Last weekend was a great one and so very reminiscent of December Season, thanks to Svanubhava & Sikkil Gurucharan’s concert and Dr. Chithra Madhavan’s lecture, with which concluded my memorable weekend.
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Recently, as someone typed a surprised smiley when I told him that a majority of the concerts here are ‘All are welcome’ ones, I remembered the numerous instances when my same reply was met with the same response from so many people and how Carnatic music still remains unfamiliar to many people. I also remembered the questions that Puranjoy had asked in this comment, to which I have still not replied.
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At Dakshinamurthy Auditorium (Nadopasana) on 6th June
Accompanists:
Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi – Violin
Manoj Siva – Mridangam
Rajaganesh – Khanjira
Concert Duration: 2.5 hrs
Songs List:
1. Varnam – Kanada
2. Sadananda Tandavam – Bhahudari – neraval & swarams at chittakArattil??
3. Emitova – Saranga – Alapana
4. Ananda Natana – Kedaram – Raaga Outline & Swarams at Ananda Natana
5. Sri Guruguha – Suddha Saveri
6. Nee Padamula – Bhairavi – Alapana; Neraval & Swarams at Sri Panchanadishwaruni
Tani Avartanam
7. RTP – Mohanam
Pallavi – Mohana Ramayya Samayamide Karuna Jooda Vaiyya – Kanda Triputa
8. Mattada Baradeno – Kannada? (Googling says Kannada. But I don’t remember the raagam now)
9. Smarasundaranguni – Paras – Raaga Outline
10. Janakinaath – Misra Khamaj – Raaga Outline
11. Madi Vadanamaada (Viruttam) – Bilahari, Sindhu Bhairavi, Kharaharapriya
Paadi Madi – Kharaharapriya
12. Mangalam – Sowrashtram
13. Swasti Prajapya
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Can there be a better way to relax than reading a good book with some good music for company at the end of a day, a major part of which saw me being in an irritated mood? Am now reading P.G.Wodehouse’s ‘Service with a Smile’ (a Blandings story) and listening to a recording of a concert of Sanjay.
It has been really long since I listened to a full-length concert recording of Sanjay and that has made the listening experience even more blissful now! I have already started reminiscing about the Dec Season 2008. 🙂 Those amazing Darbari Kanada, Madhuvanti, Chayaranjani, Saramati, Chandrakauns, Abheri and Desh RTPs, those fast-paced Aarabhi swarams, Yadukula Kambhoji & the brilliant Todi at Narada Gana Sabha, the brigas-laden (or so I remember it was) Purnachandrika alapana & the Vakulabharanam & Kanada pieces at Kalarasana, Shanmukhapriya at Indian Fine Arts, Ravichandrika Alapana at Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha, Janaranjani alapana at Kartik Fine Arts, Kapi at Krishna Gana Sabha, the Hamsanadam piece at Margazhi Mahotsavam, tunbam nergayil, nijagadasa and that veryyyy beautiful ninnaye rati (in Bhageshri) at Music Academy! I want to listen to it all again!! With a concert of Sanjay on what seemed like every other day and all the concerts turning out to be equally brilliant ones and me spending most of my waking moments listening to just Sanjay’s recordings, what an absolutely blissful and most satisfying month it was!!! I, now, so very badly want to go for a Sanjay’s concert! Somebody please organize a concert of his soon! 😛
P.S.: With the P.G.Wodehouse book providing some laughter in the form of some humorous moments and Sanjay’s awesome singing providing that indescribable and unsurpassed magical experience, I see no signs of my irritated mood anywhere near me. 🙂
I will be missing the fourth concert of Sanjay in a row this Sunday!! 🙁 🙁 🙁 I hope his next concert is at least on a day when am free.
At Youth Hostel, Indra Nagar (Hamsadhwani) on 21st March
Accompanists:
R.K. Shriramkumar – Violin
K.Arun Prakash – Mridangam
B.S. Purushothaman – Khanjira
Songs List:
1. Sri natadi guruguho – Mayamalavagowlai – neraval at maya, swarams at maya, marakoti
2. Sri varalakshmi – Sri – Alapana; neraval & swarams at charumati
3. Teliyaleru – Dhenuka
4. Manasunilpa – Abhogi – Alapana
5. SarojadaLanetri – Shankarabharanam – mix of raagam and taanam with Arun Prakash and Purushothaman joining TMK & Shriramkumar for the last few rounds of taanam; neraval & swarams at samaganavinodini
Tani Avartanam
6. AruLseyya vendumaiyya – Rasikapriya
7. Santakaram (Shloka) – Dhanyasi, Bilahari, dhAmavati, Valaji
Sakalalokadhara – Valaji
8. Srinivasa – Hamsanandi – Raaga Outline
9. Shriya Kantaya – Hamsananti, Surutti
Despite the bad ambience at the venue, I loved every moment of the concert so much that I cannot choose just a few particular parts as the ones that I liked the most!
