: Hi, : I am Balaji, a first yr grad student at rice university, Houston.This is the third time I am writng to this forum : I am greatly interested in learning mridangam or Dholak. I am also interested in learning carnatic vocals. : If there is anybody giving lessons in any of the above near Rice univ. Kindly pl let me know. : thanx

-- balaji Sitharaman (balu@rice.edu), October 14, 2000

Answers

Greetings,

If you already found a teacher... please let me know...

Please do try contacting http://www.iaahouston.com/

or

KalaiOli EthnoMusicals in Houston, Texas (phone:281-480-4535) is a local source for meeting the musical needs through the sale of Carnatic and Hindustani Musical Instruments, Books and Educational Multimedia CDs, as well as Dance Artificial Jewelry and Books. - SHRIE - om@msn.com

Best Regards, Kishore.

-- Kishore Balakrishnan (kishore@carnatic.com), July 21, 2001.

hello balaji.. i'm looking for students who are interested in pursuing carnatic music.i'm a student of renowned smt.sarada subrahmanyam and smt.saileshwari..for details feel free to contact me at the above e- mail address or call me at 713-460-3392 bharathi.

-- mrs.bharathi annapurna (bharathi_carnatic@hotmail.com), March 03, 2002.

I AM K T DASARATHY WILLING TO TEACH CARNATIC CLASSIC FLUTE THE ON LINE. PLS CONTACT MY EMAL ID ktdasarat99@yahoo.com for further details

-- K T DASARATHY (ktdasarat99@yahoo.com), May 05, 2002.

Dear Balaji, This is with reference to your request to learn vocal and mridangam. I am interested to help you in this regard. I am teaching vocal through ONLINE. If you are interested in learning through online, you can contact me at: Raghuwind@hotmail.com. With best wishes, Raghu

-- S.Raghu (raghuwind@hotmail.com), May 11, 2002.

Hello , I'm Anil Prabhu & i own a company entitled "Dancing Dolphin" based in Central New Jersey that's in the business of distributing music for the N.American territory. I've been in the music industry for approximately 13 years in Bombay & have been in New Jersey since the last year & a half. Dancing Dolphin has exclusive contracts with approximately 20 Indian music cos prominent amongst which are reputable Indian cos such as BMG/Inreco/Geethanjali/Lahari/Sagar Sangeeth/Aditya etc & until now was only servicing wholesellers but am in the process of developing my website www.dancingdolphinmusic.com & have started servicing direct enquiries as i find that there is a genuine lack of maturity to the retail environment as regards Indian music. From the cos that i represent,quite a few are from the South & hence have an array of carnatic/devotional/sanskrit shlokas etc. I have noticed from this forum that there are quite a few queries pertaining to the non availability of carnatic titles & am willing to give it a shot in trying to obtain the same for them. Kindly revert with enquiries at aprabhu@hotmail.com my tel # is 732- 6989880. Warm regards, Anil Prabhu.

-- Anil Prabhu (aprabhu@hotmail.com), May 11, 2002.