When a music concert is inaugurated, someone from the organizers normally say many good things about the artist as a part of introduction. If they say few things about the artists' unique style of singing or playing, from whom they have learnt, and also a few brief anecdotes, then it would really be an useful information to those who are going to listen for the first time. What if the artist is famous and popular? Still few lively anecdotes will create a nice ambience. Of course, this introduction should only be for few minutes and it should not be exploited to display the speaker's oratory skills. What if the speaker does not know any interesting events about the artist? Use superlatives - great musician, well-known, got awards like, musician par excellence, internationally acclaimed, etc. One person also started like this in a concert - looking at a piece of paper,"He is a great violinist; Internationally known; Accompanied many stalwarts;.." Nothing wrong with this. Who can find a fault in praising good artists? Are words sufficient? In fact, we ought to speak about the greatness of nobler souls as often as humanly possible. Anyway our friend continued,"..so that's his greatness. And let's welcome Shri.T.Chandrasekharan." People started their thunderous applause. One person raised his hand and tried to say something. That was the artist. He told the speaker that his name was not T. Chandrasekharan but M.Chandrasekharan. The speaker looked at the paper and was perplexed! Someone must have received severe chiding after that!!
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