அவர் மட்டுமா! சங்கர்-கணேஷ், சந்திரபோஸ்... ஆனா சிலர் இவங்களை விட்டுட்டு தேவாவை தான் சொல்கின்றனர், ராஜாவுக்கு அடுத்து (அதாவது ஒரு பத்து இடம் கேப் விட்டுத்தான்!)
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அவர் மட்டுமா! சங்கர்-கணேஷ், சந்திரபோஸ்... ஆனா சிலர் இவங்களை விட்டுட்டு தேவாவை தான் சொல்கின்றனர், ராஜாவுக்கு அடுத்து (அதாவது ஒரு பத்து இடம் கேப் விட்டுத்தான்!)
The world will end in 2012, they say. Let it. I will not regret. All of you who didn't attend today, you'll regret. You have to. Poorva jenma palan, they call it. I had it. KV had it. Wizzy had it. Skr had it. Rest of you, I regret to say, didn't. Can I be arrogant for happestance, for being a random chosen one? Well, yes, I can. And I do. I got a slice of Raja's mind today - live. You may watch the youtube of it, in jaya tv, wherever. But you'll never get what I got. And yes, I am arrogantly proud about it. And mumbairamki, if you didn't attend, I say ninga romba paavam paNNi irukkInga.
1. Forget the genius, wizardry and stature - that is one fascinating mind, and I got a peek of it today. Live. That matters. A lot. To me. .....2) he told the world what he thinks about my Karthikeyan. I was, like, than maganai sAndrOn ena kEtta thaai. You missed it, Ramki, you missed it( or were you the one who shouted "we love u karthik" ?)
venkat prabhu @dirvenkatprabhu
Whatta show!! Mind blowing!! Mesmerising!! Divine!!! Thanks @bhavatharini for recreating the magic!!#HOWTONAMEIT
rozavasanth @rozavasanth
#HOwToNameIt போக ராஜபார்வை வயிலின் சிம்ஃபனி வேறு; சினிமா பாடல்கள் திருஷ்டிக்கு; மக்கள் வற்புறுத்தி ராஜா பாடிய ரமணகீதத்தில் அங்கேயே அழுதேன்.
Ashok @ashoker_UHKH
'ஏய் உன்னைத்தானே' பாடலுக்கு இறுதியில் சேர்த்த இசைப்பிரவாகம் Simply Divine..! #howtonameit
Prakash @icarusprakash
#HowToNameIt பார்த்தவங்க எல்லாரும் டைம்லைனில் ரொம்பவே வெறுப்பேத்தறாங்க மைலாட் #suchislife
RajheshVaidhya @rajheshvaidhya5
@bhavatharini Thank u so much...in front of Maestro and Dr.LS... what a show..what a crowd..what a music..what a musicians. "How to name it"
rozavasanth @rozavasanth
காலயிலிருந்து #HowToNameIt 3முறை கேட்டேன்; ஆனாலும் அரங்கில் கேட்ட அனுபவம் வாழ்க்கையில் மறக்காது.
Premgi amaren @Premgiamaren
"how to name it" amazing show, felt like time traveling 25 years back, thank you sister @bhavatharini
Ashok @ashoker_UHKH
#howtonameit '' definitely I can't''.
Kamesh Bavaratnam @kameshratnam
#ILAIYARAAJA how to name it show today united people from mayyam tfm page, yahoogroups, facebook,twitter and orkut
Sahana @sahana_kannan
I have to go back to India just so I don't miss concerts like #HowtoNameIt. ellarum adha pathiye pesi kaalangaathale kadupethranga.
rozavasanth @rozavasanth
விழாமுடிந்து வெளியேறிவிட்ட ராஜாவை கார்திக்ராஜா இழுத்து வந்து பேச வைத்தார்; கூட்டம் திரும்ப உட்கார ராஜா பேசியது அடுத்த #HowToNameIt அனுபவம்.
Suresh @Raaga_Suresh
RT @anantha Today Raaja was absolutely brilliant while explaining how he sees music. Severe goosebumps hearing him talk. #HowToNameIt
Plum! We know what we are about to miss! I already explained here! THe feel we get in these kind of shows, than tha Mega crowded Endrendrum Raja types, is taht we will feel more close to Raja, which, of course is rare, irreplaceabe, irrepeatable experience.
