Artistes consider that performing in the music season is a prestige. Recently the trend has widened giving scope for full-fledged dance ballets and also stage dramas. Of course Lec-Dems on varied subjects by experts continue to have a place in the agenda.
Rasikas from abroad make it a point to visit Chennai during this season and one reputed Hotel in Mylapore informs that this year also the rooms were full during Nov/December and the visitors stayed till the end of music season.
All major sabhas will have canteens with traditional items at affordable rates, to satisfy the taste buds of the rasikas who will have continuous schedule from 9.00 A.M to 9.00 P.M.
M/S Fortune Sunflower edible oil had plied vans to shuttle between sabhas and the service was free for rasikas. This 'Fortune Carnatic Express' was introduced last year and had a help line painted on it. There were two such vehicles, one operating in Mylapore and the other in T.Nagar. The rasikas to access the vehicle thro' the mobile help line.
There was also a daily issue on the happenings at various sabhas till the end of Music Season i.e 1st Jan 2009 by a Neighbourhood News paper and a website on South Indian Classical Music & Dance.
Below is the photo of December Music Season, 2008, Chennai.
Articles on Lec-Dem and on Dance Ballet will be published in due course.
