gardabha_gana wrote:Best wishes.... I am concerned about his voice taking a beating w/ so many concerts...
Looking at the dates and venues, he is generally not criss-crossing the country and has almost all his weekdays (except for Fridays) free. So his voice will have time to recover between concerts.
Someone once wrote here that the record is 45 concerts in a singe tour. Ramakrishnan Murthy has only 20 concerts in this tour.
quote="harimau" quote="gardabha_gana"Best wishes.... I am concerned about his voice taking a beating w/ so many concerts...
Looking at the dates and venues, he is generally not criss-crossing the country and has almost all his weekdays (except for Fridays) free. So his voice will have time to recover between concerts.
Someone once wrote here that the record is 45 concerts in a singe tour. Ramakrishnan Murthy has only 20 concerts in this tour.
YES. T.V.Sankaranarayan in his 1975 tour after 25 of his concerts were cancelled (after MSG.-T.S. SHOWED UP UNANNOUNCED FOR THEIR TOUR & I AS ORGANISER OF T.VS.TOUR GOT MSG HIS U.S. VISA AFTER IT WAS REJECTED BY U.S. OFFICIAL IN MONTREAL) sat around with M.Chandrasekaran & T.K.Murthy in my & vvs's house one month each "twiddling their thumbs" as the saying goes. I had to arrange "Thenga moodi" concerts at friends home with my passing the proverbial "thambalam-plate" for listeners to contribute! As a result of the MMI LEVEL SINCERITY WHICH TVS SHOWED SINGING 4 HOUR CONCERTS- I still contend those concerts were his BEST!- there was a ground swell & he had to sing 45 concerts in 26 days all roughly 4 hours including 4 in one day-washington, baltimore, boston & new york -! prompting the doyen T.K.M. to recall the occasion in which GNB lost his voice on the third such similar concert in Chettinad......Those were the days & the artists as well as their response to RASIKAS WAS & IS STILL SOMETHING TO BE ADMIRED....ESP CONCERT TOURS OF N.A. ARE VERY DEMANDING...VKV
I agree with VKV--concert tours in NA took a heavy toll in those days both on the Artistes as well as the Coordinators---the prolonged layovers at the various airports(to meet USA restrictions-you can;t come to the same place.This would necessitate ferrying the artistes as much as 200 miles,getting commitments from 25 plus Institutions(some as small as Memphis or Nashville or big as the east Coast and West coast institutions) negotiating the remuneration for each concert--the litany goes on and on!!
Hats off to VKV and his cohorts.
by the way the NY concert is under the auspices of Sruthi Laya--an org founded by Sreenadh Jonnahvitala-- we hardly muster 150 people(what a shame--the biggest City and Cultural center in the US--Sreenadh and his wife are the latter-day VKV-Selvi--I would say. bring the artists.host the artists,bring the sound systems,conduct Composers Day--not only the Trinity but also Nerur sadasiva Brahmendra,papanasam Sivan et al where the local students get to display their talents. The saddest part is that there are atleast ten music teachers in the Queens/Long Island area whose "wards" (about 25 to 30 each) get chances to perform in these Sruthi laya functions but neither the Teachers nor the students or their parents attend any of the concerts--such abominable indifference and apathy I have never seen anywhereelse.
Anyway let me get off my "Soap Box" and exhort rasikas in the Tristate area to attend Ramakrishnan Murthy's concert'!!!!
Ramesh mama: Srinadh is a fellow forumite.
I think one of the issues with NYC is that there are a bunch of organizations, like Shrutilaya, Navatman etc, that sponsor competing events - which may be why audiences are so thin
