thiruvasakam in symphony

When will Thalaivar's name come in the webpage given below?

http://www.grammy.com/awards/grammy/47noms.aspx

Hopefully very soon. He truly deserves it and much more.

I have been eagerly waiting to get TIS before I leave to the US.I hear that it will be released on May 7 in India and after May 2nd week in the US.Any updates?

kbee - no replies from you yet to my mail ?!

sorry, i didnt check my mail. I will reply to you today

SSeshadri75, it is not going to be released atleast till end of the month, since the CD is not yet replicated,pending some dispute over the price. Saregama gave a bad news that if the retail price is not with in $10 mark, they might pull off the whole deal... lets hope something good happens very soon.

When an ordinary Brittney Spears or Michael Jackson album goes for 14.99 to 17.99$ at every release to think of this monumental one time great product to be under 10 is unthinkable and not amounts to giving proper respect to the artist, effort, accumulation of talents, FR's sincerity and the loan obligations.
It is in the hands of the Tamils all over the world to come forward and show their support in the following ways:
1. Whatever may be the price to purchase at least one CD for each family.
2. Resolve not to upload or download to an MP3 format.
3. To send request letters to all those sites who generally put it on MP 3 of anything, to not to do it for this one.
4. Promoting it to their friends and families thru personal e-mails and group mails.
5. If anyone is aware of any organizations like the Nagaraththaar Sangam, Saiva sangam , etc. to approach them or forward their contact addresses to be sponsors for this project.
6. If any one knows of any grants available for such products, to let us know asap. We will contacct them and follow it up.

Friends, one should hear this CD, especially that 20.36 mt piece on Sivapuraanam from Thiru vasagam to really know what I am talking about.
I am willing to play it for serious inquirers who can assure me of such sponsors.
Please get in touch with me immediately at 919-413-3913 or send an e-mail to ommuruga41@YAHOO.COM.
THANKS.
YIA!!

TISK

I understand from the obligations point of view, but Saregama is talking from their markettability point of view. No matter what the price is, I am committed to promote TIS cd for our maestro.

BTW is the CD released? or it is the master copy that you have. My understanding from Saregama is that it is not replicated.

Thanks
kbee

Dr.Shankar, Whatever may be the price we will purchase TIS for us and our family. Please don't get upset about $10 market rate view points. IR is GOD! HE is everything to us. We want TIS to be a success! Best Wishes, Vinu.(i feel very bad now i posted inthe $10 cd prices discussions )

TISK:

I am a big fan of IR and will definitely buy the CD for whatever the price is.

However, if what I am reading in your statement about how this product deserves $17 because a Britney Spears album sells at that price reflect6s the current thinking by you guys on marketing of this product, pls. think through this.

You could have got a real good price for this product if you had released the producty right after all the publicity happened with the progress of this project and completion of the project. The environment was good because the publicity created huge expectations for the product. However, you are losing a lot of the momentum created by the publicity as the time lags on.

With regard to the Britney Spears etc., thwe pricing is dictated by supply and demand. Because of the popularity of Britney, the album producers may feel confident about the demand and price it that way. I would still have no problems you charging that amount for the TBI CD but I think the logic of parallels to Britney CDs may not be appropriate reasoning.

As I saw in another post, if now the release of the product is going to be delayed until end of May is true (from a previous announcement of mid-may), I think these are the type of things which will detract from your ability to charge a premium. The delay would refelct again an erosion in credibililty as the dates get moving.

In addition, I would avoid again referring to debts incurred by Fr. jegath in marketing of TBI. It goes agains the premium image you are trying to build for the product. I am not saying that the effort and the debts undertaken by Fr. Jeagth is not laudable or need not dealth with, but if you try to tie it to the marketing, pricing and positioning of the product, you defeat your purpose of building a premium image of the product.

These are my thoughts more to be helpful to the project. (I have contributed US $500 to the project and am extremely hopeful for the grand success of the project)

Pricing is always a complex issue...

1. Bottomline: It has to reflect break-even for the project cost with expected MINIMUM volume. Any further quantities can be subsidised if the demand is not extremely high (which is expected for any classical album, as it won't go with masses and may not sell in millions)

2. Premium pricing will typically ensure lower volumes...as it would be deemed as not `janaranjagam' but `for upper classes', which is true in this case...that way, if the threshold for break-even is not very high, this is the right strategy to keep up the image of the work.

3. OTOH, if the so-called trumpeting of `popularising-the-concept', `enlightening-the-people' etc are the true intentions (I think so, otherwise so many wouldn't have given voluntary donations) then premium pricing is WRONG...as it defeats the purpose of reaching the masses with an important message. It gives a wrong `mEttukkudi-property' image which defeats the original mission proposed...

4. Either way, pricing it `reasonably' low...i.e. without losing to get to the break-even point while ensuring mass distribution will be the correct thing...because, many more will be encouraged to buy and piracy will be minimum...

All IMHO...