But we expected more words from you. You have to show us that slice of the genius' mind you saw today! Don't say "How to Name it?!" You can! Mavane You shud :lol:
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...72660421_n.jpg
Keep watching here for more pics
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...6108221&type=3
Absolutely Pum, No doubt about it. This happens only once in a lifetime and more than you are all lucky, I feel you all have been personally invited by Maestro, very fortunate souls. Enjoy the show!. Very happy and thrilled to read all your posts and skv's hot tweets and pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
I know I missed it. Just landed in Blore today from Hyd and a very important meeting first thing in the morning tomorrow. Maybe I should have postponed that meeting and gone off to Chennai instead of coming to Blr. But then, as Raja himself would say, you get what is written for you!!!
My twitter timeline has been ecstatic about the concert. Now waiting for someone like skr/KV/Plum to write more details. More eagerly waiting for someone to upload the videos.
Plum ,
You are absolutely right.
I am just speechless and dunno what to say. It was a experience of a lifetime.
The world may come to an end someday but Raaja's music will live for ever.
R.Parthiepan @rparthiepan
how to name it " இளையராஜா live கேட்டேன். ஒரு டிக்கெட்டின் விலை:என் இன்றிரவு தூக்கம்!
K, mikka naNdri for sharing the pictures. Was waiting for this. It seems a bigger programme than NBW (definitely the tracks are more in HTNI, added to that, film hits as well).
not just that.. this is one album statement by raaja on his theory of peesan. so it is historically significant in a art-history.Quote:
Originally Posted by V_S
Agreed word to word, Jai. When I first looked at the cassette cover when this album was released, I didn't understand most of the terms, if not all; Mad mod mood fugue (?), I met Bach (Who is Bach??), Chamber(??) welcomes Thyagaraja, Don't compare (with what and/or whom), do anything (??), you cannot be free (from what?) and most of all, How to Name it (?). Mysteriously named titles. To be honest, just these track names invoked so much surprise in us. Until we heard, definitely we were not sure it is from Maestro, as all the track names were greek to us, having listened to only film songs from him. Once we were into it, as you said, it an important history in art and the term 'fusion' got its actual meaning at last. Just the thought of it still reverberates in us. To witness such a programme live will get us the actual meaning of our life, which I missed. :sad:
:exactly: IOW, if he is able to establish *that* kind of a connect in those mass shows (Mrs Jesudass in Janani Janani, Maasatra Sodhi in 2005, goosebumps lady, Aayiram Thaamarai Mottukkale in 2011), imagine the bond in a show like thisQuote:
Originally Posted by sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar
:yes: KamaanQuote:
Originally Posted by sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar
KV Anand romba naala post panna maatteengaraar....
ungal oorla kooda programmes keedhu pola?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bala (Karthik)
Jai
Puriliye....
குமுதம் இணையத்தள ரபி பெர்னார்டு - ரஹ்மான் நேர்காணலில் "எழுபத்தைந்து வருட இந்தியத் திரையுலக இசை வரலாற்றில் முக்கியமானவைகளாக நீங்கள் கருதுபவைகள் என்ன?" என்ற கேள்விக்கு ராஜாவின் How To Name It ஆல்பம் என்பதையும் குறிப்பிட்டார்.
எல்லோரது வாழ்க்கையில் இந்த ஆல்பம் பலதரப்பட்ட உணர்வுகளை எழுச்சியுற வைத்திருக்கும். என் வாழ்க்கையில் மறக்கமுடியாத நிகழ்ச்சிகளில் ஒன்று என்றால்..கல்லூரி இரண்டாமாண்டு வாழ்க்கை. வார இறுதியில் வந்த பிறந்தநாள் அன்று நகரத்திற்கு நண்பர்களோடு சென்று மதியக்காட்சி திரைப்படம், சாயந்திரம் முழுதும் நகரின் முக்கிய சாலைகளில் அரட்டை அடித்து நடந்து.. ஹோட்டலில் மது அருந்தி இரவுணவையும் முடித்து விடுதி திரும்பினால் நேரம் பதினொன்றரை. போதை இன்னும் இறங்கவில்லை. கேக் வெட்டி, கிரீட்டிங் கார்டு கொடுத்து..எல்லோரையும் அனுப்பிவிட்டு விளக்கணைத்து தூங்கப்போனால், கதவைத் தட்டி நெருங்கிய நண்பன் "உனக்கொரு பரிசு, தலையணைக்கு கீழே வைத்திருக்கிறேன். உனக்கு கண்டிப்பாக பிடிக்கும் என நினைக்கிறேன்!" என சொல்லிவிட்டு நகந்தபோது, ஓடிப்போய் தலையைனையை தூக்கினால், ராஜா முகத்தோடு இந்த ஆல்பம். அப்படியே வாக்மேனில் போட்டு... இருவிதமான போதைகள் ஊனை உலுக்குகிறது. மனம் கட்டுப்பாடில்லாமல் பறக்க ஆரம்பிக்கிறது பலத் திசைகளில். வாழ்வில் இனிமையான தருணங்களில் முக்கியமானதாக நான் இன்றும் நினைக்கும் ஒன்று!
