Tuesday, July 15, 2014

SAMA 2014 Annual Conference


JOURNEY OF SAMA

  1. The trust has been functional since four years and encouraging the skills and talents of school children by way of competitions on an all India basis.
  2. Various programs in music, linguistics, mathematics,  shloka chanting, pencil sketching, cartooning, hand writing, clay modelling, and yoga, to bring out the talents and abilities of children have been highly successful.
  3. As an initiative to spread music, art and culture among children, our academy has given an opportunity by selecting many talented children from different schools to perform on stage.
  4. Academy has also released a special book titled “Know about your Violin” in the year 2012.
  5. The academy has brought out two music albums,to spread  awareness about music.
  6. Distributed thousands of CDs and books related to music, art and culture to school children.
  7. Invited eminent scholars to give lecture demonstrations, lectures on various topics like “Indian cultural consciousness”, “Vedic mathematics”, “Amazon forest”, “Indian music”.etc.
  8. Since 2013, our academy has been hosting marathon twelve hour music festivals by inviting international artistes to perform on stage focusing on Indian cultural heritage and to spread the awareness on the present standards of music.
  9. Academy stands proud to mention the prizes distributed to winners of various competitions- electronic tanpura, veena, flute, violin, computer, electronic printer, scanner, tablet, pen-drive, books, DVDs and CDs to encourage the young talented in science, art and music, during the years 2009 to 2013.
  10. The academy intends to do much more in the field of science,art, music and culture along with inculcating discipline and creating awareness about societal responsibilities among the youth.
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SAMA (Sri Academy of Music and Arts) is the brain child of Dr. Raghuram, in memory of his mother M.R. Vijayalakshmi. SAMA is a registered trust with a primary goal of promoting Music, Art & Indian Culture across communities and with a special focus on children. 

SAMA intends to extend its wings using various possible methods to create awareness about the intellectual aspects of Music, Art & Indian culture. SAMA intends to create platforms for the young and deserving children to know more about the cultural aspects and also to nurture and bring out the hidden talents in them.
SAMA's Activities

SAMA offers scholarships in the form of free music classes during the week end for some of the financially underprivileged students through known source or reference.

SAMA also has started conducting workshops on different aspects of our Indian culture to encourage children. 


Every year the trust conducts contests for children in the various types of Music, Art & Indian culture. The top performers are awarded with violin, veena & flute in memory of Anoor Ramakrishna & Ulsoor Chandrashekhar. Anoor Ramakrishna & Ulsoor ChandraShekhar were famous violin artistes of Karnataka who have contributed with their own styles & also trained many musicians all over the world.





Sri Academy of Music and Arts
#528, 1st floor, 27th main, JP Nagar, Near water tank, Bangalore - 78 | raghuramolin@gmail.com
Sri Academy of Music & Arts
Dr. R. Raghuram
#528, Ist floor, 27th main, J. P. Nagar, 
Near- Water Tank / off 24th main, Bangalore – 560078,
KARNATAKA, INDIA.
Email: raghuramolin@gmail.com
Phone: 9449346638/9591949802
 
 

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Friday, July 11, 2014

THALAVADYOTSAV 2014

PERCUSSIVE ARTS CENTRE (R)
(Founder: Sangeetha Kalarathna BANGALORE K. VENKATARAM)
presents
THALAVADYOTSAV 2014
(33rd Annual Percussive Arts Festival & Music Conference)
&
Birth Centenary of Sangeetha Vidyasagara R.R. Keshavamurthy &
Mridanga Kala Shiromani Ramanathapuram C.S. Murugabhoopathy


10 – 13, July 2014
Bangalore Gayana Samaja premises, K.R. Road, Bangalore 560 004


10th July 2014
6.00 pm: INAUGURATION followed by music concert by
Dr. Nagavalli Nagaraj (vocal) – B. Raghuram (violin) – B.R.Srinivas (mridangam) – Bharadwaj Sathavalli (morching)


11th July 2014
5.00 pm: ‘Sangeetha Vidyasagara Vidwan R.R.Keshavamurthy – the Guru and the Personality’ – Lecture by Dr. H.S.Anasuya Kulkarni
5.20 pm: ‘Konnakkol – An Amazing Art Form’ – Illustrated Talk by Somashekar Jois
6.00 pm: Abhishek Raghuram (vocal) – Charulatha Ramanujam (violin) –
Arjun Kumar (mridangam) – G.Guruprasanna (khanjari)


12th July 2014
4.00 pm: ‘A Correct Understanding of Rupaka and Chapu Thalas’
– Illustrated Talk by S. R. Janakiraman
4.40 pm: ‘Mridanga Kala Shiromani Ramanathapuram CS Murugabhoopathy’ Artist and Guru’ – Illustrated Talk by B. Dhruvaraj
5.20 pm: ‘The Four Ms of Mridangam – Melody, Method, Mathematics & Memory’
- Lecture by Vankayala Narasimham
6.00 pm: B.K.Anantharam & Amith Nadig (flute duet) – H.M.Smitha (violin) -
A.V.Anand (mridangam) – G.S.Ramanujam (ghata)
13th July 2014
10.00 am: VALEDICTORY AND AWARD PRESENTATION

