2/19/2003 Pallavi Newsletter a) Announcements b) News c) Memberships d) New Membership policies ------------------------------------------------------------------------- a) Announcements: The following concerts will be held in the spring of 2003. 1) Zakir Hussain/L. Shankar Concert at the Egg in Albany On Sunday March 23 at 3 PM, the tabla master and virtuoso, Zakir Hussain and famed violin master L. Shankar will present a performance of captivating Indian music in the Kitty Carlisle Hart Theatre of the Egg in Albany. Tickets may be ordered by phone at 518-473-1845 or by mail at The Egg, P.O. Box 2065, Albany, NY 12220. The ticket price is $24 per person with a handling charge of $3 for each order by phone or mail. Tickets may be purchased at the Egg box office also. http://www.theegg.org/ 2) Flute Maestero Sashank's concert on April 4th at Hindu Temple, 6:45 - 9:45 pm Hindu Temple Society and Kananda Koota are the main sponsors. Pallavi is helping with the publicity. Tickets:$200 (Patron), $100 (sponsor), $50 (co-sponsor), $10 (general), $5(students). This is not one of the Pallavi concerts. The power point poster can be found at http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~moorthy/sk.ppt 3) Thyagaraja Aradhana Concert on May 11th at Hindu Temple, Morning Pancha Ratna Kritis rendering and afternoon Vocal Concert by M. S. Sheela 4) Malladi Brothers Vocal Concert on May 23rd evening. Details will be announced in the next newsletter. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pancharatna Kritis Practice Session: Prof. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (kalyas@rpi.edu) is co-ordinating the singing this year. The practices will start this weekend. Please email him if you are interested. Last year and the year before, under the leadership of Shivkumar, we had a great session in the morning. Please try to participate. Old and new people are welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- b)News: 1) P.N. Krishnamoorthy will be coming back to our area on March 10th. He has been imparting his musical knowledge for the past four years. If you are interested in learning, please contact Prof. Lakshmi Mohan lm173@csunix.albany.edu 2)Our last meeting was in November 2002. This was a concert by local artists. We had a number of local artists (young and experienced ones) presenting their musical talents. That event was well received by the Pallavi members. The general body approved the budget. We elected 2003 office bearers. They include: M. Raghavachari, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Nalini Madiwale, Ravi Pilar, Jayasimha Kinnambille, Suresh Rajaraman, Narayan Nair, Satish Raghunath, Swatantra Mitta and M. Krishnamoorthy 3) We received partial funding from Albany Schenectady League of Arts. We got $730.00. This amount is lower than what we received last two years. Hope Pallavi Members continue to support Pallavi. We are planning to have at least four or five concerts this year. 4) Thanks to the effort of Sri. Naryan Nair, Pallavi is in the final stage of getting matching support from GE. We will hear from the final word from GE soon. (Support for Pallavi was approved at the local(capital district) level of GE ). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- c) Membership: Pallavi wants to thank Dr. Nalini Madiwale for being the first Patron Promoter for the year 2003. Thanks again Dr. Nalini Madiwale. Pallavi welcomes the new Pallvi member: Dr. Suresh Mathur of Rochester. Please renew your Pallavi membership. You can send the check (tax-deductible) to Pallavi of the Capital District, P. O. Box 1732, Latham, NY 12110. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- d) New Membership Policies: At the last board meeting, new membership policies are introduced. Pallavi board members are doing their best to bring in talent musicians to our area. It costs more (especially after September 11, 2001) to bring artists from India. At the annual General Membership Meeting of Pallavi on Nov. 23, 2002 Dr. Raghavachari introduced a motion to change the annual membership and donation categories of Pallavi. After Dr. Raghavachari's explanation of the reasons for the changes and discussion by the members present at the meeting, the motion was unanimously approved by the general membership. T he new categories of membership and donations are noted below: Annual Membership Classes Family Patron (Admission to all concerts free for two people) $120 Individual Patron (Admission to all concerts free for the individual) $ 50 Family Membership (Pass for two two people for one concert) $ 30 Individual Membership (Pass for one concert for the Individual) $ 20 Student Member (Admission to all concerts free) $ 10 Life Member (Admission to all concerts free for two people for four years)$400 Note: Life membership fee can be paid in two consecutive annual installments of $200 each or in one installment of $400. Annual Donation Categories Patron/Promoter $500 Sponsor/Promoter $250 Donors will be recognized at every event of Pallavi during the year as Patrons or Sponsors.