After almost 2 months, I am going for TMK’s concert today and needless to say, I am excited big-time. 🙂 Since it has been just ARR’s songs that I have been listening to for the major part of the time for the past two months, I started listening to TMK’s recordings from the morning. Kedaragowlai, Salakabhairavi, Janaranjani, Surutti, Enneramum, Sri Ramachandra, Gayati Vanamali and now Shankachakra – the song which got me hooked to TMK’s singing in the first place 🙂 . Listening to all these, I now can’t wait for the clock to strike 18:15 🙂
For the past ten days, I managed to write something here everyday and even though the posts were just a few lines long, those were all spontaneous posts. As much as I don’t want to break the streak now, I suddenly don’t seem to have anything to write about! What do I write? About the awesome, amazing Sanjay’s Sahana that I am listening to now 🙂 or about getting hooked to uyirile from Vettayadu Vilayadu yet again today, or about how happy some things which cannot be mentioned here 😛 made me feel or about how I seem to be one confused soul struggling to come to a decision about certain things or about how I am thinking about whether I should publish this post or just delete it? I am sure you will say that I should have indeed deleted it 😉
At Dakshinamurthy Auditorium (Nadopasana) on 16th March
Accompanists:
Prapancham Ravindran – Mridangam
B.S.Purushottaman – Khanjira
Concert Duration: 2 hrs
Songs List:
1. Sri Mahaganapate – Abhogi – Brief alapana, swarams
2. Garudagamana – Nagaswarali – Alapana, swarams
3. Marugelara – Jayantashri – Raaga outline
4. Raa Rama – Asaveri
5. RTP – Bilahari – Pallavi: Raghukula in Kanda Triputa taalam – Composed by TRS
tani Avaratanam
6. Nagumomu – Abheri – Raaga outline, swarams
7. What Prasanna called as the ‘Carnaticized’ version of his composition based on Kambhoji and Kapi from ‘Smile Pinki’ – the documentary which won the Oscar award this year for ‘Best Documentary Short Subject’. Prasanna composed the music for this documentary.
8. Mangalam – Sowrashtram followed by an outline of Madhyamavati
After more than a year, there was a concert of Prasanna here on Saturday. But, since that was in Villivakkam, an inaccessible area for me, I was not able to go for it. So, I didn’t want to miss today’s concert at any cost. I don’t have anything specific to write about except that, as expected, I absolutely enjoyed every moment of this concert. 🙂 How I wish more concerts of Prasanna happens here!
Even though I had wanted to listen to Sikkil Gurucharan & Anil Srinivasan’s album Madhirakshi for quite sometime, it was only after attending a lec-dem by Anil Srinivasan during the December Season in which Sikkil Gurucharan sang Pirava Varam in the end, that I wanted to listen to it asap. The ambience at Vinnyasa Art Gallery, where the lec-dem happened, latAngi, which happens to be one of my favourite raagams and Gurucharan’s voice (Hasn’t he got a beautiful voice!) with Anil Srinivasan’s piano– it was magical. (I wanted to write this here on the day of the lec-dem itself. But never got around to writing it. Anyway, better late than never!)
Coming back to Madhirakshi, I did listen to it finally sometime in January end. Apart from piravA varam, Omana tingaL is the other song that I liked very much. Aarabhi is, after all, another most favourite raagam of mine. I like these two so much that, till now, I have listened to the remaining songs in the album just once, since the moment I think about Madhirakshi, these two songs are the only ones that I feel like listening to. 🙂 I was listening to these two songs on a repeat mode yesterday evening. And even now, that is what I am doing. Lost in the beauty of the contrasting soft and melodious Latangi and Aarabhi pieces!
By the way, only after listening to Omana thingaL, I realized that the Malayalam lines that come in Kuluvalile, the song in Muthu, are the opening lines of this song.