I recieved an interesting scrap in my orkut from a person with profile pic of Johan Abraham(in a written language which can hardly be called English)..I am pasting the scrap and my reply scrap. Let brevity be the soul of wisdom.
Sender: hello sankar..well took me half an hour to glance thru the profile..good one...well am a student doing my final yr electrical enng in guj..i have done visharad in tabla..play for my college band..my uncle plays good mridamgam..i also work with times of india..a reporter..cover the city news to campus buzz etc..well i wanted some good hands with hindu r any magzines whr i can contribute and thy pay u also..since u r more exp do let me know..i also breath eat and sleep music.! but tabla is a bit outdated na boss?..so u try any fusion? like a guitat with tangam.?..and do lend me good websites whr i can do a research in music..rest on the journalism side i really need ur help..nice to meet u.
My reply scrap : Dear friend, you called tabla an outdated one... will you call Newton's laws of motion an outdated one? Shall we think of a fusion programme with John abraham dancing on the tabla?
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
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ROTFL :D that was awesome!!! he deserved it (and maybe more). too good sankar.
Dear Sankar
Went through the scrap and your repartee
But I think such repartees are bound to be lost on
hard core proponents of today's idiom in music.
Music shall change incessantly, and what we witness
today is the voice of millions. It is market dynamics
that give music its punch. Timeless music has no
fighting chance with the media that blares forth its
vulgar hoots.
Unnikrishnan
Yes you are right in a sense. But something universal, which has evolved through history can never become 'outdated". that's why I compared it with Newton's laws. Modern physics evolved to explain the quantum phenomena, because it was not explainable by classical newton;s laws. But at the same time, newton's laws are valid in macroscopic scale. So similarly, I felt that there's no need term something old as 'outdated'.
Sincerely
Sankar.N
Dear Sankar,
You are right surely.. but what I wanted to say is
that you are bound to be isolated in your view. But as
you have already said, time will redeem the classic.
I fully agree with you on the point that classical
music will survive all onslaughts of the media. But
then, it will also have to face oblivion in a relative
sense.
Dear Sri.Sankar,
Enjoyed the whole scrap!
Kerala is in need of such artistes!
Regards,
V.R.NARAYANA PRAKASH.
The real fusion lies in this: "and you get paid.."
Good one.
Re
Sobhan
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