Saturday, February 15, 2014

Sunday Kutcheri completes 8years


Over 850 Children aged below 15years have presented Mikeless Kutcheri Preethi Sethuraman begins 9th Year with a lively performance at the Nageswara Rao Park
Sunday Kutcheri in the Park, sans mikes and speakers, organised by Sundaram Finance at the Nageswara Rao Park has completed 8years with over 850children all aged below 15years having presented morning kutcheris. To begin the 9th year of the Sunday Kutcheri in the Park organised on the first Sunday of every month between 7am and 8am, 14year old Preethi Sethuraman, a class nine student of Jawahar Vidyalaya, impressed the audience with a lively vocal carnatic music performance on Sunday (2 Feb) morning. Preethi, who is learning music from Guru Smt. Vasantha Shankararaman, was accompanied on the Mridangam by R. Kishore and on the Violin by Parur Ananthalakshmi. Preethi’s compositions included Sri Valli Devasenapathe ( Nata Bhairavi/ Adi), Ganamoorthy (Ganamoorthy/Adi), Thaye Thripurasundari ( Sudha Saveri/ Kanda Chapu) and Om Namo Narayana (Karnaranjani/Kanda Chapu). On the completion of 8years of the Mikeless Format of the kutcheri, TT Srinivasaraghavan, MD, Sundaram Finance said, “We did not want to disturb the peace of the morning walkers with loud music and have consciously stayed away from mikes and speakers. Also being an open-air kutcheri, we believed that, amidst falling leaves and curious birds chirping around the park, we would be able to bring out the best in the children if they performed without the help of mikes and speakers. And hence, we have stuck to the format of the Mikeless Kutcheri.” “This is a platform to help young children, aged below 15years, shed their inhibitions and give them the confidence to move up to the next level. To us, the first Sunday of every month is their ‘Day’. The young children are the ‘stars’ of the show. Hence, we are clearly focussed on developing this as a platform for young ‘unsung’ children.’ A few years ago, Sundaram Finance expanded Kutcheri in the Park to have a Navarathri Kutcheri in the Park series. Sundaram Finance conducts audition to select the artistes. To register for the audition: email sundaykutcheri@gmail.com