The Indian Embassy School Holds Second Annual inter-House Music Contest, 2001 [Archives:2001/08/Last Page]

What a wonderful evening was Feb. 15, 2001 at the Indian Embassy School, it was sponsored by the Universal Group of Companies through the good offices of the General Manager of “Hertz” Mr. Saleem S. Salai who himself was so overwhelmed by the spectacular performances and the keen spirit of the budding artists-pupil-contenders of all the four Houses that in his speech as the Chief Guest he announced that the Universal Group of Companies would continue sponsoring this Musical Contest in the next academic session 2001-2002 with more attractive prizes so as to promote music and raise the cultural talents of the young artists.
All the presentations put up by the Gandhi House, Nehru House, Radhakrishnan House and Tagore House in Vocal, instrument and dance were so scintillating that each time the audience used to join in sync/rhythm with the clapping, in chorus.
Especially captivating were the Dances whether the gyrations on the tune of “Piya-Piya” of the Gandhi house, “Dhol-Baaji” of the Nehru House, “Bhoom-Ro-Bhoom-Ro” of Radhakrishnan house or “Daga La Lagi” of the Tagor House.
Overall Best Individual Performances Prize was bagged by Master Timothy of the Tagor House, while First Prizes in Vocal and Group Dance were shared respectively by Dona of Nehru House and Timothy of Tagor house, Remy, Zaryan, Swathy, Fitsum, Wajeeh and Prasanna of Nehru House and Niharika, Apoorva, Swapnil, Shruthi, Manvi, and Sanu of Tagor House.

Master Timothy of Tagore House won the First Prize in ‘Instrument’ and Remy of Nehru in Solo Dance, whereas Tabytha of Radhakrishnan House secured Third Prize in Vocal, Ruby of Gandhi house in ‘Instrument’, Ashwathy of Radhakrishnan in Solo Dance and Shalakha, Hana, Vijith, Noornisha and Tabytha of Radhakrishnan House in Group Dance.
The contest was adjudged by the Honorable Judge Mr. A. Thakur, Mr. Joseph Faris and Miss Binadu.
Guests-in-Chief Mrs. and Mr. Saleem S. Salai, and the Guests -of-honor Mrs. & Mr. K.K. Vijayan, Mrs.& Mr. P.V. Ranganathan, Mrs. & Mr. K.B. Gupta all graciously distributed the prizes, 28 in all, to the winners. Mr. Joseph Faris, one of the Judges shared his feelings with the audience towards the fag-end, all humorously! Mr. S. Dhavamoorthy was the Master of Ceremony.
While totting-up of credits was in the process,Mr. A.K. Jha conducted a friendly Inter-House “Antakshree” contest, whereby, kept the audience all enthralled in a stop-gap arrangement.
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