Long waited Symphony by Illayaraja CD will be officially released by Illayaraja and handed over to our President and Prime Minister in a simple function on April 14th (Tamil New Year)

Official CD will be released by May 7th.

Credits:

Music Composed By: Dr Illayaraja
Orchestra Conducted By : Laszlo Kovacs of Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Sound Engineer: Richard King (5 time grammy award winner)
English translation of selected verses: Mr. Stephen Schwartz, the Oscar award winning lyricist of Pocahontas and Prince of Egypt

For more about TIS please visit

http://www.tis-usa.com

president PM, who? what?

and the big question is, WILL YOU be carrying this disc??

President and PrimeMinister of India.



YES.

Should I hug you now or later?

Later ( i put on weight, so you cant hug me completely now, but by the time TIS comes out, I will reduce 10 lb atleast - Veggie Delight in Subway man!)

This one sounds yummy. I'm picking this up.

Courtesty http://www.tis-usa.com/


[April 16, 2005] - Ilaiyaraaja has presented a copy of the Thiruvasakam CD to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during the multimedia exhibitio on Gandhi inagurated by the PM on April 14. Next week both Father Jegath and Ilaiyaraaja will be in Delhi, to present a copy of the CD to President Abdul Kalam. A deal with SaRiGaMa is to expected be inked next week, and the CDs are expected to be available in the market during the 2nd or 3rd week of May. US and overseas deals are also being finalised and the details will be announced shortly.

CD will be released by mid/end June. I am getting a sample 2 minute promo CD next week. There are totally 6 songs, ranging from pure western classical to a fusion between western and folk song, to pure folk song. The promo song is from the 22 minute song that Stephen Schwartz translated in english (sung by a grammy award winner singer along with IR). The music conductor of Hungarian Symphony said that this piece will be heard all over the world for the milleniums to come. IR himself told that he has never done something like this before and he himself was truly amazed. I am really excited and looking forward for this.

I know this has nothing to do with the Symphony but curios about these releases ( sounds like devotional albums )

http://www.agimusic.com/index.html








Sample mp3's can be found @
http://www.agimusic.com/gururamanageetam.html

Songs are good, but doesnt have a devotional appeal. There is a huge demand for this product in Canada, UK and other european countries, mainly due to devoted srilankan IR fans.

On a seperate topic, IR also announced a world tour that excludes USA, just because USA doesnt have a consolidated IR fans. fans are scattered across different states. Last week we had "Kaathadi Ramamoorthi" drama in NJ and it had very good response. I am wondering if IR should attempt to conduct one performance atleast in North East!!!

Why doesn't he come to NY/NJ/Dallas/Houston/LA, etc? I'm sure they would give him a good reception.

if this happens, I'm FLYING to the dredded east coast!! possibly a ONCE in a life time opportunity for me

i've also been looking for that guru ramana geetham disc!!

From the IR Yahoo Group:

Dear Friends,

Here is the good news that we have been expecting for the past 2 years
and more:

'Thiruvasakam By Ilaiyaraaja' will be launched on June 26, 2005 at
Chennai in a grand function that will be attended and presided over by
many dignitaries. The deal had been signed with 'HMV'only yesterday.
So, it is time that we get ready for the action plan, according to Rev
Fr Jegath Gaspar Raj.

The price will be announced just before release only, to avoid
confusion. Let us get set for the next signal.

Yours Always Musically,
Vijay.

I hope June 26th is the "final" date - pretty much tired of waiting ...

I would think so. Even HMV is talking about 3rd week of June, so thats probably it. The rumor is that the President will preside over the function and speak about Thiruvasagam, IR. It is expected that the function will be attended by many film and non-film personalities. Some of the people to look forward include Jayalalitha, Rajni and none other than ARR!!! Hopefully we can get another ARR-IR picture thru this function.