Well said Dasun! Although, I have never thought about it, you are right, Boss has affected me in my emotional and intellectual growth. I have pretty much grown up listening to Sir Rahman. I was 9 when Roja was released, as a child my brain must have recognized the "mozartness" in Rahman's music. Right after Roja I had decided that I was going to be Rahman's fan, coming from an Urdu speaking family, my buying/listening of all these Tamil songs was not supported, but I was attracted to Rahman's music like an ant attracted to sugar. My dedication to Rahman paid off a little later, when my family not only accepted non-hindi songs but now enjoy Tamil songs and wish some of his Tamil gems were made in Hindi.
p.s. Have you noticed how Roja just seems like it was released just couple months ago. It is talked about so often that it never occurs that it was done some 13 years ago. Regards. --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "Dasun Abeysekera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was awesome. Thanks so much for the link (nevermind it's late :) If I > had to change one thing the radio host said it would be why Boss is called > the Asian Mozart. He says it is because the "sheer volume of music" that he > has written, which is comparable to that of Mozart. > > That is a very shallow observation about Rahman, and I can understand it > because they are possibly getting their first taste of his music, and we've > been rocking his songs for over a decade...man, we grew up with the man's > music and his ideas. But, simply put, ARR is a modern day renaissance man > (just like Mozart was in the European Neo-classical era of the late 18th > century) who follows the classical Indian, Greek and Roman ideals of art, > which encourages emotional and intellectual balance to bring out perfection > of form. There's a brilliant sense of control about his songs (although we > go crazy listening to it..lol), a definiteness of structure which is almost > mathematical (just like that of Leonardo da vinci), which is the hall mark > of somebody who truly understands the classical idea of perfection. They > talk about the Mozart effect, which is the intellecual growth young students > experience when exposed to Mozart's music. I'm sure if a similar study is > done on ARR's music on young listeners, they would very likely find the same > effects. 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