Gayathri Venkataraghavan at Triplicane Rasika Samaj

13th Feb Triplicane Rasika Samaj

Gayathri Venkataraghavan

varNam -ninnE kori - vasantA - Adi
sarasvatI annaiyE - kharaharapriyA - PS
sEshAchala nAyakam - varALi - MD (RNS)
paripAhimAm - jagan mOhini
ninnu sEvichina - yadukula kAmbodhi (R)
bAlakrshNan - danyAsi
kaligiyuNTE gada - kIravANi - T (RNS)
tani
pAsuram (i guess one belonging to the pachai mA malai pol mEni series though not sure it had arambaiyar, vanalavu selvam and words of that kind)
tirupati malai vAsA - hamsAnandi
thillAna - bEhAg
pavamAna - sourAshtram

the kutcheri was well handled by Gayathri who had all thro' sang only kritis which are rarely/never heard on stage these days and for the same reason i m not sure of the starting of the jagan mOhini, yadukula kAmbodhi pieces which had very beautiful citta swarams. thanks to the acoustics and/or the sound system of the venue the words were not easily deciferable. the short sweet yadukula kAmbodhi alapanai was vintage to hear. the two main pieces varaLi and kIravANi were well handled. A planned two hour concert. the violinst was a young girl who i guess was substituting for someone else as the listing had a male violinst. Though substituting some one else, she had a lot of rasikAs for she is from triplicane. the mAmA next to me said, she is a sishyai of TNK and had filled me with "Oh my god" level info on the girl just hindering my attention to the stage as freqently as possible. in fact he went to say about her past concerts and so on. Also in the passing mentioning about Gayathri's guru who apparently was his collegue at work(?) The tani was also very good. an entertaining saturday evening in all ways :d

bharath