rasikas.org meet-up

srinivasasarma · Post by **srinivasasarma** » 11 Dec 2007, 12:02

dear all
i am in sastrinagar/adyar. if u fix meetings nearby upto mylapore, during daytime (bec. i had recently cataract surgeries) i wud be glad
to meet u all, especilly bec u mostly youngsters know more tech details. i can hear more fromyou all. if h'ever u happen to come
towards adyar, i wud be delighted to hv u in my house for a cup of coffee/tea - u can reach me at 044-24911397/9840795667 (2/4 pm
genrly rest time).
rgds sarma

rajumds · Post by **rajumds** » 11 Dec 2007, 12:39

The first meeting is on 16th at Ragasudha hall in Mylapore only. Please feel free to attend

vainika · Post by **vainika** » 12 Dec 2007, 15:29

Looking forward to it...

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 12 Dec 2007, 15:46

Bring on the empty Horses !!
Sorry
Bring on the Empty Cameras...
With apologies to David Niven's all time Favourite Line and Classic autoboigraphy.

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 13 Dec 2007, 09:47

See you all on 16th! I leave for Chennai tomorrow morning and am excited to meet all of you. Hope to meet some of you at Nedunuri Sir's concert also.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 13 Dec 2007, 10:38

Apologies for all, I will not make it on Dec 16th, as I have to attend the marriage of my wife's cousin at saligrAmam. Please have a nice time and take pictures and do post it.

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 13 Dec 2007, 11:26

You will be sorely missed Rajesh...maybe you can come towards the end of the concert. Prashant, should be bumping into you at Nedunuri Garu's concert as well...

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 13 Dec 2007, 13:24

should you not consider the convenience of musicians like me too ? i wont be able to attend on 16th as i hv two concerts on that day ....

J.Balaji

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 13 Dec 2007, 13:57

i m out of action this weekend completely. Unfortunately, even the nedunuri concert...

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 13 Dec 2007, 13:58

Would be great to have you hopefully in session 2 Balaji sir! But you are likely to have 2-3 concerts ereyday during the season!

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 13 Dec 2007, 16:01

Is the session 2 on 25/12 , as requested by myself and some other members confirmed? if the reply is yes , will be extremely happy gobilalitha

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 13 Dec 2007, 16:44

session 2 is on 25th ? oops my bad luck .. i hv 3 concerts that day....
J.B

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 13 Dec 2007, 16:55

mridhangam wrote:session 2 is on 25th ? oops my bad luck .. i hv 3 concerts that day....
J.B

Haha. Then maybe we go for a concert on 16th where you are performing.

padren68 · Post by **padren68** » 13 Dec 2007, 17:15

"With apologies to David Niven's all time Favourite Line and Classic autoboigraphy"

Haha thats Moons a Balloon. Isnt it Cool

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 13 Dec 2007, 19:44

No this was a sequel- but equally funny and witty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Niven

An amazing story.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 14 Dec 2007, 00:46

Uhhh... May have to head North after that early-morning housewarmng, on family business.

Maybe I should never have taken that job as my wife's driver

!

(very unfair comment, of course: she would be the first to pressurise me to meet with you guys, rather than take her, but I'm not sure conscience allows)

jananee · Post by **jananee** » 15 Dec 2007, 23:20

i will not be able to make it tom..but hope to catch u all on 25th...have fun

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 15 Dec 2007, 23:31

On the eve of this historic get-together of rasika.org members may I offer hearty greetings and also post the request that there be write-ups, videos and comments on the meet for us abroad to vicariously participate.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 16 Dec 2007, 15:48

Boy ! What a meeting it was.
To start with , we had an outstanding Concert by Jeyasree-Jeyaraj, accompanied by Vellore Ramabhdran.
Post concert, We had a short meeting at the venue attended by Arasi, Rajani,Arunk, Mrs and Mr Govindan,Mrs and Mr Udayshankar,rajumds, rajesh, ram , sabala, ignoramus, Prashanth and his Dad, Vainika, Vijay-
and then we broke up to listen to a fine mukhari by Prasanna Venkatraman , followed by a great lunch-courtesy Vijay.

A great Morning and hope to ctach up again with everybody next week.

Will try and organise a Concert before Arunk gets back to the US- most probably Jan 6th Sunday.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 16 Dec 2007, 19:01

I'm very sorry I missed. Things started going wrong on Friday, when a mild stomach bug caused me to spend much of the day asleep (there are far worse things that a stomach bug can do). That meant by Saturday night , I had sleep surplus, and had not slept much before driving to Anna Nagar.

Could have made it by the end of the concert too. But really felt the need to just get home.

