Dear Sir/Madam, I, Chethan Gururaja, will be coming to USA for further studies in mechanical engg. My semester will start in Jan 2001. I will join CWRU at Cleveland(OH) or GMU at Fairfax(VA). I have been learning Carnatic music(vocal) for the last 8 years from Shankar in Bangalore. I would like to continue with learning music. Please suggest me some music teachers in these two cities. Please note that I may not be able to learn if the teacher charges a large amount as fee since I have received financial asst. I will have to take up an off campus job & fund myself. Please reply and oblige.

Sincerely, Chethan Gururaja.

-- Chethan Gururaja (g.chethan@eudoramail.com), September 17, 2000

Answers

In the spirit of 'Better late than never'... please contact Sandhya Sundaram: Phone: 513 758 0039 - submitted by Raji - raji@vivraji.com

-- Kishore Balakrishnan (kishore@carnatic.com), July 24, 2001.

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.