Balamuralikrishna

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Sivaraman
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Post by Sivaraman »

Can Lakshmanji/Kiransurya provide the lyrics to Vande Mataram and the meaning of the lyrics? Will be much obliged.

Lakshman
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Post by Lakshman »

vandE mAtaram. rAgA: ranjani. Adi tALA.

P: vandE mAtaram andi mAtaram
A: mundaDugiDu mana bhAvitaram pondudu-mAnanda-mandaram
C: virisenu bhuvipai aravindam kurisenu manapai makarandam
merisenu muraLI svarAla andam murisenu kavi gAyaka brndam

kiransurya
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Post by kiransurya »

Pallavi:
Vande Maataram: Prostration to the mother
Andi: Says, Maataram: our generation, Mundadugidu: Steps forward,

Our generation prostrate to the mother(India???)

Anupallavi:
Mana: Our, Bhaavitaram: next/future generation, Pondudu: will get/possess, Aananda:happy, Mandaaram: China rose

Our future generation will be happy- Here happiness has been attributed to China rose(hibiscus), mostly because china roses are red in colour which symbolises protection/security/happiness.

Charanam:
Virisenu: Blossomed, Bhuvipai: on earth, Aravindam:lotus, Kurisenu: Rained, manapai: on us, Makarandam: nectar, Merisenu: Flashed, murali:flute, Muresnu: become happy, Kavi(poet), Gayaka:Singer, Brindam:folks

All the earth looks blossomed and rain appears to be nectar, the sound of a flute soothing, all of which make the poets and an singers cheerful



Basically the song picturises everything in the subcontinent beautiful and happier..

Sivaraman
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Post by Sivaraman »

Lakshman/Kiransurya,
Many thanks for the promptness in supplying the lyrics with the meaning.It enabled me to enjoy the krithi immensely.I am much obliged.

Rigapada
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Post by Rigapada »

Thanks Lakshman! That makes the kriti fully enjoyable

Rigapada/Kiran

Could you kindly translate too? Thanks!
Dear CML,
As I was out of station, I could not immediately help you. Here is a translation:
guruni smarimpumu. rAgA: hamsavinOdini. Adi tALA.

P: guruni smarimpumu = Think of the teacher, manasA = O mind,
sadguruni smarimpumu = Think of the true teacher,

A: gurutara bhuktitO = with intense devotion, jnAnnArtthi vagucu
= with desire for knowledge, parama sushIluDai
karuNAkaruDau =(a guru who is) compassionate with high and
proper virtues,


C1: gAyaka sArva bhaumAdi ghana birudAnkituDau = adorned
with great titles like 'gAyaka sArva bhaumA', an emperor among
musicians,
guNanidhini = an ocean of virtues,
shrIyutuDai = accompanied with excellence, sadA shiSya
samEtuDai = always accompanied by disciples, shrYamosagu =
one who gives happiness, shrI rAma krSNa sad (guruni) =
excellent (teacher) shrI rAma krSNa,

2: sakalAgma nigama sAra samyuta sangIta sAdhanatO = with
practice of music, the essence of all vedic scriptures,
sadgatikai
= for salvation, sadamala dharma niyama samyutuDai = always
with pure good deeds and principles,
sadA muraLI gAna
vilOluDau = always enjoying the music of the flute,

Gist:

P: O mind, think of the good teacher.

A: (Think) with intense devotion and desire for knowledge (of the
guru who is) virtuous and compassionate.

C1: (Think) of the excellent (Teacher) shri rAma krSNa, ( Sri
pArupalli rAma krSNayya pantulu, of Vijayawada) who is adorned
with titles like 'gAyaka sArva bhaumA', who is always
accompanied with disciples, who is an ocean of virtues and
excellence and one who gives happiness.

C2:(Think of the guru) with practice of music for salvation, music
which is the essence of all vedic scriptures. (Think of the guru
who) always enjoys the music of the flute, who always follows
pure good deeds and principles.

cmlover
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Post by cmlover »

Thanks Rigapad

Each translation not only helps in the appreciation of the music but also brings an understnading of the language too (an unexpected bonus!)

kumaran.nadesan
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Post by kumaran.nadesan »

