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Date
Place
On the speaker
Key-words
Language

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Some areas for Instrument Makers

  1. Please tell us how your family came into this business and how you started in Kolkata/ Calcutta.
    • Where was the first workshop?
    • Where was the first shop?
    • Was there any change of addresses?
  2. Tell us about your admirers.
    1. Who are they?
      • Tell us some names.
      • How they appreciated your instrument?
    2. From which part of the country and the world?
      • Tell us some names.
      • How they appreciated your instrument?
    3. Please tell us about your instrument.
      • Specialties of your instrument.
      • Do you use different measurements and other changes in specifications when making instrument for different users? Will you please tell me in details?
    4. How your business growing and changing with time?
      • How are you changing the prices of your instruments with time?
      • Are you updating the shop displays/set-up to match the demands of the changing time?
    5. Are you sons and daughter in the same business?
      • How are they taking this traditional knowledge?
      • How are they helping you?
      • If they are in different professions, how they are placed.
    6. Please tell us what you advice about making the business better

Some areas for ICM organizers and connoisseurs

  1. the music connoisseurs, the past and the present.
  2. presenting ICM concerts. Pleasures and the pains.
  3. Interacting with the musicians.
  4. How did you select musicians for your programs? Tell us about some of your successes and failures.
  5. event management.
  • Tell us how you select musicians for your  programs/festivals.
  • Tell us how you contact and invite the musicians.
  • Please tell us in details  about the facilities you provide the musicians [fees, transport, boarding, food, others].
  • Do you often get special requests from the musicians and other people? Please tell us about the types of requests you receive from different corners.
  • Tell us how you get people to the concerts [publicity, phone calls, card distribution, ticketing, others]
  • recording management of the concert/conference/festivals.
  • amplification management of the concerts/conference/festivals.
  • what happens after the concerts/conference/festivals are over,
  • how do you manage the press and other social media. [arranging facilities, press notes, others.]
  • Please tell us how you generate the required funding to run the music concert/conference/festivals.
  • How do you prepare your budget? The heads and proportions of distribution of funds and logic of distributions.
  • Is there any role of the government?
  • What are the role of music loving public in the whole affair?
  • Management strategies for the different sizes of venues.
  • artist payment systems. Changes with time.
  • ICM ambience in Kolkata. Changes over time.
  1. ICM distribution system in the past and the changes.

Some points for the renowned Calcutta/Kolkata Music Connoisseur families 

  1. Please tell us who first took active interest in your family line as the connoisseur of Indian Classical Music. [if possible, try collect a lineage chart of the family]
  2. Please tell us about some anecdotes of music-related happenings in your family:
    1. Music learning, practicing and teaching in your family.
    2. The musicians those were very closely related to your family.
    3. Please tell us some anecdotes on the music that took place in your house/ancestral house in Kolkata.
    4. What was the general concert set-up?
      • Please describe the space.
      • Any special arrangement for the musicians and listeners
      • Special arrangements to welcome the musicians and the listeners.
  1. Allied arrangements.
  2. Fund generation for all the arrangements.
  3. Fees tier and the musicians’ status.
  1. Tell us some special anecdotes relating interactions between your family members and musicians.
  2. Any other anecdote you may like to share.
  3. How proud you are as a member of your family? How do you see the music related changes with time?

 

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