Record labels, electronic media are hand in hand in killing this genre of music. Otherwise both Carnatic and Hindustani and well and truly alive and the younger generation is going great guns in keeping the tradition alive.
Well if people give 5% of the importance they give to Shahrukh Khan, Indian Idol and cricket, then classical music will never die.
Hype, fantasy and false stardom is whats trying to kill this form of music.
There are enough people in India and some medias like RAVE Magazine, The Hindu doing their bit in keeping this alive.
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by Sitarama lakshmi on Oct 01, 2007 08:58 AM Permalink
Your Grand mother is also boring. Dont you treat her in a corporate hospital if she is ill for her speedy recovery or leave her to her destiny. - M. S. Srinivas
RE:Dead or someone killing it?
by Sheetal Kaur on Sep 30, 2007 11:46 PM Permalink
It is not boring Rajneesh ChandraMohan, it is just that you don't have brain to understand classical music. for you music is the western rubbish.sit down peacefully and try to listen to a thumari.I bet you will not turn back. NOTHING BEATS Classical. Just like BBC Prom of classical music. which is attended by at least a Million music lovers and broad cast to the world to another 10 million listeners just in seven days. Indian broadcasting authorities such as Door Darshan should take iniciative for such a concert once a year keeping classical Music alive. Remixes should be banned.
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by ashok leyland on Sep 30, 2007 02:43 PM Permalink
Classical music is profound and requires culture to understand it, it is not superficial stuff like pop music that you listen to now and forget ten minutes later. It requires concentration and effort like anything of substance and meaning. What you are saying is mathematics is boring, you'd rather just see two digit numbers! The magic is in the complexity, not in the appearance.
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by suchhando chatterjee on Sep 30, 2007 12:41 PM Permalink
abe gadhey......... Have you ever listened to classical music..... that can go so fast and rythmic... these rockstars 14 fathers can't imagine.....
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by on May 02, 2008 02:26 PM Permalink
Its the youth of India that will carry the flag of our musical heritage forward.I believe that roots always beckon a individual, some time or the other. Look at the case of Utsav Lal, India's Piano prodigy who having trained as a Western classical & Jazz painist today performs "Ragas" on Piano all over the world. he has endeared the stark, western classical purists who hear Beethoven, haydn,Mozart on Piano to the sound of "Raga Piano Music " creating a universal appeal for indian Classical Music on Piano,in fact even earning the nickname of "Raga Pianist in international critic circles.
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by Guest on May 10, 2009 05:35 PM Permalink
Its a real pity that we Indians are not aware of our heritage.We blindly ape the west,love the new found mall culture,enjoy all that is becoming oboselete in the western hemisphere but do not teach our children to respect our elders.Being a practising professional vocalist of the Kasur-Patiala Gharana,I am really afraid thinking about what the future holds in store for us.No particular individual is to blame for this situation.All that is classical and requires patience and a certain level of intellect to imbibe is dwindling.Its swan song for Hindusthani Shastriya Sangeet or even carnatic.....I am petrified!
