LOVE IS ETERNAL

This is part of a beautiful song rendered by Shri.S.P.Balasubramaniam. I tried my best.

Please play the video file attached below.

ALAAP - RAW VOICE - KAHAANSE AAYE

Please listen to the video attached below. I have sung the Alaap for this wonderful song.

SONG - RAW VOICE - AVALUM NAANUM

The lyrics of this song is from the beautiful poetry of Bharathidasan, the famous Tamil poet.

Please listen to the video attached below. I have sung the first few lines as a modest attempt.

SONG - RAW VOICE - DO DEEWANE

The video attached is my attempt at singing a few lines from this beautiful Hindi song. It has been recorded as two parts.

The song of two crazy souls.

 

SONG - RAW VOICE : MANJOLAI KILITHANO (PARROT IN THE GREEN BUSHES)

The video attached is my attempt at singing a few lines from this beautiful Tamil song.

It's the protagonist expressing his love in poetic form and equating his lady love to a parrot in the green bushes.

 

ON SONG THIS YULETIDE

After a hiatus of a few years, I got back to the Celestial Voices choir of which I had been a part. We had two performances this year. We peaked in the second.

We did not have the thrill of the competitions this year.

THREE EVENINGS OF MUSIC WITH FR.JOHN SAMUEL

This snap was taken after all the recording sessions on the last day of the BASS group. This was the last part of the whole project at Chennai that Fr.John had planned. The whole project involved the separate recording of the SUPRANO, TENOR, ALTO and BASS groups singing the Holy Sacrament songs of our church and then mixing it together to get the right harmony.

We all know the inaccurate rumour in history that Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned. I believe my situation was also of almost the same kind. I could not make it to one practice session before the recording as my sister had been admitted to the hospital. And during the actual recording for three evenings, my father had also been admitted.

From one perspective, it looked pretty odd to go out and sing when there was so much happening at home. But my father while on the hospital bed, told me that I should go as I had committed for the same. Besides there was a time when I was pretty young and was battling for life, when my father had promised that I would render my service for the church in some form. He reminded me about this atleast thrice.

Otherwise I felt real happy singing for this compilation. It was challenging as one had to remember a lot of tunes in a short span of time and so a knowledge of reading the music notes was vital.I was really lucky that I was in the company of Elias and Deepu(standing to my right), who were much better BASS singers and who were also much familiar in reading the music notes. It was nice to be a part of a professional recording while my singing was mostly home grown.

Fr.John is an inspiration. Blessed with an amazing voice, it was great to see him get the best out of all of us. He was able to spot even the smallest discord. I felt blessed standing beside him for singing one of the difficult and deep bass numbers. When I left our church on the night of the final day, I felt immensely satisfied.

THE SEASON OF MELODIES

This was the first Choir singing this Christmas and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There is joy in singing as part of a big group in front of such a big audience. There is also a bigger joy in going through those small and careful steps of preparation to get our singing to a good level.



I got my second singing opportunity, and this was an inter-church competition. We got the first place, thanks to the excellent leadership and ideas of our conductor ,the presence of a few confident singers in the group, the excellent co-ordination of the organizers, the humour generated by a few that combined very well with our serious preparations, and made the atmosphere all that even on the whole, and the hard work of each member in the group. We also had a lot of fun during the preparation sessions. I found that these small things were those, that give so much life and fun, to this whole season of Christmas.