Accompaniments:
H.N.Bhaskar – Violin
J.Vaidyanathan – Mridangam
S.Karthick – Ghatam

Where & When? – The Music Academy on 26th December

Concert Duration: 2.5 hrs
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After a long time, I was back home by 7:30 itself in the evening, thanks to an early Sanjay’s concert today. Doing channel-surfing, I saw ‘Dil To Pagal Hai’ was the movie coming on Set Max. Among Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Kucch Kucch Hota Hai & Dil To Pagal Hai, Dil To Pagal Hai (and the songs of the movie too) used to be my favourite for a long time till one fine day when I got bored of it after seeing it telecast on TV so often.

Seeing it today after a long time, I thought I would watch it for a few minutes and change the channel. But I couldn’t stop watching it at all! :O The whistling of are re are ye kya hua, the BGM, the songs (I just love Dil To Pagal Hai, Are Re Are and Koi Ladki Hai), Udit Narayan at his best, the chemistry between Shahrukh and Madhuri, Madhuri and Karishma’s dance for ‘The Dance of Envy’ track, Madhuri’s salwar kameezs and the colours of some of her costumes and lots more! Watching this movie now has taken my memory back to my school days when this movie used to be a part of so much of chats with friends. 🙂

I still can’t believe that it has been a couple of hours since I switched on the computer to write about Sanjay’s concerts and instead have ended up writing this post now! :O Oops break has got over. Have to get back to watching the movie. 😉 Cya!

Sanjay Subrahmanyan – Vocal
Nagai Muralidharan – Volin
Patri Satish Kumar – Mridangam
K.V.Gopalakrishnan – Khanjira

Where & When? – Narada Gana Sabha on 23rd December

Concert Duration: 2.5 hrs
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7:30 am – 9:00 am: Music Class
10:00 am – 12:00 noon: Vijayagopal’s Concert at Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Ram’s Concert at Vani Mahal
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Saketaraman’s Concert at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha (Missed the first few minutes)
4:20 pm – 4:50 pm: Ranjani & Gayatri’s Concert at Music Academy (Reached 5 minutes late for the 4:15 pm concert. Couldn’t sit beyond half an hour!)
6:30 pm – 9:45 pm: Sanjay Subrahmanyan’s Concert at Vani Mahal (Superb concert as usual!!)

Happily did sabha-hopping to my heart’s content all through the day! 😀

Sanjay Subrahmanyan – Vocal
M.R.Gopinath – Volin
Tumkur Ravishankar – Mridangam
N.Govindarajan – Ghatam

Where & When? – P.S.B.B. School (Bharat Kalachar) on 18th December
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Waking up feeling so fresh (this is surely not a thing that happens often on a working day 😛 ), with Dad deciding to drop me at office, me happily listening to Sanjay’s Padmanabha CD (had a tough time choosing between Ghajini and Padmanabha!) and enjoying a beautiful sunrise on the way 🙂 , reaching office in record 20 min!, this day couldn’t have had a better beginning! And with a Sanjay’s concert today evening and a whole lot of concerts/lec-dems, including a concert of Sanjay, lined up during the weekend, the next couple of days is surely going to be even better with me doing a lot of sabha-hopping! Just thinking about it has got me even more charged up that I cannot wait to finish my work soon and leave!

Btw, this morning, yet again, I started feeling that it’s high time I started driving the car. 😐 It would be great coming to office in your own vehicle without having to hurriedly get ready every morning worrying all the time about missing the bus! And with good music for company, it would be even great!

Sanjay Subrahmanyan – Vocal
S.Varadarajan – Volin
Guruvayur Dorai – Mridangam
Bangalore Rajasekar – Morsing

Where & When? – Infosys Hall, Ramakrishna Mission School (Mudhra) on 17th December

Concert Duration: Almost 3 hrs 15 min
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The line that I keep telling myself these days is ‘Life is like a see-saw!’ And proving that line yet again was last week, the busiest and stressful of weeks in the recent times, when the week transformed from one full of stressful days to blissful days. Except for those times when I was attending concerts, I have been totally busy juggling a lot of tasks. Adding to it is computer at home not working. 🙁 Anyway, even if there had not been a problem with computer, I am not sure if I would have found time to even go near it. Screaming for my attention are hundreds of unread blog posts, thousands of unread messages in Rahman fan club and a lot of posts waiting to be transferred from my mind to my blog! But, with lots of other pending tasks too waiting to be completed, those have to wait for at least the next few days. Cya all soon with a series of posts on the December Season!

Accompanists:
S.Varadarajan – Violin
Neyveli Venkatesh – Mridangam

Where & When? – Chettinad Vidyashram (Margazhi Mahotsavam) on 5th December

Concert Duration: 1 hr 50 min

Theme of the Concert: M.M.Dandapani Desigar’s Compositions (Songs written as well as not written but just tuned by him)
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Accompanists :
Mridangam – Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan
Violin – Shertalai Sivakumar
Khanjira – Alathur T.Rajaganesh

Where & When? – Chettinad Vidyashram (Margazhi Mahotsavam) on 5th December

Concert Duration: 1 hr 15 min?

Songs List: (Incomplete)
1. natajana pAlini – naLinakAnti – swarams at parama krpAkari
2. vAnanai – kIravANi – Alapanai; neraval & swarams at vIranai viDamuNDanai
3. nija marmulanu – umAbharaNam
4. mInAkshi mEmudam – pUrvikalyANi – Alapanai; neraval & swarams at vINa gAna
5. sEndanai kandanai (viruttam) followed by kArtikEyanai kaNNAra kANa – kApi – raaga outline

I reached the venue just as Gurucharan was singing swarams in naLinakAnti. naLinakAnti – What a beautiful raaga to begin the evening with! 😉 Besides, the fact that naLinakAnti is the one that I am hooked to these days, thanks to Sandeep Narayan’s awesome pAlaya sadA (Do check it out here), made me feel so happy listening to it.

Anyway, coming back to the concert, Gurucharan sang quite well. I liked his alapanas and the fast-paced nija marmulanu. Though I did feel that the violinist’s pUrvikalyANi alapana wasn’t that great, I was later left wondering if it was because of the way the not-that-great sound system was making the violin sound!

Though I did like the concert, I didn’t find anything that special to make me want to go for Gurucharan’s concert today also. So, I have dropped my plans of going to his concert today.