If I can have a piece of the
unlimited sky – blue/grey or orange or cloudy while going about my daily
chores, I feel connected to the Whole. And
definitely should consider myself blessed as I have such sight to behold most
of the time – either through the kitchen window or the bed room window.
Have any one of you had the
experience of listening to music looking out at a star-studded sky or cool blue
moon lit sky or still a dark velvety sky with occasional winking lights of an airplane
on its regular flight schedule? (This evening, it is a dark sky making me hope
for the much awaited rain.) Me and music alone – Ah.., what bliss!
Mornings when I listen to the
hardly satisfying one hour programme on the radio, I wonder how I get through
the cooking without any disaster. I simply will be floating or tapping my feet/shaking
my hips – feeling like Shobana in ‘Nizhal nijamaakirathu’!
The other day it was true blue
classical rendition of ragas by Olatti Venkateshwara garu! I was transported to
early summer nights in Thiruchi with an occasional breeze and the frogs
croaking somehow blending with the late night AIR music concerts. (I miss those
days – when in a narrow balcony four of us would settle for night sleep and
listen to concerts; Appa would guess the song even when the artist would begin
the Aalaap. He would have such a shy and proud smile when we appreciate that!) I
dedicated Olattigaru’s performance to his memory.
Even now I am listening to
Abhishek Raghuram – the young dynamite, accompanied by HN Bhaskar, Arjun Kumar
and Shree Sunder Kumar. His RTPs are invigorating! Arjun Kumar’s and Sunder Kumar’s ‘Laya’
sparring is like the Wimbledon finals between Federer and Nadal! (Or you
substitute whomever you want to).
Scrolled down the group page and
what did I get – none other than the honeyed voice of Gayathri Venkatraghavan! It is one of those days when like an addict I’ll
go on from one to another! The soft
strains of Mohanam slowly is pulling me in. So I sign off here to be one with
the Whole.
