M.L.Vasanthakumari

kmrasika · Post by **kmrasika** » 21 Aug 2006, 09:41

bala747, murthyhmg: MLV was a beneficiary of many songs of the haridasAs of karnATaka through her own mother as well as a haridAsa that visited her family. Wondered whether you could share with us some of these unknown gems.

Vocalist · Post by **Vocalist** » 24 Sep 2006, 22:09

M.L.Vasanthakumari & A.Kanyakumari

Radhakrishnan · Post by **Radhakrishnan** » 30 Oct 2006, 21:16

16th death anniversary of MLV amma(31st October)
great singer, excellent teacher and a wonderful human being.
fortunate enough to attend some of her concerts which are fresh in memory.
recalling Sudha RaghunathanÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s concert at academy in 1990,one and a half months after MLVÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s demise.(it was an after noon concert,she was ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‹Å“promotedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ to the evening slot next year) it was a packed audience and the late T.T.Vasu remarked this concert would have made MLV proud

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 17 Nov 2006, 02:38

Remembering MLV:
http://www.kutcheribuzz.com/news/200611 ... ingmlv.asp

SangithaRasika · Post by **SangithaRasika** » 08 Jan 2007, 22:43

I want to know what raga is this -
Download Link :
http://www.rogepost.com/n/5736411549

I initially thought it is Gowrimanohari ... but then I am not sure whether I am right !

SR

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Jan 2007, 02:09

Can you post the full or longer part of the AlApana?

It does have shades of gowrimanohari but I cannot tell the ni that clearly (to eliminate kharaharapriya mela/janya). From what I could tell, she touches it very lightly once near beginning, once at end. The latter seems like N2 to me but not sure.

The D2-N3 combo (like) in gowrimanohari would be a clear indicator, but in this section that doesnt occur - or i am missing it)

I am also getting a good whiff of salagabhairavi. RTP in salagabhairavi is rare (but i think done and MLV has done rtps in rare ragas). Pl. post a little bit more of the clip as she climbs to tara shadjam and it should be clearer.

Arun

SangithaRasika · Post by **SangithaRasika** » 09 Jan 2007, 02:35

arunk,
Here you go -
http://www.rogepost.com/n/0474082635

Thank you,
SR

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Jan 2007, 02:56

it is gowrimanOhari.

Arun

SangithaRasika · Post by **SangithaRasika** » 21 Mar 2007, 09:30

Here is a wonderful Bahudaari that I have got hooked onto since yesterday .... Throwing light on the accompaniments will be great !

http://rapidshare.com/files/22035776/Ma ... undari.mp3

Let me know if this is a commercial one, and I can delete it !

Regards,
SR

meena · Post by **meena** » 31 May 2007, 23:12

Changed moi mind, deleted the articles i had collected and posted here :/

grsastrigal · Post by **grsastrigal** » 01 Jun 2007, 09:11

Nice article. Thanks Meena. Knowing that the same MLV who sang "Aadatha Manamum Undo" (with a beautiful Padmini and MGR on the background) also sang "Ayya sami Aavoji Sami" a la LR Eswari song.

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 03 Jul 2007, 09:30

Dear Rasikas
(My posting in rasikapriya-dot-net)

Today is Sangeetha Kalanidhi Dr M.L.Vasanthakumar's birthday.

Let's celebrate with her MA 1966 concert

http://www.sangeethapriya.org/~harihara ... _MAA_1966/

* 01-Viribhoni-Bhairavi.mp3
* 02-Varavallabha-Hamsadhwani.mp3
* 03-Kizhvanam_vellendru-Dhanyasi.mp3
* 04-Ninnu_vina_-_Kalyani.mp3
* 05-Paramapurusham-Lalithapanchamam.mp3
* 06-Kamala_charane-Amrithavarshini.mp3
* 07-Koluvai-Bhairavi.mp3
* 08-Jambupathe-Yamunakalyani.mp3
* 09-RTP-Nattai.mp3
* 10-Paramapavani-Atana.mp3
* 11-Baliyanamake-Baro-Ragamalika.mp3
* 12-Aarupadai_veedamarnda-Ragamalika.mp3
* 13-samagana_and_mangalam.mp3

I hope this concert is not yet uploaded. If yes, let me know and i will do the needful.

