Deepa Mohan wrote: ,---- | HEY! Nice to meet you! My day always includes Arangisai, which I | get with varying degrees of clarity on my oooold 2 in 1, from | Madras A. I thought my species was heavily endangered....do you | live in Bangalore? I don't even get company to go to kacheris and | often go alone...! I have once written an article about how one | knows it is a Carnatic concert as the hair colour of the audience | varies from grey to white to non-existent.... `----
I thought this (our?) species is extinct too. Atleast I thought I would be the only 'black haired' guy during the Madras Music Season'04[1]. To my surprise I even made some friends at the concerts (I mean, "my age group" friends ;) ). I suddenly realized the plethora of avenues to Date and Mate! ... and yes, I'm in Bangalore too :) Attending ramanavami concerts at Fort High School? I listened to the Bombay Sisters concert by standing outside the venue (Music should be Free, isn't it? ;) ) and 'paid' for the Mandolin Shrinivas Concert. Haven't had the time to attend the other concerts. I'm saving up on my 'paid holidays' to take a month off during this years Music Season at Chennai :) I've been learning Carnatic only since Oct'2004 (due to a sudden 'realization' of the beauty that I started seeing in it) but have been listening to it (without a willing choice) since childhood -- yeah, the typical TamBram house where M.S.Subbulakshmi sings "Sriman Narayana" at 6 AM. You can imagine what the 'ground reality' would be given my grand ma used to tell us: "Pattammal[2] was my neighbour". btw, Guitarist Prasanna[3] is playing on 7th at Palace Grounds. It isn't a true-blue Carnatic concert. He is playing tracks from his new album titled "Electric Ganesha Land" -- a Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, Chennai Style. -Suraj [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Music_Season [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DK_Pattammal [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Prasanna -- ,-----------------[http://www.symonds.net/~suraj/]---o | Todi Seetaraamaiyar sang tODi for 8 days straight! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
