In today's special posting, I would like to take an oppurtunity to pay a ``little tribute'' to TFA - Singapore's and Johor Bharu's music teacher - Ms Yogeswari Ramalingam. I had in my earlier postings, described her tireless efforts and wonderful contributions towards improving musical knowledge of her students, thus setting a higher bar on their musical apptitude accomplishments at a very basic level. Her teachings stresses the importance of proper basic foundation skills mastering, both for veena and vocal. Her direct approach to correct each discrepency in her students deliveries, personalized coachings, cajoaling and well intended demands, only the best of efforts from her students.
Unlike any other skills trainings nature/type, cultural skills such as Baratha Natyam, carnatic vocal, veena, sitar, etc, are few of the known most demanding subjects/skills to master. It needs very close monitoring, personized coachings, tremendous amount of patience, plenty of practicing, keen interest, a guru-diciple relationship (student-master) at every level and grace of God/s to really peak and reach the base of beginning as an ``initiated performer''. Thereafter, more learning are intensified and finer refinements are soughted towards perfection to become an accomplished master.
Teacher, herself, talented, gifted and came from a well established system of musical linage masters. Right from the beginning, her father Pandit Ramalingam, was her first ``Guru'' for carnatic vocal. So, the talent is already in her blood. She studied veena from number of accomplished veena teachers in India. She draws her inspiration from HH Shanthanand Saraswathy, founder patron of Temple of Fine Arts International. In HH footpaths, she extends her service by providing fulltime, tireless efforts in teaching veena and vocal subjects to students in Singapore and Malaysia.
She frequents to Johor Bahru to teach Carnatic vocal and veena on every Thursday and Friday each week at the Temple Of Fine Arts(Johor Bahru), located at Jalan Dapat (behind Hyatt hotel). She is our inspiration and her act of selfeless service, giving in her best to her students, strict, yet with joyful nature. Her presence adds another ``precious jewel'' of quality teachers/gurus in TFA's chest. We pay our tribute and respect to her service, contribution with much love and gratitute. In return to her selfless service, we therefore pledge to increase our efforts, train harder and sincerely to be better students. `` From bottom of our hearts we say, ``Thank You, Teacher''.
INDEED A DIVINE TEACHER/GURU!
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