ICMAP presents a Pongal concert by Vid. Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Free, @YouTube, online until. Jan. 17)

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VijayR
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ICMAP presents a Pongal concert by Vid. Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Free, @YouTube, online until. Jan. 17)

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The Indian Classical Music Association of Purdue University (ICMAP) premiered an online concert for Pongal by Vid. Sanjay Subrahmanyan, accompanied by Vid. S. Varadarajan on the violin and Vid. Neyveli Venkatesh on the mridangam, The concert premiered on Pongal day (Jan. 14th at 7pm IST), but will be available on YouTube for the next two days -- until the end of Sunday, Jan. 17th. It is free for everyone and can be viewed on the Purdue ICMAP YouTube channel. I've given the link to the concert below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UguDC_ZJwJc

If you've not already seen it, please do watch before it gets taken down at the end of the weekend.

This is the first (and only, so far) virtual concert that Vid. Sanjay Subrahmanyan has done for an organization outside the big Chennai Sabhas and we, at ICMAP, are pleased that it is for us. This caps a year where ICMAP presented more concerts (virtual, of course) perhaps than any organization globally, outside the recent Chennai Margazhi festivals, which is quite astounding for a university organization in a little town like West Lafayette, Indiana, especially so given the we do not ticket any of our concerts.

We were the first organization globally, to the best of our knowledge, to restart studio-quality online concerts with accompanists after the pandemic hit, a modality that we have all gotten used to now. All our concerts have been free for global rasikas yet fully remunerative to the artists, something we have been very particular about and fortunate enough to be able to do. Our first virtual concert streamed at the end of May 2020 and here is a list of virtual converts we have streamed so far since then:

1. Vid. Shashank Subramanyam (flute) - Vid. Akkarai Subhalakshmi (violin) - Vid. Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam)
2. Vid. Ramakrishnan Murthy (vocal) - Vid. Anantha R. Krishnan (mridangam)
3. Vid. Charumathi Raghuraman (violin) - Vid. Anantha R. Krishnan (mridangam)
4. Percussion duet by Vid. Anantha R. Krishnan (mridangam) and Vid. B. Shreesundar Kumar (kanjira)
5. Vid. Ramana Balachandran (veena) - Vid. Sumesh Narayanan (mridangam)
6. Vid. Shreya Devnath (violin) - Vid, Mylai Karthikeyan (Nadaswaram) - Vid. Praveen Sparsh (mridangam) - Vid. Adyar Silambarasan (thavil)
7. Vid. Nisha Rajagopalan (vocal) - Vid. R.K. Shriramkumar (violin) - Vid, K. Arunprakash (mridangam) - Vid, Anirudh Athreya (kanjira)
8. Vid. Ranjani-Gayatri (vocal) - Vid. L. Ramakrishnan (violin) - Vid. K. Sai Giridhar (mridangam)
9. Vid. Abhishek Raghuram (vocal) - Vid. J.B. Sruthi Sagar (flute) - Vid. K. Sai Giridhar (mridangam) - Vid. S. Krishna (ghatam)
10. Vid. J.A. Jayanth (flute) - Vid. Ashwani Shankar (shehnai) - Vid. K. Sai Giridhar (mridangam) - Vid. Praveen Narayan (tabla)
11. Vid. Sanjay Subrahmanyan (vocal) - Vid. S. Varadarajan (violin) - Vid. Neyveli Venkatesh (mridangam)

Hoping the dream run continues in 2021!

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Re: ICMAP presents a Pongal concert by Vid. Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Free, @YouTube, online until. Jan. 17)

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VijayR
Wonderful job . The fact that you offer remuneration means you are able to hold a critical count of rasikas who help you to pay. Is that monthly once series

VijayR
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Re: ICMAP presents a Pongal concert by Vid. Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Free, @YouTube, online until. Jan. 17)

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rajeshnat wrote: 16 Jan 2021, 15:40 VijayR
Wonderful job . The fact that you offer remuneration means you are able to hold a critical count of rasikas who help you to pay. Is that monthly once series
@rajeshnat, thank you, but quite to the contrary! :) We do not charge tickets for our concerts and do not actively solicit donations from the public. Most of our audience comprises of Purdue students, with a few faculty and staff and other members from the local community. However, it is one of the best audiences I have ever seen (and I've attended scores of concerts at many, many venues around the world including almost every single sabha in Chennai) -- perhaps I'm biased.

Our concerts are funded exclusively through financial grants we get from Purdue University, for which we are infinitely grateful. Our concerts are not regular (as in monthly or something), but we usually have 4-5 concerts through the year along with other student events (Thyagaraja Aradhana, informal singing sessions). This year, we made a sustained effort to increase our activity to contribute to the ecosystem during these unprecedented times. Happy it worked out for the most part.

We were able to offer largely the same remuneration for the virtual ones as we typically do for in-person concerts, but clearly not every organization is in a position to do that. It is our hope that people watching and enjoying our concerts find it in themselves to do their little bit to support the CM ecosystem by purchasing tickets/subscriptions or making donations to their favorite sabhas/organizations anywhere in the world to whatever individual extent they can.

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