Have to agree that some of the familiar names in a usual AR concert were greatly missed. Lovely to see the performing AR- something that we haven't seen as much in the older concerts. What struck me hard in these concerts is that how big an international brand AR is now and whether he likes it or not will probably need to cater to that. I guess we have lost those days where AR was known as India's most talented musician - only to us South Asians. Now the world knows that and as an audience we have to share the space with a much more diverse group of people. I have always wanted this for Rahman's music. But a small part of me sometimes wishes that we could go back to those simple days when we weren't even aware of when a AR soundtrack would be released or when we could go to a AR concert and expect to see Hariharan, SPB, Sadhana and Kavitha share the stage with AR behind a piano and do an entire unplugged session with him.
________________________________ From: madhu sudhanan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 26 July, 2010 21:19:24 Subject: [arr] some positives/negatives of london concert Hello all, Just thought I would share some of my feelings of the recent london o2 arena concert. This is the 4th time I am watching ARR concert live. Generally compared to his early concerts the scale of the stage sets and choreography was grandiose, ARR was also singing and performing with much more ease, some of ARR's underrated gems such as Hello Mr Ethirkatchi were used. There were somethings I was sorely missing though. Absence of a big scale orchestra was obvious [Srinivasa Murthy used to conduct before], and also Sivamani, there were few well known singers apart from Hariharan and Benny Dayal [some new faces were filling the gaps although they sounded quite alright, what happened to Srinivas, sukhvinder, Karthik, Udit Narayan etc], there were no chorus singers visible at all on stage strangely, the concert started 30 mins late but finished on time which felt abrupt as though everyone was hurry to pack up for the next concert. Lastly everone was expecting Alphons Joseph to sing Aromale but he never did. I am a hardcore ARR fan but honestly prefer his old style of concerting as the current tour seems to be more style than substance. Apologies for sounding despondent. Madhu --- On Tue, 27/7/10, DJO <discjockeyone@ yahoo.com> wrote: >From: DJO <discjockeyone@ yahoo.com> >Subject: [arr] [ arr ] Lebara Mobile Bird Call Ring Tone. >To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com >Date: Tuesday, 27 July, 2010, 12:32 AM > > > >Hi all, > > >Any one heard Lebara Mobile Bird Call Ringtone?. Where is the link in itunes? >Any one bought from there? > > > > >regards >djo >
