Below are some of the very valuable and encouraging comments I received from people about my site, blog and my endeavors.
I profoundly thank all of them for their kind and encouraging words.
Sreesha:
Hello Vijayalakshmi,
My best wishes for your endeavor in spreading Carnatic music worldwide. It is a great way to protect and spread our culture.
Sreesha
usha Sankar:
Dear Viji,
unna pathi Sankar sollidae irupar.
Nee padina cassette
naanum en ammavum kettu
irukom.
Romba nalla voice unaku.
unnoda music pathi
experience ellam ingae share panraiya
nanga padichu theirjupom.
Sankar kum solren
Avarum padichutu unaku reply pannuvar. okva
Unnoda Web Page parthu
Romba Rom,ba Romba Sandhosha padum
Usha Sankar
T.V.Thangamani
prasanna venkatesh
roshini govindraj:
Hello viji
this is roshini who learns music from MSH.this a wonderful site and wonderful to hear all ur achievements in the field of music.i am glad that i learn
music from u.thank u.
Aurthi:
Hi Miss.Vijayalakshmi,
Your website is great. You have a very good voice. Thank you for teaching me song. You are a great teacher.
Regards,
Aurthi.
Ashwinji:
It is really amazing to visit your site. You are doing great job.
The info on the longest tala in the world is fantastic.
Keep posting of the rarities in carnatic music for the benefit of rasikas.
Once again My Tons and Tons of thanks to all of you.
With Great Regards,
Viji
ALL GLORIES TO GOD!
Friday, May 15, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
COOLTOAD.COM
www.cooltoad.com is one of the best sites I use for music.
Here, one can find and download music for free on almost all genres of music in any language.
We need to just create a free cooltoad.com membership and after signing up, we are given free email service too!
Now, comes the most important point. And that’s, we can even upload songs made by ourselves or songs that are free from copy rights etc for more exposure.
Yes, why not! Even I have tried my hand in uploading my songs in this wonderful site.
Check out this link to reach the list of songs uploaded by me in this site:
http://music.cooltoad.com/music/search.php?TITLE=&ARTIST=&CATEGORY=&RATING=&SINCE=&USER=logica&o=1
Happy Listening!!!
Here, one can find and download music for free on almost all genres of music in any language.
We need to just create a free cooltoad.com membership and after signing up, we are given free email service too!
Now, comes the most important point. And that’s, we can even upload songs made by ourselves or songs that are free from copy rights etc for more exposure.
Yes, why not! Even I have tried my hand in uploading my songs in this wonderful site.
Check out this link to reach the list of songs uploaded by me in this site:
http://music.cooltoad.com/music/search.php?TITLE=&ARTIST=&CATEGORY=&RATING=&SINCE=&USER=logica&o=1
Happy Listening!!!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
My amazing experience of teaching music online.
Friends, in this post I’m attempting to write about my experiences & some advantages of my online music teaching that I’m doing for the past 2 years both on the teacher’s as well as the student’s prospect.
1: It is an amazing experience because, you avoid wasting your time on commuting between your home and teacher's home, and also expenses towardsTravel.
2: Traffic problems and pollution (especially in India) hazards can be avoided.
3: Besides, total focus between a student and the teacher is better for the whole half an hour in this mode & no distraction.
Proximity is not a matter to worry about it.
4: You are not away from home are present for any need during this time.
I feel, in today's context, it is the most preferred mode of learning and both my students and me are thoroughly enjoying it. I am sure, more and more
people would choose this mode in future. In fact, my mother was successfully conducting classes in Maths and Science to US, UK, Singapore students through
online only and the response was quite encouraging. Due to paucity of time due to domestic pressure, nowadays she is unable to continue but still people are
asking her to take classes.
Personally I am happy that I am able to teach our traditional carnatic music to our people abroad, despite their being amidst western culture, and still
keep in touch with our culture.
1: It is an amazing experience because, you avoid wasting your time on commuting between your home and teacher's home, and also expenses towardsTravel.
2: Traffic problems and pollution (especially in India) hazards can be avoided.
3: Besides, total focus between a student and the teacher is better for the whole half an hour in this mode & no distraction.
