MAESTRO ILAIYARAAJA NEWS & TITBITS VER.2010

[baroque]

I completely second you. I wont say that the sanctity of treating raagas(not me, but raagams ) .....

raagams...raagas...

mmm..
just this evening I was enjoying veena Gayathri's ethereal strings for Susheela solo...Sugamo aayiram......
there is a wordplay by the lyricist Panju Arunachalam
enai neeyum, unai naanum
unarndhaalae adhu podhum
adhuthaane panbhadu(பண்பாடு)
adhai naalum pann paadu(பண் பாடு )
thanks.

anyway..
even this weekend there are two high profile concerts in our area- San jose.
Grammy Winner Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt concert.
There is a violin duet by Kanyakumari and Embar Kannan.

vinatha.

[sudhakarg]

I liked the honest / straight talk of Raja. As always, he does not care to be politically correct and deviates from the norms of a sycophantic Tamil film industry speech! I'm sure as someone who is drenched in music, he can easily see the changing values in people using musical instruments & classical music. The man has been living music and is a lot closer to reality. As one hubber put it, he may not articulate his thoughts as calmly as SPB. He is always known for not sugar coating his words. I only wish people take note of the key message and forget the occasion & tone/choice of words.

[Bala (Karthik)]

5. Raja can never compose the music he does were he to be a different and humble person

Nachu!

[rajasaranam]

Suresh,

What a Postji!

Sloshed,

why cant you be humble instead of asking Raaja to be?

[rajasaranam]

Another Akshay Samman Report: http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowEnter...s.asp?id=21285

[rajasaranam]

I would love to know their names. Especially the South Indian instrumentalists.

Now this is the Challenge to all detractors here. dont come up with names like 'Guitar Prasanna', 'Mandolin Srinivas', 'Flute Navin' and the likes who are already well known and those whom Raaja also knows and had collaborated with.

The underlying emotion of Raaja's question was to know how many of the 'Current' Generation people are really interested in 'Instrumental' Music, apart from 'Keyboard'.

Post Rahmans success there is a Tendency for the GenX to learn Keyboard rather than real instruments. (Not to pull down ARR, this is an observation of the state of affairs where the crowd goes behind Success/Trend. Keyboard Padicha ellam Rahman aayida mudiyuma enna?!!) The pathetic state can be obsereved in all music schools in TN. Even the music teachers reccommend 'Keyboard'.

PS:Even my son has joined a Keyboard class rather than learning a REAL Instrument. I had advised him to learn guitar/violin once he is through with the Basics of WCM. Lemme see

[par]

Now, with AR Rahman's KM Music Conservatory in place, one may hope the situation will only improve. It will be fitting that he is correcting the wrong he unintentionally did.

[Sanjeevi]

The underlying emotion of Raaja's question was to know how many of the 'Current' Generation people are really interested in 'Instrumental' Music, apart from 'Keyboard'.

even i am thinking the same. ofcourse Raja's speech made me to think about this. And what will be future of artists of natural music intruments and recognitions for them?

[kameshratnam]

Genius IR...Why dont u release your symphony right now and call young people and play the parts and explain the beauty of the same.

What IR says about current day music and md's is like the middle class sitting at home and cribbing politics is dirt and the system has to be made proper..Go to musee musicals and please see how many people have passed guitar and piano grades....ask the landmark cashier how many western cds sell...they count has increased

[Sanjeevi]

Genius IR...Why dont u release your symphony right now and call young people and play the parts and explain the beauty of the same.

What IR says about current day music and md's is like the middle class sitting at home and cribbing politics is dirt and the system has to be made proper..Go to musee musicals and please see how many people have passed guitar and piano grades....ask the landmark cashier how many western cds sell...they count has increased

What is your point? even IR said the same in this interview directly or indirectly. Though his words are not clear in general IMO he wanted to say "please appreciate natural instrumentalists"