2014 wrap-up

Rsachi · Post by **Rsachi** » 31 Dec 2014, 12:56

Dear rasikas,
I want to thank the Almighty and all the wonderful musicians who have given us food for the soul as well as food for thought this year.
I would mention my 3 highlights:
1. Ramakrishnan Murthy HamirKalyani - with the wonderful Charumathi Raghuraman at Seshadripuram
2. Abhishek Shahana RTP at Unnati
3. Anantha R Krishnan accompaniment on many occasions.

I want to mention these 3 but I have to thank many other fantastic artistes and their music I have heard all year long.
God bless and best wishes to all in 2015!

Please, I welcome your special mentions, too.

ganesh_mourthy · Post by **ganesh_mourthy** » 31 Dec 2014, 14:40

Who is Anantha R Krishnan ? The violonist or the Mridangist. I guess there are 2 who share the same name.

Rsachi · Post by **Rsachi** » 31 Dec 2014, 14:47

Sir, he plays the mridangam. I wrote about him here:
http://rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php? ... it=Anantha

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 31 Dec 2014, 14:48

ganesh_mourthy wrote:Who is Anantha R Krishnan ? The violonist or the Mridangist. I guess there are 2 who share the same name.

Sherthalai Ananthakrishnan - Mridangam
B Ananthakrishnan - Violin
Anantha R Krishnan - Mridangam

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 31 Dec 2014, 14:50

Is Nick trying to do Sociological Research? Why was he hanging around the Academy the afternoon of Aruna Sayeeram's concert? Or is he a secret admirer of abhangs?

Rsachi · Post by **Rsachi** » 31 Dec 2014, 14:51

You caught him in the nick. He must have been there for the tuck.

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 31 Dec 2014, 14:58

Actual conversation with an auto driver as I took one to go to Raga Sudha Hall after Aruna Sayeeram's concert:

It was drizzling, there was a traffic jam as people were trying to exit from the Academy in their cars and two cars were parked by the side of the road adding to the mess.

Auto driver: What is happening here for there to be such a crowd?

Me: A music concert by a very popular artist just ended. There was a good crowd.... pey koottam.

Auto driver: Make up your mind, it is either a good crowd or crowd of peys.

Me: A large crowd of peys.

Auto driver: As far as we men are concerned, women are the peys. Did you have a large number of women?

Me: I suppose so.

Auto driver: Dogs get their energy by barking; if they don't bark, they just lie down and sleep. Women seem to be the same way. They never get tired from talking but seem to build up energy by chattering away.

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 31 Dec 2014, 14:59

Rsachi wrote:You caught him in the nick. He must have been there for the tuck.

No, he was wandering around the halls, looking like someone who somehow wanted to obtain a ticket.

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 31 Dec 2014, 15:03

Even machines know what to do and what not to do. A friend went to Arkay Convention Center. Charumathi Raghuraman was playing the violin, Hubby Anantha R Krishnan was playing the mridangam. My friend turned on his trusty recorder. When he came home, there was 18 seconds of sound and the recorder had turned itself off. However, my friend was able to record the program that followed. So, it was not that the battery had died.

What conclusion do we draw from this?

Rsachi · Post by **Rsachi** » 31 Dec 2014, 15:09

Watch it on Youtube. A mindblowing Dwijavanti and Akhilandeshwari.

Rsachi · Post by **Rsachi** » 31 Dec 2014, 15:11

Harimau,
i always suspected it peys to converse with the autodrivers. They have a way of extracting wisdom from a mish mash of street fight, TV serial and Dina Thanthi.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 31 Dec 2014, 16:42

Any suggestion that I was hankering after habhangs or desiring a bhajan is a terrible slur! I am not sure I dare show my face there again, now that I know people are saying this sort of thing about me. Is it my fault if I forgot to check the schedule before wandering over there for the canteen life? As it happens, it was a bad time for socialising, because, all the people I knew in the queue for entrance to the concert suddenly pretended that they were only there to research the SK portraits. But... I have their names...

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 31 Dec 2014, 16:51

Leaving aside my perennial favorites...