Friday was our wedding anniversary: so double wash-out this weekend. Disappointment all round.

I hope there's pics to come?

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 17 Dec 2007, 07:28

Where is the meeting on 25th Dec? How about after Prof SRJ concert in Vidya Bharati, Mylapore

-hari

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 17 Dec 2007, 07:45

It was indeed a great 'meeting'. I am already looking forward to the next one - vainika has promised a jam session

hari - we were definitely up for 25th. Any location is fine by me but I will let the others decide.

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 17 Dec 2007, 07:46

nick - We missed you there! vijay posted a link to pics under the Kutcheri Reviews section (concert by Jeyashree and Jeyaraj thread)

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 17 Dec 2007, 08:00

Sorry I missed the other rasikas.org luminaries who joined the meetup. I had to rush to another engagement before Prasanna's concert since my Dad was leaving Chennai early in the morning and had to catch up on social visits. It was great to meet ram, arunk, Vijay, sbala, ignoramus and Sathej during this trip and renew acquaintances with the one and only Coolkarniji.

Of course, a special word must go to the Queen herself. As I was gathering my wits about me [and massaging my aching neck after much enthusiastic head-nodding] after Nedunuri Sir's concert, I was greeted with a dazzling smile - before I could ask, I knew. Sure enough, it was the one and only Arasi!

vainika · Post by **vainika** » 17 Dec 2007, 09:16

It was really nice to have been able to reconnect with familiar faces, names
and/or IDs. I have placed a tiny video clip of the concert in the review section.
We missed hanging out with the artistes such as Jeyaraaj, Jaysri and
Ramnath post-concert.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 17 Dec 2007, 10:18

A great looking rasikas.org bunch... I recognize some faces.. Can one of you please add names in the order of appearance in the photo? Thx.

fortheloveofmusic · Post by **fortheloveofmusic** » 17 Dec 2007, 11:16

Hi all! I am a new member here & am here for the love of music. I was goin through your conversations and tehy're so exciting! This is exactly what I want to do- be lost in music all the time!!! It's so nice to see a community formed that talks only music & more music.
Well, I am not anywhere close to you guys.....I am not good at carnatic music!:-(....but definitely love listening to it. I lovemusc in general.
Actually since my childhood my mom & my grandmom have been teaching me a lot of bhajans which they composed. That's how I really got interested in music &started learning more bhajans, and nething that appealed to my vocal chords! i still learn frm my mom as & when she composes a new one.
And the violin! this is one sweet lil thing that has always fascinated me. I've always loved & will forever love this dainty four stringed instrument. Violin, I feel has an 'out of the world appeal to it, be it western or carnatic. I keep listening to a lot of it.
Couple years ago i started composing my own tunes for the violin. Tunes that came from myheart. I cant put them under any particular form...simply because they dont belong to any & also because I cant write a hard core carnatic or western piece!!.....
I tried to find people who could actually play my tunes but failed miserably! That's when I decided to learn!!! I am now learning carnatic violin frm sri.sivasubramaniam,here in bangalore. I am enjoying learning carnatic music ! I can actually talk a lil about terms like tala, jantai varisai .....It's fun ...but swear on God...as delicate as it looks ,violin eats up all my energy & is very demanding!!
My dream's to learn from Embar Kannan. He's been my fav violinist after kunnakudiji. I really wish I cud learn frm Kannanji. looks like it's not possible due to geographical reasons! Just hope someday I wud be able to !! I atleast want to see him live on stage & get his autograph!

Oh God! have i written a lot? sorry , didnt mean to bore you guys......just wanted to be a part of your group.....it's really nice to be so close to music as to feel it all the time:-)

Cheers!!

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 17 Dec 2007, 11:39

but swear on God...as delicate as it looks ,violin eats up all my energy & is very demanding!!

We understand. It is a darn tough instrument to learn initially.

There are various phases to CM learning, especially Violin.

A) The vegetable vendor does not visit your street anymore
B) Your Bro,Sis,Mom&Dad gingerly walk into the house hoping practise had ended
C) Even Debtors stay away....

After you get better

D) People in the next streets have to wait for the vegetable vendor to show up
E) Your Bro, Sis, Mom&Dad do not want to leave the house when you practise
F) The debtor forgives the debt

What phase are you in?

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 17 Dec 2007, 11:40

From left to right are sbala,vijay,uday and arunk.
From right to left are rajumds,rams and cool
In the centre is Arasi

fortheloveofmusic · Post by **fortheloveofmusic** » 17 Dec 2007, 12:05

Actually my neigbors complain that they dont find the vegetable vendor in our street nemore......i guess they failed to notice him being tied to a tree in our street! i tied him there when he tried to run away!............not gonna let him go until he says 'dont drive me away, i'll give u vegetables for free'!!!

