The OST concert in Seshadripuram

The classical rasika has a list of senior artistes on his mind when it comes to concert choices. One of them is O S Thyagarajan.

OST as he is known all over presented a concert at the Seshadripuram College campus on Monday, April 14 evening with G Chandrmouli on violin, Umayalpuram Mali on the mridangam and Srishyla on the ghatam.

Though the concert went on till about 9.30 p.m. there were about 200 people who stayed on till the end.

Among them was Hariharan. This keen rasika is a station master with the South Western Railway and when he gets his 'off' he attends concerts. "I never got a chance to learn music but I follow it closely,"he said.

Hariharan also collects the autographs of artistes - on brochures, invitation cards and small books that he carries with him. He proudly showed me the signature of Dr. Balamuralikrishna he collected sometime ago.

On Monday evening he collected the signatures of OST and Umayalpuram Mali.

The photos featured here are of OST concert, the artistes receiving prasadam after the event and rasika Hariharan shows his collection of autographs.