![]() Tyler charms with bittersweet symphonies (Ready / Here Comes The Light, with candlelight ballads (On My Way Home / Stay / Ashes / Colide / With You), upbeat earworms (Doin It My Way / Somebody), a tender Tom Petty cover ( Won’t Back Down), and last but not least with his compelling and nostalgic voice. Translating universal human emotions experienced in their personal life to heart-and-soul touching songs for everybody. Indeed many times the efforts of the lyricist are probably overlooked and it does require inordinate skill to craft an effective lyric to an existing tune. Turn Up The Volume: Tyler does what every inspired and romantic singer-songwriter does. Like the mythical phoenix, Ben Tyler successfully rises from the ashesĪnd starts a new chapter with grace and candor” So distinct that it is hard to ignore how it tugs on your heartstrings. Press info: “His palpable vulnerability and wise conclusions are He now lives in Allentown, PA with his family and is putting more focus back into songwriting while fine-tuning his indie folk/pop style. His pop-based melodies and emotionally-driven lyrics. He played in various bands while in Albany, NY and Boston before finding himself For him, even the pauses had to be perfectly synchronised.Who: A New Jersey native who started his musical journey at the age of 15. Singer Rajkumar Bharathi recalled his long association with MBS and called him “Bharathi-Piththan.” For MBS, group music was not just playing a set of instruments but an effort to attain a unique oneness. This was followed by a group of children and adults singing songs set to tune by MBS. Sudha added variety to her presentation by displaying photographs of MBS conducting a choir and included many audio clips of the master at work. Give me your laughter Give me your tears. Tunesmith Lyrics: Married to the road, theres no other way to say it / Baby found out quite early in the game / That I belong to my songs, so she chose not. Chorus: Tunesmith, tunesmith Sing me a song. Now I walk down the street And I hear them call my name. ![]() If I belong to my songs She chose not to play it. Poet Thamizhanban, in his tribute, called MBS, “a man who had given a new dimension to music.” Tunesmith Lyrics Married to the road There's no other way to say it. Pareeksha's Gnani compares the compatibility of music with lyrics in MBS's compositions, as the relationship that exists between man and wife. They should remember him at sunrise, each day.” He arranged for payments to be made to musicians on time. Balasubramaniam, who had said, “MBS had charted a course that ensured that musicians were treated with respect. His music transcended the language barrier. He won many national awards for his Malayalam film tunes. Sudha said that MBS was more popular in Malayalam cinema than in Tamil. The original Solfa notations have been used in the way they have been preserved, and used today, she enlightened. She added that the songs ‘Mazhai' and ‘Vazhga Nee Emman' were chosen for detailed analysis. He composed two-part, four-part and even six-part harmony in some special compositions. It is this technique that MBS used in his Indian choral music, but used vocals instead of instruments. Harmony is a part of choir singing in churches. ‘Harmony' in layman's parlance means singing in tandem and in synchronisation, the chords presented either by humming or by rendering of the lyrics, but at different levels of harmony. Sudha pointed out that harmony and symphony were a part of Western classical music. ![]() Srinivasan and his Contribution to Indian Choral Music,' began with details about his musical beginnings, stressed the need for research in the genre, traced the early years of MBS's life and his marriage with Zahida. Sudha Raja, who made a presentation on ‘M.B. He used Indian choral music as the vehicle to make popular the lyrics of national poets such as Bharathiar, Tagore, Mohammed Iqbal and Vallathol.ĭr. He served as an administrator, wielded the conductor's baton, formed the Madras Youth Choir (MYC) and made his stamp as one who organised community singing by big and small groups. His distinctive contribution to the concept of choral music (Indian style), made him a trend-setter and a pioneer in the genre. Some talents are born, some evolve as they make progress in life.
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