{"id":318,"date":"2009-11-01T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T23:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-11-02T23:21:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T03:21:05","slug":"playing-for-the-planet-vijaya-sundaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/playing-for-the-planet-vijaya-sundaram\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing for the Planet: Vijaya Sundaram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vijaya Sundaram is a musician of superb abilities.  An excellent composer and lyricist, she has a wide repertoire of material from many of the great songwriters.  Over the past decade, however, she&#8217;s been away from the performance scene, pursuing a career as a teacher in a local public school, and spending a lot of time with our daughter Sharada.  <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Playing for the Planet&#8221; concert actually saw her in three separate roles: as vocal accompanist for my set of khyal, as a member of the Agbekor Society, and as the singing and speaking MC of the evening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i614.photobucket.com\/albums\/tt226\/WarrenSenders\/Playing%20for%20the%20Planet\/DSC00649.jpg\"width=450\/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this last role, she presented three songs by three very different songwriters: Suzanne Vega, Jose Feliciano and Malvina Reynolds respectively.  It was great to see and hear her back on stage with guitar in hand; I&#8217;m hoping that by the next concert, she&#8217;ll have some of her own music ready to play.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i614.photobucket.com\/albums\/tt226\/WarrenSenders\/Playing%20for%20the%20Planet\/DSC00797.jpg\"width=450\/><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7370756&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7370756&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7370778&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7370778&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7370930&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7370930&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijaya Sundaram is a musician of superb abilities. An excellent composer and lyricist, she has a wide repertoire of material from many of the great songwriters. 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