Proximity is not a matter to worry about it.
4: You are not away from home are present for any need during this time.
I feel, in today's context, it is the most preferred mode of learning and both my students and me are thoroughly enjoying it. I am sure, more and more
people would choose this mode in future. In fact, my mother was successfully conducting classes in Maths and Science to US, UK, Singapore students through
online only and the response was quite encouraging. Due to paucity of time due to domestic pressure, nowadays she is unable to continue but still people are
asking her to take classes.
Personally I am happy that I am able to teach our traditional carnatic music to our people abroad, despite their being amidst western culture, and still
keep in touch with our culture.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Do you want to listen to the voice of LATA MANGESHKAR II?! Ya! Here it is!
Dear Readers, below is one of my personal experiences with my music & the internet.
It’s my usual practice to check my mails early morning every day.
One fine morning, around 4 AM IST, when I opened my inbox, I saw a mail with the name quite strange to me on the “TO field”. The subject told, “Hi Lata II”. What! This mail should probably reach “Lata” & not me! I thought to myself & was about to delete it. But my mind gave an intuition to open the mail & read the content & so, here it goes.
“Hi, I’m a music director & composer. I got to listen to the song “yara seeli seeli” posted by U in cooltoad.com. Is that your voice?” & further he went on to say that my voice sounded great & just like Lata Mangeshkar. I was pleasantly shocked. He said that he has added some drum beats with my voice & mixed in his studio.
I myself was astonished to hear my voice in his recording sounding so different.
You can listen to them on cooltoad.com by clicking the following links
1. Seeli Seeli:
http://music.cooltoad.com/music/song.php?id=337141
2. Naam gum jayega
http://music.cooltoad.com/music/song.php?id=347714
“LATA MANGESHKAR II”! Wow! The greatest compliment I ever received! (I don’t know whether I deserve it or not though)
Courtesy: Technology!
It’s my usual practice to check my mails early morning every day.
One fine morning, around 4 AM IST, when I opened my inbox, I saw a mail with the name quite strange to me on the “TO field”. The subject told, “Hi Lata II”. What! This mail should probably reach “Lata” & not me! I thought to myself & was about to delete it. But my mind gave an intuition to open the mail & read the content & so, here it goes.
“Hi, I’m a music director & composer. I got to listen to the song “yara seeli seeli” posted by U in cooltoad.com. Is that your voice?” & further he went on to say that my voice sounded great & just like Lata Mangeshkar. I was pleasantly shocked. He said that he has added some drum beats with my voice & mixed in his studio.
I myself was astonished to hear my voice in his recording sounding so different.
You can listen to them on cooltoad.com by clicking the following links
1. Seeli Seeli:
http://music.cooltoad.com/music/song.php?id=337141
2. Naam gum jayega
http://music.cooltoad.com/music/song.php?id=347714
“LATA MANGESHKAR II”! Wow! The greatest compliment I ever received! (I don’t know whether I deserve it or not though)
Courtesy: Technology!
Sunday, November 02, 2008
SUSHRAVYA SCHOOL OF MUSIC
SUSHRAVYA SCHOOL OF MUSIC is a school for teaching Carnatic music (the south Indian form of classical music) that focuses not only on teaching music, but also on the cultural aspects of Indian tradition.
We teach students shlokas, devaranamas of dasasahitya (Kannada) etc with a special emphasis on VOICE CULTURE (the art & skill of voice cultivation), which enables students demonstrate their musical skill to the best of their ability using simple but effective techniques. Visit the Official Website of Sushravya School Of Music at http://sushravyaschoolofmusic.weebly.com/
ABOUT THE TEACHER
The teacher cum Owner of SUSHRAVYA SCHOOL OF MUSIC is Ms. Vijayalakshmi Varadharajan, who has done her Master’s degree in Carnatic music (M. Music) throughMadras University, currently pursuing PhD in Carnatic Music. She has around 15 to 16 years of music learning experience under several proficient Gurus. Has participated in many music competitions in her schools & college & won many awards & prices. She has also been as judge for inter-school & inter-college music competitions. She has already given stage programmes and also appearedin TV channel in Music programmes. SINCE 2 YEARS, TAKEN UP ONLINE TEACHING OF CARNATIC MUSIC AS A CAREER AND TEACHING Many STUDENTS ALLOVER THE WORLD, PREDOMINANTLY FROM USA. THERE IS A PRETTY GOOD RESPONSE. PLEASED WITH GOOD FEEDBACK, PLANNING TO EXTEND FURTHER UNDER THE BANNER OF SUSHRAVYA SCHOOL OF MUSIC, SOUTH INDIA, TO ESTABLISH IT AS THE MOST PREFERRED SCHOOL FOR LEARNING CARNATIC MUSIC.
