Aparna’s Blog

Sanjay’s kaNmaNiyE (Listen to Sanjay sing ‘kaNmaNiyE sollaDI kamalanayana ramaNaniDam‘. Just awesome!) & rAgESrI. TMK’s Anandabhairavi varnam (This was the main in TMK’s concert yesterday!). GNB’s rAga sudha rasa (Alapana that precedes it is pure bliss!). ARR’s Aromale, Hosanna, Omana peNNE (just for that amazing nadaswaram in the end!), Aathangara marame, Pudhu veLLai mazhai, Latika’s theme, En veetu thottatthil & Anbe from Rhythm.

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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!

My long term dream of listening to Sanjay’s Sahana RTP live finally got fulfilled today, that too at Kalarasana!!! Am so happy!

P.S.: I’ll post the songs list later.

At Raga Sudha Hall (Naada Inbam) on 13th December

Accompanists:
V.Sanjeev – Violin
Tanjavur Ramdas – Mridangam

Concert Duration: 2 hrs 40 min
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At Kamarajar Arangam (Kartik Fine Arts) on 13th December

Accompanists:
Nagai Muralidharan – Violin
Guruvayur Dorai – Mridangam
T.V.Vasan – Ghatam

Concert Duration: 3 hrs 20 min
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At Ramarao Kala Mantap (Nungambakkam Cultural Academy) on 12th December

Accompanists:
Mysore Srikanth – Violin
Srimushnam Raja Rao – Mridangam
Udupi Sridhar - Ghatam
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At Music Academy (ICICI Bank Music Festival) on 28th November

I came to know about this concert only on the previous day of the concert. I didn’t even make any attempt to see if I will be able to get a pass for this concert and had almost forgotten about it, when, surprisingly, a friend who doesn’t listen to much of Carnatic music called me and said that she had passes for T.M.Krishna’s concert and the moment she saw TMK’s name, she remembered me. Going for a concert unexpectedly has more excitement than going for one which you had already planned to go for! Considering the number of TMK’s concerts I will be missing in December, I was happy that I could go for this concert.

Accompanists:
R.K.Shriramkumar – Violin
Tiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam – Mridangam
E.M.Subramaniam - Ghatam

Concert Duration: 2.5 hrs

List of songs:
1. vA murugA vA – bEgaDA – swarams at vA murugA
2. brOcEvArevarE – Sri ranjani – swarams at brOcevarevarE
3. kAlai tUkki – yadukula kAmbhOji – AlApana
4. kathaya kathaya – kalyANi – brief AlApana – neraval at aravindalOcana arivarga niSUdanam
5. kAru bAru – mukhAri – AlApana; swarams at kAru bAru
tani Avartanam
6. pullAgi (viruttam) – varALi, kharaharapriyA, SankarAbharaNam, danyAsi, kApi, behAg, surutti
mATrariyAda - surutti
7. nandagOpAla – yamuna kalyANi
8. jayati jayati – khamAs
9. nI nAma rUpamulaku (started at prahlAda & not pavamAna) – sowrASTram
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