Music matters
Record of sorts
While Shane Warne has created a world record of a 700-wicket haul in test cricket, here in Chennai, this music season, young laya vidwan K.V.Gopalakrishnan has created a record of sorts at the Music Academy. He has played in all the five slots. Four times on the kanjira and once on the mridangam.
For the records, on the kanjira on December 17 for Seetha Narayanan, on December 22 for Lalgudi violin duet, (4.45 p.m.), on Dec. 27 for Neyveli Santhanagopalan (7.30 p.m.) and December 29 for T.N.S.Krishna (2.30 p.m.) and on the mridangam on Dec. 22 for V. Sumithra (12.45 p.m). KVG would have made it half a dozen, had he played for the lec-dem too, but could not, so as he was busy playing elsewhere.
Front rows empty!
Sabha tickets are sold as daily tickets. For a dance performance, you buy the ticket in the evening so there is no other performance you can attend. It becomes very expensive, so you find the audience scattered mainly at the back in the hall, while all front rows are empty. What a pity! Will sabhas reduce the last show tickets please?
(Contributed by
V. Balasubramanian and
Rupa Srikanth)
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