Suresh,Quote:
Originally Posted by Sureshs65
I hear that the concert will happen in Bangalore, Delhi & Pune also.. BUT NOT IN HYDERABAD!! BLOODY DISCRIMINATION!!!:banghead::angry2::angry2::banghe ad:
Hmm..you can travel when you decided to banglore, pune from hydrabad.Quote:
Originally Posted by aakarsh
my dears, again and again do not make me upset by posting HTNI live related news. pls post some videos/audio like NBW posts by rajasaranam :)
http://tamil.oneindia.in/movies/awar...2-aid0136.html
தமிழ் சினிமாவுக்காக உலக அளவில் நடத்தப்படும் நார்வே தமிழ் திரைப்பட விழா 2012-ல்
சிறந்த இசை அமைப்பாளர் விருது அழகர்சாமியின் குதிரை படத்துக்காக இசைஞானி இளையராஜாவுக்கு வழங்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
I think NEPV audio will be out in May. Time is ticking!
llaiyaraja is a humble man. Only, his humility is not the humility of the ignorant or the *mediocre. It is the humility of a genius. Naturally,* a major part of our society, which is obviously not a genius cannot understand his humility. I am neither but thankfully, I have been given the gift of comprehending the humility of a genius. So, what do I mean by that? There were at least 2 instances from a special concert held on 29th April.
The excuse was the silver jubilee of his iconic album “How to Name It”. But, as it happens on such occasions, it was a celebration of his genius, and much more.*The first surfaced when he spoke about L Subramanian, whose prodigy of a son, Ambi Subramanian, hailed as the “future of Indian music” by Anil Srinivasan, compere for the event and a renowned pianist himself, performed a majority of the “pieces” from the album, in the concert.
He spoke about growing as another “kozhandhai” of the Subramanian household along with LS himself, and his talented and renowned brothers, Vaidyanathan and Shankar.*There was humility in his tone when he said this – rather unusual if you ask the usual critics of the man – but then this, friends, is the humility of genius. It bows only before supreme talent. It is not the humility of the mediocre – think AVM Saravanan – which praises anyone and everyone and acknowledges even minor capability in others. That humility is a façade for a non-controversial existence, hoping not to rub anyone the wrong way. That is humility towards humans.
Genius is humble, too – but only before their art, their discipline. Naturally, followers of the “humility mafia” will never understand this. Nor would a majority of the society, even if they aren’t part of the humility mafia. I consider myself blessed that I can comprehend this aspect of a genius’s mind. If you don’t, I pity you.I am more blessed than you are.
The second surfaced when he chided his own daughter for allowing such songs as “hey unnai thane” to be performed on an evening which was a dedication to two great composers, which this album was 25 years ago, performed on this day under the gaze of gigantic images of them. “But these are your songs, appA”, said Bhavadharini, the daughter who successfully evoked maa sentiment twice before with him on the day. “So?” said the man. That one word sums up his humility – the only kind that matters to real lovers of music. “Don’t be so humble, you are not that great” goes an unknown saying, and there is no better illustration of this genius from a remote village of Tamilnadu. The saying refers to the false humility we alluded to before, which is not present in this man. His humility lies in his recognition of his place in the pantheon – he knows exactly where he stands in reference to his Gods, and while music theory isn’t a strong suit of this writer, it is easy to follow from the few slices of his mind that he exposed on the day, as to how rational his placement of himself in that pantheon is.
The other aspect that emerged, and a rarity for such concerts, is the child-like wonder in his voice when he started talking about JS Bach, and the genius of the Western Classical Musician considered part of the holy trinity of WC. He started explaining the features of Bach’s fugue, getting Anil to demonstrate it on his piano live. He checked himself at some point, voicing that it is not his call to go into such details of theory but couldn’t help articulating his wonder at Bach’s creation of an “invertible counterpoint with 10 bars”, while writing it with 8 bars, which is apparently the “ABC” of such efforts, takes him “ whopping one hour”.You read it right – he does that in one hour, and that is not good enough for him. Do we even comprehend that?
Obviously, this aspect of his mind doesn’t usually exhibit itself while talking with common folks such as us. Last I have heard him talk about invertible counterpoints is in Guitar Prasanna’s account of his personal conversations with Raja, where-in , Raja, apparently, asked Prasanna child-like about whether the latter had managed to write a 32nd invertible counterpoint, or something like that. The gnaanasoonyam in me will never remember. What separated this concert from others, which I have seen only on TV, was not just that I saw Him Live but also that for some reason, he opened up to a bunch of musical illiterates, which I am making the presumption that most of the crowd was. Not that we would understand much of it, but the fact that the genius chose us to talk to, is an experience that not many fo you will get.
