12: 00 PM Ticket Counter (Registration Booth) Opens12: 00 - 4: 30 PM Singing Competition on RD Burman Songs (Adults/Kids)5: 30 PM Welcome Speech by Vijaya Aasuri (Event’s MC)5: 33 PM Prardhana Geetam (by Himaja Movva)5: 35 PM Jyothi Prajwalana by Mr. and Mrs. Venkata Sudhakar Simhadri (Chief Guest)5: 40 PM A Few Words by Srinivas Chimata (Event Organizer)4: 42 PM Introductory Speech on RD Burman by Vijaya Aasuri5: 45 PM First Song starts7: 00 PM Sponsors’ Felicitation on the Stage7: 45 PM Dinner Break (Food Vendor: Peacock Restaurant)8: 15 PM Saxophone Performance by Ramesh Maraj (www.indisax.com)8: 20 PM Second Part of the Concert starts9: 30 PM Mementos (to Singers, Musicians, Volunteers & Singing Competition Winners)9: 45 PM Vote of Thanks (by Vijaya Aasuri & Srinivas Chimata)

Program Schedule (Saturday, 12/04/2010)

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Rahul Dev “RD” Burman was India’s most popular composer in the 1970’s, famous for his peppy tunes. He teamed up with singers Mohammed Md. Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar and others to churn up some of the biggest hits in the Bollywood music history.

Born on June 27, 1939, Burman was the only child of the famous singer-music director, Sachin Dev Burman. He was born and brought up in Calcutta. Popularly known as Pancham (the nickname apparently given to him by the actor Ashok Kumar, when he found the child only singing pa...pa..pa from the “sargam”), RD Burman scored music for over 300 films.

He was just nine years old, when he composed his first song, Aye meri topi palat ke aa, which his father later used in the film Funtoosh (1956). The tune of the song Sar jo tera chakraaye was composed by him as a child. His father loved the tune and included it in the soundtrack of Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa. In 2004, the soundtrack for Pyaasa was given an award for “The Best Music in Film” by Sight & Sound, the British Film Institute magazine.

As an young adult, Burman played his favorite instrument mouth organ in the famous song, Hai apna dil to aawara (Solva Saal - 1958, starring Dev Anand) and later for his friends, the music director duo, Laxmikant-Pyarelal for the movie Dosti (1964). After coming to Bombay on completing his matriculation, Burman learnt to play sarod under Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and later Ashish Khan. Later, he began to assist his father in music direction. The first film he signed as an independent music director was Bhoot Bangla, though his first release was Chhote Nawab for the same producer (the comdedian Mehmood).

His rise to fame was slow but steady. And in the early 70’s, he had a few competitors such as Kalyanji-Anandji and Lakshmikant-Pyarelal. DevAnand (Hare Rama Hare Krishna, Heera Panna), Shakti Samanta (Amar Prem, Kati Patang), Ramesh Sippy (Seeta aur Geeta, Sholay, Shakti),Ramesh Behl (Jawaani Diwaani), Vinod Chopra (Parinda, 1942 - A Love Story), Nazir Hussain (Teesri Manzil, Caravan, Yadon Ki Bataat, Humkisi Se Kam Nahin, Anaamika, Zamane Ko Dikhana Hai) and Gulzar (Parichay, Ijaazat, Kinara, Khushboo, Aandhi etc) were the staunch RD loyalists.

Out of his 331 released movies, 292 were in Hindi, 31 in Bangla, 3 in Telugu (Antham, Chinni Krishnudu, and Rocky), 2 each in Tamil & Oriyaand 1 in Marathi. RD also composed for five TV Serials in Hindi and Marathi.

Burman was comfortable with all types of music, be it the romantic Raat kali from Buddha Mil Gaya (1971), the sexy cabaret Piya tu ab toh aajafrom Caravan (1971), the ultimate hippie anthem Dum Maro Dum from Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1972) or the classical Raina beeti jaaye fromAmar Prem. It is said that Dev Anand did not include the complete version of Dum Maro Dum in Hare Rama Hare Krishna, as he was worriedthe song would overshadow the film! At times, RD doubled up as a singer too. His most famous song as a singer was Mehbooba from Sholay.

