Rehersals
" 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]