Which is why, in my first account, I had talked about poorva jenma palan. As I said then, there are two categories of people in this world now – those who* have poorva jenma palan, and these are the ones who attended the concert yesterday, and the other is one who don’t, and these are the people who didn’t attend the concert yesterday. I regret to say, folks, if you are in the latter category, you have wasted your Life.
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laiyaraja is a humble man. Only, his humility is not the humility of the ignorant or the *mediocre. It is the humility of a genius
yov plum enter key-nu onnu irukkuyaa
I'd like to thank our Wizzy whole-heartedly for getting me the tickets. Left to myself, I 'd never have got round to booking the tickets circumnavigating the usually tedious process of clicking a thousand five hundred and thirty six links. Wizzy, it turns out, is a young, dynamic entrepreneur, and thankfully not the "evil, who-knows-what-kind-of stranger from a forum" that my wife warned me panickingly when I told her I am going out to a concert, with the tickets to be brought by an unknown stranger whom I only know as "wizzy" in an online forum. "Don't eat anything he gives", she warned me concernedly. "Don't worry", I said, "we'll not have the tinme to think about food or beverages". And so it turned out, and I must acknowledge that both wizzy and KV are nice, pleasant young boys, with KV especially surpassing all of us in his commitment to Raja, travelling down from Bangalore just for this concert, upsetting his parents in the process and ignoring the duty of a bunch of relatives at home in Bangalore apparently. I guess he must have been barely born when HTNI was released. KaNgaL paniththana, idhayam nanaindhadhu.
San-k - enter key unfortunately is a problem for me. Hub doesn't recognise mine. I wish there was a solution to this.
Plum has a single point agenda (even in his huge paragraphs). To make others who couldnt attend the concert (like me) feel like useless insignificant creatures! go easy dude :-( i can understand your thoughts and we all know we missed something spectacular!.. but spare us and go easy :-(
Some nuggets from my random notes:
*** wish there was a seat- cam between IR and LS. As the two chatted away during and after the performance of individual pieces, what would I not have given to be a bedbug on the seat
***Wiz and KV suspected that "Plum" had spent a proxy to the concert. Apparently, they expected me to look like AK Hangal, based on my hub personality. You have seen too much of the malayalam film "salt and pepper", guys.
*** a couple of ladies just behind us when Anil Srinivasan introduced Chamber welcomes Thiagaraja *s "let's now welcome Raja, not Ilayaraja but Thiyagaraja" : the response from the ladies: "reNdum oNNu dhaanEppA". Neither was a looker but just for that comment, if only I were uncommitted...:lol:
***karthikeyan nuggets will be a separate post by themselves
***for skv and bala: IR talked about how Kamal visited the studio during the recording of htni, and how he'd keep humming the tunes. There was his theory about how raagas aren't that important in the bigger scheme of things, and how a musical piece simply reflects the "manobhavam" of the composer/perfor$er at the time of composition/performance. Oru maadhiri puriydhu - and very consistent with his philo of spontaneity - but to comprehend that fully, I guess you have to be Raja himself. " If you play it, your mental condition will reflect in your music". That's the quote - make what you will of it.
Aakarsh, sorry. But you've got to make allowances for my mindset. I mean, in what is largely meaningless lives we live, this is the sort of spark that doesn't even happen once in any of our liftpetime. It may be pure luck that it happened to me this time but idhukku kooda perumai, garvam, pogaru pada lEdhantE elA? It is like when you were in School, right, and your cousin from Chicago presented you that funky toy or whatever. You were just lucky you got it and your classmates, but would you stop boasting about it? Fat chance! I am going to be on this High for the rest of my Life. "Yo little boy", I'll ask my grandson, "its alright you might have gone to the moon and all", I'd say, "but did you attend that concert by IR in 2012 and did you get a peek of his genius mind", I'd rib "thought not. Now that should shut you up from yapping all about your lunar tour and stuff".
Plum,
Fully agree with you. Those are the same points I have been making and fighting it out whenever the humility bit comes in. As I always claim, Raja is humble towards his art. I don't care if he is not humble towards me. His humility to art is evident in the fact that he is even now learning Jazz music, though he has composed quite a few pieces based on jazz. And the constant innovation of his. You are lucky to hear him speak, that is for sure.