A master of creativity and improvisation, Burman is credited with the following:* In the song ‘Chura liya’ from Yadon Ki Barat (1973), he used the sound of a spoon hitting a glass.* For the song ‘Master jee kee aa gayeechiTThee’ from Kitaab (1977), he brought some desks from a classroom in the studio while recording and used them as percussion.* In the movie Abdullah, he used the sound of a bamboo whistle with a balloon tied to it for a song.* Once to get the sound of raindrops, he spent a whole rainy night in his house’s balcony recording the sound he wanted.* In the song O Manjhi Re from the movie Khushboo (1975), he used bottles with water filled at different levels and created a hollow sound by blowing into them and this sound effect was used with the orchestra.* During the recording of Hum donon do premee from Ajnabee (1974), the instrumentalists were on strike. So he improvised the song with emptied-out musical interludes and just listen the song!* RDB was the first to introduce the Brazilian bossa nova rhythm in Hindi film music – the song was Maar dalega dard-e-jigar, sung by Asha Bhonsle in Pati Patni. That rhythm has since been endlessly used for the Indian film music.

RD Burman was always known for rich compositions and employing a large orchestra group. Some of the notable members of his orchestraincluded Pundit Hari Prasad Chaurasia (Flute), Pundit Shiv Kumar Sharma (Santoor), and Bhupinder Singh (Hawaiian Guitar), who also sangseveral songs for RDB including the song Beeti Na Bitaayee Raina from Parichay which fetched a national award for him and for LataMangeshkar. Burman also introduced singers Amit Kumar, Abhijeet, and Shabbir Kumar to the industry.

His close association with Asha Bhonsle led to their marriage in 1980. Together, they recorded many memorable tunes and also staged manylive performances all over the world.

His last years were not too happy and unfortunately the success of his music did not translate in to his financial success. When Sagar (1985) failed at the box office in spite of his wonderful music, he found himself being sidelined. Following a heart attack in 1988, he underwent a bypass surgery abroad the next year. He then joked on himself that his bypass surgery made the film industry bypass him. While recuperating from the surgery, he was said to have composed over 2,000 tunes which he kept in his memory bank. He often said that his best tunes came to him in his dreams and that he had to be in happy frame of mind even while composing sad tunes. He passed away on Jan 4, 1994 followed by a massive heart attack. He is undoubtedly the most popular Indian music director in the 1970’s.

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Kaumudee was born in Mumbai, raised in Canada and went to UC Berkeley for her undergraduation. She has learnt Hindustani classical vocalfrom Shri Narendra Datar in Toronto, Canada. She has performed since the age of 14 in multiple cities across Canada and in the US, mostly inthe Bay Area. She loves the music direction of RD Burman, Madan Mohan, Khaiyyam to name a few. Her musical interests lie in singing oldfilm hits, Marathi songs, ghazals, semi-classical songs and bhajans. She is now pursuing her vocal training with Smt. Sujata Ghanekar, a student of Begum Parveen Sultana. She works for Google and lives in Sunnyvale. Visit her web site, http://www.Kaumudee.com for more info on her recent shows. This is the first time for Kaumudee to perform in a ChimataMusic concert.

Vidya hails from New Delhi and went to SUNY, Buffalo for her Masters degree. She started humming old Hindi melodies ever since she waslittle and heard these tunes on the radio while her mom and aunts were enjoying them in their times. Her penchant for music only grew and shestarted participating in her school choir and music societies and taking part in college competitions. She formally started training in Carnaticmusic under Mrs. Vasantha Krishnan in New Delhi and learnt from her for 6 years up untill she moved to the Bay Area. Out here, she has involvedherself with various music events and bands in the Bay area and around. She is currently continuing her music training by learning Hindustani music from Smt. Shubhangi Sakhalkar and hopes to continues her musical journey with times to come. She works for Yahoo and lives in Oakland. This is the first time for Vidya to perform in a ChimataMusic concert.

