Ideas on how to contribute to CM

preposterous · Post by **preposterous** » 12 Jan 2009, 17:43

I am a new member to this forum and obviously it is CM (I am not sure about many other abbreviations used here except I could guess a few like ARI, TNS, etc) that made me to take a decision to join this forum. (Got linked to this site from YACM site)

Disclosure: My knowledge of CM is 0 and canÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t identify any ragas etc etc. But I enjoy the music and concerts. (I am sure over time and by listening more I will get to know these"¦)

While I have been attending the season for the last few years, this year I was lucky to attend many performances. Many paid concerts (some times with the feeling of getting robbed- more due to the attitude of the ticket sellers at the venues) along with free ones"¦ This gave me an opportunity to observe a few things"¦

Performers (main, pakka and upa pakka) before and after concerts and their plight"¦ (Lucky ones get to stuff a Tambura between the front and back seats of a small car and sit inside along with 4 people"¦Unlucky ones struggle for transportation along with their instruments"¦)

Venues ranging from MA to Kalyana Mandapams"¦(sound system/seating/parking/safety etc)

Sabhas and their approach/behaviour to rasikas and artists

Audiences (behaviour/age/new listeners etc)

I found that many interesting comments have been made on all these things in the forum and this triggered this preposterous (hoping to make this word, the word of the year in 2009 also) idea to join the forum and if possible make some personal contribution to CM and Chennai.

"Seating arrangements are such that they comply with fire regulation of "not more than 7 seats" away from any aisle." - from Mumbai Shanmukhananda Hall web site. If Mumbai can why Chennai canÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t

Having seen the discussions in this forum, visited concerts etc I had formed many ideas/views on CM and how I can personally contribute to CM. But I thought that the more experienced/passionate members of the forum can help me in this by providing ideas.

Can you suggest some ways in which one can contribute to CM including any preposterous ideas (start a new sabha,build an auditorium, arrange concerts for upcoming artists, no need as enough is already happening etc etc.). Or top 5 areas where one can contribute"¦

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 12 Jan 2009, 17:57

Hello Preposterous --- what a wonderful name!

preposterous · Post by **preposterous** » 12 Jan 2009, 18:14

nick H - ofcourse you are inspiration

Hope to make it the 'Word of the year 2009'

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 12 Jan 2009, 21:09

Nick,
The word 'preposterous' has a ring to it, and I heard it in my head enunciated by Lord Olivier and imagined how grandson number two (aged two) would relish saying it as he does the word 'unbelievable'.

Preposterous,
Though your name is that, you don't sound that way! Tyranny and preposterousness, so long as they don't offend, are fine. Some of the names here are difficult to type, comprehend or they are too long. Look what happened to the trilling spring cuckoo. We address him curtly, with two letters!

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 13 Jan 2009, 01:13

The word 'preposterous' has a ring to it

That's why I like it so much!

Try Apothecary. Been one of my favourite English words for decades. It just rolls, gently, off the tongue.

How will we abbreviate Preposterous, I wonder?

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 13 Jan 2009, 03:11

preposterous may be melodious too. Live and breathe in music; opinions are opinions as such, it is upto the reader to accept it or reject.

bala747 · Post by **bala747** » 13 Jan 2009, 13:24

Hi prep,

Glad to see more people getting interested in CM of course, and in fact you sound a lot like my dad. He too 'claims' 0 knowledge in music but has a lot of intuitive feeling for it. You're also very lucky you get to attend lots of concerts. while I am not a big fan of many of the present day artistes (a very gradual 180 degree turn made from my position 12 years ago), I do listen to them every now and then.

I can certainly think of one way one can contribute to CM: Participate in it (by listening to it, learning it, attending concerts, preserving old records, and talking about it on rasikas.org)!

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 13 Jan 2009, 14:25

Bala 747...welcome back after another long Hiatus...

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 13 Jan 2009, 15:22

Bala747
Welcome back ,so were you at chennai for the kutcheri season.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 13 Jan 2009, 15:42

Bala747,
Good to see your post....

bala747 · Post by **bala747** » 15 Jan 2009, 10:06

No I wasn't. I was in America for a couple of months with my fiancee who studies there.

preposterous · Post by **preposterous** » 18 Jan 2009, 20:38

I guess this thread can be closed.
Bit disappointted with the responses - but looks like it triggered bala747 to respond...

bala747 - thanks for your response, much appreciated

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 18 Jan 2009, 22:10

Patience is the embodiment of trust and hope. Let all the rasikas decide when to close.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 18 Jan 2009, 23:30

Old sailors never die; they just smell that way

Threads never really get closed: they just become dormant. Until, one day... maybe... or maybe not.

I feel that I am doing something for Carnatic music just by liking it! We all do something for it every time we sit in an audience...

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 19 Jan 2009, 00:24

Apothecary?! One of your favourite English words for centuries rather than decades, I'd think... Wasn't it Romeo and Juliet where one of them is trying to die and exclaiming "O true Apothecary! Your drug is quick" or something like that. That was a funny play.

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 19 Jan 2009, 00:26

Back to the original post, though, I too have wondered how we can concretely contribute to improving CM facilities, etc in any way at all. Right now my only hope is that powerful people from sabhas read our rants and take notice, but if they haven't for years, why would they suddenly start?

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 19 Jan 2009, 01:25

Apothecary?! One of your favourite English words for centuries rather than decades, I'd think...

Hey, I'm not that old!

Nor am I a scholar of Shakespeare, but It does seem the sort of word that he would have liked. I think of Shakespeare was short of favourite words, he just invented some! Apothecary was ready made, though.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 19 Jan 2009, 10:14

A propos, that Thackeray, did he ever use the word?
(I think the above line more or less contains both the compounder and the confounder

prashant_jain2791 · Post by **prashant_jain2791** » 24 Jan 2009, 13:05

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