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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Mohan Santanam, Mudhra

Mohan Santanam - Ambika Prasad - Madipakkam Suresh

Kalpitam and Pallavi concert
Mudhra, Infosys Hall, T Nagar
12th August 2006 6:30 pm

innum en manam - chArukEsi varNam - Adi - LGJ
praNamAmyaham - gauLa - Adi - MV
anupama guNambudi - aTANA - kaNDa cApu - T
aruL seiyya - rasikapriyA - Adi - KI (short sketch)
srI visvanAtam - caturdasa rAgamAlikA - Adi - MD
RTP - bhairavi - kaNDa tripuTa (tisra naDai) 3 akshara eDuppu
thAmadham thagAdhaiyya thaNigai murugaiyya
rAgamAlika svarams in nATTakuranji, bhavapriyA, madhyamAvati
sonnadai seidhiDa - rAgamAlikA - Adi
mayil vAhanamAi - suruTTi mangaLam - Adi - KI

The concert was one of a different kind. All pieces but for the pallavi were rendered with out any AlApanai or neraval or svarams. The charukEsi pada varNam made a good starter. The invocatory gauLa kriti and aTANA kriti were rendered well. The rasikapriyA short sketch was good. The kriti was rendered well. The rAgamAlikA of dikshitar was rendered very well thus ending the kalpitam part of the concert.

The bhairavi AlApanai was done quite elaborately, though one felt the artist had cut short the AlApanai in the second part keeping in mind the time factor. The tanam was brief but well rendered. The pallavi set by Sri TRS, was rendered well with beautiful svarams in all the rAgams. The artist chose to sing the pallavi's anulOma, pratilOma parts and in tisra naDai, in each of the rAgams taken up during the rAgamAlikA part. The suruTTi mangaLam was a welcome change.

The accompanists did a good job in accompanying and in their respective solo parts.

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Amazed at the way names are given to concerts !! "Kalpitam and pallavi" ... an excuse to not have manodharma sangeetham except for the ragam tanam pallavi :-)

10:41 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ram, this is how concerts used to be with rtp being the main vehicle to show manadharma. Atleast that is what people from the previous generation say what they heard from their grandfathers..

1:06 AM  

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