Though Sudha was born in Kurnool (AP), she was brought up in Chennai and Mumbai and she is fluent in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil. Music hasalways been an integral part of her life. She dabbled with Carnatic music in her childhood and later went on to pursue serious Hindustani classicalmusic under an able tutelage of Pandit Prabhakar Karekar in Mumbai. She has been in the US for 10 years and currently lives in Fremont, CA. She has performed in all of the ChimataMusic’s earlier concerts (Sathyam, KV Mahadevan and Ilaya Raja shows in 2009 and 2010).

Sachin hails from Varanasi (UP). His passion is performing live and giving his best to his audience. His energy on the stage has been his forte. He started listening to Bollywood music specifically Kishore Kumar, Rafi, SPB, Yesudas, Lata and Asha at a very young age. He has given several performances in Indian orchestras and Bay Area bands. His uncle is a very well known singer in Northen India and he grew up listening to him and enjoying the wonderful music of 70’s and 80’s. Had a year long Hindustani vocal training from Sri Mahesh Kale which he is very proud of. He is a big devotee of Kishore Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan. He is proudly associated with several foundations such as Kishore Kumar Foundation and does a lot of voluntary help there. He works for Cisco and lives in San Ramon. This is the first time for Sachin to perform in a ChimataMusic concert.

Kaumudee Torsekar:

Vidya Venkat:

Sudha Sastry:

Sachin Srivastava:

Mandeep Sidhu:

Narayanan Raju:

Prasad Mangina:

Pratyusha Gubbala:

Mandeep hails from Bhilai (Chattisgharh). Since his childhood days, he is an ardent fan of Md. Rafi and he used to get involved in concerts held by his uncle, paying a tribute to Rafi. During his colleges days, he represented his University in a national level singing competition held in Mumbai. In 2007, he won the Best Male Singer award in the Induz Idols Singing Competition held in the Bay Area. As a true fan of Rafi, he organized “Ek Shaam Rafi Ke Naam” concert every year on an occasion of Rafi’s death anniversary in his home town, Bhilai. After moving to the Bay Area in 2003, he continues the same passionate tradition of organizing the Rafi Concert every year. He works for US Postal Service and lives in San Jose. This is the first time for Mandeep to perform in a ChimataMusic concert.

Narayanan, a versatile singer, hails from Hyderabad. Moving to the bay area gave him an opportunity to restart his Carnatic music training withSmt. Jayashree Varadarajan. Since then he has been a regular performer in the bay area giving several concerts and programs. He is an activemember of local SiliconAndhra org and volunteers in supporting audio for several Silicon Andhra programs. He recently sang as a playbacksinger for a telugu movie “Prasthanam” (released in April’ 10). He works for HP and lives in Santa Clara, CA. He earlier sang in ChimataMusic’sIlaya Raja Concert in June 2010.

Prasad hails from Tadepalli Gudem (AP) and settled in Hyderabad. He has been very actively involved with BATA for the last 8 years and served in various BATA Executive positions and he was the BATA president for the year 2009. He is deeply fond of melodious light music (Telugu and Hindi) and is very actively involved in the all BATA musical programs in the past couple of years. He has been a great supporter of all ChimataMusic concerts and he is one of the Organizers of this concert as well. He is very well known in the Bay Area for his passionate voluntary help on various cultural and musical programs. Organizing Telugu Karaoke nights (on a bi-monthly basis) is one of his hobbies and they are well attended and received. He works for Magma Design and lives in Cupertino.

Prathyusha was born in Hyderabad and moved to the Bay Area along with her parents, when she was 10. She is in her senior year pursuing abachelor’s degree in Psychology. She has an insatiable passion for music. She has learned Carnatic music in the past and is now learning Hindustani music. Telugu/Hindi music has always been her greatest pursuit, but she’s also dabbled in Tamil and other languages. She was one of the lead singers in the fundraiser concert “Swaranjali” program held in 2009. She won the third place in Jai Ho Idol contest held in June 2010. She is a regular Karaoke participant at BATA, Induz, and ICC. She earlier sang in ChimataMusic’s KV Mahadevan Concert.

