Friday, July 19, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
கல்யாணி பாடாத கச்சேரி களை கட்டாது
கல்யாணி ராகம் எனக்கு மிகவும் பிடிக்கும். கல்யாணி ராகம் பாடாத கச்சேரி களை கட்டாது என்பது கர்நாடக சங்கீதம் மிகவும் தெரிந்தது போல் சொல்லி கொள்வேன்.நமக்கு எல்லாமே அரை குறை தான். சரி விஷயத்துக்கு வருவோம்.
இரண்டு நாட்களுக்கு முன்பு ட்விட்டெர்ல ஒருத்தர் இந்த பாட்டை பத்தி ரொம்ப ஸ்லாகித்து இருந்தார்.சரி என்று கொஞ்சம் நினைவலைகளை அசை போட்ட போது கிடைத்த பொக்கிஷம்.என் ராஜாவுக்கும் கல்யாணி ரொம்ப பிடிக்கும் போல் இருக்கிறது. அவர் கல்யாணியில் கொடுத்த பாடல்கள் எல்லாம் சொக்க தங்கம்.கண்ணாலே காதல் கவிதை சொன்னாலே உனக்காக (ஆத்மா), வைதேஹி ராமன் கை சேரும் காலம் (பகல் நிலவு),மஞ்சள் வெயில் (நண்டு),ஜனனி ஜனனி (தாய் மூகாம்பிகை), நதியில் ஆடும் பூவனம் (காதல் ஓவியம்),கீதம் சங்கீதம் (கொக்கரக்கோ),வெள்ளை புறா ஒன்று (புது கவிதை),சுந்தரி கன்னல் ஒரு சேதி (தளபதி).....நெறைய நெறைய. இந்த பதிவிற்கான பாடல், வந்தாள் மகாலக்ஷ்மியே (உயர்ந்த உள்ளம்),அக்மார்க் கல்யாணி. பாடலுக்கான களம் மிக அருமையா அமைக்கப்பட்டு இருக்கும். இந்த படம், பப்படம் தான் என்றாலும் ராஜாவால் கொஞ்சம் காப்பற்றப்பட்டது இந்த மாதிரி பாடல்களால் தான். நாயகன் ஒரு பணக்கார குடிமகன்,தனது வாழ்க்கையில் வந்த ஒரு பெண்ணை மகாலக்ஷ்மியே வந்தது போல் போற்றி பாடுவதாக அமைந்துள்ளது. வாலிப கவிஞர் எழுதிய பாடலா என்று தெரியவில்லை. நாயகன் தன் குடியையும் , தான் குடித்தனம் வினையும் உள்ள கிடைக்கையும் இந்த வரிகளில், "அடியேனின் குடி வாழ, தனம் வாழ" என்று கிண்டலாக பாடலாசிரியர் எழுதி இருப்பார். பாலுவிற்கு இந்த மாதிரி பாடல்கள் எல்லாம் அல்வா. அவரின் சில சங்கதிகள் இந்த பாடலில் அற்புதம். ராஜா, பாலு மற்றும் கமல், யார் யாரை விஞ்சுவார்கள் என்று எதிர்பார்க்க வைக்கும் பாடல்.. இதோ இங்கே உங்கள் பார்வைக்கு.
http://youtu.be/L5O3Tjshx9Y
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Sriranjini Santhanagopalan @ Chowdiah Hall
Impressive !! I havent heard her live earlier and being the first time I was eagerly looking forward. Her concert was sandwiched between to other concerts and knowing she will have too little time to settle down andShe did that earnestly for her effortless 90 minutes essay and captivating. Started with a small virutham on Maha Periyavah, she launched into Chalemela Varnam and breezed into beautiful Purnachandrika after a crisp alapana ( Palukavemi Naa Daivama). She osciallated between lower and upper octaves during the Kalpana swaras at ease and the audience had now got the taste of what is in store for rest of the concert. She did a short and sweet Purvi Kalyani (composition of Gopalakrishna Bharathi, Nadamaadum naadhanadai malarey thunai). A short alapana of Kokilavaram aka Kokilapriya followed with composition of Dikshithar, Kodandaramam anisham. Main piece of the day Mohanam. Elaborate alapana, sangathis flowed like a stream. Effortless alapana with lovely breath control and speed. She started the krithi singing the anupallavi "Vanaja Nayana momunu".
GuruShishya Parampara thematic concert
Day 2 Concert 2 6 to 7.30 PM (90 minutes full)
Trivandrum Sampath on Violin and Delhi Sairaam on Mridangam (Tiruvaarur Bhakthavatsalam's disciple)
1. Chalamela varnam
2. Palukavemi Naa Daivama (Purnachandrika, A,S)
3. Nadamaadum Naadhanadi malarey thunai (Purvi Kalyani)
4. Kodanda ramam anisham (Kokilaravam aka Kokila priya, A)
5. Nannu Paalimpa (Mohanam, A,N,S,T)
Sampath shadowed her wilfully and Delhi Sairaam showed who is is guru while playing for the krithi and especially in the Thani portion.
Totally lovely 90 minutes captivating stuff.
Way to go Sriranjini !!!!!!
