Music classes to reduce age gap

Elements associated with Indian culture like classical music, literature are being used as a platform over which parents and children can bond despite the generation gap between them, as part of cultural entertainment.

While classes where individuals are taught classical music and dance are a common practice, music schools in the city are now conducting cultural enrichment classes in which children as well as their parents participate. Such classes are banking upon developing a shared sense of belonging among parents and children towards various elements of Indian culture.

Principal of Sangeeta Nritya Kala Bharathi and a well-known Carnatic vocal exponent Manda Sudharani from the city, who started one of the first such classes says, “Due to advent of technology, kids have surged far more ahead than their parents and now there seems to be no connecting bridge between them. Classical literature, music and Sanskrit slokas can act as a platform wherein these two generations can connect. However, interest and curiosity needs to be developed among both the generations by such experts who can explain their context and meaning in a curiosity developing and interesting manner.”

She further added, “While parents and kids go to malls, multiplexes and clubs together, coming to such classes will not just enrich their knowledge about Indian culture but also provide a platform for social interaction. It will also act as cultural entertainment.”

Such classes are gaining prominence as kids can be seen enthusiastically reciting well-known classical songs, stanzas from Telugu classical literature and keertans as their parents come up to the dais to explain its meaning and vice versa, as an expert corrects them wherever they go wrong.