Tired of being vetti, I dragged one of my friends to attend a free concert of HArmonica recital at University cultural centre yesterday. From what i could see from the advertisement pamplet, harmonica is something like a mouth organ. So, planning an emergency escape route in case of extreme mokai, we sat v. close to the exits. TO our astonishment, it turned out to be far more than fantastic.An instrument , totally dependent on numerous tongue techniques, its supposed to be v. helpful to one's social life too. I could only then appreciate the talent of our balloon vendors playing 5 rs mouth organs on the roadsides.. THe second surprise was the soprano song .HAving seen opera as a joke on bollywood films all the time, with fat women screeching our heads off, i was truly stumped when the lead singer started her piece. The voice, the vibrations ,the emotions all bottled up in a sound so pure and magical, it brings out the most exotic and esctatic feeling, carrying us to the realms of strange far off lands. I wish ppl stop portraying wrong images of art forms they know not just to create a joke out of it for commercial entertainment purposes.
One of the advantage of being a layman in music is that we can happily enjoy the art, appreciate it, relish it without having the burden of identifying mistakes or having an inclination to judge and compare it with other musical forms. So was the case in my first experience in witnessing live wierd music.
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So glad that it was way more awesome than your first experience in witnessing live theatre :P..
@gs :lol. yea. 'll forever think twice b4 goin to any theatre in future!
'planning an emergency escape route in case of extreme mokai, we sat v. close to the exits'; hai, dearest of me, myself and anirudh, burst into peels of laughter upon reading these words wondering how wonderfully you expressed yourself; the other one made us to burst into laughter was,'with fat women screeching our heads' which made us picturize that verey scene;
I also wonder at your way of recollecting and linking childhood memories to this sort of adulthood experiences. May be as you link, FUN-TASTIC experience you have had. KEEP IT UP DA
@masikrithika : i wish you were there with me then. i am definitely going to take you thr one day!
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