Suguna Purushottaman & Suguna Varadachari, Mani Krishnaswamy Day

Suguna Purushottaman & Suguna Varadachari - T K Padmanabhan - Thanjavur Kumar

Mani Krishnaswamy Day.
Dakshinamurthy Hall, PS High School
12th July 2008.

teratIyaga rAdA - gauLipanti - Adi - T
ikanaina nA - pushpalatikA - Adi - TN
endu dAginADO - tODi - misra cApu - T
srI kumAra nagarAlayE - aTANA - Adi - ST
gaTTi gAnu - bEgaDa - tisra Adi - T
pAhi rAmachandra rAghavA - yadukulakAmbhOji - T
sriyatkAntAya - mangaLa slOkam in suruTTi

The evening started with a panel discussion on Smt. Mani Krishnaswamy. Participating in the discussion were Sri SR Janakiraman, Sri T R Subramanian, Sri B M Sundaram, Chingleput Sri Ranganathan, Sri N V Subramanian, Ms. Sundari, Smt Suguna Purushottaman and Smt Suguna Varadachari. They all spoke about the various facets of Smt Mani Krishnaswamy. As Dr VV Srivatsa was ill, Sri B M Sundaram also moderated the discussions. Sri Srinivasan of NadopAsana also spoke on the occasion and Sri M K Sudarashan proposed the vote of thanks. Smt Suguna Purushottaman and Smt Suguna Varadachari also presented a composition on Smt Mani Krishnaswamy set to mOhana kalyANi and Adi tALam composed by Smt Suguna Purushottaman.

The concert which followed had only kritis being sung with no manOdarmam at all. Smt Suguna Purushottaman announced that this will not be a regular concert and they would present pieces that were Smt. Mani Krishnaswamy's favourites and those they learnt together. The kritis were rendered in such a grand fashion that one did not feel the absence of any manOdarmam. The accompanists were good.