My other MLV collections is at
http://www.sangeethapriya.org/~hariharan/MLV/mlv.txt

Please let me know which concerts are not yet uploaded, i will do the needful.

A few words about MLV

As we all know she is prime deciple of great GNB, and is sung in many tamil movies, and many of them are super hit. MLV is known for popularizing rare raagas and purandara dasa devarnamaa. He has sung many RTP is uncommon raagas like Naatai, Revathi, etc, and closely followed GNB bhani, as evident from brigas, sruthi bedam etc.

An annectode about her
Once MLV was touring US or some other country, and some sabha was asking her payment. She seem to have told some thing like 3000. Sabha people were taken aback, and asked for some more time. They arrange for more money, in local currency (USD 3000). MLV was surprised when she received USB 3000, and said she asked for Rs. 3000 only, and promply returned the money back to the organizers!!! What a personality... Many of us would have quitely walked away with the money....

I would request those of you who attended her concerts, or know her personally to write few words about this great artist.

regards
hari

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 03 Jul 2007, 10:04

Hari,
A fitting present from you to mark the great woman's birthday who was herself a gift to CM. Her generosity and integrity is reflected in the anecdote you relate. Add to it her immense imagination which no woman in her days displayed, let alone possessed. She loved her art and nothing would please her more than to see happy rasikas...

kmrasika · Post by **kmrasika** » 03 Jul 2007, 10:54

s_hari wrote:Today is Sangeetha Kalanidhi Dr M.L.Vasanthakumar's birthday.

Let's celebrate with her MA 1966 concert

Very kind of you to remember this great vidushi. I always sigh when I hear her smooth brigAs in bAro kr.shNayyA.

One correction:

*06-Kamala_charane-Amrithavarshini.mp3

The rAga of this song is amr.ta bEhAg and it was conceived by GNB himself. This is the only composition of his in which he mentions his ShrIvidyA dIksha name.

A request: do you have audio of the madhyamAvati dEvarnAma, "ShivadaruShana..." sung by her? If so, please do share with rasikas here.

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 03 Jul 2007, 11:32

Thanks kmrasika. I have corrected in my upload on AmritaBehag. I will listen to that tonight.

I am more curious to know about his ShriVidya diksha name!! and some background on this

-hari

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 03 Jul 2007, 13:32

I remember an incident few years before which was narrated by a speaker in MFAC where he recollected what Shri ThiruvengAdu Jayaraman told about MLV "When MLV handles rAgas ,she is more like a tiger in the forest crossing a ditch. We all musicians do look back after we cross , but MLV just never looks back".

One incident that I heard from my periappa(who is a big fan of MLV), that MLV Amma gave a concert on the occassion of "World Tamil Day in NewDelhi" starting around 4pm and ending around 9 pm . MLV Amma obliged to suit different rasikas who come and leave at different times.IIRC, On that day my uncle felt he heard the most elaborate alapanai of Mohanam and Madhyamavathi.

manakkalsriram · Post by **manakkalsriram** » 03 Jul 2007, 22:33

What S-hari has mentioned about MLV is correct. Last week Mr. Ramabadran of Shanthi Fine arts narrated me an incident about MLV. Mr. Ramabadran has turned eighty now and he had been the organiser of Music triangle, Mumbai for several years. He told me that he had arranged MLV for a remuneration of Rs.500. But MLV came to Mumbai by flight which would have cost her more than the remuneration. So, Mr. Ramabadran wanted to make it as Rs. 1000/ and gave it to her after the concert. To his surprise, MLV refused to take it and asked him to give only the amount of Rs.500 which was promised. Ramabadran told her that she had spent so much and come. She told him never mind you keep another concert of mine and give me the other 500 Rs. 'Keep the money, I will sing' might be the policy of some. But,
'Take back the money, give me only what is promised' seemed to be MLV's policy.
Even in places like kerala where MLV used to sing frequently in temples, I have heard most of the time she used to come empty handed after giving strenuous concerts. She only knew music but she did not know how to pressurise the organisers. Even if you see the long range of disciples she had trained, you can feel the magnanimity
she was having. She was the first lady artist to have adventured into intricate pallavis and the briga type of music.

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 03 Jul 2007, 22:38

manakkalsriram wrote:She was the first lady artist to have adventured into intricate pallavis and the briga type of music.

