Ilaiyaraaja was live on Facebook yesterday. In the conversation, the composer spoke about the quality of today’s electronic music among other things.
About modern music, Raaja said: “A person who indulges in an art form has to perform. If he’s an actor, he has to act, but in today’s music, there is no performance, only programming. It is just plastic.”
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Talking about working with London Royal Pjilharmonic orchestra, Raaja commented, “It was a great experience for a person like me who started with nothing. The kind of symphony and some of the pieces that I heard were the best. I cannot express that in words.”
Answering a question about working with Kamal Haasan, Raaja said, “Kamal has a lot of knowledge in music. He has memorised the ‘Naalayiram Dhivya Prabandham’. He has excellent memory power. He can sing any line from it at any time. I didn’t team up with him because of that. He chose me. He wanted to work with me.”