Rama Ravi, R K Venkatarama Sastry Birth Centenary Celebrations

Rama Ravi, Nanditha Ravi - M A Krishnaswamy - K Arun Prakash

R K Venkatarama Sastry Birth Centenary Celebrations.
Raga Sudha Hall.
18 Nov 2007. 9:30 am

sAmi ninnE - kAmavardhini - Adi (varNam)
srI jAnaki - IsA manOhari - Adi - T
sUrya mUrtE - saurAshTram - catusra dhurva tALam - MD
danyuDevvaDo - malayamArutam - Adi - PSI (RNS)
srI lalitE - bhairavi - Adi - AS (RS)
srI ranganAtam - pUrNacandrikA - Adi - MD
sItA vara - dEvagAndhAri - Adi - T
tiruvaDi tanai - rItigauLa - Adi - MT
akshaya linga vibhO - sankarAbaraNam - misra cApu - MD (RNS)
tani Avarththanam
samayamidE rA rA - bEhAg - rUpakam - PSI (jAvaLi)
ElarADAyanE kAmini - bhairavi - Adi - Chinnaiah (jAvaLi)
bAla vinavE - kAmbhOji - tisra tripuTa - K (padam)
hari smaraNE - yamunA kalyANi - Adi - PD
AbathAmapa hartAram - slOkam in varALi, yadukula kAmbhOji
srI rAma jaya rAma - yadukula kAmbhOji - kaNDa cApu - T
nI nama rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T

Amazing concert it was. The AlApanais of malayamArutam and bhairavi and the main shankarAbaraNam were all too good. Though sung for about 10+ min, all them left one wishing for more of the rAgam. From the varNam, the kritis were rendered very movingly in a very clear fashion. The neraval in malayamArutam and sankarAbaraNam kritis are the usual lines were done in a nice fashion. The svarams were very beautiful and had many many intersting patterns. The padam and the jAvaLis were all requests from audience. They were all rendered amazingly.

The accompanists played their part correctly in making the concert a very enjoyable one.