AWARDS
Palghat Mani Iyer Memorial Award to Vidwan VANKAYALA NARASIMHAM
Palani Subramanya Pillai Memorial Award to Vidwan BELLARY VENKATESHACHAR
Bangalore K. Venkataram Memorial Award to Prof. S.R. JANAKIRAMAN
Special Felicitation to Prof. MYSORE V. SUBRAMANYA
H. Puttachar Memorial Award to Vidwan B.R. SRINIVAS
PAC-CMANA Endowment Award to Vidwan B.R. SOMASHEKAR JOIS

PRIZE DISTRIBUTION
Distribution of Prizes to Winners of Amruthur Janaki Ammal Memorial Competition For Percussions
(Courtesy: Amruthur Janaki Ammal Charitable Trust & Sri Jayarama Seva Mandali, Bangalore)
Presentation of G.S.Sriram Memorial Prize (Courtesy: Vidushi Revathi Murthy)
12.00 noon: Special Percussion Ensemble – ‘NAADA VAIBHAVA’
Concept & Direction – Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma
Percussions: Somashekar Jois, Anoor Vinod Shyam, Sunaad Anoor, Tirumale Gopi Shravan, SP Nagendraprasad, Chidananda, LS Sudatta, Pranav Dutt
Guest Artists: MK Pranesh, Praveen Godkhindi

MUSIC LOVERS AND CONNOISSEURS ARE CORDIALLY INVITED

Raagas Everywhere – by Prakash Sontakke

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This is a story of a cosmopolitan child exposed to every form of music and finally discovering the roots of all the musical forms through ‪‎Raagas.

‎Raaga is a musical theme created by a specific set of notes to bring out mood, season, and time. A unique concert of classical and semi-classical styles, Raagas Everywhere, was held at Bangalore International Centre recently to make people understand the importance of raagas in our daily lives and how they have become an intrinsic part of every genre of music.

It was a different kind of experience with Western and Hindustani classical, Bollywood, Sufi, Folk and many other musical forms reverberating all across the venue and enthralling the music lovers.
Explaining the concept of raagas through the art of story telling, music lover and creative writer Veena Prasad who narrated this concept beautifully, spun the story of a boy and a girl in love with each other and discovering raagas everywhere.

Veena Prasad – Narration
Prakash Sontakke – Concept, Theme, Vocals
Chitra Sontakke – Vocals
Priya Nandini -Vocals
Sneha Bharat – Western Vocals
Vid Kiran M S – Tabla
Vid P S Rohit – Djembe and Percussions
Vid Bharath Bevinahally – Lead Guitar
For 8 years and above.
Tickets : 300/-

Friday | July 11 2014 | 8 pm

Venue:
Jagriti Theatre
Palm Meadows, 
Ramagondanahalli, 
Varthur Main Rd, 
Whitefield
Bangalore 560066

Bolava Vitthal

On the eve of Ashadi Ekadashi Pancham Nishad presents “Bolava Vitthal” a unique concert of #abhangs and devotional songs dedicated to Lord Panduranga. From the 12th to 19th century, many great saints including Sant Dyaneshwar, Sant Tukaram, Sant Gora Kumbhar, and Sant Janabai penned many abhangs devoted to Lord Panduranga.

#BolavaVitthal was initiated with the objective of giving a rare opportunity to music lovers and devotees to listen to maestros singing praise of Lord Vitthal. The concert is not only for devotees of Lord Vitthal, but also for all music lovers. The tunes and classical finesse promises a resplendent evening.
Due to the growing demand, Pancham Nishad is holding an 8 city tour of “Bolava Vitthal” at Delhi, Kolkata, Nashik, Mumbai, Kalyan, Bangalore, Nagpur & Goa. The concert tour is scheduled to be held between the 4th of July, 2014 to the 13th of July 2014.


Eminent artistes like Devaki Pandit, Rahul Deshpande, Ranjani & Gayatri, Jayateerth Mevundi, Kaushiki Chakraborthy and Sanjeev Abhyankar would be featured at the concert tour.

For the past eight years, Bolava Vitthal has received tremendous response from the music lovers. In these years, music stalwarts like Ganasarwasti Kishori Amonkar, Ajit Kumar Kadkade, Shankar Mahadeva, Aarti Ankalikar-Tikekar, Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, Upendra Bhatt, Devaki Pandit, Shaunak Abhisheki and Jayateerth Mevundi have performed on this platform.


The man behind organising this unique music festival is Shashi Vyas, son of Padmabhushan Late Pandit C R Vyas said, “It gives me great pleasure to announce this eight city tour. The Indian devotional music is broadly divided into two parts Sagun and Nirgun and abhang is a fine blend of both. “Bolava Vitthal” is an effort to bring the youth of India closer to our traditional values and philosophy of life visualized by the many saint poets like Namdeo, Tukaram, Dyneshwar and Bahinabai.”

About Pancham Nishad
Incorporated in the year 1996, till date Pancham Nishad has organised and managed more than 400 cultural events, in particular the Indian Classical Music Concerts. Through the last 13 years trodding along the pathway, Pancham Nishad has been committed to the cause of introducing the youth to Indian Classical Music with the hope that the wealth of knowledge, wisdom and beauty that it holds will become a vital part of their lives.


Tickets for the concert are priced at Rs 400, 300, 150.
For further details contact Mr. Shivaji @ 98458961529845896152.

Bolava Vitthal”
on
Friday | 11th of July 2014 | 6:30 p.m.
at
Chowdiah Memorial Hall
16th Cross,
Gayathri Devi Park Extension,
Vyalikaval,
Malleswaram,
Bangalore 560003.