Indian Classical Music Appreciation
If you have started reading this post owing to the title, please stop at this very moment because the title is completely misleading.
This post comes right after an 8:30 lecture of this course I am taking (Indian Classical Music Appreciation). Today was the 2nd time in over a month that I decided to attend the lecture. (Bad decision!!) Even though there are over 50 people registered for this course, when I walked into class at about 8:40, there was only one other person there - some married aunty. No sign of the professor! So with a dash of joy, I prompty enquired from the aunty if today's class was cancelled. The "No! The prof is coming!" came just as swiftly.
The level of happiness resulting from arriving for an 8:30 lecture and finding out that it has been cancelled varies from person to person. Some might feel extremely frustrated on finding out that their waking-up-early-morning went futile. I, on the other hand, have no such ill-feelings. Infact many have witnessed my hopping-about-mad celebration dance which follows.
Anyway, the professor hurriedly entered the lecture room at about 8:45 - unfortunately. And then started the usual routine of listening to raagas which would sometimes last 45 minutes at a stretch. Now, I had earlier mentioned how much I enjoy this class - usually. But listening to some guy singing complete and utter nonsense early in the morning when I could be blissfully asleep is another matter altogether.
In my opinion, if one of these raaga-singers were to suddenly start singing in the middle of the road, people would start pelting him with stones and tomatoes and chickens and whatever they would be able to lay their hands on. It occured to me today, that the raaga-singer actually sounds like someone being brutally assaulted. And that changed the course of the lecture completely. I could not help smiling while listening to the raaga imagining the singer trying to defend himself while people beat him up mercilessly, singing -
"Mat maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaro" (Don't beat me up!)
"Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" (No!)
"Kyuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnn maaaaaaaaaaaaaaar raaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhe hhhhho" (Why are you hitting me?)
I will try to post an audio clip for those unaware of the Indian classical music forms. It'll be a laugh riot I promise.
This post comes right after an 8:30 lecture of this course I am taking (Indian Classical Music Appreciation). Today was the 2nd time in over a month that I decided to attend the lecture. (Bad decision!!) Even though there are over 50 people registered for this course, when I walked into class at about 8:40, there was only one other person there - some married aunty. No sign of the professor! So with a dash of joy, I prompty enquired from the aunty if today's class was cancelled. The "No! The prof is coming!" came just as swiftly.
The level of happiness resulting from arriving for an 8:30 lecture and finding out that it has been cancelled varies from person to person. Some might feel extremely frustrated on finding out that their waking-up-early-morning went futile. I, on the other hand, have no such ill-feelings. Infact many have witnessed my hopping-about-mad celebration dance which follows.
Anyway, the professor hurriedly entered the lecture room at about 8:45 - unfortunately. And then started the usual routine of listening to raagas which would sometimes last 45 minutes at a stretch. Now, I had earlier mentioned how much I enjoy this class - usually. But listening to some guy singing complete and utter nonsense early in the morning when I could be blissfully asleep is another matter altogether.
In my opinion, if one of these raaga-singers were to suddenly start singing in the middle of the road, people would start pelting him with stones and tomatoes and chickens and whatever they would be able to lay their hands on. It occured to me today, that the raaga-singer actually sounds like someone being brutally assaulted. And that changed the course of the lecture completely. I could not help smiling while listening to the raaga imagining the singer trying to defend himself while people beat him up mercilessly, singing -
"Mat maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaro" (Don't beat me up!)
"Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" (No!)
"Kyuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnn maaaaaaaaaaaaaaar raaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhe hhhhho" (Why are you hitting me?)
I will try to post an audio clip for those unaware of the Indian classical music forms. It'll be a laugh riot I promise.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 8:29 PM.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:26:00 PM Posted bymaaaaaaat
hasaooooooo
itnaaaaaaaaaa
(lol...dont make us laugh so much)
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:50:00 PM Posted by
what a jolt of laughter......
Well, when i was in my teens, our principal too, had got this obsession of teaching us classical music. HE was told by the PRiest that he should bring music closer to our lives so that we performed well....
But we never wanted our principal to appoint "an old dhoti wallah pundit to teach us"..( he could not even carry the harmonium)and ate so much Pan(betelleaf)
ANd call him Sir, he would, luk beyond his spectacles and say "GURUJEE kaho SIshya"....
lol...that were some SA RE GA MA days!!!!i miss them
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 10:34:00 PM Posted by
Iam not very happy with this post of urs, y ridicule something,which we dont know completely?its purely a personal feeling n the whole genre of indian classical music shdnt be made fun of, it really hurts.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:04:00 AM Posted by
lol!
i can imagine the scene :D PD (who lives 2 doors away) is also a very classically-inclined person. It's amazing fun to bug him while he's doing his routine warm-ups :D
I never could understand or appreciate Indian music.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:37:00 AM Posted by
arre! now you're getting controversial! and you would be a blathering idiot, if you had turned down me request! but so glad to see you're not one!!
personally, i have great love for indian classical. in fact, when you go home, you ought to go for the music in the park things organised by spic macay.
but if it ain't your thing, it ain't your thing. but dude, it's probly your class. i'm laughing mad... remembered music lessons in school!!!
Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:33:00 AM Posted by
Now this is fun.
I must alert the sentries!
Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:55:00 AM Posted by
Early morning lectures are bad, but post-lunch lectures are... errr...zzzzz...
Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:51:00 PM Posted by
My question. Why didn't you just nap thro the long songs?
Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:52:00 PM Posted by
P.S. Please do post a song if you can. I've never heard Indian Classical.
Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:35:00 PM Posted by
i happen to like aunties! lol..by the way classical music can at times be extremely moving..ur entitled top ur opinion of course but u might want to give it a good listen..just so u dont miss out on somethng u might like..its an acquired taste admittedly..doesnt come easy..but how abt u start wt not-s-trueblue stuff..maybe some fusion..or instrumentals..hav u heard the nasrat fateh ali khan-eddie vedder song ? OST for dead man walking..
Friday, March 31, 2006 1:23:00 AM Posted by
hehehe.... i wonder what the aunty's reaction was, during the entire session - shud have done a two-window split camera thing with u n aunty, to see polar opposites.
PS: u have a CAR????????!!!!
waaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!
Friday, March 31, 2006 9:10:00 PM Posted by
where is the promised clip?
Saturday, April 01, 2006 4:46:00 PM Posted by
Being the only one to show up for class can be annoying sometimes, but it's a lot better than being thrown out a second story window into a giant vat of molten gold.
Gold!
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:42:00 AM Posted by
pararap...parapa..."
listen to the song "SANOMI" by Urban trad, a eurvision song contest from Belgium.. iot would make you feel better!
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