more than one month.
In general, everybody is bothered mostly about the performers and the listeners but not the poor aspirants or their parents at all on whom the future of the society relies. I hope that the ‘Palam’ gives preference to these poor aspirants also in making them knowledgeable by webcasting useful Lec-dems and workshops on music in future. amsharma
But, always an efficient and honest teacher truthfully serves the society sincerely feeling the responsibility of shaping the aspirant in such a way that the aspirant can face any problem at any place and time and solve it efficiently. By all this a society always needs an efficient and honest teacher only than a performer.
Being a professional teacher, I have expected much from the webcasts of ‘Palam’ but disappointed much when I have gone through the webcast of the Svarakalpana by Dr. TS Satyavathy. She very efficiently and very nicely sang the Kalpanasvaras with Ragabhava on 1st Sept., but did not give any details of mathematical importance in singing Svarakalpana which is the major part of Svarakalpana and which is more helpful to the aspirants in acquiring the knowledge in Manodharma Sangita (in fact, last year, I had held a one-week-workshop from 7 am to 7 pm daily on Svarakalpana and Ragalapana in Kerala with reference to http://rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19085). Surprisingly enough, nobody even commented about this even after the lapse of more than one month.
In general, everybody is bothered mostly about the performers and the listeners but not the poor aspirants or their parents at all on whom the future of the society relies. I hope that the ‘Palam’ gives preference to these poor aspirants also in making them knowledgeable by webcasting useful Lec-dems and workshops on music in future. amsharma
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msakella
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Re: PAALAM'S 52 week free webcast this week
In fact, I became aware of this excellent webcast, Paalam, only in the last week of August through ‘rasikas.org’ and been following right from the next immediate Sunday, 1st Sept., planning to continue the same for all the 52 weeks starting from Sept, 2013 to learn something from these webcasts as a sincere teacher. But, surprisingly enough, only yesterday, I came to know that this webcast is going to conclude its 52nd week on 24th Nov., 2013. By all this I can have only the remaining 13 Sundays i.e., only one-fourth of the total webcasting-period and loose three-fourths of them and felt very disgusted (now, only 5 Sundays more are left).
As all are aware, Chennai is the centre for our Karnataka music and daily a number of music-concerts of all categories go on there maintaining the needed healthy environment for music simultaneously helping the aspirants to practically attend them and learn from them regularly. But, as a webcast covers much of our globe and if the organizers are kind enough to allot even one-fourth of these webcasts, at the least, for the educative Lec-dems and workshops on music the aspirants remaining out of Chennai will also be benefited as they, very rarely, are exposed to such kind of environment at their places.
But, most unfortunately, most of the Chennaites are always used to bother about the performers and their listeners only but not the poor aspirants at all as they already have that kind of music environment perennially. For example, the Violin-aspirants of our Karnataka music, not only of Chennai but also of all over the globe, have already lost the invaluable finger-techniques of our legendary Violinists due to the sheer negligence and ignorance of the Channaites. Even the present webcasting also again proved that the attitude of Chennaites will not help much to the poor aspirants of our music in this respect.
Unless the elders take enough care in properly educating and energizing our kids in music where the legendary performers come from? Most of all our aspirants are taught the even-Chaturashra-gati only either in respect of our Alankaras or Varnas but not the least odd-Trisra-gati at all making most of them impotents. Any individual must be able to deal with not only the even-figures but also the odd-figures equally. This applies even to music also. We all feel very proud to have thousands of performers but never feel ashamed not to have efficient and honest teachers even on finger counts. Even now it is high time to realize that many of our music-institutions or the Department of Music in many of our Universities are mostly producing impotents only by not doing the needful. I am ready to prove this at any time and place. But, unfortunately, there is not even a single person to do the needful even n respect of our own kids.
In our music institute, Swarabhangima, at Secunderbad we have nearly 100 school-going kids and each one of them, without any exception, ably renders each one of these Alankaras both in Chaturashra and Trisra-gatis and 20 of them, who have fulfilled learning of 9 Varnas of our syllabus, can successfully render all the Varnas fully @ 4-6-8 notes per beat and 10 of them ably render all the Varnas @ 4-6-8-12-16 per beat and also demonstrate each Varna writing with symbolized Gamakas. I am not giving these details for any self-aggrandisement but with a burning heart as an honest teacher just to remind our responsibilities and duties as elders. amsharma
As all are aware, Chennai is the centre for our Karnataka music and daily a number of music-concerts of all categories go on there maintaining the needed healthy environment for music simultaneously helping the aspirants to practically attend them and learn from them regularly. But, as a webcast covers much of our globe and if the organizers are kind enough to allot even one-fourth of these webcasts, at the least, for the educative Lec-dems and workshops on music the aspirants remaining out of Chennai will also be benefited as they, very rarely, are exposed to such kind of environment at their places.
But, most unfortunately, most of the Chennaites are always used to bother about the performers and their listeners only but not the poor aspirants at all as they already have that kind of music environment perennially. For example, the Violin-aspirants of our Karnataka music, not only of Chennai but also of all over the globe, have already lost the invaluable finger-techniques of our legendary Violinists due to the sheer negligence and ignorance of the Channaites. Even the present webcasting also again proved that the attitude of Chennaites will not help much to the poor aspirants of our music in this respect.
Unless the elders take enough care in properly educating and energizing our kids in music where the legendary performers come from? Most of all our aspirants are taught the even-Chaturashra-gati only either in respect of our Alankaras or Varnas but not the least odd-Trisra-gati at all making most of them impotents. Any individual must be able to deal with not only the even-figures but also the odd-figures equally. This applies even to music also. We all feel very proud to have thousands of performers but never feel ashamed not to have efficient and honest teachers even on finger counts. Even now it is high time to realize that many of our music-institutions or the Department of Music in many of our Universities are mostly producing impotents only by not doing the needful. I am ready to prove this at any time and place. But, unfortunately, there is not even a single person to do the needful even n respect of our own kids.
In our music institute, Swarabhangima, at Secunderbad we have nearly 100 school-going kids and each one of them, without any exception, ably renders each one of these Alankaras both in Chaturashra and Trisra-gatis and 20 of them, who have fulfilled learning of 9 Varnas of our syllabus, can successfully render all the Varnas fully @ 4-6-8 notes per beat and 10 of them ably render all the Varnas @ 4-6-8-12-16 per beat and also demonstrate each Varna writing with symbolized Gamakas. I am not giving these details for any self-aggrandisement but with a burning heart as an honest teacher just to remind our responsibilities and duties as elders. amsharma