thiruvasakam in symphony

Guys! the same person (American) who was skeptical about TiS after listening to the clips from raaja.com, is now gaga about IR's NBW after listening to "I love Mozart" !! and now he wants to listen to TiS!

"thank you. That was a pretty good re-working of the Indian melody into a Mozartian framework. I'm mightily impressed. If anyone else wants to page back and click on the link and hear "I Love Mozart" in that context, you may find it interesting."

how is that ?

for Western ears untrained to listen to the kind of crossover music, that IR is so gifted with, it takes little bit of explanation and patience for them to understand and once they do so, the floodgates open up!

We should keep this point, while marketing IR's works abroad

Sanjeevi,

India today - tamil or english..?

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Originally Posted by raja_fan

Sanjeevi,

India today - tamil or english..?

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Tamil edition

Ofcourse, I have expected on every India-Today (Tamil) issue (for the past 5 issues) with IR's cover story after the huge success of Thiruvasagam. Now it is the time. Enjoy.

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Originally Posted by raja_fan

Sanjeevi,

India today - tamil or english..?

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Tamil edition

Ofcourse, I have expected on every India-Today (Tamil) issue (for the past 5 issues) with IR's cover story after the huge success of Thiruvasagam. Now it is the time. Enjoy.

India-Today cover story is the one that I like very very much among magazines' cover stories.

Please make it your committment to promote ONE MORE CD by each of you so that we are able to pay back all those great friends here who came up readily with loans to make this happen!
Pl. visit www.tis-usa.com or call 919-413-3913
Thank you!
YIA!!

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Originally Posted by tmrrmt

Guys! the same person (American) who was skeptical about TiS after listening to the clips from raaja.com, is now gaga about IR's NBW after listening to "I love Mozart" !! and now he wants to listen to TiS!

"thank you. That was a pretty good re-working of the Indian melody into a Mozartian framework. I'm mightily impressed. If anyone else wants to page back and click on the link and hear "I Love Mozart" in that context, you may find it interesting."

how is that ?

for Western ears untrained to listen to the kind of crossover music, that IR is so gifted with, it takes little bit of explanation and patience for them to understand and once they do so, the floodgates open up!

We should keep this point, while marketing IR's works abroad

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tmrrmt

Good work. Most of us here dont knwo what you you are doing behind the scene, but knowing what you are doing I really hats off to you.

Please DONT EVEN HESITATE in what you are doing. I will do whatever I can do make IRs album popular to western ears.

I am still waiting for reviews from couple of ppl. They are busy and dont understand our wishes, but hopefully they will come back to me soon.

Here is a mail from my American friend who bought a Cd from me! And, he came back and got two more for his daughters!!
If only others also follow suit....!
YIA!!

Dear Dr Sankar Kumar:

I shall always recall with joy the first time I heard the Thiruvasagam in Symphony. Now listening each night is pure joy! I have purchased additional Cd's for my family. American listeners shall have great esteem for this epic work.
The TIS foundation I am sure shall continue to provide important services to the Tamil community by its association with endeavors like this. I know you have been
very instrumental in the success of this production.
Thank you very much for your hard work so that others can experience Thiruvasagam in Symphony.

your friend
love all, serve all.
Dr T***** M*****

TISK, any rough figures on CDs sold so far and number of CDs that need to be sold to break even would provide an overall perspective. Otherwise, to a general outside viewer like myself it sounds a little surprising that even after the awesome initial opening sales and subsequent sales(TIS has been topping the charts in TN too for two weeks in a row, apart from US) you guys are still are'nt out of the woods yet.
What's the cost that you are trying to recover?

I have been reading blogs like the one below

http://sambharmafia.blogspot.com/200...breakeven.html

that already claim a profit. There might be others too who think like this.

a BACH music festival is going on right now in California

http://www.bachfestival.org/

can a few guys based in California visit the place and gift TiS CD to the main organisers and also see if you can use the same to promote TiS there ?

Thanks

To tell you in brief, US has been left alone to mend its own fences by the 'vested interests' and hence the plea!
More if you care to call me in person.
Thanks.
YIA!