it is a true honor for me to read this wonderful post. thank you, u showed that arr not only surpasses language barriers but also age barriers. truly an honor.
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, csrao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Friends, > I do not know how much I am qualified or not qualified to say some thing on > this knowledge forum. Though I am with the group for months on, this is my > first posting. My favorites are almost all the songs of ARR. As a matter of > fact I am, eminently placed to get disqualified from belonging to this > Group. I do not know Hindi. I do not Know Tamil. I do not have any knowledge > of Music. Above all this, I am aged all of 72 years. But I have a gut > feeling about and instant reaction to good tunes, good instrumentation and > calm, soothing and vibrant music. > That day ages back when I first heard songs from Roja, I instinctively knew > that this gentleman arrived to thrill us forever and take us on a musical > raid of un-scalable and unimaginable heights. He elevated cine music to > unattainable heights. > I have a good collection of his Tamil songs which I love many, I like all. > Daily, I listen to these songs for 2 to 4 hours. They refresh me, keep me > fit and energetic. Arr's uniquness, according to me, I repeat, according to > me,, lies in: > 1. Treating voice [male or female] as yet another instrument, to be played > upon. > 2. Each of his song is a symphony. To reach those heights and lows in 3/4 > minutes is possible only to him. > 3. He is a master at creating heavenly interludes which are more often than > not are the highlights of many songs. > 4. I had never heard any one using drums [or allied instruments], shehnai, > [I am not worried about exact names, as long as I enjoy them], flute to > this advantage. How he introduces weaving them in to the voice, takes them, > leaving the voice behind, to a solo crescendo and taper off, very > effectively, yet all in a fraction of a minute, which is humanly impossible. > He is Blessed, if not he himself is Divine. > 5. I divide the Indian cine music era in to two segments. PreARR and PostARR > eras. In the PreARR era we used to ask who sang that song? Rafi or Kishore. > Now we ask who composed it? That is the power duly acquired and got by our > honored ARR. > I have my own two Play-lists of ARR's Tamil songs. One I play in whichever > mood I am in. These songs are level-all gems. The second list I play when I > feel I am in good and high spirit! > In other words, what I am saying is that I adore those, around 70, Tamil > songs tuned by ARR, even though I do not know the language. Proving, if > proof is needed, music has no language. Rather It is ARR who proved it > through millions like me. Let us not enter in to Lilliputian arguments over > that GIANT Musician whose presence amongst us we are fortunate to have. > The Beauty is I hear his songs even when I am not listening to them!!! > Thanks to those haunting and teasing melodies and tunes. > csrao >
