tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69305341504806818542024-03-13T03:47:56.641-07:00SPIC MACAY, St. Stephen's CollegeSociety for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst YouthSPIC MACAY, St. Stephen's Collegehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11892873564045809057noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930534150480681854.post-79400820347458065722011-01-16T03:53:00.000-08:002011-01-16T04:06:48.480-08:00SYMPHONY 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" ><b><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MpowLNIjzY/TTLezFq11lI/AAAAAAAAADA/8riTXn_jdDE/s1600/JAZZFINAL.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MpowLNIjzY/TTLezFq11lI/AAAAAAAAADA/8riTXn_jdDE/s200/JAZZFINAL.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562753459032544850" /></a><br />So guys this year SPIC MACAY SSC brings you the jazz fest SYMPHONY 2011 on 21st January.The quatret<span class="Apple-style-span" > DABRHAHI </span>hails from NORWAY .<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" >Date: FRIDAY ,21st JANUARY 2011<br />Time: 5:30 pm<br />The venue is COLLEGE HALL, St. Stephen's College</span><br /><br />there band consists of:<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" >OLAV DALE (saxophones and flute) is a leading jazz musician in Norway. He made his debut as a jazz musician 33 years ago, and during these years he has formed different groups of musicians, he has been soloist with military bands, he has performed more than 1000 school concerts and he has played with major jazz musicians as Phil Woods, Andy Shepherd and DianaKrall to mention only a few. Presently Olav Dale is playing in several bands or projects, and he is the recipient of 3 important prizes in Norway.<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br />ERIK H. HALVORSEN (piano) has been educated as a pianist, and he was employed as a musician in the North of Norway for nine years (1995-2004). His position as district musician, made him take part in many different musical settings, and he had to master different styles of music as well. After coming to Bergen he has released his own CD with his own jazz trio in 2007 receiving acclaim both nationally and even from BBC music in England. Erik H. Halvorsen has performed on many records from jazz to popular music.<br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" >Torbjørn HILLERSøY(electric bass guitar) has been working as a freelance guitarist for many years I the western part of Norway. He has performed schools concerts and taken part in a number of recordings with various artists. Torbjørn is versatile in playing style, and has performed sophisticated jazz music (as in Dabrahahi) as well as more main street jazz as well as music made by the minority population of Scandinavia (the Lapp people)<br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" >STEIN IngeBrækhus (drums/percussion) has worked as a free lance musician the last 20 years, and as such taken part in a variety of bands and musical settings. He is one of the most sought after studio musicians in Norway –and he has been playing bossa nova from Brazil and big band music as well as Argentinianbandoneon music! He has also played with international artists like CyroBaptista and Diana Krall. In addition to his playing, Stein Inge is also lecturing at the Institute of Music and Dance at the University of Stavanger. He received the Vossa-Jazz prize in 2001</span>.</b></span>SPIC MACAY, St. Stephen's Collegehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11892873564045809057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930534150480681854.post-71992742629975725092010-10-23T13:52:00.000-07:002012-10-14T05:56:15.378-07:00IDEA VIRASAT 2010 embarks upon 25th october<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span">As 25th October nears the SPIC MACAY ST. Stephen's College gears up to present there annual Indian classical dance and musical extravaganza</span> <b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">IDEA VIRASAT</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> 2010</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">(in association with HT city edge)....The fest ranging over a week covers classical music , classical dance and folk music performances </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">by renowned artists carefully selected from all over India.The fest stands to promote awareness amongst youth regarding the losing grip of great and diverse Indian classical culture of music and dance...As the fest approaches with wide scale publicity being done ranging from hoardings,radio announcements(Big Radio 92.7) ,newspaper advertisments(Dainik Jagran) to poster being placed in south campus colleges....VIRASAT aiming at broader goal attracts </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>people from all over Delhi of all age grou</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>ps...engrossing them in divine and enchanting effects of thousands of years old Indian art forms beings practiced and carried forward by various Gharanas over India.</b></span><br />
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SPIC MACAY, St. Stephen's Collegehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11892873564045809057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930534150480681854.post-70729723713075939732010-08-03T03:38:00.000-07:002010-08-03T03:42:05.144-07:00Welcome First YearsI hope you guys find time to visit our blog regularly.<br />Please Note that our all the activities this year will be dedicated to Dr. Rabindra Nath Tagore (Thakur).<br /><br />So, I would like one of the first years to take up the job of collecting info about Thakurji, so as to bring an exhibit on him in orientation.<br /><br />And, Welcome to St. Stephen's College.<br /><br />any queries can be made at <a href="mailto:spicmacay.ssc@gmail.com">spicmacay.ssc@gmail.com</a><br /><br />It will be great if some take up the job of working on our blog and website.<br /><br />:-)SPIC MACAY, St. Stephen's Collegehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11892873564045809057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930534150480681854.post-1589922042552377842010-07-03T04:22:00.000-07:002010-07-03T04:23:03.861-07:00Get Free Get "Azad".<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small; border-collapse: collapse; ">Say "So'ham, So'ham" whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly—that what we see never existed, that there is only "I". Flash--the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small; border-collapse: collapse; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small; border-collapse: collapse; ">.. Swami Viveknananda</span></div>SPIC MACAY, St. Stephen's Collegehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11892873564045809057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930534150480681854.post-41324236228633790042010-07-03T04:06:00.000-07:002010-07-03T04:09:05.893-07:00Beethoven said:<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="sqq" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;">Music should strike fire from the heart of a man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman!</span></b></span></span></div>SPIC MACAY, St. Stephen's Collegehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11892873564045809057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930534150480681854.post-20097936337920445712010-06-21T10:55:00.000-07:002010-06-21T10:56:09.337-07:00Hello!<div>Dedicated to various hard and soft aspects of age-old Indian culture, we are a group of Stephanians, working to bring back the lost glory of India amongst the youth.</div><div><br /></div><div>SPIC MACAY is a non-governmental non-profit organisation. It seeks to conserve the Cultural Heritage of India.</div><div><br /></div><div>Our goal is to generate an awareness of the traditions which our civilization has fostered for centuries and millennia, in the time span between it's birth in the Bronze-age to the present time when a young Indian refuses to settle in a 'gurukul', when the to-be-custodians of classical music have turned </div><div>into punks, when the art forms representing softest of intangible works of humanity is fighting for patronage, and when the young just does not care about "Inner" domain of things!</div><div><br /></div><div>It's an urge! It's the need! Come! Join the movement!</div>SPIC MACAY, St. Stephen's Collegehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11892873564045809057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930534150480681854.post-35895097679250286452010-06-21T10:52:00.000-07:002010-06-21T10:53:46.432-07:00Let my country awake!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Where the mind is without fear<br />and the head is held high;<br />Where knowledge is free;<br />Where the world has not been<br />broken up into fragments<br />by narrow domestic walls; ...<br />Where the clear stream of reason<br />has not lost its way into the<br />dreary desert sand of dead habit; ...<br />Into that heaven of freedom,<br />my Father, let my country awake.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">..Tagore</span></span></div>SPIC MACAY, St. Stephen's Collegehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11892873564045809057noreply@blogger.com2