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Birmingham orchestra seeks Rahman's guidance
London, Feb 24 (IANS) The West Midlands town of Birmingham may be best known for its recordings of Mahler and Stravinsky, but the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has now enlisted the help A.R. Rahman to broaden its repertoire.
In a fortnight's time, Rahman will take the baton for two successive nights of themes from the Indian film industry, including many of his own works.
The CBSO, which achieved international status during the tenure of conductor Sir Simon Rattle, is seeking to find new audiences closer to home, by persuading Indian and Pakistani audiences into its Symphony Hall headquarters.
Tickets for the 2,200-seat auditorium are already selling fast among the city's south Asian population and, according to the orchestra's chief executive, Stephen Maddock, the Bollywood nights promise to pull in the largest ever non-white audience for a mainstream British orchestra.
Rahman is best known to western music fans as the composer of "Bombay Dreams", the West End musical.
But to his South Asian followers he is a cult figure who, at the age of 38, has already sold nearly 200 million albums and worked on more than 50 films, including "Lagaan".
He recently agreed to score the stage musical version of "Lord of the Rings", which is due to open next year.
Maddock told the media that the orchestra was setting out to attract non-traditional audiences.
Birmingham expected to have a non-white majority by 2010, making it one of the most multicultural cities in Britain. Yet the CBSO's core following was still largely from middle-class areas of the city.
"We have a responsibility to provide a range of musical activities," he said.
"Our audiences are much less extensively white than you might expect, but it is true to say that right across the world classical music tends to appeal to a predominantly white audience."
The Bollywood initiative forms part of a year long-series of Classic Asia concerts at Symphony Hall.
Rahman took his first rehearsal with the orchestra last week, and said he was nervous at the prospect of his first orchestral engagement on such a scale.
Piali Ray, the Indian dancer and choreographer whose Sampad dance company will perform with CBSO later in the year, praised Birmingham for creating an environment in which community arts could flourish.
Sampad broke new ground with its recent collaboration with the city's Royal Ballet. Birmingham also hosts Samyo, effectively the national youth orchestra for South Asian music.
"There are large sections of the Asian community who are very interested in the arts, but sometimes haven't felt welcomed. Or may be they don't even know there are things that will interest them," she said. "This is really heartening."
The fact that most tickets had already gone showed lessons had been learned on both sides.
http://www.musicindiaonline.com/news/articles/24022004-1.html
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- From: thiru (@ 210.214.128.69)
on: Fri Mar 12 16:34:38 EST 2004
sorry for the typing error.
We musn't
- From: nothan (@ 161.114.64.75)
on: Fri Mar 19 02:15:36 EST 2004
Hi guys
- From: looka! (@ 164.100.73.34)
on: Mon Mar 22 03:32:27 EST 2004
this orchestra (to be more precise, 6 members of the orchestra) was lost in the london metro, searching for the loo. rehman just happned to be there, rather lost, but fresh from a successful sojourn in the loo, just behind the next turn.
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so, the orchestra sought his guidance.
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looka!
- From: C~P (@ 61.95.159.16)
on: Mon Mar 22 04:15:58 EST 2004
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us on how people,in genral, compose sym-phonies!
- From: curses (@ 203.101.34.158)
on: Mon Mar 22 08:36:16 EST 2004
uh oh!!
:))
- From: ambleen (@ 203.117.10.18)
on: Mon Mar 22 23:56:02 EST 2004
C-P,
You can't call what ARR did a 'composition'. It's more to producing. Besides, he didn't do a symphony or sym-phonies or etc.
You can never equate synthesized plastic material to original composition material.
:)
- From: C~P (@ 61.95.159.16)
on: Tue Mar 23 08:49:51 EST 2004
My turn now...Uh oh!! :-)
Ambleen,
It's no use buddy. You are not going to recognise anything from ARR even if he does it! Ofcourse there is always this clain from your side that he copies, which you readily recognise!! :-)
Neways...I wish to listen atleast to the "synthesized plastic material" and I hope you hear the "original composition" which you hail - atleast before the composition decomposes!! :-)
- From: Nattamai (@ 216.240.138.3)
on: Wed Mar 24 01:01:32 EST 2004
Despite the media attention given to this show, it is bombed. Mozart of the east could not get a decent assistant conductor to get the show going. Hey first he should compose anything decent to conduct, right? He struggled with 60+ musicians, just think about 100+ how he will struggle, hahha. AV has an article saying -rahman symphony- what symphony?