HER OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
1. Participated in Quiz Program of Krishna Consciousness (ISKON) & won “Excellence” award in 1996.
2. Successfully completed Reiki Practitioner Course in 1999
3. Received Merit certificate from Chinmaya Mission, for her participation in their youth national quiz program, “Awakening Indians To India” in 2004.
4. Received award for Academic Excellence from the then Chief Minister of Karnataka, H.D. Kumaraswami during graduation in 2006.
Prroficient in Hindi, Sanskrit, Kannada & Tamil languages besides English & Capable of singing in all these languages besides reciting slokas in SanskritLanguage.
Completed a project on singing 100 slokas of SOUNDARYA LAHARI in 100 different ragas. Willing to teach these slogas to interested persons thro’ ONLINE. You can visit her website at
Monday, September 29, 2008
SIMHANANDANA TALA
About the talam: Simhanandana is the longest talam in world music. It has 18 angas, 128 kriyas(or beats) and 512 aksharas. The talam, apart from commonly used angas Laghu and Drutha, also contains the rarely used angas Guru, Plutha and Kaakapaada.
On comaprision, 1 avartha of Simhanandana Tala is equivalent to 16 avarthas of Adi Tala. A lot has been discussed about this talam by musicians of yesteryears, who refer to it as a "Simha Swapnam". The angas of this talam are Guru-Guru-Laghu-Plutha-Laghu-Guru-Dhruta-Dhruta-Guru-Guru-Laghu-Plutha-Laghu-Plutha-Guru-Laghu-Laghu-Kakapada. This talam is the 37th of the Ashtottarashatha(108) talas. It can also be seen as a sequence of 6 talas of the 108 tala scheme. They are Chanchatputa,Rati, Darpana, Kokilapriya, Abhanga and Mudrika talas, taken in the same order.
A brief history from time: Simhanandana talam has been found quoted in association with well known musicians from past and present. The legendry musical battle between Sri Bobbili Keshavayya and Sri Syama Sastry(the eldest amongst the music trinity) is a well recorded one. It is said that Bobbili Keshavayya challenged Sri Syama Sastry by singing a Pallavi in the Simhanandana talam. In the recent history, Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer(1844 - 1892) is known to have sung a pallavi in Simhanandana talam, Kalyani ragam. He later made the same into a tillana in Kalyani ragam. This tillana is also sung in Kanada ragam.
In his work 'Naa Kanda Kalaavidaru', Mysore Vasudevacharya records Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar singing a pallavi in Simhanandana talam at Gayana Samaja, Bangalore.The Simhanandana demonstration at Madras Music Academy by Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer is also well known. Another exponent of the Simhanandana tala wasPallavi Chandrappa.
In the present day, Vid. Suguna Purushottaman is known for giving concerts and presenting lec-dems in Simhanandana talam.
Very recently, Vinay Sharva, a young vocalist from Bangalore, also presented a ragam tanam pallavi concert in this talam which is also note worthy
Simhanandana and dance: The information below is taken from http://www.tlca.com/. It speaks about a Kuchupudi dance item called Simhanandini, performed to theSimhanandana tala.
"This is an ancient form of temple dance practiced several centuries (around 14th/15th century) ago by the temple dancers of Andhra Pradesh. In this type of dance the dancer must paint a picture by footwork. It is mentioned that on the Vijayadasami day a devadasi performed this dance in front of the chariot of Parashakti. The floor was covered with color powder and the dancer drew the picture painting of the Lion, which was the vehicle of the Goddess. Every one present then worshipped the goddess and the chariot was pulled forward by the bhaktas through the streets."
