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Historical - 2003
Report on the Annual General Body Meeting:
The Annual General Body meeting of the CCMA was held on Saturday November 23, 2003 at the Upper Arlington City Auditorium. The Election Return Officer, Nat Rammohan presented the results of the election for the Executive Committee. There were two nominations received for the two vacancies, those of Sukeerthi Seetharaman and Sathish Sattanathan. They both were declared elected unopposed for the three year term beginning Jan 2004.
The Treasurer then presented the final accounts for the fiscal year 2002. After this the President presented the Annual Report.
We have successfully completed the third year of activities. We arranged the following nine concerts. We also arranged a one-day work-shop in Carnatic music conducted by Geetha Bennett. Three neighboring Universities supported this program. These would not have been possible without you sustained support and the enthusiasm and help of many volunteers. Our thanks are due to all our members and patrons, to Shri Aswath who got our brochures printed at no cost, to the families who hosted the artists during the year, to Nat Rammohan, Elegance of India, Dr. Jawahar Pala, Dr. Sudhir Sehgal, Dr. Manmohan Katapadi, Dr. Lakshmi Seshadri for financial support and the volunteers who helped in making the arrangements before and after the
concerts. As the President I express my sincere thanks for the continued support and cooperation I have received from the members of the Executive Committee.
Ram Chandrasekar
President
Events Conducted in 2003
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No. |
Main Artist(s) |
Accompanists |
Date |
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1. |
S.Shashank (Flute) |
B.U.Ganeshprasad (Violin), P.S.Phalgun (Mridangam),
A.S.Shankar (Ghatam) |
Sun, Mar 16 |
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2. |
Geetha Benett (Veena) |
Jayanth.B (Mridangam), Ravi.B (Ghatam) |
Sat, Apr 5 |
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3. |
Jayanthi Kumaresh(Veena) |
Neyveli Narayan (Mridangam) |
Thu, Apr 24 |
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4. |
Ranjani & Gayatri (Vocal) |
H.N.Bhaskar (Violin) & Manoj Siva (Mridangam) |
Fri, May 2 |
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5. |
Aruna Sairam (Vocal) |
B.V.Raghavendra Rao (Violin), J.Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam), S.Karthik (Ghatam) |
Fri, May 16 |
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6. |
Ganesh & Kumaresh (Violin Duet) |
Neyveli Venkatesh (Mridangam) T.Radhakrishnan (Ghatam) |
Sat, May 31 |
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7. |
M.S.Sheela (Vocal) |
Charulatha.R (Violin),
A. Ananthakrishna.S (Mridangam), B.S.Arunkumar (Morsing) |
Fri, Jun 13 |
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9. |
Kiranavali Narasimhan (Vocal)
O.S.Thiagarajan
(Vocal)
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Akkarai Subbalakshmi (Violin), J.Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam)
Delhi Sunderrajan (Violin), Neyveli Narayanan (Mridangam) |
Sat, Sep 20
Sun, Oct.19 |
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Historical - 2002
Report on the Annual General Body Meeting:
The Annual General Body meeting of the CCMA was held on Saturday November 16, 2002 at the Riley Auditorium, 178 West Park Street, Westerville, OH.
The Election Return Officer, Nat Rammohan presented the results of the election for the Executive Committee. There were two nominations received for the two vacancies, those of S.Thiagaraja Rao and Shankaran Krishnaswamy. They both were declared elected unapposed for the three year term beginning Jan 2003.
The Treasurer then presented the final accounts for the fiscal year 2001.After this the President presented the Annual Report.
Annual Report:
CCMA, during its second annual season, conducted eight concerts by artists visiting from India. The spring season started off with a concert by Raji Gopalakrishnan (vocal), followed by Ramani (flute), Unni Krishnan (vocal), Omanakutty Nair (vocal) and Balakrishna (veena). The fall season had three programs: T.M.Krishna (vocal), Sowmya (vocal) and Rama Ravi (vocal).
During 2002, we had a total of 52 family members, 17 individual members, 6 senior members and 5 student members. We continued our professional cooperation with CMAO (Dayton) by providing discounts for their members at our concerts and receiving such discounts for CCMA members at their concerts. We also purchased the audio system. We are now in the process of filing a petition with the IRS for a non-profit organization status for CCMA.
All these would not have been possible without your sustained support and the enthusiastic help from many volunteers. Our thanks are due to all our members and patrons, to Sri Aswath for printing our brochures gratis, to the families who hosted the artists during the year and to many volunteers who participated in making the arrangements before and after the concerts. We thank Sri Nat Rammohan, Sri Gopi Santhanam and Sri Suresh Pillai for financial support to purchase the audio equipment.
We are planning another exciting music season for CCMA in 2003 which may include artists like Shashank (flute), Jayanthi Kumaresh (veena), Ganesh-Kumaresh (violin duet), Sudha Raghunathan (vocal), M.S.Sheela (vocal), Aruna Sairam (vocal), Nityashree (vocal). It will be of considerable help in our planning if you can commit your continued membership for 2003 by paying the membership dues as early as possible. This will also help us in raising the fees needed for petitioning the IRS to obtain a non-profit status for CCMA.
