T M Krishna, Chettinad Fine Arts

T M Krishna - Nagai Muralidharan - Karaikkudi Mani - V Suresh

Chettinad Fine Arts, Chettinad Vidhyashram School

24th July 2006. 6:30 pm

sAmi daya jUta - kEdAragauLa varNam - Adi
srI mAtrubUtam - kannaDa - misra cApu - MD (S)
sabApathikku - AbhOgi - rUpakam - GKB
eththanai kOdi inbam - danyAsi - Adi - bAratiyAr (R)
sarasa sAma dAna - kApi nArAyaNi - Adi - T
evari mAta - kAmbhOji - Adi - T (R N?S?)
tani?

As entered the hall's balcony to find some space to sit and found some familiar faces too, Sri T M Krishna was singing "somasakham natasukasanakam", the anupallavi of the kannaDa kriti. What followed were some brisk TMK-style-long-flowing swaras which was well received.

The danyAsi AlApanai had a few nice phrases and was monotonous in some parts as well. The kriti was kinda repetitive.

The kAmbhOji AlApanai was nothing different from the former one, in terms of the format. It was again good in parts and monotonous otherwise, which quite a few cheap brigas thrown in hither and thither. I left the hall while he started the kriti.

It was another of those concerts which would make a typical mylpore mama and mami give a huge applause.

Personally i would say it was a rather unfortunate day that all the artists on stage were on their off season.