Seerkazhi Sivachidambaram, Music Academy

Seerkazhi Sivachidambaram - Sikkil Bhaskaran - Thiruvarur Saikrishnan - Madheswaran

Music Academy, 26th May 2006 6:30 pm

sEvikka vENDumaiyyA - AbhOgi - Adi (S)
nI dayavAi ennai ALAi - bhUpALam - Adi (S)
maravAdiru nenjamE - AndhOlikA - Adi
enna pizhaippu - gauri manOhari - Adi (R)
kAlai thUkki ninRu - yadukula kAmbhOji - Adi (R)
oru kAl siva chidambaram - Arabhi - Adi (R)
Adi kONDAr - mAyAmALavagauLa - Adi
aru marundOru thani marundu - kAmbhOji - rUpakam (R N S)
kaNDEn kaNDEn - vasantA - Adi

left after this piece

The concert was some endowment. I dont recollect on whose honour.

The opening piece had good svarams. The short sketch of bhUpALam and the svarams which followed were very good. The kriti however was not upto the mark. Sadly, this was the state of most kritis in Sri Sivachidambaram's list. Quite a few kritis in the list were quite not upto the mark. I am not up against tamil kritis or composers, there are quite a few really beautiful kritis, but these werent upto the mark at all.

Rather than elaborating on each piece, personally one felt that the general opinion about the concert was, the manOdarmam part was really expectionally well handled, while each of the kriti let down the AlApanai and/or the svarams, with the exception of the AbhOgi, yadukula kAmbhOji and mAyAmALavagauLa kritis. One doesnt know if the artist were bound by any constraints about the song list and hence one would not wish to elabore. I dont wish to be harsh, but the song list was definitely a let down.

Sri Sivachidambaram did a good job with the alapanais, neraval and svarams. Taking up both yadukula kAmbhOji and kambhOji for elaborate treatment in the same concert and getting done both without mistakes is something that needs to be given credit.

The Violinst was visibly quite lost in many parts of the concert. His bowing was also quiet shrieky. The mrudangist was rather monotonous all thro' the concert. The morsing artist was good. As usual, yet again, one felt Sri Sivachidambaram should perform with better accompanists.