Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Under the uniting roof

#23 - A song that you want to play at your wedding

When I was looking for something for today I came upon the following, which I thought I should put here, even though it is not in line with the topic. This was M.S.Subbulakshmi's rendering of a song written by Rajaji at the United Nations General Assembly in 1966.


And what I was actually looking for was "English Note", a composition by Harikesanallur Muthiah Bhagavatar. A Carnatic composer, he came up with this when someone asked him whether he could compose music like that of the West.




This was the best instrumental video that I could find of the song. I have a cassette tape of Chitti Babu playing this on the Veena in a manner that can only be described as 'heavenly'. See here for the scene with this song on the nadhaswaram from the Tamil movie Thillana Moganambal.
Posted by Mycroft Holmes at 12:40 AM
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6 comments:

  1. rivendellJune 23, 2011 at 12:09 AM

    Wow! incredibly rare videos indeed. I had no idea MS sang in English in the UN General Assembly. cant help appreciating you for this and your previous posts under the label '30-day-song-challenge'.

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  2. Mycroft HolmesJune 23, 2011 at 10:21 AM

    Thanks! And I believe there's even an album of hers with live recordings from her performance at the UN.

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  3. Sai MaliJuly 4, 2011 at 10:08 PM

    English? I had NO idea! Kurai Ondrum Illai? Wow.

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  4. Sai MaliJuly 4, 2011 at 10:11 PM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q5BNEv1Tak&feature=related

    read the comment.

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  5. Mycroft HolmesJuly 5, 2011 at 12:13 AM

    "super-like!"?

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  6. Mycroft HolmesJuly 5, 2011 at 12:14 AM

    And thanks for the link.

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