One of the active bodies which promotes Indian arts in the Pennsylvania region of the USA, 'Sruti' has a new Board of Directors (‘BOD') as its enters its silver jubilee year.

The outgoing President, Vidyasankar and his committee has done some excellent work and programming in the 2009 season. As is the tradition of Sruti, the former President-elect assumes the role President of the organization for 2010. And that is me!

I would like to welcome our newly elected Board members, Uma Prabhakar as President-elect, Usha Balasubramanian as Treasurer, Ravi Pillutla as Secretary, Ramaa Nathan as Resource Committee chair and Sunanda Gandham as Director 2.

Ravi Pillutla has been appointed by the BOD to serve the remaining term (2010) as the Secretary, since Seetha Ayyalasomayajula resigned due to personal reasons. All others were elected to the above positions at the General Body Meeting held on Dec 12, 2009. I thank Seetha for all her contributions as a Board member and Secretary..

The new BOD has already started working hard and has already put together an exciting series of concerts in Spring 2010 and Fall 2010 calendar of events featuring some exceptional artistes. .

We will be kicking off with Tyagaraja Aradhana on 13th March at the Delaware temple. .

Registration and rules for participation at this event is described in a subsequent email and has also been posted on our web page (www.sruti.org). .

Nrityagram, an Odissi dance group, will perform next at the Montgomery County Community College Science Center Theater on 27th March..

Tickets can be purchased online at tix.com web site. This will be followed by two vocal concerts, Unnikrishnan on April 17th and Vijay Siva on May 15th. In the Fall, we will feature the renowned violinist, L. Subramaniam (September 18th), following which will be a Bharathanatyam dance performance by Shijith Nambiar and Parvathi Menon (Oct 9th) and a Hindustani vocal by Veena Sahasrabuddhe (Oct 23rd)..

Sruti is now entering its 25th year and is well poised to celebrate the silver jubilee anniversary in a grand style in 2011. We are very excited to make this a year of celebration of Indian Classical Music and Dance with quality programming and a finale that would make us all proud. We will be soon setting up a committee that together with the Board will plan and execute some of the bigger concerts for the 25th year..

We now have a whole body of Sruti youth we feel are underrepresented and as announced in the General Body Meeting we are putting together a youth committee that will work with the BOD to plan out and present youth activities and at least one concert in 2010..

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