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[teja]

Heavy Craze for Ilaiyaraja's First Ever Concert in USA

It has only been less than 48 hours since ticketing has started at 11 AM, on 6th Feb at Ticketmaster.com for the First Ever Live Concert by Maestro Ilaiyaraja at the prestigious Prudential Center Arena - Newark, New Jersey and the craze for the King of Music is becoming manifest.

http://greatandhra.com/viewnews.php?...6&cat=1&scat=4

[baroque]

Wonderful to read!
Hope he make more concerts in future too!
கொண்டு வருவாங்க, வருவாரு நிச்சயமா சந்தோஷமா!

[njv]

NJV:

Do you know if all the participants attending the Toronto concert are also coming to NJ - Karthik, Hariharan, Vivek, Gautam Menon etc.? Thx again for your help. Excited about the concert.

kr

Maestro Ilayaraja will be accompanied by Dr SPB, Mano, Chitra, Hariharan, Karthik, Sadana Sargam, Yuvan Sankar Raja, Vijay Jesudar, Karthik Raja and many other. A total team of 64 people are coming.

from Toronto, Yesudas, Vivek & Gopinath are not coming.


Thanks
NJV

[njv]

Hi njv

I just sent a PM please check.

Thank you
NMK

NMK - I need some details from you. Sent you PM. Please respond ASAP.

Thanks
NJV

[crvenky]

US Consul General in Chennai attends Ilayaraja rehearsals:

http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functi...als/index.html

[njv]

US Consul General in Chennai attends Ilayaraja rehearsals:

http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functi...als/index.html

Lucky fellows. I hope I will get opportunity to see and be with Maestro & co on Feb 21&22 prior to the show. I will post pics.

[svaisn]

Svaisn

Not at this time. After NJ, Maestro is going to San Jose and going back to India.

Hopefully maestro does it more often. We in NJ are going to make it very loud and clear.

Please do come to NJ.

THank You... I have already blocked my tickets....

[kameshratnam]

Anil Srinivasan, Navin Iyer, Harini and Saindhavi on Feb 15th at The Music Academy - It is a tribute to The Maestro Ilayaraja.

They are playing BGMS

For "Rhythms, Roses & Raja" concert on FEB 15 at The Music Academy, Online tickets all sold out. But don't worry friends, tickets ARE AVAILABLE at the Venue i.e The Music Academy. So hurry up and grab your tickets

For tickets contact : 72999 66666, 044- 4210 7267 / 4210 9257

[senthilv.com]

If the WI-FI works out....I will try to selectively webcast the concert LIVE. Here's the link for live stream. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/senthilvinu

I will try to post live updates on twitter.
https://twitter.com/SenthilVinu

Cheers,
Senthil

[njv]

Toronto show

Show stared 2 hours late due to late arrival of orchestra. Gopinath tried to control the crowd and asked people to song their songs and it was a disaster.

Parthian as usual was poetic and gave apt intro to songs.

Raja sir unsurprisingly sand Janani Janani, but sang very well compared to other shows.

SPB, Chitra, Karthik and all junior singers sang very well.

Hariharan was much better than other shows .

Madhu balakrishnan sang perfectly. In fact he was the only one who received clap immediately after he started singing alaap.

Many mistakes by everyone. Didn't felt like watching professional show. This is not 80s or 90s. There are many channels and multiple talent show, so people are more aware of small mistakes.

Raja must also understand that every single show he has done is on you tube, hence he should either tell different stories or just focus on performance. He repeated "nila adhu vaanathumalae" from Coimbatore show.

Yuvan spoke from his heart and said my dad was never there for me, but my mom closed the gap and she was my mom an dad and that is what allowed appa to focus on music.

Karthik mentioned that it is their moms thithi. He was bit emotional. However, looks like he forgot the skit and the whole episode of he calling SPB and SPB randomly talking about "raathiriyil poothirukkum" and how no one can do such a song in same raaga and maestro immediately sang "maanguyile poonguyile" lyrics in "raathiriyil" tune - I am sure when see them in TV, it will look really nice, but on stage it looked like a well prepared, but poorly executed script.

Crowd was so tired after waiting for over 2 hours forgot to clap. All anchors asked crowd to clap. Raja at some point said "enakku kevalamaa irukku, don't ask them to clap".

Crowd constantly took break for dinner/snacks.

Finishing was abrupt due to time constraints.

Everyone forgot to mention female artist name. Parthiban was little arrogant too. He said e only remember beautiful facea and not names. Vivek mentioned Sadana when Chitra was the actual singer. Even Raja sir forgot to intro female singers at the end, but he apologized and introduce them at the end.

Audio system wasn't great, starting from the time ads were going on. Don't they test it from all areas! This is not acceptable.

Irrespective of the many mess, few gems.

Om Shivohm - goosebumps
Née Paartha Paarvai - lovely
Isaiyil thodanguthamma - brilliant
Pottuvaiththa kaadhal thittam - freaking awesome

I will update song list little later.