Ramani Narayanan, Semmangudi Golden Jubilee Trust

Semmangudi Srinivasier Golden Jubilee Trust started its series of programmes at Raga sudha hall today, 26th July. Vidushi, Smt. Ranganayaki Rajagopalan who presided over the Inaguration function was honoured. Sri. Duraiswamy IAS in his address stressed the difference between sArIram and ~nyAnam and had given a beautiful anecdotes. Sangeetha kalanidhi Smt. R. Vedavalli also spoke in the occasion and felicitated Smt. Ranganayaki who gave a short and crisp but impactful acceptance. Initially Sri. V. Subramanian welcomed and Sri. P. S. Narayanaswamy proposed the vote of thanks.

Following this was a vINai concert by Smt Ramani, with Sri. Madirimangalam Swaminathan on mridangam and Sri. T. V. Vasan on the ghatam. The concert started with 'sarasIruhAsanapriyE' in nATTai with swarams at 'sarasvatI'. Then tyagaraja's 'telisi rAma' in purNachandrikA was nicely rendered. kAmavardhini was elaborated and the kriti 'appa rAma bhakti' aesthetically rendered ended with swarams and 'sarasa sAma dhAna' was to follow. The elaboration of danyAsi was very soothing and the vINai kuppaiyer kriti 'nA morAlakinchi' was beautiful with the vijayashrI kriti 'vara nArada' next in line. The main piece was 'evari mATa' with kambhOji elaborated nicely and a brilliant tAnam, neraval and swarams at the caraNam line 'bakta parAdhinudanuchu'. the tani Avarthanam was nicely co-ordinated. The narayana tIrthar tarangam 'rE rE mAnasa' in dvijAvanthi was next. The concert ended with jAvaLi in pUrvikalyANi and 'kaliyuga varadan' in brindAvana sAranga. From the first piece, the kAraikudi bAni was very evident in the style of playing the vINai. The sangatis were all beautiful and the swarams also spoke of the bAni.