tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647581039313842967.post558498194840204409..comments2023-10-24T01:08:56.060+05:30Comments on Welcome to Seshadri Kumar's Web Home: How, Indeed, Should Carnatic Music be Performed?Seshadri Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367107762267474532noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647581039313842967.post-28573831346079074762013-06-05T11:21:47.531+05:302013-06-05T11:21:47.531+05:30Ganesh, I dare say that these days audiences outsi...Ganesh, I dare say that these days audiences outside India CAN SOMETIMES be more serious about Indian classical music than audiences in India. That's because they miss the connection to their roots and take their music and culture more seriously than the people in India, who take all this richness in their culture for granted.Seshadri Kumarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16367107762267474532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647581039313842967.post-45962404171046214212013-05-02T14:52:42.679+05:302013-05-02T14:52:42.679+05:30Great post, Seshadri. I agreed with the sentiment ...Great post, Seshadri. I agreed with the sentiment expressed by TM Krishna, then I also found myself agreeing with your points. I have attended Hindustani and Carnatic concerts both in India and abroad, and if the audiences in India are ignorant about the finer points of music, I don't know what can be said about the diaspora. I find that artistes tend to play to the gallery to get cheap applause (what I call 'circus' and Krishna called 'trapeze').<br /><br />An example of a 'nursery rhyme' that I have heard twice from Sudha Raghunathan in Sydney is 'Kalavathi, Parvathi, neeye gathi!' If I hear that wretched song one more time, I will scream.<br /><br />BTW, whatever happened to SPIC-MACAY?prasadgchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00179696156998026173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647581039313842967.post-39171728385345745822013-05-02T14:47:21.721+05:302013-05-02T14:47:21.721+05:30Great post, Seshadri. I agreed with the sentiment ...Great post, Seshadri. I agreed with the sentiment expressed by TM Krishna, then I also found myself agreeing with your points. I have attended Hindustani and Carnatic concerts both in India and abroad, and if the audiences in India are ignorant about the finer points of music, I don't know what can be said about the diaspora. I find that artistes tend to play to the gallery to get cheap applause (what I call 'circus' and Krishna called 'trapeze').<br /><br />An example of a 'nursery rhyme' that I have heard twice from Sudha Raghunathan in Sydney is 'Kalavathi, Parvathi, neeye gathi!' If I hear that wretched song one more time, I will scream.<br /><br />BTW, whatever happened to SPIC-MACAY?prasadgchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00179696156998026173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647581039313842967.post-75680422998029938852013-01-08T14:02:01.625+05:302013-01-08T14:02:01.625+05:30you keep talking about lec-dems, and how artists d...you keep talking about lec-dems, and how artists don't conduct any. one look at the brochures of any of the sabhas for the margazhi music festival will tell you otherwise. most sabhas conduct a series of lecdems during the season, held in the mornings, almost everyday. many of them are extremely informative, catering to both to beginners and advanced learners.<br /><br />these arent limited to just the margazhi music season either, as lecdems/workshops are periodically conducted by organizations through the year.<br /><br />the problem is not the lack of opportunities to learn, it's simply the lack of interest among people. interest in the classical arts has always been marginal, more so now than before. there's so much happening everywhere, movies, music, technology, sports; the classical arts dont seem very appealing in comparison. <br /><br />i agree though, that krishna has been a little ambiguous in his article.Bleurghan4olhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18432035474956009386noreply@blogger.com