It is heartening to note how one’s memory can effectively strum the chords of the mind and endearingly lilt the names of those no longer in the present scene. Transcendental on that same lilting plane is another voice: the late Gajanan Desai. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> There is a saying: “It does not pay to get old”. Apparently, among other deficiencies, it inhibits the mind’s ability to be memorably bold or quotable. In the preceding context, there was a konkani song (Canlangut … calangutchea praer . . . (sp?) aired on AIR in the late 60’s -- about two adolescent lovers enduring their romance on the Calangute beach, outside the provincial purview of their parents’ knowledge or consent. Was that Allen Costa’s voice or was it -- as my memory recalls -- sung by his brother, or were the two prodigiously one and the same? Dom Martin : Message: 7 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:44:08 +0530 From: "Dr.Nandkumar Kamat" <nandka...@gmail.com> To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Memories of Allen costa Message-ID: <aanlktilhsmbscl24h64mumngl-3e-edcaie8ew_ct...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
As a student of Panaji's Massano de Amorim Govt. Marathi primary school I was a child artist in the popular Khalar and malar' programme on AIR-Panaji. I remember Allen costa on AIR and can't forget his voice emanating from our Radio with nice wooden cabinet. I bumped into Allen later on AIR while presenting talks, features and participating in Yuvavani programmes and compering the same. AIR stopped sending contracts to me after 1999, full 33 years after my voice was aired as a kid. We also had a similar National Radio set which needed four large dry cells. I miss all the old voices from AIR. Allen's was most distinct and had a fine timbre. I feel it still ricochets in the cavern of my conscience. Life has become multichromatic and polyphonic if not cacophonic... those who still remember jovial personalities like Allen are doing a great service to the legacy of Goa's entertainment culture in the age of innocence which we have really lost...I still listen to songs from "Amchem noxib" and wonder where we have reached today?. What have we gained and what have we lost? But Allen is not there to entertain us.... My generation is ever grateful to him.... -- Dr. Nandkumar Kamat, GOA Message: 3 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 22:39:25 +0530 From: "soter" <so...@bsnl.in> To: <goa...@goanet.org> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Memories of Allen costa Message-ID: <000801cb1c64$d85d6da0$1901a...@user77948b9580> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I had the opportunity of meeting Allen Costa at AIR a few years before he retired on some occassions that our village choir went for recordings along with (late) Maestro Fr. Lourdino Barretto and (late) Mons. Fr. Chico Monteiro. Talk of AIR and I can hear the voice of Allen Costa reverbrate. Another voice I greatly loved to listen to was that of Imelda. Such voices will be rare in future with hardly any attention being given to voice training in schools today. "Vhoddlem ghor, ani dar naslelem, ......." what a song with a bass voice ? Those were the days my friends that produced voices like that of Ms. Leopoldina Figuereido, Mr. Velho Pereira, Mr. Agnel Crasto, Ms. Delilah, .......... ____________________________________________________________ Penny Stock Soaring 3000% Sign up for Free to find out what the next 3000% Stock Winner Is! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4c32cf66a439d11c7acst06vuc