Pilot Report

Posts Tagged ‘five star hotels Chennai’

In under a month’s time, Chennai, India, will be hosting the Madras Music Season, an annual event held in December and January, so it may be best to start making calls now if you want to go in style and book a five star hotels Chennai, for the popular event.  In recent years, the Music Season has been called one of the largest cultural events on Earth, featuring over a thousand performances by hundreds of artists (ranging from vocal, instrumental, dance, and other arts).

Originally, the season began in 1928 to mark the start of the Madras Music Academy; it was a month-long festival of traditional music, with Carnatic music concerts (Carnatic music arises from two main subgenres of Indian classical music, one developing from Hindu traditions; the other coming from Hindustani music, emerging as its own form because of Islamic and Persian influence in Northern India) and harikathas (which literally means “stories of the Lord”), also known as Katha Kalakshepa, a kind of Hindu discussion on religion in which a religious theme is told about an Indian epic, although any Hindu religious theme can be the subject).  The season also includes lec-dems (i.e., lecture demonstrations), and titles and award ceremonies.  The idea of the Music Season was to act as a popular entertainment, and transmit religious, educational and cultural values to the people — in other words, to preserve the cultural heritage of the music of Southerm India.

Today, the Music Season has become more than just a way to allow those who appreciate Carnatic music to hear renowned artists.  It’s expanded to include drama and dance and other non-Carnatic art forms.

This year, artists, both new and well established, will give over a thousand performances in December and January, and dancers, singers, critics, and art lovers from across the world will be traveling to Chennai just for this event.  Overall, Chennai will host over 25 month-long festivals, with smaller festivals up to seven to ten days in length, as well as holding seminars and lectures and discussion groups.

Most of these performances will be run by Carnatic Sabhas, an organization that produces the concerts and gives out awards to the artists in recognition of their talent.  Most large sabhas own one or more halls, while the smaller sabhas will rent a hall for the season.  The main halls will usually seat up to 300 people while the mini halls (most performances are held here), seat about 75 people.