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Sanjay’s Brahma Gana Sabha Concert

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On 15th December at Sivagami Pethachi Auditorium (Brahma Gana Sabha)

Accompanists:
Nagai Muralidharan – Violin
Tanjavur Murugabhoopathy – Mridangam
Alathur T.Rajaganesh – Khanjira

Concert Duration: 3 hrs 15 min

List of Songs:
1. ninne kOri (varNam) – kAnaDA – Adi
2. budamASrayAmi – nATTakurunji – jampa – swarams at budamASrayAmi
3. dayApayOnidE – jaganmOhini – Adi – AlApana
4. ramA nI samAnamevaru – kharaharapriyA – rUpakam – AlApana; neraval and swarams at paluku paluku
5. kapAli – mOhanam – Adi – AlApana; swarams at kapAli
tani Avartanam
6. enna rakSiso – SubhapantuvarALi – rupakam – rAgA outline
7. RTP – mArga hindOLam
pallavi: kandanai vandanai sei manamE tandaiyAi tAyAi vandaruLum – Adi (2kaLai)
swarams in sahAnA, sArangA, calanATTai, sindhubhairavi
8. manadirkkugandadu – sindhubhairavi
9. veTTaveLitanil – husEni
10. samayamide – behAg – rUpakam – rAgA outline
11. karu uRRa nAL (viruttam) – pUrvi kalyANi,
peRRa tAi (viruttam) – Sri ranjani
kANa vENDAmO – Sri ranjani – Eka
12. nI nAma rUpamulaku – sowrASTram
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Deshil yaavum marandhene :-)

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dEsh is always synonymous happiness. 🙂 Thanks to TMK & Sangeetha’s concert, I discovered the very beautiful song, prEmaiyil yAvum marandEnE, in dESh. I didn’t know it was from the old movie, Shakuntala starring M.S. till somebody sitting next to me in the concert told me.

The first thing I did yesterday was to search for ‘Sakuntala’ cassette at home & since then, I have been listening to this song on a loop! Till I found that I had an mp3 version of it too with me, I was rewinding the cassette again and again and listening to it. It brought back memories of the days when I had more cassettes than CDs/mp3s and I used to untiringly rewind and listen to many songs again and again from a whole lot of cassettes. Cassettes have almost become a thing of the past now!
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What should I name this post?

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  • Was feeling so bored sometime back. Genda Phool, Dil Gira Dafatan, Hey Kaala Bandar, Latika’s Theme, Dreams on Fire, Sandeep’s Palaya Sada and Sanjay’s Ee Vasudha (Sanjay’s Sahana! Bliss!) later, I see no signs of boredom. 🙂
  • There were a lot of things that I wanted to do during the long weekend. But now, the 3 days seems to have passed by in a jiffy without me doing most of the things I planned to do. 🙁
  • A 2-hr long program on radio where so many celebrities spoke about ARR, 2 ARR’s interviews in the morning and one more in the evening, Special episode of Super Singer – a treat for Rahmaniacs! 🙂
  • There’s a concert of T.M.Krishna today evening 🙂 What will be the main? Todi? 😉 I will mostly not stay for the full concert since I want to watch ARR’s interview!
  • I want to write posts on Chithra Madhavan’s Talk on ‘Kanchipuram – Art, History & Architecture’, Mylapore Festival and Sonu Niigam’s and Benny Dayal’s concerts at Saarang. When there is so much to write about, why am I not writing?
  • Nothing other than the clichéd random thoughts comes to my mind when I think of a title for this post!

Carnatic Music & Me – Part 3

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During the December Season 2005, we again got Music Academy tickets, thanks to our neighbour. By then, Carnatic music had become a passion to me and my sister and we wanted to attend as many concerts as possible. My sister had her semester holidays and I had my semester exams at that time! But that didn’t stop me from going for concerts! I took my book along if I had to study something.
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Carnatic Music & Me – Part 2

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The year 2002 is special since it was only in September 2002 that I first went for a concert of Sanjay Subrahmanyan at Siddhi Buddhi Sameta Sri Karpaga Vinayagar temple in R.A.Puram. I am not sure but I think he sang some song in Ananda Bhairavi (Marivere?) in that concert. I liked the concert and that was all.

During the December Season that year, his concert was at R.R.Sabha at 10 (or was it 10:30?) on a Saturday morning. The fact that the concert was in the morning made my sister and me go for it. We both went in our cycles to that concert. How I used to hate riding my cycle in the ever-congested Mada Streets of Mylapore! Reaching the venue, we came to know that his concert was earlier scheduled on some evening but it was later changed to a morning slot since Sanjay was to receive some award in Bombay on the scheduled day of the concert. If I remember correctly, there was a Bhairavi, Mukhari, Todi and the song Haridasulu Vedale sung in that concert. (Am wondering if he really sung all those!) Apart from that, I don’t remember anything at all about the concert except for the fact we really liked this concert of his too! Nithyasree’s at R.R.Sabha was the only other concert that I went to during the season that year. The sounds of dosa vaatthufying and other sounds coming from the canteen used to always be a constant accompaniment to all the concerts at R.R.Sabha. 😉
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Rahman, you are the best! :)

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Listening to Rahman’s songs for the past couple of hours or so, this is what I feel like screaming out loud. 😉 Though I cannot remember the exact time from when Rahman’s music or for that matter, music itself ceased being just a form of entertainment to me, these days, music is the one thing that works wonders for me whenever am feeling low. I have this playlist of Rahman’s songs that is of some 14 hours duration. I clicked on the Play button and lost track of the minutes that  passed. 😉

  • O Rey Chori
  • Anbendra Mazhaiyile
  • En kadhale
  • Akkadanu Naanga
  • Dil Se Re
  • Nachle
  • Kabhi Meeti Lagti Hai
  • Thaniye
  • Mettu Podu
  • KaNNamoochi
  • Kahin Aag Lage
  • Jana Gana Mana
  • Konjum MainakkaLe
  • Thaiyya Thaiyya
  • Kadhal Rojave
  • Mukkala
  • Mayya Mayya

& lots more. God knows how many times I have listened to all these songs. Yet my liking for these songs only increases every time I listen to it. Experiencing the magic of Rahman’s music is a magical experience in itself. 😉 What’s life without music?

Vaaranam Aayiram Songs

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The songs of Vaaranam Aayiram are what I have been listening to since morning today. As is the case with most of Harris Jeyaraj’s songs, all the songs have an already-heard-before feel to it. No song is bad though. Here’s my ranking of the songs:

7. Anul Maele by Sudha Raghunathan – The most boring song

6. Ava Enna by Karthik and Prasanna – Another boring song with classic dappankutthu beats. I liked the humming interlude at 3:05 till 3:33.
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Kabhi Kabhi

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Kabhi Kabhi to lage zindagi mein rahi na khushi aur na mazaa
Kabhi Kabhi to lage har din mushkil aur har pal ek sazaa
Aise mein koi kaise muskuraye kaise has de khush hoke
Aur kaise koi sochde Everything’s gonna be OK

When you feel like this, listening to this song helps for sure….