Jagath Wickramasinghe has died

Multi skilled music composer Jagath Wickramasinghe, says that the continuous Sirasa Super Star Program, of which he is one of the three judges including Rukantha Gunatilleke and Nirosha Virajani, has turned into the subject of much debate. He said that the Sirasa Super Star Program would come full circle with the choice of a super artiste to be chosen from seven finalists in the last round. It imagined much extension where the finalists could change in sort. Judging was carried out by the panalists on the premise of execution and constantly in three separate ways, however imperatively it revolved principally around pitch, cadence or beat, articulation and obviously other foundation subtle elements of the performing craftsmen.

In any case Wickramasinghe said that unfortunately there was a disappointed area including certain artistes who had been incredulous of the judging when actually 'they are attempting to benefit something for the reason for music in the nation?' But the actuality remained that not at all like other such projects where artistes are educated through the post of how they had fared, the Sirasa system was one of a kind in being useful by leading the judging without even a moment's pause advertising their decision immediate to the members.

Accordingly, it was still miserable and discouraging that today most individuals were prepared to accept what is passed on by implication to them, be it reality or an untruth. Faultfinders were stating that judges ought to be around 75 - years- old. At the same time the absolute truth about music is that experience is determined not by age, yet by practice and experience. Wickramasinghe likewise said that every one of the three panalists - Rukantha, Nirosha and himself had come up the stepping stool the hard way. At 39 years old he (Wickramasinghe) had wound up as a music arranger having surrendered a designing vocation to follow in the strides of his guardians who were musical artists and began his profession as a music craftsman at the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.

He said that as opposed to being acknowledged for their attempt to serve their picked fields that brickbats were being heaved at them from specific quarters. The sorry condition of expressions of the human experience was such an adverse situated up which upset its advancement.

Truth be told, the Sirasa project ought to be praised in light of the fact that it was productively so distinctive to other such t.v. programs which were 'talk program' where it was deplorable that the members were inconveniently not music artistes yet were from completely distinctive fields. Some were attempting to blend Western music with Eastern music, however the truth of the matter is that the west would dependably be the west and the east dependably the east, Wickramasinghe said.

In this web page we are going to tell about the death of former vice chancellor of Sri Jayawardhanapura university  Prof. Jagath Wickramasinghe. He also has worked in Sri Lanka foundation and NIE and as an economic advisor to the present government.

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