Yestday had a long phone conversation with a friend who is in a foregin country.This friend is one of them whom I can always declare that has same taste as I have "Birds of same feather" and "we flok together".We were taken back down the memory lane....
Flashback
Engineering second semester holidays and after every even semesters we have a long vacation.So me and my friend planned our vacation.First half of the vacation, we both will spend at my place and rest few days at her place.As we both belong to two different cities which are very contrast.We enjoy a lot at my place,every evening visit to beach,learning car driving which am still not very confident in.Days past by then it was time to go her place.Its a semi Metropoliton city crowded and all time busy...we were enjoying every moment of the holiday.One day her mom asked both of us to come with her for a concert.We were all excited by the mere word "Concert".But then she suffixed the word with "Carnatic Music Concert".This made us frown as we could not even say NO....The singer was my friends aunt.I went with a hope that aunty would sing more songs rather than spending more time for elaborate exposition of a raga, which is the done thing in Classical music concerts. My reasoning was here the audience would be more diverse ranging from swines like me & my friend to savants of Carnatic music and she'd aim to please us all. To my mild surprise, the audience were knowledgeable (not counting myself and my friend) and demanding as well. They wanted the detailed rendition of a raaga more than once.
Per audience demand, my friend's aunt did a detailed rendition of two raagas and added to them, some kritis, bhajans and before one knew the concert went for 4 hours.To my big surprise I enjoyed the entire concert. I can't recognize a raaga for the life of me. Still I was in thrall to the divine music.Aunty brought the concert to a close with a very moving song.
Per audience demand, my friend's aunt did a detailed rendition of two raagas and added to them, some kritis, bhajans and before one knew the concert went for 4 hours.To my big surprise I enjoyed the entire concert. I can't recognize a raaga for the life of me. Still I was in thrall to the divine music.Aunty brought the concert to a close with a very moving song.
It was my friends aunt's birthday. So at the end, the audience in one voice (very strong voice) sang "Happy Birthday" to her and also provided a strong proof as to why she is the singer and the audience are , well, the audience.LOL......
