Deat Shri Srinivasan and fellow TPG Members, Two years back, - on fond invitation from my DMIT classmates and BITS Pilani Collegues and two close relations and with best wishes from the TPG backbone member, I visited USA on friends meeting visit for 9 weeks and sued that opportunity to attend CTF on 6th-7th Apr2007. The whole trip was memorable. One of the two DMIT Classmates of mine was met by me on 1st Apr1973 at Thyagarja Aradhana celebration held at the residence of Prof V K Balasubramanian, Seebrook Maryland. This was the small seed sown to organise CTF in 1977. Both Shri Cleveland Sundaram and Cleveland Balu esxtended all courtesies to me as an audience. The atmosphere was grand. After going there onl I learnt that Chicago celebrates Tyagarja Aradana festival in memoprial day holidays last Monday of May. Sine I was returning to Blre via London ( 1 week stay) I could not insert my visit to Chicago festival. If saomebody gets an opportunity to be in USA during these months, try to participate in one of these well organised functions. I must complioment MSS for trhe nice writeup on the function. I am gald to note that his g/d participated in the competition. More later. Affly yours Swaminathan V L
On 4/13/09, Srinivasan MS <[email protected]> wrote: > > ** > *carnatic music is been propounded across the seas more vigourously than > an India. My grand daughter aged 10 years,had participated in the competti > * > ** > *on. about 2000 kids particpated for about five days in clevland usa Many > musical genious/stalwart from india acted as judges. A synopsis of > organisation is given below. * > ** > *you can also get the information from the link > **www.aradhana.org*<http://www.aradhana.org/> > *. Any member who are at present in usa , if let us know about the > function detais will be welcomed.* > ** > ** > ** > ** > About us > > *The Aradhana Committee is a group of volunteers who spearhead the > planning and organization of the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana. They work > closely with various other Carnatic music organizations in the United States > and Canada to bring artists to Cleveland for the festival.* > > *The president of the Aradhana Committee is **R. > Balasubramaniam.*<[email protected]> > * Affectionately known to many Carnatic music rasikas as Cleveland Balu, > he has been serving the Aradhana Committee and since the inception of the > Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana more than 20 years ago. He has worked closely > with organizers throughout the country and has arranged tours for almost > every well-known Carnatic musician in India.* > > *The Aradhana Committee works closely with and depends heavily on > volunteers * > ** > ** <http://www.aradhana.org/index.htm> > *About us* <http://www.aradhana.org/aboutus.htm>* | Schedule | **Titles & > Awards* <http://www.aradhana.org/titles_awards.htm>* | > **Competitions*<http://www.aradhana.org/competitions.htm> > * | **Individual > Participation*<http://www.aradhana.org/individual_participation.htm> > * | **Sustaining Sampradaya*<http://www.aradhana.org/sampradaya/index.htm> > * | **Pancharatnam* <http://www.aradhana.org/downloads.htm>* | > **Sponsors*<http://www.aradhana.org/sponsors.htm> > * | **Contact us* <http://www.aradhana.org/contactus.htm> > * > * > > * > Service Above Self > cnu.pne > * >
