Ilaiyaraja @ HP Pavilion
- When
- Fri Mar 1, 2013
- Where
- SAP Center
- Time
- 7:30pm
- Cost
- $85 - $116.25
- Tags
- Music, Concerts
Description
Ilayaraja presents a symphony style live Orchestra featuring Tamil and Telugu songs. He was born and raised in an abtruse village near Kambam in Southern Tamil Nadu.He become the "first Asian to score a symphony for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, besides scoring over 500 feature films in a period of 20 years. Raja, as he is popularly known and affectionately called, comes from a family of musicians. His mother, a huge repository of Tamil folk songs, seems to be a very strong influence in his music. He learned to play the harmonium, the typical musical instrument used in street performances. The team of the brothers, the eldest being Pavalar Varadharajan, a poet, worked as a group of musicians traveling across the state, accompanying theater artists. Raja picked up most of his acumen for audience tastes during this period."-http://www.imdb.com
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