I will email you my tel no. and we can try and go to kacheris together. Who are your favourites?
On 5/3/06, Suraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Deepa Mohan wrote:
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| 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....
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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
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