I express my sincere thanks for the continued support and cooperation I have received from the members of the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee solicits your opinions as to how we can serve you better.
Ram Chandrasekar
President
EVENTS CONDUCTED IN 2002
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No. |
Main Artist(s) |
Accompanists |
Date |
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1. |
Raji Gopalakrishnan (Vocal) |
R.Hemalatha (Violin) & Poongulam Subramaniam (Mridangam) |
Fri, Mar 1 |
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2. |
Dr. N.Ramani (Flute) |
S.Varadarajan (Violin) & Srimushnam Raja Rao (Mridangam) |
Sat, Mar 23 |
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3. |
P.Unnikrishnan (Vocal) |
S.Varadarajan (Violin) & Srimushnam Raja Rao (Mridangam) |
Fri, Apr 19 |
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4. |
Dr.Omanakutty Nair (Vocal) |
Attukkal Subramaniam (Violin) & Vypeen Sateesh (Mridangam) |
Fri, May 17 |
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5. |
D. Balakrishna (Veena) |
Anoor Dattatreya Sharma (Mridangam) |
Sat, Jun 1 |
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6. |
T.M.Krishna (Vocal) |
B.U.Ganeshprasad (Violin) & J.Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam) |
Fri, Sep 6 |
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S.Soumya (Vocal) |
R.K.Sriramkumar (Violin) & Neyveli Narayanan (Mridangam) |
Fri, Sep 27 |
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8. |
Smt. Rama Ravi (Vocal) |
Nanditha Ravi (VocalSupport) & B.V.Raghavendra Rao (Violin) & Vinod Seetharaman (Mridangam) |
Sat, Nov 9 |
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Historical - 2001
The need for a Columbus-based organization to conduct Indian classical music concerts has been acutely felt in the community for sometime, so that the inconvenient travel of several hours to listen to concerts in neighboring cities is eliminated. The founding group spearheaded by Prakash Parasuram then embarked on a campaign to solicit support and membership for the new organization.
The initial meeting with the 35 paid members of the new organization was held on March 3, 2001 at the Upper Arlington City Hall. The general body approved the bylaws of the new organization to be known as Columbus Classical Music Association (CCMA) with the following objectives.
The objectives of CCMA are to nurture the appreciation & enjoyment of Indian Classical music in the greater Columbus area by initially providing concerts and lecture / demonstrations from reputed artists and support the learning of Indian classical music by children. CCMA also plans to work closely with other cultural organizations in the Columbus area to further common interests.
The General Body elected the following to the Executive Committee: M/s Prakash Parasuram, Ram Chandrasekar, Shankaran Krishnaswamy, Sathish Sattanathan and Thyagaraja Rao. Mrs. Lakshmi Priyanath was added to the team upon her return from India. Thanks to the efforts of several well-wishers of CCMA such as Prakash, Jayanthi Srinath, Usha Aswath, K. V. Murali - nearly one hundred members were enlisted in a short time.
The CCMA programs in the inaugural year have been successful largely due to the team effort and we thank every one involved. A summary of our activities during the year is given in the table. With your strong encouragement and support, the first year has been a good one with ten quality programs. We also encouraged local artists to display their talents - both from Columbus and from the region. We provided logical and financial support to other music programs in Columbus. We also received the support of many local organizations and even had some of CCMA programs jointly sponsored by them.
EVENTS CONDUCTED IN 2001
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No |
Main Artist(s) |
Accompanists |
Date |
Co-sponsor,
if any |
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Usha Char - Vocal
(Inaugural concert) |
Radhika Char / Anoor Dattatreya Sharma / A. V. Kashinath / Sathyakumar |
Fri, Mar. 28
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1 |
Sudha Raghunathan - Vocal |
Embar Kannan
Palladam Ravi
Gurunathan |
Sun, May 13
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2 |
Malladi Brothers - Vocal |
B. V. Raghavendra Rao
Neyveli Venkatesh |
Fri, June 2
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3 |
Shashank - Flute |
Peri Sriramamurti
Poovalur Srinivasan |
Fri, June 16
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4 |
Kalpana Venkat & Sudhir Phadke
Violin-Sitar Jugal |
Vinod Seetharam
Mahatma Phule |
Sun, July 8
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Swaranjali |
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5 |
Jayamangala
Vocal / Mridangam |
Rajalakshmi Krishnan
P. K. Swaminathan |
Sat, July 22
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Vindhya Cultural Association |
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6 |
T. Rukmini & Kalpana Venkat
Violin Duet |
Vinod Seetharam |
Sat, Aug 15
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7 |
Bombay Jayashree
Vocal |
Kalpana Venkat
Vinod Seetharam |
Sat, Sep. 22
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India
Students Assn |
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8 |
Hyderabad Brothers
Vocal |
Delhi Sunderrajan
Srimushnam Raja Rao |
Fri, Oct. 12
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9 |
Columbus Brothers
Vocal
(Dikshitar Memorial Concert) |
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
Vinod Seetharam |
Sat, Oct. 27
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10 |
Sangeeta Mela
Regional Artists |
Regional Artists
(Sangeeta Mela) |
Sat, Dec. 1
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