For all those folks amongst us CM lovers who need to explain our craze, stepping out of Sabhas in Chennai during Margazhi or stuck in front of webcasts and streams elsewhere around this vast globe- to explain to bemused fellows what all this fuss is about, here is a wonderful example to use (click pic to watch)
What can you say about CM?
- brilliant. Simply brilliant virtuosity
-great melodic beauty
-lovely song composed 200 years ago
-extraordinary control over the difficult western instrument called the violin (here five-stringed!)
-some unbelievable percussion instruments which have remained the same over hundreds of years, played with bare fingers
-some clever use of electronics
-concert dynamics
-greying and bald audiences sitting on red plastic seats
-vigorous tala-putting
-Doordarshan camera work
-set-top box code
-clever You Tube upload shared on FB
-43 minutes of celestial joy.
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