Bombay Sisters, Spic Macay, IIT Madras

Bombay Sisters (Smt Saroja and Smt Lalitha) gave a "Lec-Dem" carnatic music concert under the banner of SPICMACAY at the CLT, IIT Madras on 20th August 2004.

The evening started of with the artists telling some autobiographical stuff for half a score of minutes making for the Lec part. The Dem part was the concert which started of with a neat rendition of the nATTai kriti mahAgaNapatim in Adi tAlam with a ciTTai svaram and karpanai svarams. The next was the mysore vAsudEvacharya kriti brocEvArevarurA in khamAs which brought out their command over pronounciations. The only AlApanai of the concert was Lalitha's hEmavati which was beautifully elaborated. Well rendered srI kAntimatim, ended with svarams at the pallavi line followed by a good tani Avartanam. the tukkadA section started off with rAma kr.shNa gOvinda nArAyaNa, a piece in brindAvani by bhadrAcalam rAmadAsar. purandara dAsar's kApi kriti jagadOdAraNa and the only non Adi tALa kriti innu daya bhAratE in kalyANavasantam were aesthetically rendered. the concert ended with a tillAna in hamsAnandi composed by TK Govinda Rao and pavamAna. Sri. AnanthapadmanAban on the violin was good but for a few snatches where the sruti went haywire. Sri. Subramanian of mridangam was good while Sri. Ravichandran on the Ghatam did not reach till there. Overall the concert was good.