Dear Sri Sankar,
Let me take this oppurtunity to thank you for sparing your valuable time to go through the blog / videos of Sathya and also taking time to register your wishes.
I read your comments in this blog for two of my postings. As you have not mentioned your email id or your contact details I am posting this as not only reply but also as a self appraisal! I also received your impressions through the link in Sathya’s website and in that also we have not received your contact details. I would appreciate if you could forward same for our records. I extend my sincere thanks also to express your viewpoint on his father’s role i.e. myself and I take it in all good spirits as your opinion / suggestion.
Part played by Sathya’s father i.e. myself:
You would appreciate that Sri Shrinivas sir is Mount Everest and Sathya has not even reached the foot hold of this great Mt. Everest
With regard to my position on stage please note I view myself as a MC on stage and maintain / put thalam during his concerts. I am always sure that Hyped talents can not sustain! There is always a saying - Talent if genuine, can never be suppressed / hidden. If Sathya ever has one, I am sure and confident that he will come good! There has never been an attempt to hype Sathya’s talent and I would like to say that Promotion, Information and Hype has different meanings in respective contexts and I always try and inform people about the talent available in Sathya. I will be first person to absent my self / keep mum if that is going to enhance Sathya’s values and it is just for that betterment we as family are working for!
The audiences who attend concerts in various forums / occasions differ these days & it is this present age practice which requires information to be shared and I sincerely feel I am trying to do that in different media viz... Stage / blogs etc... If you read the post History in the making in which you have commented I have sincerely communicated to express my views on the Instrument Keyboard making History and that Sathya also becomes a part of it. I do not think there is any hype involved in this as it is indeed a fact that his was the first live broadcast of Classical concert on Keyboard broadcast by AIR for the first time! This is just an example only.
In my experience I feel it is important in the present days to express what you are performing before or after a krithi / song is performed and doing so with just the name sounds good some times and also doing it in anchoring style is received well by many depending on the forum / occasion you perform. Normally in a sabha environment I do just announce the details of the krithis and if it is a private show or in certain forums, few elaboration is needed and I do it accordingly. It is also to note that I conduct the concerts for fusion concepts / film music concerts and need to coordinate with all the artists – the job of a conductor in a film music concert. May be actions like this might have been the point you are raising and even this I have been trying to minimize as now the team is already set and artists have also started communicating with Sathya and vice versa.
Bringing up a child of his nature is indeed a challenge without disturbing his childhood! We as parents try not to disturb this and by the Grace of The Almighty and wishes of his Gurus & well wishers we have been leading a comfortable life. I also want to make a point clear that if making money with Sathya’s talent was the only concept we had in mind, it is easy for us to do so by engaging him in film music field on a permanent basis and an offer for this was there when he was just 10 years old, from a music director of repute. However our intention are to bring him up as a complete musician and hope we are slowly succeeding in that direction. With regard to playing Film numbers, I wish to inform that Sathya’s mother is working in that industry with many leading music directors and in particular with Maestro Illayaraja sir for the past 28 years! We do value that music as well. Also I feel it is for the child to decide what he wants to ultimately establish and we are only giving him directions. Sathya while playing film numbers also makes his own BGMs and that is also welcomed by many and this gives him scope for his imaginations. It is also interesting point to see that fusion concept is catching up fast with even the Leading musicians of date who team up with various combinations and perform. It is also a fact that Great musicians like GNB, MLV, Kunnakudy to present day leading musicians play their part in film music including his present Guru Dr. Balamuralikrishna sir!
Sathya on teaching:
It has been a great hard journey for us to actually travel to the level we are, with Almighty’s grace and wishes of his gurus and well wishers. I sincerely believe Sathya is too young to be put to teaching and it might be a struggle for him to add up one more area to cope with apart from enjoying childhood, learning music, doing academic studies (in X1 std now), socializing and performing concerts. We are in the process of studying fingering techniques and making a format and in the near future would like to spread it to every one. It is our desire to spread this as this is one instrument which has caught up with young and old alike to learn our traditional music and if we could do a little in bringing some system we would be the happiest people in the world.
It is just that I thought of clarifying not only your point of view, I am taking this post as an appraisal / self study for me as well and would also be a information to many who probably has not made this impressions on the blog but could be carrying it in their minds.
Looking forward to your contact details.
With best regards and respects Krishnababu
f/o K. Sathyanarayanan
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