Singers:

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Balaji Mahadevan (Percussions—Tabla/Dholak/Dhol/Handsonic):Balaji Mahadevan has been playing Mridhangam, Tabla and Dholak since the age of 12. He has accompanied many leading artists in Chennaiand in the US and has also played for many cassette/CD recordings and TV shows and he has been accompanying for various dance arangetrams and dance ballets in the Bay Area. He is a graded artist from All India Radio, Chennai. He is skilled in playing Tabla, Dhol, Thavil, Khol and Drums and is admired as one of the most versatile and talented ethnic percussionists in the Bay Area. He played the Tabla/Dholak/Mridangam/Thavil in all ChimataMusic’s earlier shows (Sathyam show in June 2009, KV Mahadevan show in Nov 2009, and Ilaya Raja show in June 2010). He lives in Alameda.

Arun Narasimhan a.k.a Caddy is a completely self taught drummer, with a solid sense of rhythm. His attention to detail in his performances islegendary. He is one of the Bay Area’s top drummers in the Indian music scene. Arun started drumming in his undergrad days at BITS, Pilaniin India, and learnt his skills playing a mix of indian and classic rock numbers. Even today, he loves drumming for rock music whenever he gets the chance. He was the drummer of the Seattle based rock band named East India Company . These days, he performs with his band VDaze, performing a variety of music from the Indian movie industry. He has performed for the top bands in the Bay Area like Thillana, Pallavi, Raagalaya, and is also part of the Kansas Raja music troupe, performing shows across America. He performed in ChimataMusic’s KV Mahadevan and Ilaya Raja concerts. He is the Percussion Lead in this band. He lives in San Francisco.

Arun Narasimhan (Percussions - Pads/Drums):

Rajagopalan Iyer (Percussions - Handsonic):

Krishnamurthy Kalvai (Melody - Keyboard):

5. Nagaraj Varadharajan (Melody - Keyboard):

Ashwin Krishnakumar (Melody - Flute):

Farhan Mohamed (Melody - Bass Guitar):

Rahul Nim (Melody - Lead/Rhythm Guitar):

Ramesh Maraj (Melody - Saxophone):

Raj is a trained Tabla player and plays the percussion instruments such as Tabla, Dhol, Dholak and Congos. He has a strong sense of rhythm and uses his skills to play a variety of instruments and sounds on his Handsonic. He has performed with various bands in the Bay Area. He performed in ChimataMusic’s Ilaya Raja concert. He lives in San Ramon.

Kishmu is one of the accomplished keyboardists in the Bay Area. He has been actively performing for Thillana, Pallavi, Ragalaya, Kansas Raja group and many more. While workng for bands, he transcribes notes and chords to songs and helps musicians stay coordinated. His talent, knowledge and team spirit have earned him a special place among bands both within and outside Bay Area. He is a core member of the Bay Area based VDaze band. Kishmu is passionate about Piano and hopes to play like a 10 year old kid someday. He performed in all of the ChimataMusic’s earlier shows. He is the Melody Lead in this band. He lives in San Rafael.

Nagaraj is one of the accomplished keyboardists in the Bay Area. During his college days, he started with a band in REC-Trichy. He has played for a variety of bands that play Tamil, Telugu and Hindi popular music all across the USA. He is a core member of the Bay Area based VDaze band. He performed in ChimataMusic’s KV Mahadevan and Ilaya Raja concerts. He lives in San Jose.

Trained in Carnatic classical flute by Sri A.V Prakash in Mysore and by Sri. B.N Suresh in Bangalore and recognized with a scholarship from the Central Govt. of India (CCRT) to pursue an advanced training in flute, Ashwin is one of the best Flute players in the Bay Area. He performedin all of the ChimataMusic’s earlier shows. He lives in Sunnyvale.

Farhan Mohamed enjoys playing bass, fingerpicking style guitars and keyboards. He holds degrees in audio engineering, music production and computer music and currently works as a music engineer at the Bay Area synth company Muse Research. His past experience includes working as a live sound for Blue Lizard Records and as a recording engineer at Camelot Studios in Vancouver, Canada. He also worked as a Music Supervisor for Webzen, South Korea teaming up with composer Howard Shore to work on their game score “Soul of the Ultimate Nation”. Lately his musical duties include performing with his band, VDaze and writing/performing bass parts for indian film music projects. He performed in ChimataMusic’s KV Mahadevan and Ilaya Raja concerts . He lives in Foster City.

