Sivakumar Thiyagarajan on music

Sivakumar Thiyagarajan believes that good music can reduce depression and lift your mood – especially soothing classical music. Sivakumar Thiyagarajan believes that people have always found meaning in music by playing, creating, listening to its emotions and to the challenges that it poses. Music, classical music in particular, has immense value for our society.

Sivakumar Thiyagarajan has come across people who believe that classical music is for the rich, the old, or the educated. Despite the influence that music has on society, the majority decide that music is not for them, simply because they believe it has no relevance. Sivakumar Thiyagarajan believes a common way one could involve himself or herself with music is by listening to or attending a concert. It is also important because a concert venue creates a unique experience one can hardly find in any other place.

Sivakumar Thiyagarajan considers that good music is not only enjoyable but it stimulates and tickles the mind. One can call one’s attention to the melodies or to the themes, the harmony, the relaxing rhythms, how the sounds are produced and how they all relate to each other, while trying to figure out how the composer contrived the piece. Sivakumar Thiyagarajan feels that classical music is not only pleasing to the ear and to the mind but it is also nurturing to the soul. Music has emotional value. Music in most cases makes people feel good and calm as well as evoking other emotional responses. It is the emotional response that draws most people to experience music.

Sivakumar Thiyagarajan knows amateur musicians for whom music is important through enjoyment and through the thrill of playing or creating music and not having to commit the entire life to it. It is an important part of one’s life and fills a need or an urge to create music. Sivakumar Thiyagarajan is aware that for some music can be a way of escape or a stress reliever. Sivakumar Thiyagarajan believes that if the society is shown the value of classical music, the arts will be better funded, better appreciated and will thrive even more.