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Music & Dance
Tradition comes in a modern package
WITH THE new millennium communication and interaction have taken new dimensions. We find the number of netizens constantly rising.
The era of computers has ushered in a whole spate of Carnatic Music websites — all vying to present and package the various dimensions of Carnatic Music in a style of their own. The subject may be traditional but the medium is new.
Carnatica .com
Carnatica.com, which has emerged as one of the leading Indian portals,is the brainchild of vocalists S.Sowmya and K.N.Shahsikiran. Carnatica.com was flagged off mainly to preserve, promote and propagate the various facets of music using the latest technology and to connect the music community across the Globe through innovative concepts. The contents of the portal are designed to suit connoisseurs, music students and even those totally unexposed to Indian Classical Music.
Carnatica.com offers online virtual distance learning programme — cyber vidyalaya — powered by a vast set of vocalists such as Seetha Rajan and Prof. S. R. Janakiraman, along with the able guidance of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, V. V. Srivatsa and Prof. T. N. Krishnan.
Carnatica.com's Global Mobile — Gurukulam — as the name goes, is really mobile, now offering pick up and drop facility through out the city.
The website also offers its members a Vintage Classic special section where they can listen to masterpieces of all time greats such as MDR, MLV and Ariyakudi.
As an incentive for the kids, specially designed thematic T-shirts and gift CDs are offered to all members. Recently a new innovative chat room and a talent bank for kids and youth of the club. The listener's choice section with a periodic change in the list of songs being played is also available.
Apart from these Carnatica .com offers a wide range of innovative, interactive and enriching experiences.
www.mudhra.org & www.samudhra.com
Mudhra is a cultural organisation, which, for the past seven years, has carved a niche for itself by conducting innovative and thought-provoking programmes in music, dance and drama. The site, www.mudhra.org, has been done very aesthetically with the sabha page having the animation of an auditorium whose curtain rises along with a beautiful piece of music to give a picture of all the novel concepts covered by mudhra. All the inaugural functions of festivals, and the one-day seminars are described with suitable photographs.
The site gives informative interviews of the recipients of the Mudhra Award of Excellence of the past 4 years. The site links to samudhra.com, which is a recently launched on music, dance, drama and art cinema, edited by Dr.Radha Bhaskar.
The purpose of this magazine is to help people appreciate the arts better by getting to know more about it. The magazine covers various interesting topics such as interviews with leading personalities in the field of art, reminiscences — recollections of the great masters, Know About Music — enlightening audience on different aspects of kutcheri music, book and cassette reviews, events, art quiz, drama and art cinema reviews, Health care — where doctors discuss the different problems faced by artists in their profession and prescribe remedies and group discussions and opinion forum on various contemporary issues.
kutcheribuzz.com
Kutcheri Buzz — it's all about South Indian classical music and dance (Ph: 91-44-4993767, 91-44-4982244) email: editor@kutcheribuzz.com
kutcheribuzz.com has a string of products lined up for the December music season — detailed information on its website, a 80-page guide book for the season, a kutcheri planner sponsored by the Sundaram Finance Group and the Festival Newspaper published every evening.
For four years now, Kutcheri Buzz has been presenting the season to rasikas in India and abroad.
The schedules of the top artistes in all the city sabhas are now on the website. The Box-office Counter opened this week, to help rasikas, especially those outside Chennai, book season tickets or even gift them from the US or Europe to families or parents living in this city.
Even the lec-dems which appeal to those with an academic bent of mind and are held at a few sabhas in the morning, have been posted on the website now. Also available are a list of the awardees of the season and snippets that prepare a rasika for the music sessions at this time of year.
Plans are on to feature audio and video web-casts on demand, of some of the important events of this season — award ceremonies, dance-drama, some lec-dems and kutcheris.
The website's e-brochure section offers to host brochures of artistes, sabhas, scholars and stores and suppliers on the Net.
For more details on the December music season, email to season2002@kutcheribuzz.com or at editor@kutcheribuzz.com or call 4994599 / 4993767.
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