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Attendees :
VKV, MKR and his wife nirmala, arasi , cienu, gamakam,semmu86, jayaram , me , violinist aishu and her family, nAgeshwaran and family , violinsts dr narmada and vs narasimhan and Liam Neeson
.# VKV is a perfectionist and he was our MC. He has a clock like precision and always gives enough time for each and also keeps overall the sense of proportion so that it does not become like our speeches before concerts in sabhas
# After welcoming all of us by the generous host nAgeshwaran. NAgeshwaran's granddaughter srinidhi sang four numbers , srinidhi sang 3 new numbers and a fourth famous number ,she just sings very open throated and all were very good with valachi being the top pick
1A.devAram in nAttai more like a viruththam
1B. shri rAghavam
2. thamarai pAdangaL darisanam - valaci - ganapathiraman (this number is popularized by nityashree)
3. Ek rAdha Ek meerA - bhajan??? - latamangeshkar album
4. kAkkai chiraginilE - rAgamAligai - bharathiyAr
# MKR and his wife alternated and spoke beautifully about ms ammma and shri sadasivam , the days of their tour in US, humility of MS, the financial trauma that this bharat ratna faced duing the days of her days where she had to move out with her husband from the kalki house to a small house in nungambakkam. Particularly looks like ms ammA was very affectionate for MKR's family.
# VV Sundaram , a great person who tirelessly works in helping carnatic musicians and how he held the cleveland aradhana for years and how he is planning to hold it this year.
# VKV came back in style as a slog order batsman he was critically reviewing the book of TJ George "MS amma biography" that it was close to trash.
# Our arasi madam also spoke few words and in her own style she was thanking the organisations in north america for conducting aradhanas
# We had Aishu's concert then followed with lunch , the day started at 09:30 AM it ended close to 3 pm today.
My personal viewpoints:
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While the anecdotes of mkr and his wife were more recollections of past , I have nothing to add there excepting to say that they were blessed to be with this great musician.
When VV Sundaram spoke certain thoughts just came to my mind.We are taking lot of steps to improve on growing the supply side of Carnatic music as more and more artists are going to sing , but unfortunately We all dont know (even I dont know what to do, may be few posts here and there in rasikas.org is what each of us do??)how to grow on the demand side of carnatic music, demand is just growing in a trickle where as the supply is exponentially growing.I would love if VVS takes a look more at creating demand side.
(not a joke! she has to shake off her last inhibition!)
