" Nothing comes close to live singing and my academy may be the only place in the country to see it." - Premasiri Khemadasa -

  This is the Singing School of Khemadasa

                         Time Table

8.30 a.m. - Arrival of maestro
8.40      - Singing selected parts of the Pirinivan Mangallaya cantata
9.00      - Commencement of teaching and rehersing
11.30     - Feeding of seven dogs with rice and salmon
12.00     - Lunch-break
12.30 p.m - Maestro takes a seasta
1.00      - Afternoon seccsion starts;
            Starts Agni opera rehersal
5.45      - Feeding all dogs again with Maliban Marri biscuits
6.30      - Handing over of keys to the security guards of the Folk Art Centre and the departure of the maestro

 
" He painted with his fist and elbow."
           - Seamus Heaney [ the Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize                              for literature in 1995]
             Summer 1969 , Singing School

                  [ photos of rehersals]