Its not only about how you play, its also about what to play!!

The first blog is about my other passion-music.
I happened to attend a show in my office few days back.
The show started with the performance by our the office band.

It was a good start, the ambience was so nice and they started with very nice songs.
Since Love is the theme for the show, they played the numbers like "when your minds made up" etc.
Though I never listened to those songs, I really enjoyed them, especially the vocals.
As usual Manu on key board was at his best as he says ‘its not how you play it, its about how you feel when you play’.

Well, why I am writing here is for 2 reasons.
When they are playing, most of the audience felt boring, and shouting ‘please stop’.
I really wondered, all of them are professionals, and the least expected is that though you don’t like it, respect the talent.
Though music is not our passion, respect other’s passion.

The second reason is that I realized, it is important to play well, but more important is what you play.
You might have given the best of you, but it doesn’t reach the audience when they know little about it.

The same band when played the desi patriotic songs on independent day celebrations, they received huge applauds.

The team is same, the talent is same, the passion is same, the audience are same, but 2 opposite responses :-)
Know the audience, respect to an art is nothing to do with how professional they are, how educated they are.
It just comes from how they enjoyed it.

You are successful only when your music can entertain the lay man too, the “lay” man’s music sense :-)

It’s a common phenomenon that every one might know, but that day I realized it once again.
I remembered the famous words from my guru Sri Sirivennela, though it is not that apt, some how I related my experience with those words……” tarali raada tane vasantham , tana dariki raani vanala kosam”

“An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him - and we would have fewer mediocre concerts”

Views are welcome :-)