Can some resourceful rasika pleas help me secure a mp3 recording of:
Mahaneeya madura - mahathi - roopakam - M Balamuralikrishna

preferrably sung by BMK himself! Thanks :)

ramakriya
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Post by ramakriya »

kumaran.nadesan wrote:Can some resourceful rasika pleas help me secure a mp3 recording of:
Mahaneeya madura - mahathi - roopakam - M Balamuralikrishna

preferrably sung by BMK himself! Thanks :)
You can find one in sangeethapriya.org; Posted there by Sri TV Gopalakrishnan

http://www.sangeethapriya.org/Downloads/bmk/3/bmk3.html

There is a commercial release too, where BMK sings 4 of his 'creations' - mahati, sumukham, lavangi and sarvasrI

-Ramakriya

kumaran.nadesan
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Post by kumaran.nadesan »

Thanks ramakriya :)

prasad_chembai
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Post by prasad_chembai »

i love bmk
but iam not lucky
because i had not seen bmk sir
but his music is excellent
his ragaalapana and swara kalpana is excellent

arasi
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Post by arasi »

Thank you Lakshman, kiransurya and rigapada for the songs and meaning. In vandE mAtaram (charaNam), makarandam is pollen, not nectar.
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Ragjay
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Post by Ragjay »

Do we have to discuss about the greatness of Dr.MBK? His contribution to CM is immense and immeasurable.Please listen to his Music Academy 1975 concert on the bicent. celebrations of Shri Muthuswami Dikshitar.A composition on him in the raga Sucharitram could pass off as a Dikshitar composition.So scholarly and profound.Yet another concert of his at the Music Club wherein he sings a wonderful RTP in Hamsadwani will bear my view that such an exercise is futile.I had the chance to hear his unforgetable Delhi concert in the company of Prof T.N.Krishnan and Shri K,Sivaraman.The profund impact of that concert full of Tyagaraja krithis is still lingering in my memory Any one has recording of that concert ....... Ragjay

cmlover
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Post by cmlover »

He is the prime example of a child prodigy!

Ragjay
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Post by Ragjay »

hi coolkarni, do you by any chance have concerts of MBK with Lalgudi or Tnk violin accompaniment? Ofcourse other than the RTP Hamsavinodin concerts. I am very sure that some recordings with Lalgudi sung at Raga Tarangini are available.Any chance of getting these to share with this forum? Coolkarni I am sure you may be able to accede to my request. Bye Raghavan

ramakriya
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Post by ramakriya »

Does anyone know to which line of shishyas of Tyagaraja (Tillisthanam, Walajapet, Umayalpuram) Sri BMK belongs?

-Ramakriya
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jayaram
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Post by jayaram »

Perhaps none of the three.
Tyagaraja, the great Carnatic composer spent most of his life in Tanjore district and trained several great musicians until he passed away in 1847. One of them was his cousin Akumalla (Manambuchavadi) Venkatasubbayya. During his lifetime Venkatasubbayya also attracted several students and one of them was Susarla Dakshinamurthy Sastry (1860-1917). Sastry’s devotion to music drove him to walk all the way to Tamilnadu from his native Krishna district. After learning music from Venkatasubbayya, Dakshninamurthy Sastry returned to Andhra Pradesh. Sastry was the first to bring the musical tradition of Tyagaraja to Andhra region and several students benefited from him. One of them was Parupalli Ramakrishnayya (1883-1951) who is known today as the guru of the eminent vocalist Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna.
citation: http://rohiniprasadk.blogspot.com/2005_ ... chive.html

ramakriya
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Post by ramakriya »

Does it mean to say that there is a 4h school ( Andhra school) of Tyagaraja Kritis?

hsuvarna
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Post by hsuvarna »

See http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/12/08/stor ... 770300.htm for more info. We can call it the
Andhra branch of Sri Tyagarajaswamy tree.
One can listen to Sri Parupalli in surasa.net.

jayaram
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Post by jayaram »

One can listen to Sri Parupalli in surasa.net
Here: http://surasa.net/music/karnatak/contri ... alli_songs

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Post by meena »

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vasya10
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Post by vasya10 »

wow, that was tooooooooo good! :-D

thx meena!

rasam
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Post by rasam »

http://video.webindia123.com/music/sing ... /index.htm

A really bad rendition of a horrendous self-composed varnam ...

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Post by meena »

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arasi
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Post by arasi »

Thanks, Meena!
thamizh saying goes thus: kural iruppavarukku viral edaRku? When you have a fine voice, why go for an instrument? viral is fingers, so anything played with fingers...
BMK and TNS, defying the saying :)

rshankar
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Post by rshankar »

arasi wrote:BMK and TNS, defying the saying :)
And Smt MSS too?

arasi
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Post by arasi »

Of course!

jayaram
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Post by jayaram »

Exquisite rendition of Sujana Jeevana by the maestro:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN7Zvr3PDtY[/youtube]

vijayagopal
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Post by vijayagopal »

vandE mAtaram andi mAtaram
Salutations to the mother said my generation.