Elder concert off the season: Madurai G S Mani. (Arkay)
New-to-me of the season: K Dharini
Mridangist of the year: T K Ramakrishnan.

I knew mr Ramakrishnan as a keen Rasika, to be seen in the audience of many, many concerts. Here had once casually mentioned that he played mridangam and then hurried on to the next topic of conversation. I was surprised to see him on the stage at RS Hall, with Neela Ramgopal and delighted by his style.

Rsachi · Post by **Rsachi** » 31 Dec 2014, 16:57

TNTU:Department of Psychological Research and Auto-Pey-ism
Prof. Emeritus: Harimau
Research awesisstant: Nick
Those who wish to enrol as subjects: please stand in line.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 31 Dec 2014, 23:13

harimau wrote:What conclusion do we draw from this?

Pei

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 01 Jan 2015, 00:16

Is this Fall Wrap up?

Rsachi · Post by **Rsachi** » 01 Jan 2015, 02:50

Sir, as I live in a country where the word "fall" is used only in politics, stock markets and geriatric accidents, I may not fully understand your expression.
Please elucidate.
Thanks!

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 01 Jan 2015, 04:11

As Fall Wraps up, Winter comes and As Winter comes spring is not far off. Do we go through this wrap up in Carnatic music too.

Rsachi · Post by **Rsachi** » 01 Jan 2015, 10:44

Aren't we blessed with the lovely sharadRtu and Margashirsha - as Bhagavan Krishna says it is the holiest of months.
We have the cool weather, the lovely Music Season, the season of oranges, peas, apples...year-end bonus, shopping festival, holidays..
All in all a season of great celebration unmatched by any other!
So calling it "fall" around here seems a bit inappropriate

devan · Post by **devan** » 01 Jan 2015, 18:24

Donot make fun of nick.you were also in the auditorum.

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 01 Jan 2015, 20:10

devan wrote:Donot make fun of nick.you were also in the auditorum.

I am there for sociology research. Everybody knows that.

Nick, on the other hand, only attends the concerts of artists favored by Naada Inbam at other venues.

I don't believe Aruna Sairam has performed at Raga Sudha Hall in the last 10 years under the banner of any Sabha.

devan · Post by **devan** » 01 Jan 2015, 23:19

probably nick was also doing some reasearch in his own way.you are absolutely right about nick attending concerts of ragasudha artistes only.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 01 Jan 2015, 23:40

aka, invoking Nick's contribution to the CM Rasika vocabulary, 'paramparA stalking'.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 02 Jan 2015, 03:15

I do tend to follow artists who appear at Ragasudha Hall, although it seems to increasingly host banners others than Naada Inbam. I do not follow all the artists who appear there, nor do I not follow all the artists who do not appear there.

What can all this mean? I don't know.

I suspect that there may be some sort of numerological significance to the numbering of the urinals at the Music Academy. Some form of divination may be possible. The attempt to discover it will have to wait until next year, as I rarely attend dance, whatever venues the dancers may be associated with.

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 03 Jan 2015, 09:39

A senior music student training under a great guru went to the tup-tup artist's concert.

After the concert, the student said, "I have got anything/everything that could possibly be gotten out of this concert. I don't need to listen to him for the next 10 years."

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 03 Jan 2015, 09:42

After Abu Sheik's concert for Bharath Sangeeth Utsav, someone asked a well-known music guru what he thought of the concert.

The gentleman said, "Hmmmpff", paused for several seconds to decide what he wanted to say, and then continued, "That young woman Amritha Murali sang extremely well" and resumed his stately walk out the door.

tiruppugazh · Post by **tiruppugazh** » 03 Jan 2015, 10:07

"Well known music guru" usually means Skype successful Cleveland recognised guru

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 03 Jan 2015, 10:16

tiruppugazh wrote:"Well known music guru" usually means Skype successful Cleveland recognised guru

Don't make assumptions. This is a gentleman who has produced star students before Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana was born or Skype was developed.

Abu Sheik cannot be defended by such innuendoes.

tiruppugazh · Post by **tiruppugazh** » 03 Jan 2015, 10:24

A star student before the birth of Cleveland Aradhana??? So the student was already a star in 1978??

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