Violin Concert!
I t’s been a while; since I had bragged about myself and in the process almost self inflate my sagging EGO! Well, we had been to a violin concert last week. It was a south Indian Carnatic classical violin duet concert, performed by the famous Ganesh and Kumaresh brothers from Chennai. It was my first violin concert, especially since I have started learning the same. We were all there apart from Nila (daughter), who was bit busy with her drama classes. It was Priya’s (my wife) and mukil’s (son) first concert too. Priya was in fact more motivated than me to attend this concert, as she been learning Veenai for a good six months and her interest in Carnatic music is literally growing taller than her! The concert was held in the famous Bridge water Hall in Manchester and was well organised and held over two hours. The programme started with the composition of Saint Thyagaraja in Ragam Andolaki, followed by a Kambeera nattai (rememb...