She was simply the brighA Queen - Queen Vasanthakumari of brighAland.

vinayo · Post by **vinayo** » 04 Jul 2007, 02:22

I still remeber a MLV concert I heard at the Saibaba mutt in Mylapore. MLV sang with her mother Smt Lalithangi on the Tanpura. She sand RTP in a raga which I could not identify then. It sounded a mixture of thodi and subhapantuvarali. At the end of the concert I was bold enough to ask her what the raga was? She replied, now I recollect, with such great modesty "Bhavapriya endru solluvar (They call it Bhavapriya").

kmrasika · Post by **kmrasika** » 04 Jul 2007, 06:05

s_hari wrote:Thanks kmrasika. I have corrected in my upload on AmritaBehag. I will listen to that tonight.

Yes, it is a confluence of amr.tavarshiNi and bEhAg, hence the name.

s_hari wrote:I am more curious to know about his ShriVidya diksha name!! and some background on this

I believe GNB received his instruction in the science of ShrIvidyA from TETTiyUr subrahmaNya ShAstrigaL (I read a quote somewhere wherever this man went there was rain pouring - such is the potency of his mantrasiddhi). He conceived his ishTa dEvatA, nAdarUpasundari (you'll find mention of this in some of his songs) and was conferred his initiate name "vimarShanAnanda," of which only once he employs to sign the above-mentioned composition.

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 04 Jul 2007, 14:59

Oh, great to hear about GNB & His spiritual guru!!

I also heared that once someone came to MLV for Yaachakam, and she didn't have any money with her then... She simply removed her gold chain, and given to that person! What a personality!! Simpliy Amazing...

kmrasika · Post by **kmrasika** » 04 Jul 2007, 18:09

s_hari wrote:Oh, great to hear about GNB & His spiritual guru!!

Now come to think of it, ShrIvidyA initiates happen to be great Carnatic Music composers: MD, jayacAmarAjEndra woDeyAr, kollEgAlam subramaNiam, ogirAla vIrarAghava SharmA etc.

s_hari wrote:once someone came to MLV for Yaachakam

Pardon my ignorance, but what is yAcakam???

You are absolutely right about MLV's magnanimity. She never expected anything significantly out of anyone. She chrished motherly care for her students, probably the main reason they all became very good performers. On the music arena, you probably know she is a very skilled pallavi exponent.

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 04 Jul 2007, 18:47

kmrasika wrote:kollEgAlam subramaNiam

koLLegAla or koLLEgAl (not koLLEgAlam)

Pardon my ignorance, but what is yAcakam???.

alms?

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 05 Jul 2007, 06:27

yAcakam is Alms!

Jayashri · Post by **Jayashri** » 05 Jul 2007, 06:49

Who are some of her predominant disciples other than Smt. Sudha Ragunathan, Smt. Charumathi Ramachandran, and Kum. A. Kanyakumari?

vinayo · Post by **vinayo** » 05 Jul 2007, 07:08

MLV's disciples include A. Kanyakumari, Trichur Ramachandran, Vanaja Narayanan, T.M Prabhavathi, Meena Subramaniam, Jayanthi Sridharan, Jayanthi Mohan, Rose Muralikrishnan, Yogam Santhanam and Bama Visveswaran. She also taught music to children at the Rishi Valley School.

Jayashri · Post by **Jayashri** » 05 Jul 2007, 07:43

thanks vinayo

kmrasika · Post by **kmrasika** » 05 Jul 2007, 10:07

Add Subha Ganesan to the shishya list. Two articles penned for kr.shNa gAna sabhA by MLV on purandaradAsa for their music conference: http://www.krishnaganasabha.org/article ... kumari.pdf and http://www.krishnaganasabha.org/article ... kumari.pdf

Also, MLV The Spring-Time Songbird Who Touched our lives by lakshmi viShvanAthan(sister of Smt. cArumati rAmacandran): http://www.krishnaganasabha.org/article ... nathan.pdf

Thanks for the meaning of the word, yAcakam.

