thiruvasakam in symphony

Does anyone know the contact details of Zubin Mehta (famous conductor of the Israeli Philharmoic Orchestra) ? the intent is to send a copy of TbI for him to review.

Yesterday someone said that even "New" songs are better than TIS. I just dont know how to react to these kind of comments. So my take is ignore all these review. If you like it, enjoy it.

Shankar/njv,

Just ignore these guys.....IR couldn't have said it better.....

"EDHU KUPPAINNU KOZHIYA PORUTHU IRKKU......" :lol:
Cheers
Bala.

njv,

Best way to react to such comments is JUST NOT TO REACT. For one to hear, enjoy and feel TiS, one should be gifted and should have some musical knowledge and sense!

Let us move on, thanking God for giving us that sense.

-MJ

vElila pOra Onaana vEtila vitta maadhiri irukku.

We got a negative feedback and we are now saying that we need to ignore. Lets set our priorities straight. One of us has requested for a Hardcore WCM person to review. I am not sure how much they would expect a this kind of classical crossover. Those Hardcore WCM/reviewers probably would have listed to crossovers of different nature, what we have exposed them is an entirely, drastically different crossover (rather I would term it as meeting/rendezvous of classical forms and presentations). We are bound to get such negative reviews only. When our own hard core devotional songs listener would find it difficult to accept this kind of presentation, then think about them. In my humble opinion this album would never get a great review from any hardcore fans/reviewers of one classical form or other at present.

As srikanth said its different form of music.

People of different ears would tune themselves to appreciate such a kind of music only when we have a substantial number of such albums released and a majority of them are great. Once people accept that then they may come to the past and would be able to accept/appreciate and even rave about TiS. We all know that TiS is perhaps the first of its kind that tried to reach a wider audience.

Let me end with this note:
We are like "kuraLi viththai kaaran" we ought to pick the "Onaan" of fence and allow it to crawl on us. It might be difficult for us in the initial stages after that we would get used to it and even the Onaan would appreciate the better medium for crawling than the fence :)

NOM. AIMHO.

tmrrmt, if you are going to ask for reviews you need to provide full samples man, not 1-minute clips. And I believe the right kind of person to review this would be someone of (South)Indian origin who has knowledge of both ICM/WCM and preferably some Tamil knowledge as well. Someone like say V.S. Narasimhan(or other members of the Madras String quartet) would be able to do some kind of justice, atleast to the musical portions if not the literary aspects. For the westerners the tunes would sound quite weird.

Appreciation of any novel attempt requires `OPEN' mind, which is quite rare in the world. (Many claim to have that but not in reality, including most of us...I claim to enjoy food items from varied countries but can never give lasagna or pizza the same marks as rice with murungakkAi sAmbar + kizhangu masAl + elumichchai ooRugAi...and definitely will take time to enjoy pizza immersed in sambAr, even if it is from annapoornA Gowri shankar):-)

This `crossover' attempt to orchestrate for ancient Thamizh literature is entirely new and the best capable living person has started that! It needs to be really pushed to the masses (also through media like broadcast/ telecast and other casts and not just through sale of the album)...and they will develop a taste in due course...which will encourage more such works to come up in the future, thus making more people to show interest in the literature. I'm 100% sure more people have talked about the book in the last one month than I've ever seen in the last 30 years or so...

Remember Raja raised the standards of an AVERAGE movie song listener (to look for ragAs, interludes, instrumental part etc.) which took a while. It didn't happen with annakkiLi but gradually by the time he was doing sigappu rOjAkkaL, nizhalgaL and nenjaththai kiLLAthE...Similarly, TiS should be considered as a beginning for many more great things to come...What about ThirukkuRaL next? (Probably among the least religious ancient works with high morals...)

I read somewhere that Bharadwaj is inspired to do similar work for another literature...as more people jump in, there'll be more sponsors / listeners, which I feel is good for Thamizh...mellaththamizhini malarum:-)

Here are some reviews @ amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/cus...g=UTF8&s=music

Nice article on IR and TIS...
http://www.eenadu.net/ncineshow.asp?qry=cinefront1

Maestro says "Now a days, those 30 second ad jingles sound better than film songs..."

"Evvaraina ikkada eenadu article'ni TRANSLATE chesi chepputhara??"

Can any telugu folks translate the eenadu article and post it??

Thanks