Watched the video of shakka lakka baby from webber\'s Bombay nightmares. It is too crappy and I think 2 years are too short for him.
looka:
That\'s funny :)
- From: sultan (@ 220.226.58.55)
on: Wed Mar 24 02:31:16 EST 2004
nattamai,
do what you do best eating IR's s hit and drinking his u rine what do you know about music.
get into the shell boy.
ambleen,
its true ir didn't use the plastic material so you were born now go and wash his a ss rather than posting here.
haha what a funny guy
- From: sultan (@ 220.226.58.55)
on: Wed Mar 24 02:33:37 EST 2004
ambleen,
does ir still visit your house?
does he spare your sis i mean the girl born to your step father and mom.
we all know you're ir's son waiting for a share in his money haha
- From: sultan (@ 220.226.58.55)
on: Wed Mar 24 02:37:20 EST 2004
it seems ir was very angry during the course thats why ambleen is always furious in writing his messages.
ambleen@irson.com
ambleen@mental.com
ambleen@shameless.com
ambleen@waitingforiramony.com
ambleen mama,
if you continue to write this type of posts i will write how your family was cheated by ir.
- From: What A Post (@ 69.41.242.66)
on: Wed Mar 24 04:59:25 EST 2004
here are the list of break fast items for ARR p u n d a a m a v e n g e s.
1 cup of ARR's kotta juice
lots of ARR's pee to spread on their mouth before spreading on their breads.
2 teaspoons of ARR's c um freshly blowed from his fans' mouths.
and whatever is leftover in his toilet
this is taken home so that they can eat whenever they like.
ps = ARR promised lots of these fans but always fooling them with headache music (include heartache as well!).
devil bless them.
- From: sultan (@ 220.226.11.176)
on: Wed Mar 24 08:29:58 EST 2004
ambleen
u
b a s t atrd
use your nick da lavade y k a ball
ir pu la umbi sapdireye vekkama ella?
pu nakki
come on da drink my u rine i will pay u well
- From: What A Post (@ 69.41.242.66)
on: Wed Mar 24 10:48:49 EST 2004
Here is what ARR fans can do.....
1) While ARR scre*ws your mom in her mouth, you fist her in doggy style quite deeply. Though painful, she and you and ARR will thoroughly enjoy it. Your mom will squirt her cum by just this fisting alone. She'll be so wet that you can shove your fist even deeper.
2) Another method is you can get your sister into this act and make her use a double-ended dildo with your mom and shove it deep into both their pus*sies. All this while they both suck your co*ck and ARR's circumsized puny co*ck. Wow, a 4 way connection! And when both your sister and mother's pus*sy are so wide open after the fisting and dildoing, you can shove ARR's head into it....in and out.
Gosh, that must have turned you on.
More to come.
- From: What A Post (@ 69.41.242.66)
on: Wed Mar 24 20:40:30 EST 2004
Here is what ARR fans can do.....
1) While ARR scre*ws your mom in her mouth, you fist her in doggy style quite deeply. Though painful, she and you and ARR will thoroughly enjoy it. Your mom will squirt her cum by just this fisting alone. She'll be so wet that you can shove your fist even deeper.
2) Another method is you can get your sister into this act and make her use a double-ended dildo with your mom and shove it deep into both their pus*sies. All this while they both suck your co*ck and ARR's circumsized puny co*ck. Wow, a 4 way connection! And when both your sister and mother's pus*sy are so wide open after the fisting and dildoing, you can shove ARR's head into it....in and out.
Gosh, that must have turned you on.
More to come.
- From: ravi (@ 61.1.196.174)
on: Thu Mar 25 12:18:13 EST 2004
what a post,
why do you involve arr fans here.
come and lick and clean my toilet i will pay you what you ask!
seems you had more s hit from ir today
a ss hole
that was a nice confession story you stupid
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