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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Neyveli Santhanagopalan, Music Club IIT Madras

Neyveli Santhanagopalan - M A Sundareswaran - Guruvayur Durai - V Suresh

Music Club IIT Madras. DoMS Hall
16th August 2007. 6:45 pm

tAmasinchaka - asAvEri - Adi - PSI (S)
shakti gaNapatim - nATTai - rUpakam - HMB (RNS)
mAnasa guruguha - Ananda bhairavi - tisra Ekam - MD (short sketch)
dEva dEva jagadIsvara - pUrvikalyANi - Adi - ST (RNS)
mAkElarA - ravichandrika - Adi - T (RN)
ambayaninE moraliDa - aTANA - rUpakam - Ponnaiah Pillai (RS)
sArasa daLa nayanE - sAramati - Adi - HMB (RS)
tani Avarththanam
tatvameruga - garuDadvani - Adi - T
RTP - suruTTi - tisra tripuTa (1 kaLai) 2 Avarththanam pallavi. 1.5 eDuppu. 6 akshara aridi. 'varada vEnkaTa saila vihArA'. rAgamAlikA svarams in sahAnA, AndhOLika, mukhAri, ranjani, kadanakuthukalam, kAnaDA, bauLi, nIlambari, nATTaikuranji, sindhubhairavi.
vinAyakuni - madhyamAvati - Adi - T
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T

The concert began with a short sketch of asAvEri with the not-so-often heard varnam to follow and a short round of kalpanai svarams. The AlApanai of nATTai was nice. The kriti was rendered with a round of neraval and svarams at 'bhAnu kOTi samkAsham pApaharam paramEsham'. The short sketch of Anandabhairavi and the kriti were moving.

The pUrvikalyANi AlApanai was elaborate. The kriti was rendered with neraval and svarams at 'vAraNa paravrdha tApa shamanacana vAsava mukha sura sEvita padayuga'. The short sketch of ravichandrikA was quite inspring. The kriti was rendered with some quick neraval at 'jata gUrci nATaka sUtramunu'.

The aTANA AlApanai was little aggressive, compared to what the ragam is popularly believed to be. That dint make it non-aTANA-ish or not enjoyable. The rare kriti was rendered very nicely with an elaborate round of svarams. The main sAramati AlApanai was done leisurely. It was done showing many vintage sancarams. The kriti was rendered with a round of svarams in kIzh kAlam alone.

The suruTTi AlApanai and tAnam were quite elaborate and very enjoyable. The pallavi was rendered with rAgamAlikA svarmas in quick succession. The Violinst of the day was in full form. His AlApanais were real nice. His short sketch of ravichandrikA was very inspiring. His aTANA and sAramati AlApanais were both as good as the vocalist's elaboration, if not a shade better. His replies during svarams was also nice. His suruTTi and tAnam were real good. His replies for rAgamAlika, with each ragam for just one Avarththanam were real nice.

The mridangist was in full form. The patterns he played for each kriti and sangati were so matching and gelling to the main stream music. The ghatam vidwan played providing good support to the mridangam. The tani was great as well.

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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Looks like some excellent ragas and songs: asAveri varnam, ravichandrika ragam and neraval, RTP in surutti, a saramati rendition of a krithi I have not heard before (same with aTANA one of my favorite ragams) - wow! I wish I had been there!

8:08 PM  
Blogger Sathej said...

Sarasa Dala Nayane in Saramathi is sung often by Shri TNS.
Sathej

4:20 PM  
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