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Saturday, May 19, 2007

S R Janakiraman, Shyama Sastri kritis, Narada Gana Sabha

S R Janakiraman - Mangala Ravi (vocal support) - Akkarai Subhalakshmi - K R Ganesh

Narada Gana Sabha Golden Jubilee Celebrations. NGS Mini Hall.
18th April 2007. 6:30 pm
Lec-dem/Concert of Shyama Sastri kritis.

prayer - shyAma navAmsham (comprising lines from 9 kritis of Sri Shyama Sastri)
kAmAkshI (swarajati) - bhairavi - misra cApu (short sketch)
syAma sAstrim namOstutE - sAmA - misra cApu - Dr V Raghavan - Tuned by B Krishnamurthy (short sketch)
sangIta trimUrti jyEshTa - sAvEri - kanDa maTyam (2 kaLai) - Vidya Shankar - ciTTaswaram by SRJ (R)
ninnuvinAga mari - pUrvikalyANi - misra cApu (R)
nannu brOvu lalitA - lalitA - misra cApu
dEvi brOva - cintAmaNi - Adi (short sketch)
mAyammA - nATTakurinji - Adi (RS)
tani Avarththanam
pAlincu kAmAkshi - madyamAvati - Adi

i was another fortunate soul to be able to listen to this programme. however, no so fortunate, i reached only as Sri SRJ was wrapping up the bhairavi svarajati, thanks to a one hour wait for MTC buses to reach the place.

SRJ's explanation for each kriti, the way he rendered them were all mesmerising. The way he rendered the sAvEri kriti, was good. Ram seems to have missed out that 's r g m g r' prayOgam he sang in sAvEri and said it was Tiger who would use this phrase in sAvEri.

The pUrvikalyANi piece was rendered while SRJ was explaining the cApu, vilOma cApu stuff and said, in the same kriti, Shyama Sastri has used all kinds of naDais. The lalitA kriti was also rendered very soulfully.

Sri SRJ called the cintAmaNi dhaivatam as the tiruTTu dhaivatham (stolen dhaivatam) because it needs to be used only in alpa prayOgams. He said it is not advisable to sing AlApanai for the rAgam. however, one could sing a few Avarthanams of svarams.

The main nATTakuranji was inspiring. The AlApanai was just filled with all the enjoyable sancarams weaved together. The kriti and the svarams which followed were amazing.

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2 Comments:

Blogger Raghul said...

u didn't mention anything about the accompaniments. why?

1:21 PM  
Blogger bharath said...

my mistake. should have added.

Akkarai Kumari Subhalakshmi was very good. Sri Ganesh was good and played a short tani.

1:55 PM  

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