A: mundaDugiDu mana bhAvitaram
Our future generation will progress

pondudu-mAnanda-mandaram ( pondudumu=anandamu=andaram)
We will all attain happiness

C: virisenu bhuvipai aravindam
A lotus has bloomed on the earth

kurisenu manapai makarandam
The nectar rained on us.

merisenu muraLI svarAla andam
The beauty of the Murali's swaras glittered.


murisenu kavi gAyaka brndam
The collection of poets and singers was happy.

Gerry_Gerry
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Post by Gerry_Gerry »

Does someone have teh full concert (I guess it is 1968, Music Academy in Madras), with MSG and UKS and kanjira (?). Balamurali tails off a bit in his trademark Nagumo, but the song before that in Todi, Emi Chestinemi, is the one I am interested in. The recording of this concert in my possession starts unfortunately at the point where only 5 minutes of the todi alapana are left, and from then on it is a 45 minute piece. But even in this truncated 5 minute alapana, there is sufficient evidence that something special is in store, and after violin alapana, BMK polishes off the song quickly, and from that point onwards it is "fasten your seat belts" stuff. The swaras are highly complex, intricate, move from stage to stage beautifully and last for a full 25 minutes. Balamurali simply goes into celestial orbit, and the accompaniments are lifted to a different zone altogether. Those who were there that day must have had a vision of the divine. The rest of the concert is inevitably an anti climax and the recroding is not of very good quality, but despite that, is quite enjoyable too. I hope I have written enough to inspire some one to dig the full piece or concert out. I dont have the music in a digital version, hence cannot upload my piece. I would be grateful for a full concert recording.
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sriramnh
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Post by sriramnh »

Hello BMK Fans,

Did you all know that Varistha means " Excellence that cannot be excelled " is a series of concerts to be remembered by the present generation. The celebrated legend Dr. BMK's performances are definitely historic and should be followed with a lot of dedication.

I wanted to share this information with the fellow rasikas.

Thanks.

balusatya
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Post by balusatya »

He took up Sindubhiravi raga elaboration as a submain -3rd in the list for a concert inside Meenakshi temple ,Madurai more than 30 years ago. I could learn that Raga then on.

ragam-talam
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Post by ragam-talam »

BMK's guru Parupalli Ramakrishnayya singing Manirangu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs2nXsOcz6Y

Truly vintage music

Nick H
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Post by Nick H »

Don't we need a need a qualifier in the thread title, as he is no longer the only Balamuralikrishna in the business?

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Post by srinivasrgvn »

ragam-talam wrote:BMK's guru Parupalli Ramakrishnayya singing Manirangu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs2nXsOcz6Y

Truly vintage music
Can you tell me what song he is singing?

ragam-talam
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Post by ragam-talam »

rAnidi rAdu - composition of Saint Tyagaraja in Manirangu

cpblog
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Post by cpblog »

Please visit http://chowdaiahandparvati.blogspot.com/ for two concerts of Balamurlikrishna in "Parvati", Mysore
(1) vinatage 1965 with M.S. Gopalkrishnan and T.V. Gopalkrishnan
(2) vintage 1971 with M.Chandrasekharan, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman and Vinayakaram

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Post by vasanthakokilam »

Thanks very much cpblog. That "Vintage 1965 in "Parvathi" : Balamurlikrishna with Parur MS Gopalkrishnan and T.V. Gopalkrishnan" concert is just awesome. What a great Emineramau-Shankarabharanam by BMK. Having MSG going toe to toe with BMK on the nagumomu alapana was fun to listen to. Excellent recording quality too.

In the second concert, BMK sings "Peridi Ninnu Penchina - Kharaharapriya". This is the first time I am listening to this song. It does not sound much like the usual kharaharapriya, does it? Got curious enough and checked other sources of this song by BMK, he sings it the same way and everywhere it is tagged as Kharaharapriya.

