Amruthavarshini - The Carnatic Music Club of NITT !
With the happening of the famed Tyagaraja Aradhana at Thiruvaiyaaru today (27/1/08) , I thought it would be instructive to do some publicizing for our 'famed' Carnatic Club too !!
This club, which boasts of the name of a raga, which when sung with utmost devotion and sincerity, supposedly brings rain and thunderstorms, was born during early 2006 due to the combined effort of two students - Harsha Nagarajan (a Masters (Civil) student at the Texas A&M University, College Station,US) and Sundar Rajan ( a Google employee - http://nicereads.blogspot.com/) and of course with the support and well wishes of our dear NITT faculty !
The club kicked off with it's very first event - The famed Tyagaraja Aradhana - YES !, we (am also a part of the Club ! ) , organized the Tyagaraja Aradhana for the FIRST time in NITT. A pompous hit, it was organized in a humble manner, and attracted many senior artistes from the Carnatic havens like Thanjavur and Srirangam (these places are hardly 2hrs away from our college !) . An unexpected great success it was, Harsha and Sundar and ofcourse our dear faculty who were instrumental in organizing this event we all satisfied and amongst great pomp and fanfare, that event spelled the farewell for Harsha and Sundar, who were in their final year then!
Now, we were bestowed with the honor (or burden!) of carrying on the tradition and organizing the famed Aradhana every forthcoming year, but, we did not stop with just the Aradhana, we went on to conduct various concerts, started to celebrate the Anniversaries of several Carnatic greats, conducted competitions for school children, started conducting the Classical events in our college cultural fest -Festember, in the name of our club and recently, we had Harsha come down from TAMU to give a concert at his alma mater and to cheer him we had Sundar Rajan !!! Last month, we gave a concert, I played the mridangam in it !, supposedly for the invitees and the lecturers who had come down from China, US, London for a conference in our college.
So, this year to, as prestigious beholders of our austere tradition, we are going to have the famed TYAGARAJA ARADHANA on Febraury 23rd-24th , in our very own college premises, and further details regarding the event will be soon put up at www.nitt.edu .
err, so..ALL ARE INVITED !!!!
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Entharaomahaanu bhaavulu , anthariki vandhanamulu - The Maharishi to all !
The club kicked off with it's very first event - The famed Tyagaraja Aradhana - YES !, we (am also a part of the Club ! ) , organized the Tyagaraja Aradhana for the FIRST time in NITT. A pompous hit, it was organized in a humble manner, and attracted many senior artistes from the Carnatic havens like Thanjavur and Srirangam (these places are hardly 2hrs away from our college !) . An unexpected great success it was, Harsha and Sundar and ofcourse our dear faculty who were instrumental in organizing this event we all satisfied and amongst great pomp and fanfare, that event spelled the farewell for Harsha and Sundar, who were in their final year then!
Now, we were bestowed with the honor (or burden!) of carrying on the tradition and organizing the famed Aradhana every forthcoming year, but, we did not stop with just the Aradhana, we went on to conduct various concerts, started to celebrate the Anniversaries of several Carnatic greats, conducted competitions for school children, started conducting the Classical events in our college cultural fest -Festember, in the name of our club and recently, we had Harsha come down from TAMU to give a concert at his alma mater and to cheer him we had Sundar Rajan !!! Last month, we gave a concert, I played the mridangam in it !, supposedly for the invitees and the lecturers who had come down from China, US, London for a conference in our college.
So, this year to, as prestigious beholders of our austere tradition, we are going to have the famed TYAGARAJA ARADHANA on Febraury 23rd-24th , in our very own college premises, and further details regarding the event will be soon put up at www.nitt.edu .
err, so..ALL ARE INVITED !!!!
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Entharaomahaanu bhaavulu , anthariki vandhanamulu - The Maharishi to all !
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2 comments:
hi da..
great work! :-)
I spoke to satya about this yesterday!! I will try to make it..
Very happy to our names. I thought we were all forgotten!!
:-)
Great Work!
Thanks a lot da mahesh.. for remembering us. It was the combined effort put by all the juniors of NITT too which made the aradhana to happen... I still remember how much fight me and sundar had to put to fix the auditorium for our 1st aradhana. I bunked my 3rd cycle test to finalize the hall, which was of course worth it.. Pure Nostalgia.. :)
I am very happy for u all for continuing the legacy and in fact making the club better by arranging so many programs. All the very best and pray GOD that our Amruthavarshini grows to great heights and create storms of Amrutham in NITT...
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