Sanjay at IMScCA

Sanjay Subrahmanyan - S Varadarajan - Mannargudi Easwaran

Institute of Mathematical Sciences Cultural Academy.

3rd August, 6 pm

nI vaNTi daivamu - nIlambari varNam - aTa tALam - taragampADi pancanAda iyer
cintayamAdanda - bhairavi - rUpakam - MD (svarams at 'uttunga kamanIya vrShaturangam')
kamala pada malar - harikAmbhOji - Adi(2) - pApanAsam sivan (AlApanai)
gAngEya vAsana - hamIrkalyANi - Adi(2) - svAti tirunAL (AlApanai)
nADADina mATA - janaranjani - misra cApu - tyAgarAja (neraval and svarams at 'talaku vaccina')
taniyAvardanam
srI pancanadIsam - sahAnA - tisra Ekam - paTNam subramania iyer (AlApanai)
RTP - sankarAbaraNam
'siva saravaNabava kumarA kumaraguruparA muthukkumarA'
tALam: 15 aksharams. one kaNDa lagu with 2 svarams each, one drutam where the beat is in tisram, the veechu is 2 aksharams. (2 x 5) + (3 + 2) = 15. samam yeDuppu
dasarata suta - jOnpuri
teruvinil naDavA - suruTTi - dhuruva tALam - tiruppugazh
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshtram

The opening nIlambari varNam was a rare piece and rendered well. The bhairavi kriti was rendered well and the svarams were well structured to include a nice korappu.

harikAmbhOji AlApanai started on a rather ambigous note with shades of khamAs and kAmbhOji showing up. It was well developed with the kriti rendered nicely. hamIrkalyANi also had a kalyANi-sArangA-ish starting but again was developed very well. The kriti again being well rendred.

nADADina mATa as it was started was more in the tempo of a filler, but then it was a bit of a surprise, being developed into a elaborate piece with extensive neraval and beautiful svarams and korappu and followed by a very entertaining tani.

sahAnA AlApanai opening created high expectations of a pallavi but was short lived with a fast round-up and the kriti was real good and rendered with a lot of bhavam. The dissappointment of a short sahAnA was short-lived also when sankarAbaraNam was taken up for elaboration. After a rather short AlApanai, in terms of an RTP, and a nice tAnam, when Sri. Sanjay started singing the pallavi, it was tough to understand the tALam and took a few aavarthanams to come to an understanding of the tALam. One kept wondering what it was called. The pallavi though in a tricky tALam was simple structured and Sanjay did not explore very extensively. It was a short pallavi and the accompanists did a excellent job in keeping to the Main Artist. There was a short tani for the pallavi and after that Sri. Sanjay said that this tALAm does not have a name and was conceived by a nAdasvara vidwan and explained the 15 svara pattern. He also added that he had not rehersed the pallavi with his accompanists and applauded them for keeping upto it.

Sri. Varadarajan on the violin did a very good job in accompanying the concert. His replies to Sanjay in all the AlApanais, neravals and svarams measured up to that of the main artist. Sri. Eswaran played a very supportive role in playing for the kriti being presented and also in tandem with the svara prastharams and neraval.

Though being a short 2 hour concert, it was indeed very enjoyable.