And yes, skr and KV are very dedicated Raja fans. The amount of Raja's music they listen to and the wonder with which they listen to puts me at ease. One more generation will carry forward what Raja does. And the good thing is , unlike our gen, these guys are not stuck up only in 80s. There are quite a few in the hub who are 80s only folks but skr, KV and Hulk type of folks love the late 90s and 2000s Raja as much as they love the 80s Raja. And this is definitely good for Raja has created much magic in the 90s and 2000s as well.
THats not agenda but plain, sad truth, aakarsh! If that feel makes us to go to his next live-concert, i will ask Plum to give more of it. And we, those who were able to but didn't attend, deserve that nitpicking, and Plum is kind of right person who does that all the time :lol: but this time it serves a purposeQuote:
Originally Posted by aakarsh
Thats fine. But I guess plum missed NBW concert and now he attended HTNI concert, appo miss panninathukku avaru enna solluraaru :lol:
BTW As Bhava said, there will not be any TV telecast? I thought it is some trick by her to gain crowd for concert (absolutely no neeed for this, ofcourse). Really no telecast? If not, atleast they should release DVD.
Thanks Plum
San_K
What? No TV telecast-a????????? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sure shot :Tea Kudippu:
What? In HTNI concert, they perfomed "yey unnaithaane!"? Sort of thrishti pottu to the whole concert! Its :sigh: feeling to me when I saw pictures of Venkat Prabhu brothers holding the mikes! Please please stay away from holy album concert going forward!
Plum, I am posting your writeup in twitter, with due credits to you!
https://twitter.com/#!/tekvijay/stat...41760709136385
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by venkkiram
Skv, most welcome. Enakku creditlAm thEvaiyE illai. DeivamE anand milind avaroda aRpudha padaippai thiruduiyadhukku enna sollichu? AppERpatta mahonnadha padaippugaLukkE avar kavalai padalai - nammaLodA afterall postukkA namma credit edhirpArkkaradhu?
Plum
Please use your influence and make KV Anand and Rajasaranam post here.....
Ilayaraja's 'How To Name It?' - Revival of acoustic music era - IndiaGlitz
In 1986, Maestro Ilayaraja came out with his first ever non-film music album - 'How to name it?' The instrumental album paid respects to Johann Sebastian Bach and Thyagaraja. Now, 25 years later, celebrating the silver jubilee of the album, a concert was organized at the Anna Centenary Library Auditorium by Sabari Raja of Absolute management. Raaga.com was the official online media partner of the event.
Raaga.com & IndiaGlitz conducted an online contest for the event and gave away free tickets for all the winners who were all visibly excited for getting a chance to see such a historical event that brought together musical legends.
Anil Srinivasan, the classical pianist was the host for the show. The concert began with Bhavatharani rendering 'Janani Janani...' from the film 'Sri Raghavendhra', which was dedicated to her late mother Jeeva Ilayaraja. It sparked off what was going to be a scintillating concert that included some of the best acoustic live music heard in Chennai in the last few decades.
The concert was conducted by Prabakhar, Ilayaraja's close associate, who has collaborated with him for 25 years and was performed by the maestro's own 40-man orchestra that included a full string section featuring 20 violinists. Playing the tunes of all the tracks from the album, the crew set the standards for future instrumental concerts at the auditorium. Before each song, Anil Srinivasan took his time to explain unique aspects of the track in detail and enlightened the crowd with information about counterpoints, trios, fugues, paritas and polyphony to name a few.
Ambi Subramaniam, the 19 year old violinist and the son of the legendary L. Subramaniam played the lead and got standing a ovation for the title track. Just when you begin to wonder how a 19-year old boy can create so much magic, the audience was surprised by another youngster, Aadithya Ganesh, a 15 year old who joined Ambi and also played a few solos. Rajesh Vaidhya, Veena Vidwan and Kalaimamani recipient also graced the stage and played along with the rest of the members.
Once the first section came to an end, the guests of honors of the event, Maestro Ilayaraja and legendary violinist L Subramaniam took stage and gave speeches. Ilayaraja spilled the beans on how the entire album was composed and recorded in 3 days back in 1986. Upon the frantic request of the crowd, he also sang a song of his choice in "Sadda Sadda Unnai" about ramanar and was backed by Rajesh Vaidhya without any prior rehearsals or practice.
The second part of the concert comprised of Ilayaraja's hit numbers and they were performed by top singers including Sriram Parthasarathy, Haricharan, Sathyan, Bhavatharani and Pop Shalini. The song 'Megam...' from the movie 'Enakkul Oruvan' were by the brothers in Ilayaraja's family - Karthik Raja, Venkat Prabhu, Yuvan Shankar Raja and Premji Amaren.