This morning, Star Vijay telecast snippets from a program held in the US, in San Diego.
It was a moment of double pleasure for us.
The troupe that sang had my 11 year old niece Namu singing with her teacher Revathi Subramanian and other students. It was part of invocation songs sung by the group.
The second moment of joy was when the students sang the song "Vasantha Nagare". The lyrics have been penned and the music composed by my dad, Sri G. Sampath. My mom recorded it at my home and I mailed it to my brother in the US, who passed it on to the teacher to train her students. The song is dedicated to Besant Nagar Pillayar temple and is set in Ragam Vasantha.
What can children gift their parents? Only joy. I think, for my father, this must have been the greatest day after the day he released his CD with nine of his compositions. He has penned 25 songs, and his only desire was to see them being sung. Finally, two years back, he made a CD - Hari Samarpanam - with Chitravina Ravikiran helping with the music and the singers.
Two of his songs on Shiva - 'Kumbheshwaraya' and 'Kapaleeshwarena' have been choreographed as Padams by a dance teacher in Neyveli. I have myself performed to the second song.
What makes it special is that all his music knowledge is from listening and no formal training. An example of this love is my name - Meera, named after MS's rendering of this role in a movie.
His love for Sanskrit is another abiding passion that he has intertwined with his interest in music in these 25 songs.
Just now, as I was looking for a link to the review of the CD in the Hindu, I stumbled on these links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Narasimha_Temple and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthasarathy_Temple
The Hindu review at: http://www.hindu.com/fr/2010/10/22/stories/2010102251110200.htm
Also find three of the songs from the CD at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SzeoA1_yUY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3wk-bDyyDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hweh3cT-6k4
It was a moment of double pleasure for us.
The troupe that sang had my 11 year old niece Namu singing with her teacher Revathi Subramanian and other students. It was part of invocation songs sung by the group.
The second moment of joy was when the students sang the song "Vasantha Nagare". The lyrics have been penned and the music composed by my dad, Sri G. Sampath. My mom recorded it at my home and I mailed it to my brother in the US, who passed it on to the teacher to train her students. The song is dedicated to Besant Nagar Pillayar temple and is set in Ragam Vasantha.
What can children gift their parents? Only joy. I think, for my father, this must have been the greatest day after the day he released his CD with nine of his compositions. He has penned 25 songs, and his only desire was to see them being sung. Finally, two years back, he made a CD - Hari Samarpanam - with Chitravina Ravikiran helping with the music and the singers.
Two of his songs on Shiva - 'Kumbheshwaraya' and 'Kapaleeshwarena' have been choreographed as Padams by a dance teacher in Neyveli. I have myself performed to the second song.
What makes it special is that all his music knowledge is from listening and no formal training. An example of this love is my name - Meera, named after MS's rendering of this role in a movie.
His love for Sanskrit is another abiding passion that he has intertwined with his interest in music in these 25 songs.
Just now, as I was looking for a link to the review of the CD in the Hindu, I stumbled on these links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Narasimha_Temple and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthasarathy_Temple
The Hindu review at: http://www.hindu.com/fr/2010/10/22/stories/2010102251110200.htm
Also find three of the songs from the CD at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SzeoA1_yUY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3wk-bDyyDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hweh3cT-6k4
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