Recently went to a carnatic classical concert, it was definitely great experience. Two things came in my mind...one a concert is a team work, all people involved must be immersed in the process and that’s it.just imagine if each person, the flutist, the mridagam player or the gatham player start playing such that they get the maximum time to play, it will be chaos...i know its very obvious...a concert where each person compliments the other and highlights the strengths of the other instruments the entire experience becomes magical. No instrument is better than the other, each instrument has its own specialty.
The part I enjoy most is when each instrumentalist plays a beat and the same beat is repeated in another instrument, I like to think of it as two friends teasing and making fun of the each other and at the end, all friends have a big laugh together.
I sometimes visualize the notes as people and when I hear something like this Sa Ni Da Pa, Sa Na Da Pa, Ma Ga Re Sa...it feels as if Sa is angry and his friends Na Da are trying to cheer up Sa and are calling him to come with them to play...Sa takes a long time to get better and the entire composition reflects the efforts made by his friends to cheer him and at the end. Sa finally feels good and hence, Sa Ni Da Pa Ma Ga Re Sa ;)
