Category Archives: Music

Vijay Siva’s Concert

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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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Super Singer

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It finally ends today! With too many wild card rounds and no elimination on some days, the show has just been going on and on and on and I am so happy that it is finally getting over! Even though I missed some episodes once in a while, this has been the one programme that I regularly watched in the recent times. Excluding some rounds, the episodes had quite a few of my favourite songs being sung by the participants. With almost all the participants singing really well too in the last several rounds, that was the only reason why I watched it. So, now that it’s over, I will be having more free time on Mondays to Wednesdays and I hope I use that time to get back to regular blogging.

Having watched the programme all these days, I want to see who the super singer is. (I hope Ajeesh wins) But, today’s live show has been a boring one till now, especially the waste of time from 6:30 to 8 when they kept showing the same parts again and again with ‘Live’ flashing on top!

On a totally unrelated note, I watched some portions of today’s French Open Quarter Final which Federer won. I hope he wins the French Open atleast this time!

Aaj Main Upar

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Humming this song from the movie Khamoshi is how I began the day today and a major part of the day itself had me feeling happy and in a cheerful mood that even as I am typing this post, I am singing the same song. 🙂

A pleasant weather in the wee hours of morning, the sky with some beautiful golden hues looking very gorgeous during sunrise, solving today’s kakuro in bus sooner than usual, solving a sudoku with maximum difficulty level again in about 15 min, a nice, long break with a friend, listening to my current favourites Paarthaale Paravasame and If You Wanna (from New) on repeat mode, sky with pinkish hues when the sun was setting, dinner at Eden with friends, the yummylicious Chocolate Fetish Sundae at Eden 😀 (I decided not to have ‘The Last Time Ever I Saw My Waist’ 😛 That’s an ice cream’s name there). What a good day it has been! 🙂

By the way, today is Madhavan’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Madhavan! 🙂 May he get to act in more good movies like Anbe Sivam, Evano Oruvan and Yavarum Nalam!

Guitar

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The year 2005 was when I first listened to Prasanna’s guitar in a concert of his at Music Academy during the December Season. Though I liked the concert, it wasn’t until I got a chance to listen to a couple of songs from his album, ‘Peaceful’ – ‘Peaceful – The Cause’ & ‘Peaceful – The Effect’ (his own compositions) – that I fell in love with Carnatic music on guitar. The next December Season saw me going for some 3-4 concerts of his. It was after that, that I first listened to his ‘Bliss Factor’ – a beautiful composition in Ananda Bhairavi & Sahana. After that, it wasn’t just Prasanna’s playing or Carnatic on guitar, but the very sound of guitar itself started fascinating me like never before. The guitar interludes in July Maadham suddenly seemed more beautiful than before. 😉 Meanwhile, I happened to listen to a Dwijavanti played by Sai Prasad on guitar, which, I must tell you, was awesome!
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Time flies!

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Or so it feels like when I see the date of my last post here. So what’s been keeping me away from blogging?

Wanting to try some author I haven’t read before, I borrowed a couple of books of Sudha Murty from the library on the Monday before last. I first started reading ‘The Old Man and His God’ and liked it so much that I finished reading it at a stretch on the same evening. Finding ‘The Wise and Otherwise’ too equally engrossing as the previous book, the next day had me reading it at every possible free moment I could get. I can’t remember the last time I found a book as inspiring as these two! Reading those books made me do some serious thinking about a lot of things.
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It’s raining! :)

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It’s raining here! Yay! 🙂 Thunder, lightning, cool breeze, maN vaasanai, semma mazhai! Listening to the thunder and rain pouring, I am now happily singing

thandhaane thandhaane maega kooTTam thandhaane
iDiyellaam taaLam dhaane
mazhai thuLi maNNil vandhu sindha chindha ezhugiradhe oru vaasam
adhu ennai vaanavillil koNDu saertthu viDugiradhe sila naeram

😀 Veyil had been unbearable for the past 2 days with the temperature crossing 42 degree celsius. And now what a super weather! 🙂

Kannathil Muthamittal Revisited

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Watching the last half an hour or so of Kannathil Muthamittal on K TV today morning, I remembered the post of mine that has been lying unfinished in the drafts for a long time now.

Sometime in June last year (this post has been in draft from that time!!), there was this thematic concert of T.M.Krishna that I went to. The theme of the concert was ‘Relationships’. As I heard a moving rendition of Mahakvi Bharatiyar’s ‘chinnanchiru kiLiye’(which he had chosen for the relationship between a father and his daughter) by TMK – how does he manage to bring so much bhava in everything that he sings! TMK rocks! 🙂 –, I couldn’t help remembering the movie ‘Kannathil Muthamittal’ the moment he sang those lines in the song. 🙂 As my thoughts drifted towards the movie, the first thing that came to my mind was what an apt title Mani Ratnam had chosen for the movie!
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I want to go for a Sanjay’s concert!

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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. 🙂

Songs to cherish

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  • Mandolin Srinivas’ Enta Muddo
  • Mandolin Srinivas’ Giriraja Suta
  • Roja Janeman sung by Hariharan
  • Kanava Illai Kaatra from Ratchagan
  • New York Nagaram
  • July Maadham Vandhaal
  • Rahman’s ‘Spirit of Unity Concert’ Music
  • Guitar Prasanna’s ‘Peaceful – The Effect’

These songs will forever remain some of the most cherished ones in my life. The memories that these songs hold are special to me! 🙂 It’s amazing how songs can capture so many memories so vividly!