Rahul started his journey with the guitar about eleven years back when he joined the Bay Area band Prithvi where he played also played keyboards, and did some vocals too. He was a key contributor to Prithvi’s debut album Down To Earth, released in 2007. In last few years,Rahul has performed with several Bay Area bands, including Boomm and Jigary. “RD was a pioneer, bringing western styles and Indian subcontinent’s classical and folk elements together to create a vast landscape of music that can only be characterized as RD’s music. I find his arrangements to be elegantly non-intuitive, and some of the most challenging ones to reproduce.”, says Rahul while talking about RD’s music. Rahul feels honored and privileged to play for the first time in the company of the vastly accomplished musicians of this ChimataMusic troupe. He lives in Sunnyvale.

Ramesh Maraj has roots from India and was was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He was raised in Toronto and currently lives in Fresno. He a virtuoso saxophonist who has performed nationally and internationally and has released two CD’s of instrumental music. He has performedfor Hollywood Movie Director M. Night Shyamalan. He was the opening act in Hyderabad, India for the release ofBollyw ood Movie Director Ram Gopal Varma’s movie Sholay remake “Aag”, where he graced the staged with superstar Amitabh Bachchan. Ramesh was the featured artist for the Indian Press Corps at the United Nations. He was invited to showcase his talent in Beverly Hills, CA for CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Larry King’s benefit. Recently (on April 10th, 2010), he was also featured at the Asha Bonsle’s concert at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California. Ramesh can play classic Bollywood, popular hits and a great blend of western music as well. Ramesh has a Bachelors in Music and a Masters in Education and is a Director of Music in Fresno. Visit IndiSax.com for more information. He performed in Chimata Music’s Ilaya Raja concert .

Musicians:

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Bay Area Telugu AssociationBay Area Telugu Association (BATA) is a non-profit organization devoted to the awareness and promotion of Telugu culture in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Formed in 1971, is one of the biggest Indo-American organizations in San Francisco Bay Area and is one of the oldest Telugu Associations in North America. BATA celebrates various Telugu festivals annually and encourages participation by members and well wishers and especially children to share the Telugu culture. BATA organizes celebrations for Sankranti, Ugadi and Deepavali major festivals and also represents the BATA float at independence celebrations. BATA felicitates artists from India like Padmabhushan Dr.Balamurali Krishana, Padmashree Dr. Vemapti China Satyam, Padmashree Dr.Shobharaju and Padmashree Dr.SP Balasubrahmanyam and many more great legends. BATA also performs at other Indian organization’s cultural events. Actively participates at FIA. Recently performed in cultural events organized by New York, Atlanta, Nashville Telugu organizations. Apart from organizing cultural events, BATA works with other non-profit organization to raise funds for various causes in India and as well as in US. BATA was instrumental in raising funds for SEF Eye Hospital in Guntur. It helped to raise over a million dollars towards the hospital and became Partners in Service with SEF. Guntur hospital registration desk is named after BATA as recognition. This hospital performed over 10,000 free eye surgeries and appreciated by Govt. of Andhra for environs, patient care and quality of work. BATA also built a shelter in Nellore district to help the victims of the 2006 Tsunami, which provided with a refuge during floods that have affected the village after the shelter was built. BATA also helped to raise relief fund for the victims of September 11th Attack on the World Trade Center and also for victims of Kargil war and Gujarat Earthquake victims. Recently BATA partnered with TANA to raise about $20,000 to build homes for victims of the 2009 monsoon floods in Andhra Pradesh, India. BATA has partnered with other organizations such as ILP, Cancer Institute Foundation etc to raise awareness of the issues and funds for their cause.

BATA always extends its support all the non profits and steps in the front to help people in need in back home or in USA. For more info, visit us at http://www.bata.org.

