On 2/2/2009 11:05 PM India Time, _Prakash Balaramkrishna_ wrote: > > From Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. > > http://blogs.thehindu.com/delhi/?p=12757 >
Also, quoted: > The sarod maestro feels strongly that Indian composers have never got > their due in the West. Rightly said. And when one Indian composer eventually gets his due from the West, other Indians like Ustad feel uncomfortable with it. > He explains, “Rarely do western composers have > knowledge of Indian classical ragas or folk music. I see no reason as > to why Pandit Ravi Shanker’s tunes for the ‘Apu’ trilogy or Vilayat > Khan’s background score for ‘Jalsaghar’ should not get Oscar awards. > They are at par with the best musical compositions of any Hollywood > or European classics. Though Satyajit Ray’s sense of Indian classical > music was limited, his own compositions for ‘Teen Kanya’, ‘Charulata’ > and ‘Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen’ are of international standards. Thank > God, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Oscar prior to his death.” He mentions Ravi Shanker and Vilayat Khan. Probably, he wants only non-mainstream classical people to get awarded. Does it hint that he might be considering film composers to be lesser mortals? -- ARR is now 100+ album entity. Casting aspersions on 2 seconds of his one song is reason enough for Ustad ji to undermine ARR's 99+ other albums and 1000+ other songs. There should be some proportionate representation of total population versus the surveyed population to make the statistics convey some meaningful conclusions about the entire population. Here, the statistics doesn't fit. -- Rawat ------------------------------------ Are you searching for a reason, to be kind? <b> Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [email protected] To Subscribe: [email protected] To Unsubscribe: [email protected]! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arrahmanfans/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arrahmanfans/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
