PALLAVI OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT,INC P.O.BOX 1732 LATHAM, NY 12110 PHONE: 518-280-8499 EMAIL:pallavicapital@ureach.com Website: www.cs.rpi.edu/~moorthy/Pallavi2005/ Newsletter 3/2005 August 24,2005 Upcoming Events Pallavi proudly presents three Fall 2005 concerts: 1. Vocal Concert by Srimathi Vidya Subramanian with Sri Shiv Kalyanaraman on violin at 3 PM on Sunday September 11. Details will follow. 2. Violin Concert by Violin Maestro Sri T.N. Krishnan on October 8 at 4 PM in Academy Hall Auditorium, RPI Campus, Troy, NY. 3. Vocal Concert by the leading carnatic musician Srimathi Aruna Sairam. Bhaskar on violin and J.Vaidyanathan on mridangam- Saturday October 15 .. Details forthcoming. GE Matching Grant GE will match an equal amount for any donation above $ 25. GE employees and retirees are eligible to donate. Please donate soon and liberally to help Pallavi to be on their scheme and carry out its activities. If you know any potential donor from GE please promote the Pallavi cause and obtain donations. Under this plan, we should get at least ten distinct donors and total donation exceeding $ 1000 to stay in the program for the next year. We request all GE employees and retirees to donate and register their donations with GE. The registration process can be done on line through a simple procedure. Please visit Pallavi web site for step by step instructions. Pallavi recognizes the following donors for 2005 under this scheme. Suresh Kapoor, Dileep Sathyanarayana, V.S. Venkataramani, Ramani Mani, Kasiraman Krishnan, Sheela Jayasimha, K.Subramanian. Narayan Nair and Rasik Shah. Pallavi Membership for 2005 Welcome to New Members and Thanks to Donors Donors New members for 2005 Rama and Ananth Ramani Family Patron Sheela Rao Individual Patron Meena and T.A. Subramanian Family Patron Pamela and Robert Howell Family Patron Mukti Sarma Individual Patron Jayasri Akella Individual Patron Tom Ross Family Sunanda and Sukumar Nagamani Family Patron Seema and Ram Chugh Family Please renew your Pallavi membership. If you are not a member, please become one and support music activities in the capital district. You can send the check to Pallavi of the Capital District, P. O. Box 1732, Latham, NY 12110. Pallavi has obtained tax exemption status under section 501(c) of the IRS code. Please become a Family Patron member or even better Promoter/Sponsor class member. The following classes of membership were unanimously approved by the general membership. The new categories of membership and donations are noted below: Annual Membership Classes Family Patron (Admission to all concerts free for two people) $120 Individual Patron (Admission to all concerts free for $ 60 The individual) Family Membership (Pass for two people for one concert) $ 30 Individual Membership (Pass for one concert for $ 20 The individual) Student Member (Admission to all concerts free) $ 10 Life Member (Admission to all concerts free for two people for $400 Four years) Note: Life membership fee can be paid in two consecutive annual installments of $200 each or in one installment of $400. Annual Special Donation Categories Patron/Promoter $500 Sponsor/Promoter $250 GE matching Gift Donors Patron/Promoter and Sponsor/Promoter Donors will be recognized at every event of Pallavi during the year as Patrons or Sponsors. MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2005 ____________________________ __________________________ Last name First name Spouse (if applicable) ________________________________ Mailing address __________________________________ Phone: _______________________ E mail address________________________________ Activities you would like to be involved ____________________________________(Some of the activities are : hosting of artists, fund raising, Brochure preparation, Food, collections at the desk, membership promotion, newsletter, mailing etc) Please make your checks payable to .Pallavi of the Capital District. and mail to the above address: Pallavi, PO Box 1732, Latham, NY 12110. Other music related events:YESUDAS Concert Mayura Fine Arts is holding concert by Dr. Padmasree KJ Yesudas at 5 PM on Saturday September 3 at West hall in RPI campus. For more details , contact Anil Prasad at 518-331-3624 or visit www.mayuraarts.com