You are the first Indian, perhaps the first Asian musician to make a symphony. When did you decide to make it?

There was no need to make decisions. Music is my profession. Since there is one thing about symphony, you ask about it. I have already used sympony in film music and educated educated people about symphony. After fifty years, some people keep a list of my songs and complain that I have copied them from others. When quotes a couplet from a speaker TorukkuralWould you say that he has copied TorukkuralThere is an idea of ​​educating people. I do not distinguish between a symphony, a folk song or any other music. Everyone is the same for me. If you hear the background score Sundari Kannal Oru SethiA song in SlipathyIt is like a syphonic form. Of background score O Priya Priya, En Iniya Pon Nilway, Ninivo Oru Parvai And Madai Thiru There are elements. I just said that I was inspired by great musicians. Some people say that I have copied Franz Sent. His music often played in my mind when I was composing the film song. Although it gave me an inspiration, there was no relationship between the two. Even Rasikas do not know about it.

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I came from a village and I had no knowledge of music. I entered the world of the film and worked as an assistant to music directors. Even after becoming a music director, I also continued to learn, even if there was no need to learn. I l. Subramanian, L. Vaidyanathan, L. Learned from Shankar and his father Laxminarayanan. After this I learned from Dhakinamurthy Swami, Madurai Krishna Iyengar and finally TV Gopalakrishnan.

Still, I would not say that I learned. I can say that i understand Sect (Traditions) of music.

In the film, if a song of mine becomes a hit, then I have to make a better song next time. I have to compete against myself. But this is not possible in symphony music. When you decide to create a symphony, you should know what symphony is. You need 10 births to listen to the world’s greatest musicians. The violin is concertos, piano concertos, flute concertos and Sonatas.

I am an Indian – a South Indian born in a small village (PlaquateI can’t include a symphony, when I was younger I heard music. There is no place for my identity as a film musician in symphony composition.

I cannot give a place for the complaint that I have used the background score of a film song. I should not be a part of Indian elements in me. If these elements are there, some people may say that one Indian has composed.

My purpose is to write a real symphony. While writing, I should also be careful that the sounds and elements found in the composition of the greatest musicians are not in my writing. Then people can say that I have copied Bethoven or Mozart and ignored my symphony. I am saying that I had to face difficulties that I had to face. I was surprised by the reaction received from the world’s best conductors for my score. A great conductor said, “I can’t believe it.” I do not want to reveal his name. I wrote it in just 34 days. The conductor said, “This is beyond perfection. I cannot sleep tonight. ,

In India, some performance, for example, is called Symphony by a sitar symphony and Shreya Ghoshal to mark the birthday of Pandit Ravi Shankar. Your comments.

What should I say? Can you say as a cinema song Effect, Effect There is a form. it is Pallavi, Compliant, Saranam, Neerwal And other elements. I was vested in Gurukul, Hariprasad Chaurasia. Around 25 floatists played and were described as symphony. I made it clear to Shri Hariprasad Chaurasia on this occasion that it should not be called symphony.

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Symphony is a major form and some cannot be called symphony if it does not fit the form. There is no symphony in India. When Jagjit Singh performed Ghazal, it was dubbed as symphony. Some keyboard players, tabla players and guitarists performing together cannot be a symphony.

Can you explain the form of a symphony?

It (the structure of a symphony) is like a statement. The first subject is. The first is another part of the subject that should be in a particular key. Then there is another subject and it should be in a particular key. Then growth, improvement through orchestration, counterpoint and recaptulation, which means repeating what has been said earlier. Should return to the original before the end.

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Like a symphony Pallavi, Compliant And Saranam In Karnataka music. There is a first subject in the first movement. Second subject is like Compliant And development is Saranam In which the singer does NeerwalYou should understand this type of symphony. There are clear rules and regulations.

Who was during the composition – do you praise Ilaiyaraja of Pannapuram or Western musician?

Why do you expect me to be like them? I am none of them. You are trying to put words in my mouth. I would like to be recognized by the music that I have created. I only want to respect my music. Even if I try to be someone, it will not happen. God will slap me on my head and show his place.

You said that you have used symphony elements in the background score of film music. You have released two albums, How to name it And Nothing but windCan you explain a pure symphony to Rasika?

This cannot be explained. It should be experienced. Music is an experience.

Don’t you think some knowledge is required to enjoy it?

What knowledge has you used while enjoying film music? You are able to differentiate between a good song and a good song. How do you separate it? Knowledge or spirit? Bhavna is important.

So you say is it important to feel to enjoy all forms of music?

Not just music. It is important for everything. Emotion is knowledge. Knowledge is not a separate unit.

But I cannot enjoy Karnataka music without some basic knowledge.

If you are able to enjoy Karnataka music, then you are a great rasika. It is not easy to enjoy it.

This is why I am asking whether to feel alone is enough to enjoy symphony?

First listen to a symphony and question whether a late Rasika can enjoy it or not. You are asking if an ordinary person can understand and enjoy the confluence poetry.

Don’t you think some knowledge is required in Indian context?

Are you suggest that symphony music is not required in India? There is a Tamil saying, Chitiramam kai pajahakkam (Makes the practice perfect). You also need rasai (ability to appreciate) to appreciate symphony.

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Someone can enjoy singing a film and separate a good song from a bad because it should have listened to it for a long time. A symphony is not for everyone. This is something different and you cannot expect equality in it. Why should a man be born if he is not able to accept that something great in the world? We should accept the great as great. That is why we appreciate Sangam literature even after 2,000 years. Tholakappiaam 5,000 years old.

Why did you decide to record your symphony in England? Do we have artists capable of performing for symphony?

If you know such musicians here, tell me and we can record a symphony here. Don’t you know that we do not have an orchestra available in London in India? There were five orchestras in Bombay, Calcutta and Delhi during the British period. In Mysore, there was a symphony orchestra and they would practice throughout the year to perform during Dussehra. But today we have nothing.

Do you have a plan to organize live performance of your symphony in India?

Only the government can do this. If you are ready to invest, we can do it.

There is harmony in a symphony. Does it allow elements of melody?

I have done everything in film songs. Harmony means the difference. The difference with being together is harmony. Harmony does not mean unilateral. Many notes played simultaneously are called harmony. There are more than one note counterpoints to be played simultaneously.

There is an argument that Pathos also underlines your happy songs in films. Some people say that all the songs of Ilaiyaraja increase the pathos. Have you done this intentionally or is it only a feeling shared by some people?

It depends on how someone sees it. This is your feeling and I cannot say anything about it because my job ends with the composition of song. there is a saying, Ethanai Kodi inbum Vaithi Iriva (Oh God! You have given a lot of happiness). A communist would say that only rich men are happy and no one cares about the poor. A monk would say that human birth is a useless. The world is what an audience sees.

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As everyone has an opinion of the world and opinion becomes its world, a song will have a different impact on someone else. This would offer him solitude in a painful moment. When he is with her lover, she would feel a pleasant feeling. I have not made with any prior perception. For me, the film director should fix the film song.

For many people, your songs also create a painful indifferent spirit.

Yes, it is in my creations. But this feeling also depends on time and circumstances. The songs I heard as a young man still captures my memories.