Dimapur, April 26 (MExN): Mountain Music Academy (MMA) today presented a mini concert at Town Hall, Dimapur, with vocal students performing songs from leading modern artists.
The vocal concert is part of a ‘performance lab’ which MMA will conduct, as part of the curriculum, for different areas of music like piano, guitar, violin etc. MMA hopes that the ‘performance lab’ titled “The Rising Stars” will help them monitor and assess the progress of students, while the students would gain exposure by performing onstage.
What was impressive was that the show was managed by the students only. The compères were students, the artists were students. The neatly done stage décor was done by the students. The only faculty of MMA involved in the evening’s show were Alobo Naga, who is also the vocal head at MMA, accompanying the students on the guitar and keyboard, and Jaremdi Wati Longchar, also on the keyboard. For their effort, the students pocketed 50% of the proceeds from tickets which were priced at a modest Rs. 100.
Alobo Naga speaking during the occasion called the concert “part of the learning process.” He called for encouragement from the gathering for the students saying that most of the students were performing onstage for the first time.
Zuring Madeliang, EAC, Nuiland, who was present on the occasion as guest of honour, gave a short speech. “We as Nagas are fortunate to be talented in music,” she stated and encouraged the students to get better. Madeliang was also appreciative of parents for sending their children to music schools adding, “It is a good investment.”
