Friday, February 23, 2007

Rocking in audi!!!



Now from the title of this section please do not jump to the conclusion that there was a musical nite or an amazing movie in the audi. Today I discovered a new dimension to myself. I had been to the annual music festival of Ragamalika, SANGAMAM 2007, its eleventh edition in BITS Pilani.

After a brief inaugural function attended by the likes of VC LKM, Dy Diros and Deans the first concert of Sangamam 2007 kicked off. It was by Sangeetha Kalanithi Sangeetha Shikhamani Padma Bhushan Shri. Dr. T.V.Shankaranarayanan.

He started the musical journey with a vandana to ganesha in his enchanting style with violins and ghatam playing in the background - I rediscovered carnatic music. In the pin-drop silence of the evening, the maestro's voice drowned BITSians in an ocean of mixed emotions - the feeling of melancholy, but we were enjoying that, his voice was deep - touching our souls - but we felt lighter too at the same time.

He enthralled us with his magical voice for one full hour. In the end it was a brilliant experience for me and Haki. We decicded to drop in for tommorrow's concert as well- a jugalbandhi of sitar and bansuri. Will update on it soon.

The audi was truly ROCKING!!!

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