ChimataMusic.comChimataMusic.com is a non-profit, non-commercial Telugu musical web site created to promote the old Telugu and Hindi melodies. Srinivas Chimata started ChimataMusic.com in Novermber 2005 to bring all forgotten and no-more-available Telugu melodies to a single place and soon the site has become so popular that SP Balu himself visits the web site on a regular basis to find some of his own songs that he himself doesn’t have any more with him. Suryanarayana Guduru (CTO of ChimataMusic.com) and other like-minded music lovers (Suresh Mantrala, Ramana Idury, Nishigandha, Jahnavi Boppana, Nanda Kishore, Sarada Akunuri, Geetha, Prasad Mangina to name a few) all over the world are helping Srinivas in making the web site a precious one through their committed support.

ChimataMusic.com started a series of Telugu/Hindi musical concerts in the Silicon Valley in commemoration of our great Indian Music directors. As a first one in the series, BATA and ChimataMusic.com together successfully organized a musical concert on a popular music director, Sathyam in June 2009. Then two more wonderfull concerts were organized on the legendary music directors, KV Mahadevan and Ilaya Raja in Nov 2009 and June 2010 respectively. This RD Burman concert is the fourth one in the series. ChimataMusic’s Music Band, with an awesome group of ten accomplished musicians (half of them are from a wonderful local band called VDaze), is being quoted as the best Indian band on the west coast.

As an extension to the ChimataMusic web site and the series of the musical concerts, Srinivas is currently working on publishing a comprehensive book on all Telugu Music Directors’ bio-graphical information (with 700+ pages) and the book is going to be released by SP Balu on Feb 20, 2011 in Hyderabad. He, along with his web site’s music lovers, raised $10,000.00 in donations and handed it over to the 80-year old JV Raghavulu (a popular Telugu music director, who was suffering from a bad financial crunch during the last phase of his life) in a felicitation function (Dr. CiNaRe and Smt. P Suseela being the chief guests) in March 2008.

Event Organizers:

Organizers: Srinivas Chimata, Suresh Mantrala, Prasad Mangina, Masthan Rao Chimata and Ramana IduryMC/Anchoring: Vijaya Aasuri and Kalyan KattamuriAudio Engineering: Veeru Uppala (Chair) Ramana Turlapati and Sindhu IyerStage Lights Setup: Veeru Uppala (Chair) Mastan Rao Chimata, Suresh Gona, Gaurav Negi, Yshawanth Kudaravalli and Janardhan AmmisettyStage/Hall Decoration: Vijaya Aasuri (Chair) Srilu Veligeti, Sridevi Pasupuleti, Srilatha Bokkisam, Mastan Rao Chimata, Venkat Thimmisetty, Naresh Maddimsetty, Venakat Kurra, Srinivas Ramisetty, Teja Mupparti, Vishu Bokkisam, Babu Movva, and Gopala Krishna Janjam HD Video Shooting: Phani Mahavrathayajula, Sanjeev Jain and Babu VattiPhotography: Srinivas Mangipudi and Suren Gyanmote Singing Competition: Prasad Mangina (Chair) Srilu Veligeti, Sridevi Pasupuleti and Sunitha GubbalaTicket Sales/Publicity: Suresh Mantrala (Chairs) Prasad Mangina, Srinivas Kolli, Bhaskar Bandikallu, Sneha Vedula, Satya Vatti, Ramesh Konda, Ram Veldendla, and Padma ViswanadhaSponsor Relations: Ramesh Konda (Chair) Prasad Mangina and Srinivas ChimataScreen/Projector: Karun Veligeti (Chair) Satya Vatti and Chakrapani InnamuriFlyer/Brochure Designer: Arvind KothaTicket Counter: Alwal Reddy Putta, Veera Swamy Dadi (Chair) Ravi Gubbala, Yashwanth Kudaravalli, Kamesh Malla and Sreeram GunduHospitality: Srilu Veligeti (Chair) Sridevi Pasupuleti, Sirisha Battula, Sirisha Palla, Madhavi Chimata and Malathi Thirunagari

Event Organizing Committees