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 05 Jul 2007, 21:34

Jayashri wrote:her predominant disciples

subhA (or prabhAvati ????) gaNEsan (accompanied her for a long time in the 60s and the 70s)
tirucchUr rAmachandran (learnt from her with a scholarship after SrI GNB's death)

The following is a quotation from http://www.medieval.org/music/world/car ... blsup.html

Trichur V. Ramachandran (b.1946) is the youngest disciple of GNB, and went on to study with MLV after the former's death.

puSpA Anand (http://www.carnatica.net/links/pushpacareer.html)

kmrasika · Post by **kmrasika** » 06 Jul 2007, 07:02

ksrimech wrote:subhA (or prabhAvati ????) gaNEsan (accompanied her for a long time in the 60s and the 70s)

You must be referring to TM prabhAvati, a senior Shishya of MLV. A very respected teacher, she was even invited to judge a music talent show recently. Shubha gaNEShan joined MLV much later. They're some renditions of hers on Sangeethapriya.
I think you are trying to refer to prabhAvati gaNEShan, a vidUshi.

Jayashri · Post by **Jayashri** » 06 Jul 2007, 07:18

Smt. Shuba Ganesan only learned from MLV for a brief period right? What about Smt. Saraswathi Sreenivasan? I heard that she is MLV's first disciple. Does she take classes in Chennai?

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 06 Jul 2007, 08:31

Smt Hema Sista (based in California) has also learnt from MLV - but I am not sure for how long.

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 06 Jul 2007, 23:40

kmrasika wrote:TM prabhAvati, a senior Shishya of MLV. A very respected teacher

Yes yes yes. She is the one. I have heard her sing on DD (there was a harikAmbhoji, main piece SambhO mahAdEva in kAmavardhini and tukkudas) and on AIR (some kalyaNi kriti of tyAgarAjasvAmi). Good singer too.

Jayashri · Post by **Jayashri** » 07 Jul 2007, 04:29

Is there any way I can hear Smt. TM Prabhavathi's music? Has she come out with any recordings in the market?...If so, will all the Chennai music shops have them?

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 07 Jul 2007, 06:20

I dont think there is any recording of Smt Prabhavathi.

Jayashri · Post by **Jayashri** » 07 Jul 2007, 07:02

Oh ok...thanks

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 07 Nov 2007, 04:43

A flyer prepared for a 1980 concert of MLV in Chicago

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 07 Nov 2007, 04:54

It seems pertinent that Mannargudi Easwaran was billed next to MLV (see the the red arrow!). After all, Kanyakumari was MLV's disciple and just a budding violinist.
Interesting. CM in the US too is getting to be vintage, and along with it, a few of us...

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 07 Nov 2007, 05:08

And the vocal accompanist is none other than Smt Sudha Raghunathan (she was Miss Sudha Venkatraman then).....

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 07 Nov 2007, 09:02

True!

matterwaves · Post by **matterwaves** » 08 Nov 2007, 04:14

I have never heard anbody sing baro krishnayya, generally preceded by a ugabhoga, like her.. Simply out of the world

Jayashri · Post by **Jayashri** » 02 Dec 2007, 21:35

Has anyone heard Smt. Jayanthi Mohan in concert?

grsastrigal · Post by **grsastrigal** » 28 Jan 2008, 12:20

Request any one to upload an article on MLV in The Hindu last friday, conferring her some award.. and the presence of Senior vidwans like Sri.Rajarathnam pillai etc.,

Balachandran · Post by **Balachandran** » 28 Jan 2008, 19:44

Respected music lovers,

MLV a Great Artist in Carnatic Music and her daughter Sreevidya also an actor and musician in carnatic music but her life is very tragic.......?

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 28 Jan 2008, 21:21

grsastrigal wrote:Request any one to upload an article on MLV in The Hindu last friday, conferring her some award.. and the presence of Senior vidwans like Sri.Rajarathnam pillai etc.,

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/01/25/stor ... 200600.htm

grsastrigal · Post by **grsastrigal** » 29 Jan 2008, 16:00

Thanks a lot.. rajesh.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 29 Mar 2008, 05:42

Tribute to MLV:

http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/200 ... 900100.htm

shubhaganesan · Post by **shubhaganesan** » 01 Jan 2009, 15:31

My guru at a wedding concert . I had the privileage of playing thambura for my respected guru.

shubhaganesan · Post by **shubhaganesan** » 01 Jan 2009, 15:33

Padmabhushan Sangitha Kalanidhi Dr. M L Vasanthakumari with A.Kanyakumari, Mannargudi Eswaran, palghat Sundaram iyer.
Vocal Support : Yogam Santhanam

shubhaganesan · Post by **shubhaganesan** » 01 Jan 2009, 15:39