GuruShishya Parampara thematic concert
Day 2 Concert 2 6 to 7.30 PM (90 minutes full)
Trivandrum Sampath on Violin and Delhi Sairaam on Mridangam (Tiruvaarur Bhakthavatsalam's disciple)
1. Chalamela varnam
2. Palukavemi Naa Daivama (Purnachandrika, A,S)
3. Nadamaadum Naadhanadi malarey thunai (Purvi Kalyani)
4. Kodanda ramam anisham (Kokilaravam aka Kokila priya, A)
5. Nannu Paalimpa (Mohanam, A,N,S,T)
Sampath shadowed her wilfully and Delhi Sairaam showed who is is guru while playing for the krithi and especially in the Thani portion.
Totally lovely 90 minutes captivating stuff.
Way to go Sriranjini !!!!!!
Sikkil Gurucharan,Chowdiah Hall 13th Feb 2013
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
Monday, November 26, 2012
Sanjay Subrahmanyan November 2012 Koramangala
Whattey way to start the concert (Saranagatha vatsaley, Kadanakuthoohalam) by Sanjay yesterday evening at Koramangala.This is composed by his guru Calcutta Krishnamurthy. The Bangalore Season comes to an end with this concert before moving to Mecca of Music, Madras for the Magnus Opus December Season 2012. For me this is a special concert since he sung finally my request of long time "Sree Lakshmi Varaham Bhajeham" (Abhogi). He had a new team yesterday apart from his usual accompaniants of Varadarajan & Neyveli B Venkatesh. His choice of ragas and krithis stood out as usual and rendered a stupendous 'Sama" RTP (pallavi being "Samaganalolane Sadasiva maganae shanmuganey"). Khambhoji came with Muthu Thandavar's composition "aru marundoru tani marundidi ambalattE kaNDEn". It was simply brilliant with the neraval at "konrai tumbai aNinda marundu". The main piece being Dhanyasi, Muthuswami Dikshithar's another masterpiece "paradEvatA bRhat kucAmbA". evvarE rAmayya - gangeyabhushani,evarikai - devamanohari,rama nama payasake - bhimplas,haridasalu vedale - yamuna kalyani were the other renditions with apolomb. Mysore V Srikanth accompanied on violin was outstanding during the Thanam phase of Sama RTP.
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Ranjani Gayathri November 2012
Sometimes the accompanists take the concert to the next level outside the
Vocalist's performance. It was evident yesterday when K Arun Prakash, who read
the situation quickly that it will be a capsule 2 hour concert, wherein he will
not have much time to showcase his class in Tani, set the tone of brilliance
right from the first krithi with a lovely laya nadham and played excellent
nadai's for each of the krithis. The best he reserved for Muthuswami
Dikshithar's one of the masterpiece in Nayaki, Sri Ranga Nayakam. He was well
supported by N Guru Prasad on Ghatam who was also equally impressive.
"Pattamma ennama Paaduvaa" my mom's comment while Ranjani &
Gayathri sang this and she shared the relative anecdote of this krithi and
Srirangam etc. Nostalgic. This is one advantage of attending concerts with my mother.
The other interesting thing being the moment the alapana starts she will spring
up the raga name and could guess minimum 3 to 4 probable krithis to follow in
that. Yesterday Gayathri did a brief alapana on Shubapantuvarali, mother told
me it may be "Ennalu Yoorake" of Swamigal or "Sri
Sathyanarayanam Upasmahe". But to her delight they sung Super Star and her
favorites GNB's "Ni samanavevaru". H N Bhaskar on Violin was quiet
all now and showed his brilliance and got his pound of flesh in Mohanam alapana
which was the main piece (Evarura Ninu Vina). Yamuna Kalyani (Hari smaraney
mado nirantara), Poornachandrika (Ramachandra pahi), Jhinjhoti Abhang were the
other renderings from the duo. They ended the concert with a lovely Sri raga
Mangala kriti from Navaratna krithis of Dikshithar (Sri Kamalambige).
This performance is seriously a better one from them comparing the one I heard in January here in Chowdiah and the one during last December season 2011 @ Narada Gana Sabha.
This performance is seriously a better one from them comparing the one I heard in January here in Chowdiah and the one during last December season 2011 @ Narada Gana Sabha.
Abhishek Raghuram 22nd December 2012
Charulatha Ramanujam is raising the bar of her
performance in each and every concert. If it was her Devagandhari last
month during Navarathri concert stood out, yesterday she did held forte
and the onslaught from Abhishek to render a brilliant Ananda Bhairavi
alapana (Marivera gati). What followed was a soulful rendition of krithi
by Abhishek. Started with Kalyani varnam (Vanajakshi). Known for hi
s
speed and swara korvai’s he didn’t disappoint with a lovely Kanada
krithi (Sri Naradha Naadha) with detailed swaras and Purvi Kalyani (
Paraloga samadname) to follow. The main piece was Todi (Emi jesithe)
yesterday and Abhishek did an elaborate alapana showing the nuances of
the raga with, some mesmerizing pidis, sangatis etc. This is the 2nd
Todi of 2012 the earlier one I heard in January by TMK (Dachu kovalena).
Anand on Mridangam showed his class on Tani along with very impressive
Guruprasanna on Khanjira. Asaaveri (maapla velasiki ra), Garudhadwani
(Ananda sagara dhani ) were the other krithis in this concert.
He went on to render a lovely Annamaiyya’s krithi in Sankarabaranam (Navaneetha Chora namo namo) to end the concert
He went on to render a lovely Annamaiyya’s krithi in Sankarabaranam (Navaneetha Chora namo namo) to end the concert
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