My self imposed exile for last 90 days came to an end
yesterday the first concert of 2013. I went on a hibernation which was a
conscious decision putting a hold to all external activities including away
from FB, on and off on Twitter. Over a period of time I got into a comfort in
the zone and breaking the shackles to come out was difficult. When I first saw
this Guru Shishya Parampara event hoarding and saw the impressive line up
Sikkil Gurucharan, Sriranjani Santhanagopalan,T N S Krishna, MV Ramakrishna
Murthy, Nisha Rajagopal,Saketharaman and culminating with Abhishek Raghuram, I couldn’t
resist coming out and kick start 2013 music season
Guru Shishya Parampara
Sikkil Gurucharan, H K Venkatram, Arjun Kumar and
Guruprasanna
Chowdiah Hall, 13th February 2013 7.30 PM
(started only by 8.05 PM)
The 2nd thematic concert of day 1 started 30
minutes late due to bad time management by the earlier artist. Even after
pointing out that he is running out of time he went on and on and finally
Gurucharan started at 8.05 PM thanking the audience for staying late to listen
to him.
- Sikkil Singaravelava (Varnam in Reethi Gowla) composed by his Guru Sikkil Kunjumani
- Parama Pavana papa mochana in Ranjani (composer : musu Krishnaiyer)
- Pancha nadeesha pahimam in Purnachandrika (Crisp Alapana and Neraval,composer : Patnam Subramanya Iyer)
- Srimadadi Thyagaraja Guruvaram in Kalyani , main piece (A,N,S,T, composer : Mysore Vasudevachar)
- Sompaina manasutho in Ahiri (Composer : Thyagaraja Swamigal)
- Purandaradasa devar nama , Dhaniya Nodideno
Choice of ragas for Capsule concert is always going to be
difficult and I vehemently oppose such capsule concerts which don’t give any
kind of room for both audience and the accompanying artists especially the
violinist. But Gurucharan read the mood quickly and got the theme, started
right earnestly with Reethi Gowla varnam composed by his guru with lovely
swaras. What followed was a beautiful Ranjani and first time I heard this
krithi of Meesu Krishnaiyer. Purnachandrika is always a treat to hear and this
krithi came up with lovely chittaswarams. And I always say, Kalyani always
raise the bar of any concert and which was main piece yesterday. If you look at
the krithis and composers Gurucharan was quite careful in rendering not offbeat
and did wove a pattern on the Guru Shishya parampara on the composers too.
Arjun Kumar, from UKS
School and Guruprasanna
(Anoor Ananthakrishna) gave a roaring Thani avarthanam. H K Venkatram was his
usual self all along and showed his brilliant imagination during the
kalpanaswaras in Kalyani.
Points to ponder: I always felt Gurucharan was singing a
note below. He can sing a note higher
Bit disappointed that being too young why he uses iPad to
get the krithi while singing L
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