BTW, your 'parvathi' web site is coming along great. There are quite a few wonderful treasures there for everyone to listen and enjoy. Thanks very much.

ignoramus
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Post by ignoramus »

VK

Believe the Kharahapriya song rendered by BMK which you mention above, was part of an LP released in the 70s. with V Seturamiah and Guruvayur DOrai if I am not wrong. I too could not find any reference to this, if you do get anything - pl do make a post.

vasanthakokilam
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Post by vasanthakokilam »

I found one cassette album by BMK which features this song

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ignoramus
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Post by ignoramus »

VK
the song list is the same as the LP. i think i saw this LP in 1975 or 77.

cpblog
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Post by cpblog »

vasanthakokilam wrote:Thanks very much cpblog. That "Vintage 1965 in "Parvathi" : Balamurlikrishna with Parur MS Gopalkrishnan and T.V. Gopalkrishnan" concert is just awesome. What a great Emineramau-Shankarabharanam by BMK. Having MSG going toe to toe with BMK on the nagumomu alapana was fun to listen to. Excellent recording quality too.

In the second concert, BMK sings "Peridi Ninnu Penchina - Kharaharapriya". This is the first time I am listening to this song. It does not sound much like the usual kharaharapriya, does it? Got curious enough and checked other sources of this song by BMK, he sings it the same way and everywhere it is tagged as Kharaharapriya.

BTW, your 'parvathi' web site is coming along great. There are quite a few wonderful treasures there for everyone to listen and enjoy. Thanks very much.
Thank you Vasanthakokilam for your keen analysis.

We here are but drudges and scribes and the honor goes to these great souls who could uplift mankind with their god given gifts and keep our heritage alive. We are not kidding, but a great era has passed away and there are just so many gems in terms of music and anecdotes left behind from their days in"Parvathi". Just yesterday, somebody introduced us to a recording of 'GNB's first meeting with Vasudevachar' in Mysore and some great GNB wit! We will plan to see how we can share all of this as a part of our homage to these great souls! Once again, thanks to all of you who are keeping memories alive by discussion, by critiquing, by listening and eulogizing ....generation to generation the play must go on...

sreecons
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Post by sreecons »

BMK turns 80 on 6 July 2010 . . . and going strong. He visited NZ last October. At a special music workshop, more than 50 carnatic music students + their teachers + parents & even a couple of grandparents learnt a couple of his songs. Once in a life time opportunity, indeed.

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Post by rajeshnat »

"Balamurali's style is said to be teasing - an alapana that leaves the audience guessing. But that style was not the one he used that day. " hmmm....

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2010/01/29/stor ... 390800.htm

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Post by thenpaanan »

arasi wrote:Thanks, Meena!
thamizh saying goes thus: kural iruppavarukku viral edaRku? When you have a fine voice, why go for an instrument? viral is fingers, so anything played with fingers...
BMK and TNS, defying the saying :)
Has BMK evinced an opinion about the viola compared to the violin? He seems to still be the only CMusician who plays the viola. So why viola?

-Then Paanan

ragam-talam
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Post by ragam-talam »

This article mentions the following:
"The only aspect missing in the concert was niraval."
Perhaps this explains why Prince Rama Varma also eschews the neraval.
See here: http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=13434
"I didn't expect a neraval and asked him after the concert why he doesn't sing neravals. He said that he finds most neraval lines rather meaningless and personally prefers to bring out the beauty of the ragam with alapanai and kalpanaswaras instead."

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Post by kaumaaram »

[quote
Has BMK evinced an opinion about the viola compared to the violin? He seems to still be the only CMusician who plays the viola. So why viola?

-Then Paanan[/quote]

There is another artist playing the Viola. That is CG Kumaresan.

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Post by sunaada »

Wish the legendary Padmavibhooshan Dr Balamuralikrishna Sir a very Happy 80th Birthday! Eagerly looking forward to his concert on the 31st in London...http://www.bhavan.net/event_detail.htm/84

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Post by mohan »

Best wishes to the maestro on his 80th birthday! It is amazing that he is still performing and touring at this age.

http://thehindu.com/arts/music/article5 ... epage=true
(the article mentions he is 81 but as far as I know he was born on 6 July 1930)

Nick H
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Post by Nick H »

And still looking young!

Best birthday wishes to him.

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Post by munirao2001 »

If the quote of Rama Varma, the musician and desciple of BMK "he finds most neraval lines rather meaningless" is correct and true version, it is highly incorrect, not acceptable and objectionable. Neraval is one of the highly evolved part of manodharma sangita aspect of KM, next only to Raga Alapana to show case the manodharma vidwath-comprising both raga and laya gnanam. The selected line(s) for neraval is taken from the original work of the vaggeyakara and can not be termed'meaningless'. Yes, if the performer takes up the line, mindlessly, it is definitely meaningless, not otherwise.
Neraval singing has become very rare and likely to become extinct, if corrective action is not taken immediately.

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