A pigeon from Music Academy attended Ranjani & Gayathri’s concert on Dec 25. The pigeon also attended Suguna Varadachari’s lecture on Nereval singing for krithis and pallavi that morning. At music Academy pigeons learn, while performers and parrots dont! I asked the pigeon to share more meat on R&G concert from that evening.
The pigeon reported that the start was grand with the Abogi varnam and Todi was sung to Academy standards. “Then what went wrong?”, I asked. The pigeon didn’t answer, he fluttered his wings, exhibited the strength of his sternum and perched higher in the balconys of Music Academy. He rolled his eyes and made gargling noise, even Music Academy pigeons can have a bad attitude and throat!
At last he looked at me at said, RTP in “Dwijavanthi”. I decided to defend R&G and retorted, “TNS has sung RTP in Dwijavanthi, so what? Now the pigeon laughed like a fox (Music academy creatures can turn into anything!) and said, “their pallavi couldn’t fit in into the thalam and neveral was nerudal! The sisters had to do an emergency c-section to deliver the pallavi”.
Though pigeons don’t have a voice or a call, I was amazed at this winged creature’s knowledge. I asked him, “what about the thukkadas?” he said, “it was like Mumbai electric train sangeetham and will never find a place in the heart and just time pass!” Time pass or pass time, a verdict time and rasikas will deliver.
Finally before taking off the pigeon said, “many musicians both senior and junior don’t attend these lec dems and as a result pigeons like me are getting wiser”.
Performers and parrots watch out for pigeon poop!
Looks like its not a good season for the R&G, how are the reviews coming along in dailies and weeklies ??
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