"The denizens of the Capital City are not familiar with a Great gem of a ‘green site’ - a lush-green oasis of a little park situated right in the middle of the busy metropolis. It is known as ‘Thyagaraja Park’ containing green lawn/grounds where people can gather and conduct a musical event in serene surroundings! To add authenticity to the event, there are seven ‘icons’ established in the park, each denoting one ‘Swara’ or the basic Note of Music ( Sa, Ri, Gha, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni ). These seven notes form the building blocks of all Ragas or melodies of Music (Hindusthani and Carnatic or even the Western Music). The icons each carry significant messages from compositions of Thyagaraja (translated in English and Hindi)."
The most pleasantly surprising feature of the event was the absence of VIPs not directly connected with Carnatic Music taking away precious time in speeches and felicitations. The event started on time and finished on record time in a very pleasing orderly fashion, climaxed by the distribution of delicious snacks. The Thyagaraja Park provided the most appropriate background with fresh greenery and quite a few birds providing a soothing ‘accompanying background music’ to the spiritually uplifting traditional music belted out by the humans present. And wonder of wonders, there were even a couple of peacocks showing their majestic dancing in the cool morning.
This sounds fascinating! Has anyone on this forum attended the festival in Delhi?
The programmes are not well advertised in the local newspapaers. The Hindu carries some of the concert details. I never know about this park. shall try to visit this weekend.