Saturday, October 6, 2007

Hindustani Classical Music Concert

Today we went to TC to exchange money for the first time with Inés and the italian guys.
Then to the supermarket at TC to buy the common stuff for VF 203 : sandwich bread, slices of cheese, pasta, sugar, coffee, water.
After it to the IAESTE office and then to the computer lab at IC till 5:30 I went to a concert at the main university building with Sid, Rakesh and Sebastian.

Spic Macay (Manipal Chapter) in association with Center for Humanities, Manipal University, Manipal a Hindustani Classical Music Concert .
Date : 06/10/07
Programme : Hindustani Vocal Recital
Artist : Smt. Meeta Pandit
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Counseling hall, Ground floor, manipal. edu building, Manipal University , Manipal
The concert was great but the video is too heavy to upload it here :(, the vocalist was singing without stopping for more than one hour and after a break of 2 minutes started again for another hour more...incredible!
I cannot remember the names of the instruments they were playing, all of them sitting on the floor of the stage; there were sitar and tabla I think, among others...
At the beginning of whatever event in India, they perform a "ceremony of lighting candles" and at the end they were taking pictures of the players and the responsables of the organization. After it we got to take a picture also with the vocalist, that is quite famous in India.

Sebastian and me went to Saiba where most of the interns had already finished the dinner.

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