Very happy with the response the book "A peek into Prahladha Bhakthi Vijaya" got. What audience numbers! Undeniably I dint expect it, Jan 24th being a lazy Sunday, least I expected was the auditorium to be half full. Though not even half the people I invited turned up, Sri Jayarama Seva Mandali looked packed :)
Mysore Vasudevaachar’s grandson Sangeetha Kalarathna Sri S. Krishna Murthy(S.K.M), Retd. Station Director, AIR, Bangalore graced the ceremony and released the book. What more do I expect? This is a blessing in itself.
“The book though slim in volume is a complete work and gives an uninterrupted import of Saint Thyagaraja’s original play. It encompasses not just the transliteration, but also a simple, yet beautiful narration of Prahladha’s story through the compositions” said Sri S.K.M sharply analyzing the various acts of the play as traded in the book. “The book is an eye-opener for music students to appreciate the context and the background in which these krithis would have taken their form” he opined in the lines of Music Therapist Dr. T.V. Sairam’s foreword. His words of encouragement and direction for the next such work will keep me going. Guru Vid Sri D. V. Nagarajan’s gesture of blessing his student’s work by taking to publisher’s role isn’t something easy or ordinary.
Words fail - the acknowledgment I owe to the many behind this work is mighty. I wish and pray for their continued support- emotional, physical and moral for my next book- not a slim volume, a complete huge one :)
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