Well.....i can just about make some sense out of the strings!!!.....will work hard:-)

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 17 Dec 2007, 12:50

i had to miss this.

couldnt help

vs_manjunath · Post by **vs_manjunath** » 17 Dec 2007, 13:07

rajeshnat wrote:From left to right are sbala,vijay,uday and arunk.
From right to left are rajumds,rams and cool
In the centre is Arasi
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2162/211 ... 68c965.jpg

Thanks for the video clip. Nice to see familiar names with their Photos as well. I really could n't make it.

Very eager to join for the next mtg. Kudos to rasikas.org!!!

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 17 Dec 2007, 13:30

I saw the snap, glad to see. . in size and appearance, i may be a replica of cool, but the intelligence in his face will be missing in mine wait for 25th .sweets afe forbidden to me as i run a sugar factory in my body but I will have one or 2 pieces stealthily gobilalitha

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 17 Dec 2007, 21:03

PraNams to her Majesty and the Courtiers!
Just thrilled to see you guys. Who says CM-Rasikas are seniors! Myself and Arasi are the youngest in mental age with coolkarni ruling the roost! Look forward to more picturea and video. Missing Govindan and a lot of others yet......

venkatpv · Post by **venkatpv** » 17 Dec 2007, 21:34

i will be in india from mid-jan to mid-feb... hope i can meet some folks...

vageyakara · Post by **vageyakara** » 17 Dec 2007, 21:51

Hallo CmLGuruji, How come u forgot to include me !! I am a 17 year old guy!!! Please dont forget to reverse the numerals any way!!!
What about the details for the next meeting tentatively proposed to be held on 25th instant.
Ramaraj

vageyakara · Post by **vageyakara** » 17 Dec 2007, 21:53

Mr Jayaram )London) is already in India and he is scheduled to join m,e on the 23rdinstant.
Ramaraj

vageyakara · Post by **vageyakara** » 17 Dec 2007, 22:02

Hallo friends, I will be mostly attending the concerts of smt.Raji Gopalakrishnan and Selvi A.M.Vilasini..Will it be possible for some of our forum Rasikas to meet at any one of the remaining concerts from now onwards ?
Ramaraj

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 18 Dec 2007, 00:35

Great picture, and I'm so sorry, again, that I didn't get to such a special occasion.

jananee · Post by **jananee** » 18 Dec 2007, 09:42

Too bad i missed it too....great to see all of you..

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 18 Dec 2007, 10:52

Look forward to meeting more of you next time around...

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 18 Dec 2007, 13:39

Can we discuss and agree on 25th Dec meeting? We have Shankara Iyer concert at 10.00am in Ragha sudha, Mylapore. Is that okay with everyone?

-hari

Anusha · Post by **Anusha** » 18 Dec 2007, 13:53

I'm game for Shankara Iyer as well.

rajumds · Post by **rajumds** » 18 Dec 2007, 15:09

25th is a working day for me. If the get together in the evening I can try.

What about 23rd Sunday

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 18 Dec 2007, 15:33

Vainika had also propsoed a jam session on 30th. Hope our resident amateur (as of now) mrudangam and kanjira vidwans will also participate! I am prepared to present a unique instrument called "air violin" which was demonstrated to fellow rasikas outside meenambika's last Sunday. 25th sounds good too...more the merrier as has often been said on this thread!

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 18 Dec 2007, 20:46

I should be delighted to bring my morsings along to a jam session. I'd make a huge fool of myself, but I'd be quite happy for that not to matter among ourselves.

But 30th December is my wife's son's wedding, so her driver is definitely required

Please to make it another day? Or have another one?

jananee · Post by **jananee** » 18 Dec 2007, 21:08

will def try on 25th..cant make it on 30th as i head back..most unwillingly!!!

Prashanth n sbala..were u there at vijay siva's concert today.. i thot i spotted u but b4 i made an attempt to check the crowds swept me into the rain!!!!

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 18 Dec 2007, 22:05

30th december??? well, depends on when and where. do let me know though.. i would wanna hear all the jamming..

nick, i think i should convey my best wishes for the groom's mom's driver. hence, my best wishes for the wedding.

sbala · Post by **sbala** » 18 Dec 2007, 22:06

Jananee - I was very much there. I hope you didn't spot me eating biscuits before the rtp.

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 18 Dec 2007, 22:28

I was there and saw sbala also on the other side of the balcony! However I couldn't meet up because I made a mad dash to Sanjay at Naada Inba,