Concerts. Ahh

Yamini 2008 @ IIMB:

Reached IIMB towards the end of the first piece (the first concert, rather) by Sowmya. “Kurrai Onrum Illai” was the last piece that was nearly done with as I got there.

What followed was Shashank’s brilliant concert. Amongst the most stunning flute virtuosoes ever, so far as I’m concerned. Truly, a remarkable rendition.

Ah

http://www.kannadaaudio.com/Songs/Classical/home/TyagarajaMasterpieces.php

Truly, Mysore Doraiswamy Iyengar is a genius.

Most people can learn music..but to master it, takes genius.. No wonder, in Indian traditions..musicians are held ever so high in stature.. Nothing but classical music deserves the titles of ‘Pandit’ or ‘Vidwan’ or ‘Vidhushi’ bestowed on those who ‘re as gifted, committed and passionate enough to master it.

Back on Doraiswamy, I think you need to read what R K Narayan has to say about him. So true… Doraiswamy seems to have the bewildering ability to produce polynomial number of swaras in one pluck of the string.  And yeah.. It sounds almost as sophisticated as something like a Nadaswara or something..especially that he almost seems to mask away the ‘twang’ that’d be so characteristic of a stringed instrument like the veena.. In one word, simply prodigious.

Apart from valiantly trying to make something off my life,

There ‘re new things too.

• Arbitrary Social network on Drupal running the usaul crappy profile pages, et al… and running 600 queries for the front page.. Nice eh.
• New all encompassing portal for a random group of institutions.
• Measles. The usaul Oscommerce work
• My own PMS.. with cvs problems as usaul..duhh . and with an ass load of bugs too. Boring
• The animal care ngo still remains
• This guy still dint get his data entry done.

Otherwise, getting addicted to Doraiswamy Iyengar’s Raga Ratna Malikache…and phone convos on linguistics, phonetics, Philosophy and whatever else with arbitrary people.

Prodigious, Simply.

http://www.kannadaaudio.com/Songs/Classical/home/Raagini.php

My friend tells me Hari Prasad Chaurasia was ‘G0d-level’…but I can’t contemplate off anything in / out of this world getting as good as this. Truly, Praveen Godkhindi is a gifted genius.

[OffTopic]: That site is surprisingly well made. I hope my bit to add to it’s page rank helps.

The desire to learn  one of these things burns ever so hot.