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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Charumathi Ramachandran, Music Academy

Charumathi Ramachandran, Subhashree Ramachandran - M R Gopinath - M L N Raju - Anirudh Athreya

Music Academy
27 Dec 08. 9:15 am

nI daya rAdA nIrajAkshI - AndhOLikA - Adi (S) [varNam]
pArvati patim - hamsadvani - Adi - MD
murugA tirumAl marugA - harikAmbhOji - rUpakam - PS (short sketch)
sivam vrushabhArUDam - mOhana kalyANi - kaNDa cApu - HMB (RNS)
anna pUrNE - sAmA - Adi - MD
mAyammA yaninE - Ahiri - Adi - SS (short sketch)
mitrI bhAgyamE - kharaharapriyA - Adi - T (RNS)
tani
mANikkam kaTTi - pAsuram in bEhAg
orutthi maganAi - bEhAg - Adi - Andal Thiruppavai
RTP - aTANA - kaNDa aTa tALam kaNDa naDai (2 akshara eDuppu, 7 akshara aridi)
mOhana rAmA lAvaNya rAmA rAma rAma guNA sImA dasaratha nandana dAsarathi rAmA
rAgamAlika svarams in mOhanam, pUrNa shadjam, simmEndramadhyamam, asAvEri, tODi
krishNa nI bEganE - yamunA kalyANi
Omana tingaL - nIlAmbari
visvEsvara darisan - sindhubhairavi

It was a good concert. However, one felt all the alapanais were rather short and could have been a bit more elaborate, considering the amount of time that was left. One could evidently see the amount of vidwat and capabilities of the main artist, however, thanks to her bad throat she was restrained in the upper registers. The mOhanakalyANi piece was good and was given enough weightage. The main kharaharapriya kriti was rendered in one kaLai and the AlApanai was short. Her daughter sang the AlApanai in the higher octave. The neraval svarams were good. The tani was short. There was about an hour and 10 minutes left when She started the Pallavi. One was expecting a very elaborate pallavi. However, the AlApanai and tAnam were very short and the pallavi wasnt elaborated much either. There were just a couple of rounds of svarams in aTANA before she started rendering rAga mAlikA svarams, just one round in each rAgam. Along with the ultra short tani, the pallavi was over in less than half an hour and there were a whooping 35 minutes left for tukkadas. The concert ended much before the scheduled end time. Probably an non-co-operative throat led to the early ending of the concert and short versions of pieces. However, whatever was sung was good. All the svara patterns were very nice. The accompanists were very good and played very supportively.

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