R Vedavalli, R K Venkatarama Sastry Birth Centenary Celebrations

R Vedavalli - Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi - Vellore Ramabadran

R K Venkatarama Sastry Birth Centenary Celebrations.
Raga Sudha Hall.
14 Nov 2007. 6:30 pm

sarasijAkshi - nAyaki - kaNDa tripuTa - Rudrapatnam Venkataramayya
banTi rIti - hamsanAdam - Adi - T (S)
uNDEdi rAmuDu - hari kAmbhOji - rUpakam - T (NS)
brOva samayamidE - gauri manOhari - Adi - Garbapuri Vasar (Karur Chinna Devudu)
ninnu sEvinchina - yadukula kAmbhOji - misra cApu - Subbaraya Sastri (R)
sAkEta nikEtana - kannaDa - rUpakam - T
tanayuni brOva - bhairavi - Adi - T (RNS)
tani Avarththanam
ninnaruLAm gathiyinRi (vEdAnta dEsikar pAsuram) - bhairavi, sAvEri, sahAnA, senjuruTTi, nIlAmbari, sindhu bhairavi, suruTTi
kELanO hari tALanO - suruTTi - Adi - PD
tillAnA - vasantA - Adi - Ammasathiram Kannuswamy Pillai
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T
svasti prajApya - madhyamAvati

The concert was one of the most fulfilling programmes one has heard in the recent past. The varNam was beautiful. The hamsanAdam kriti was rendered with the dhaivatham shown. The svarams also had a propotionate usage of the Dhaivatham. The neraval and svarams at 'tamasAdi guNa rahituDu dharmAtmuDu sarvasamuDu' were done in a moving fashion. The AlApanais of yadukula kAmbhOji and bhairavi were both very moving. The kriti in yadukula kAmbhOji was rendered very nicely. The main bhairavi kriti was rendered beautifully with neraval and svarams at 'vatsamu veNTa dhEnuvu canunO'. The rAgamAlikA pAsuram and suruTTi piece were good as well. Smt. Vedavalli gave an amazing concert. Smt. Vijayalakshmi was good in all parts. She provided able support and stood up to the main artist all thro' the concert. Sri Ramabadran was his usual self. His playing was very accomodative and very soothing to hear. His tani was short and sweet.