BSV presents Muthuswamy Dikshitar AKHANDAM - Mar 16 - Sunday

[sbopparaju]

Bharatiya Sangeeta Vaibhavam, Chennai, invites you to pay homage to this composer par excellence at a day-long Akhandam at the Mini Hall, The Music Academy, Chennai on Sunday , March 16,2014 from 0900 hrs onwards. ALL ARE WELCOME. Do make it convenient to be a part of this musical homage.

• Bharatiya Sangeetha Vaibhavam Trust proudly presents a grand Akhandam devoted to
  Shri Muthuswamy Dikshitar
  between 9 AM and 9 PM on Sunday, the 16th of March, 2014
  at the Music Academy (Mini Hall).

Guests of Honor -
Shri. L.V. Subramaniam,Principal Secretary -Health and Family Welfare, Government of Andhra Pradesh
Shri “Cleveland” V.V.Sundaram

Shri. V. Sriram, noted Carnatic Music Historian, will deliver a special lecture on the life and works of Shri Muthuswamy Dikshitar


Concerts start at 9 30 AM

Smt. Seetha Rajan with disciples of BalaBrundam Sangita Gurukulam, Charulatha Ramanujam, Patri Satish Kumar
Smt. Lakshmi Rangarajan, Dr. R.Hemalatha, Poongulam Subramaniam
Kum. Cuddalore S.J. Janani, Karaikkal Venkatasubramaniam, Guru Raghavendra, Sivaramakrishnan
Shri.T.N.S. Krishna, V.V.S Murari, Neyveli B.Venkatesh
Shri.Prince Rama Varma, S.Varadarajan, B.Harikumar, Dr S.Karthick
Dr. Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam, M.R.Gopinath, T.R.Sundaresan
Malladi Brothers (Sriram Prasad & Ravi Kumar),Embar S. Kannan, Mannargudi A.Easwaran, Anirudh Athreya

[CRama]

Any Live Webcast?

[Jyeshtha]

Very interesting line up! Will the usual lovely lunch be provided too? That really helps towards continuous listening! Kudos to BSV......

[arasi]

Hope many Chennai rasikAs attend the akhaNDam for a few hours in the twelve hours of music.

Each concert would last roughly an hour and a half is my guess. There will be a break for lunch too.

When is V.Sriram's lecture going to be? At nine in the morning before the start of the concerts?

[sbopparaju]

V. Srirams talk is in the morning before the concerts . Certainly looking forward to seeing many rasikas today at the akhandam ...

[CRama]

It was wonderful programme as always. I met Rajesh. He may post the review. I will put up a complete review shortly.
The event was webcast by parivadini. It may still be available. Pl visit the site and enjoy.
Thanks to the organisers and parivadini.

[parivadini]

rasikas,

you can watch the videos in this playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... 5Vzhw8Ntm7

We sincerely wish we had done a better job with the audio. Hopefully we can get there by 2015

Thank you BSB for organising this yearly treat!

Lalitharam

[parivadini]

rasikas,

you can watch the videos in this playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... 5Vzhw8Ntm7

We sincerely wish we had done a better job with the audio. Hopefully we can get there by 2015

Thank you BSB for organising this yearly treat!

Lalitharam

[Nick H]

We sincerely wish we had done a better job with the audio. Hopefully we can get there by 2015

From my experience/post of the other day, I do feel that maybe there is an obvious mistake going on. Something like feeding pro sound levels into a domestic-level device (difference of about 15dB? I forget).

When you are recording at a distance from the stage with a mic, obviously things are tough, but some of your season-2013 results were really good. Even something like a Sony stereo mic plugged in to your laptop mic socket can give amazing results ... or one of the portable recorders that some people use nowadays.

It's music... the sound is all! the third-generation scratchy cassette is a thing of the past an the low-bit-rate MP3 should be. Music is whole point!

Please take as constructive criticism. I have plenty of admiration for you guys too

[Rajani]

I was able to attend the first two events - Sriram's speech and Vidushi Seetha Rajan's programme. Both were excellent. Her succinct intro to each of the kritis added a lot of value. The accompanists were wonderful too. Got to hear many rare kritis from Smt Seetha's group and enjoyed her quiet way of breaking habituated practices - they started and concluded with Ganesha kritis, with one more during the concert.

[parivadini]

Hi Nick,
if you notice, we went back to Dec 2013 way mid way through the akhandam (half way through Cuddalore Janani's concert). There is obviously something wrong with the mixer output that we got in the past two occassiona. In the bothe cases, the situations were not so conducive to play around and try an alternative approach. We had never done a webacast in the past from Vani mahal or Music Academy.

Definitely your criticism is valid and we need this. Please do bear with us as you may have realized we novices trying to operate long distance with a single resource who is an instrumentation engineer but having deal with everything including logistics, food, bandwidth, finances and not to forget the audio too We will get there soon. Thanks for supporting us and the patience showered

Lalitharam