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Gayathri Girish’s & Carnatica Brothers’ Concerts

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Gayathri Girish’s Concert
At Margazhi Mahotsavam on 4th December

Accompanists:
V.V.S.Murari – Violin
R.Sankaranarayanan – Mridangam

Concert Duration: 1.5 hrs? (I missed the first 40 minutes of the concert)

List of Songs: (Incomplete)
1. mInAkshI mEmudam – pUrvi kalyANi – AlApana; neraval & swarams at madurApuri nilayE
2. irakkam varAmal – bEhAg – rAgA outline
3. ya gOpi? (viruttam); praviSa rAdhE (Jayadeva ashTapadi) – misra sivaranjani
4. tillAnA – sindhu bhairavi

I didn’t find anything impressive in this concert.
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T.M.Krishna’s Concert

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At Kalakshetra on 2nd December

This concert was on the occasion of the launch of the DVD of his guru Bhagavatulu Seetharama Sharma. The DVD was on naTTuvAngams. Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna was the chief guest. While speaking on the occasion, he said that TMK is the seventh descendant of the guru-sishya parampara of Tyagaraja. While the programme itself started at 6:30 pm, by the time the concert started after all the speeches, it was already 8:05 pm! But the concert that followed made it worth the wait! It was a classic TMK’s concert every moment of which was absolute bliss!
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Am super-excited!

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It’s a Friday today and weekend is just a few hours away! 🙂
There is a T.M.Krishna’s concert today! 🙂
It is Sanjay’s first concert of the Season tomorrow! 🙂

Today morning, I had so many things to be happy about and I was, indeed, so very excited that I thought it wouldn’t be possible for me to be more excited than I already was, when I saw in ‘The Hindu”s ‘Friday Review’ that Mani Ratnam is going to be one of the guests of honour at the release of the DVD of T.M.Krishna and Bombay Jayashri’s ‘Margazhi Raagam’!!!

The day in 2005 when I saw in ‘Metro Plus’ that DVDs of Mani Ratnam’s movies are going to be launched by Mani Ratnam himself still remains evergreen in my memory, while seeing Mani Ratnam and even getting his autograph still seems like an unbelievable dream!! Despite all the excitement, there is this big disappointment that my sister is not there in India now. 🙁 She wasn’t able to come for the DVD launch of Mani Ratnam’s movies itself! 🙁 Anyway, irrespective of whether I see Mani Ratnam this Sunday or not, I am super-excited!!! 🙂

The ‘Margazhi Raagam’ DVD launch is going to happen at Cafe Ashvita in Radhakrishnan Salai on December 6th (4 pm – 5 pm). I don’t think any invite is needed for this. So, all you Mani Ratnam fans out there, mark your calendar! 🙂