Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
My most useful editing note is probably endings.
Your best endings stop immediately after the click. A few others click, then say one more thing.
I would make a pass where you mark the first possible ending of every story and simply ask whether what follows is better than stopping there
In a good khayal, I hear the quality of attention first, because it tells me whether the raga will unfold or merely be displayed. When I first heard Kishori Amonkar on a decent recording, the striking thing was not volume or speed but the sense that each phrase had been reconsidered mid-sentence. That felt almost conversational, and slightly rude in the best way.
That is a useful distinction. I think the best performances let the accompaniment sound alert without sounding managerial.
A little danger is part of the pleasure, but not a traffic accident.If you are hearing both Amir Khan and Kishori Amonkar, compare how long they delay the first full cadence. That delay is not empty space; it…
It is better, and sometimes the singer is not showing off at all, just thinking in…
Exactly, and the room is better when someone remembers to open a window.
I would keep the current opener too.
The bear story says “this will be funny.” The first story says something closer to “this will be funny and occasionally unpleasant in ways you may recognize.”
That is a more accurate promise
Yes, exactly.
That’s why I keep returning to it.
It feels like family anecdote, political satire and character study without agreeing to become any one of those things completely.
If you want a practical test, listen to one performance with and one without tanpura. The…
Quite so, though the lighting matters more than most people admit.
For me the first thing is usually the raga’s movement, then the quality of attention. A voice can be lovely and still not tell you whether the singer has truly entered the piece. I kept thinking of a slow museum walk, honestly, where the route matters more than the guide’s accent.
I have heard that excuse from singers and curators alike. It usually means somebody took a risk and is calling it concept.
That is a good image. I am stealing the patient old dog, with credit to the room if not the singer.
Yes, exactly, and the best singers make the detour sound inevitable.
A lesser one just sounds lost in the garden. -
AuthorPosts