Aparna’s Blog

Yes my blog completes 4 years today. Happy Birthday, blog! And a very big thanks to you all for reading this blog for so long!

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Of course, of late, the blog is not updated as frequently as it once used to be. And to think that it is only in the last few months that I have been having free time in excess and I didn’t utilize it even one bit to update my blog! I seem to have given up all attempts at resurrecting the blog. Let me at least do a quick roundup of all that I missed blogging about.

It is only my blog that I have neglected. I have never been as regular in reading others’ blogs as I have been during these months. I hardly have any unread items left on my Google reader.
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It isn’t everyday that you get to attend a wedding in a celebrity’s family. And can there be a bigger celebrity than The Superstar himself! I went for Soundarya Rajinikanth’s engagement last Thursday.
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Sanjay’s concert on 9th August at CLT, IIT Madras (Clasfest)

This concert was the 100th concert of Sanjay that I was going for and what a concert it was!

Accompanists:
Varadarajan – Viloin
Neyveli Venkatesh – Mridangam
Trichy K.Murali - Ghatam

Concert Duration: 2 hrs 45 min
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Isn’t there something mesmerizing about this raagam? I just now finished listening to a very beautiful AlApanai of ratipatipriya by Embar Kannan in the concert of Ghatam Karthick’s ‘Heart Beat’ team which is being live webcast here.

Sanjay’s December Season schedule is here! Seeing the schedule, the wait already seems longer!

On 20th April live telecast on TTD’s TV channel (SVBC)

M.S.Gopalakrishnan, Dr. Narmadha & Suresh – Violin
B.Ganapathyraman – Mridangam

Concert Duration: 1.5 hrs

1. Maha Ganapatim – Nattai – Swarams at Maha Ganapatim
2. Terateeyagara ra – Gowlipantu
3. Sakalagraha – Atana – Alapana by Narmadha
4. Sitamma – Vasanta – Alapana by Suresh
5. Venkatashaila – Hamir Kalyani – Alapana by MSG – tani Avartanam
6. Sriman Narayana – Bowli
7. Yare rangana – Hindolam – Alapana by Narmadha

Finally there is a TV channel which shows a Carnatic music concert everyday. And that too live concerts.

It has been quite a long time since I went to MSG’s concerts and I was happy to see this concert being telecast. Though just for 1.5 hrs, this concert was an absolutely satisfying one! I liked the selection of ragas. The short Atana alapana that Narmadha played was one of the loveliest Atanas I have ever listened to! That and the Hamir Kalyani alapana by MSG, though only for a few minutes, were the best parts of the concert to me.

10 whole days of doing nothing other than attending concerts and lec-dems has come to an end! And there couldn’t have been a better ending to it than a T.M.Krishna’s concert and a Sanjay’s concert back to back! All the 15 concerts of Sanjay this December Season, 6 full concerts and an hour and a half of 2 concerts of T.M.Krishna – what a month this has been!