Vidya Sankar, Nada Inbam, Shyama Sastri Day

The kritis Smt. Vidya Shankar played (and sang) fully vocally accompanied by her sishyais (smt kalyani, smt radha, smt nithya, smt kadambari, smt uma) and Smt. N S Rajam on mridangam

nIvE gatiyani - kalyANi (varNam) - tisra matya tALam
jananI natajana paripAlini - sAvEri
taruNamidamma - gauLipantu - misra cApu
ennEramum un nAmam - pUrvi kalyANi(i guess)
pArvati ninnunE - kalgaDa
kAmAkshi lOkasAkhiNI - madhyamAvati (gItam)
shankarI shankari - kalyANi (mangaLam) aTa tALam

she played parts of the svara sAhityam/caraNam of the following pieces

durusugA kR_pa - sAvEri
sari yevarammA - bhairavi - khanDa jhampai
mAyammA nannubrova - nATakuranji
rAvE himagiri kumAri - tOdi
kAmAkshI bangAru - varALi
kAmAkshI nI padayugamu - yadhukula kAmbOdi

most kritis were in cApu/tripuTa tALam. Smt Vidya wanted to play a punnAgavarALi piece but did not bcoz of time constraints. She explained the intricate kaNakku involved in the way the sAhitya are set. the way in which the sAhityam is planned according to the swarams, giving kArvai at places where nEdil comes in the sAhityam. It was a delightful sunday morning. True to every word, it was a Lec-dem on rare kritis of shyAma sAstri.

Smt. Vidya Shankar gave a memorable lec-dem on Shyama Shastri's compositions at the Raagasudha Hall Sunday morning (April 25). She played on the veena, sang and spoke about salient aspects of SS' compositions, eg. the savara-sAhityas and metre of the svarajatis, the influence of Adi Shankara on SS (the sanskRt first composition on bhavAnI), and his Tamil compositions including a mangaLam in kalyANI. The program concluded with a felicitation by Smt. Vedavalli.