Evening of ecstacy

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Yesterday was a beautiful day. My risk class in the morning went off well followed by me having a meeting with my team mates on the security assignment. It was a nice discussion. IN the evening I went to a concert by heArtbeat which is a band from chennai at the Frick auditorium at Upitt. Wow it was simply amazing! I was transported to another world for the one hour that I spent there. I wish I could have stayed for the entire concert but duty called.
They played some very different ragams. One of these was very striking called "Rathipathipriya". It was a very romantic raaga, it reminded me of the song by MS "katrinilai varum geetham" and "kuzhal oodhi manam endra kollai konda pindra". The silent violin is something I have never heard of and it sounded very melodious.
The other ragam was saladam and it had tinges of hindolam in it. I was not sure but after that song was over the person playing the ghatam said that it has tinges of hindolam and I gave myslef a pat on my back:-)
The instruments were:-
  1. Silent violin
  2. mandolin
  3. mridangam
  4. ghatam
  5. morsing
  6. table
  7. molam

The artists were disciples of great musicians such as vikku vinayakaram, kanyakumari etc.

The song that I heard were all compositions of the artists and I heard four songs in ragam mayamowlagowli, rathipathipriya, saladam and kalyani. Music is definitely in my blood and I hope I can pursue it in the future.

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