Bangalore Gayana Samaja is organizing its 38th music conference from the 13th to the 20th of August 2006. The concerts scheduled for this period are as follows: 13th Aug 2006 Saxaphone: Kadri Gopalnath Violin: A. Kanyakumari Mridangam: V.Praveen Ghatam: Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan Khanjira: A.S.N.Swamy Morsing: B.Rajasekar 14th Aug 2006 Carnatic Vocal: Bombay Jayashri Ramnath Violin: Mysore Srikanth Mridangam: Satish Kumar Khanjira: Rajagopalan 15th Aug 2006 Carnatic Vocal: Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan (my all time favorite) Violin: H.K.Venkatram Mridangam: Umayalapuram K. Sivaraman Khanjira: N.Amruth 16th Aug 2006 Veena-violin jugalbandi: Jayanthi & Kumaresh Mridangam: Arjun Kumar Ghatam: Sukanya Ramagopal 17th Aug 2006 Carnatic Vocal: R.K.Padmanabha Violin: Mysore Manjunath Mridangam: C. Cheluvaraju Ghatam: G.S.Ramanujan 18th Aug 2006 Carnatic Vocal: T.M.Krishna (one of my favorite vocalists of the present generation) Violin: R.K.Sriramkumar Mridangam: K.V.Prasad Ghatam: Giridhar Udupa 19th Aug 2006 Violin Duet: Mysore Manjunath & Mysore Nagaraj Mridangam: Srimushnam V. Raja Rao Morsing: Vyasa Vittala 20th Aug 2006 Bharatnatyam: Sridhara & Anuradha The season ticket for the complete conference is Rs. 150 for non-members and Rs. 120 for members. Alternatively, once can buy tickets for the individual concerts for Rs. 30. All concerts are from 6PM to 9PM. Most of the concerts are by artistes who are very well known in the field. The accompanists are also class artists themselves. For example, some of the best senior mridangists are playing in this music conference (Umayalapuram K. Sivaraman, Palghat Raghu, Srimushnam Raja Rao). Eagerly looking forward to these concerts. Apart from these concerts, there are also expert sessions from 9:45AM to 12:15PM. The schedule for the same is as follows: Conference President: Mysore V Subramanya 14th Aug 2006: Inauguration; Key note address by Dr. V.V.Srivatsa; Lecture Demonstration by Bombay Jayashri 15th Aug 2006: Muthiah Bhagavathar - T.N.Seshagopalan & Face-to-face with Umayalapuram Sivaraman (Q&A) 16th Aug 2006: Jayachamaraja Wodeyar - Dr. Sukanya Prabhakar; Mysore Sadashivarao - Dr. R.K.Srikantan & demo by M.S. Sheela, T.S.Satyavati & R.A.Ramamani 17th Aug 2006: Mysore Vasudevacharya - S. Rajaram; Music in Dance - Maya Rao & demo by artists of Institute of Kathak and Coreography 18th Aug 2006: Veena Seshanna - Mysore V. Subramanya & demo by Rajalakshmi Tirunarayanan; Lakshya & lakshana in Carnatic music - T.M.Krishna 19th Aug 2006: Ganapathi in music - M.S.Sheela; Padam & Javali - Mysore Nagamani Srinath; Concluding remarks by President; Resolutions