Sri C.R.Acharyalu, a noted Kuchupudi guru has choreographed the Simhanandini. Bangalore based Kuchupudi exponent Veena Murthy Vijay is known for her performance of this unique Simhanandini dance.
On comaprision, 1 avartha of Simhanandana Tala is equivalent to 16 avarthas of Adi Tala. A lot has been discussed about this talam by musicians of yesteryears, who refer to it as a "Simha Swapnam". The angas of this talam are Guru-Guru-Laghu-Plutha-Laghu-Guru-Dhruta-Dhruta-Guru-Guru-Laghu-Plutha-Laghu-Plutha-Guru-Laghu-Laghu-Kakapada. This talam is the 37th of the Ashtottarashatha(108) talas. It can also be seen as a sequence of 6 talas of the 108 tala scheme. They are Chanchatputa,Rati, Darpana, Kokilapriya, Abhanga and Mudrika talas, taken in the same order.
A brief history from time: Simhanandana talam has been found quoted in association with well known musicians from past and present. The legendry musical battle between Sri Bobbili Keshavayya and Sri Syama Sastry(the eldest amongst the music trinity) is a well recorded one. It is said that Bobbili Keshavayya challenged Sri Syama Sastry by singing a Pallavi in the Simhanandana talam. In the recent history, Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer(1844 - 1892) is known to have sung a pallavi in Simhanandana talam, Kalyani ragam. He later made the same into a tillana in Kalyani ragam. This tillana is also sung in Kanada ragam.
In his work 'Naa Kanda Kalaavidaru', Mysore Vasudevacharya records Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar singing a pallavi in Simhanandana talam at Gayana Samaja, Bangalore.The Simhanandana demonstration at Madras Music Academy by Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer is also well known. Another exponent of the Simhanandana tala wasPallavi Chandrappa.
In the present day, Vid. Suguna Purushottaman is known for giving concerts and presenting lec-dems in Simhanandana talam.
Very recently, Vinay Sharva, a young vocalist from Bangalore, also presented a ragam tanam pallavi concert in this talam which is also note worthy
Simhanandana and dance: The information below is taken from http://www.tlca.com/. It speaks about a Kuchupudi dance item called Simhanandini, performed to theSimhanandana tala.
"This is an ancient form of temple dance practiced several centuries (around 14th/15th century) ago by the temple dancers of Andhra Pradesh. In this type of dance the dancer must paint a picture by footwork. It is mentioned that on the Vijayadasami day a devadasi performed this dance in front of the chariot of Parashakti. The floor was covered with color powder and the dancer drew the picture painting of the Lion, which was the vehicle of the Goddess. Every one present then worshipped the goddess and the chariot was pulled forward by the bhaktas through the streets."
Sri C.R.Acharyalu, a noted Kuchupudi guru has choreographed the Simhanandini. Bangalore based Kuchupudi exponent Veena Murthy Vijay is known for her performance of this unique Simhanandini dance.
Monday, September 22, 2008
LEARNING CARNATIC MUSIC WITH GREAT COMFORT!!
Are you interested in learning
"Carnatic Music"
SITTING AT HOME?!!
It is possible from anywhere in the world
if you have a Computer with Internet facility.
You can avoid commuting in the congested traffic pollution&experience "A Learning with great Comfort"Being at Home.
For further details, interested are requested to contact
Ms.V.VIJAYALAKSHMI,
E-Mail:
viji.rv@rediffmail.com
Phone: 080-26390096
For more insight,
Visit this web site:
www.freewebs.com/sushravya
"Carnatic Music"
SITTING AT HOME?!!
It is possible from anywhere in the world
if you have a Computer with Internet facility.
You can avoid commuting in the congested traffic pollution&experience "A Learning with great Comfort"Being at Home.
For further details, interested are requested to contact
Ms.V.VIJAYALAKSHMI,
E-Mail:
viji.rv@rediffmail.com
Phone: 080-26390096
For more insight,
Visit this web site:
www.freewebs.com/sushravya
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
