Colombo University’s celebration of Victor Ratnayake:
Carlo FONSEKA
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Victor Ratnayake |
As someone with a long and close association with Colombo University, I am delighted to join Vice Chancellor Prof Kshanika Hirimburegama, Prof Samantha Herath and others to celebrate Victor Ratnayake, the greatly loved musician in the world of Sinhala music. My association with Colombo University has been principally through its Medicine Faculty and such training as I have had was in the filed of medicine. Medicine is really applied biology. So, even when I wish to celebrate a musician a biological perspective naturally emerges and trumps art. Accordingly, the biological function of music and the role that Victor plays in performing that function in our world of music will be the theme of this essay. Readers are bound to hear echoes of thoughts and feelings I have previously expressed on this theme. Repetition is unavoidable. So if you feel bored you have a simple remedy. Just read something else.
Victor’s ‘Sa’
Victor Ratnayake is inextricably linked with the all time musical
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