Sanjay concert at Cowdiah Hall, Bengaluru 22.11.2015

[kvchellappa]

Sanja Subrahmanyan
Vradarajan
Neyveli Venkatesh
Sudhir

The concert was courtesy Ganjam who are patronizing music in a grand way. It is due to such patrons CM is what it is today.
Sri Suresh introduced the artists briefly.
It was a well attended concert and Sanjay held nothing in reserve.
I was looking for a meaningful review, and am providing the list of songs as none has appeared so far.
1. Saranagatha vatsala kathanakuthoohalam varnam
2. Karikalabha saveri Muthuswamy Dikshithar
3. Chalamelaara margahindolam T (S)
4. Kande kande swamy vefilonde ( a fellow rasika identified it as kannada, I mean the raga also)
5. Marivere dikkevarayya shanmukhapriya PSI (A,N at Nannu brovuka; he pointed to mridangist whie singing srivenkatesa)
6. Kulam tharum, followed by Narayana Divyanamam mohanam PS
7. RTP Kharaharapriya orutharam sivachidambaramenru sonnAlum podhume
There was a thunderous thani echoed by the applause.
8. Adum mayilay followed by Karpakame kan parAy behag PS
9. Uyyalookavayya nilAmbari T
10. Thillana (fellow rasika could not identify the raga, and thillanas are not listed in Katcheri Kaiyedu).
11. Mangalam

[kunthalavarali]

By any chance was the Thillana in gambIravAni composed by T K Govinda Rao?

Violin Varadarajan

[harimau]

By any chance was the Thillana in gambIravAni composed by T K Govinda Rao?

Violin Varadarajan

Yeah.

In the same vein,

Vocalist Sanjay Subramaniam

Location Chowdiah Hall

[rajeshnat]

Vocalist Sanjay Subramaniam

You corrected Sanjay. The original poster got his last name right subrahmanyan , you got it wrong

[braindrain]

By any chance was the Thillana in gambIravAni composed by T K Govinda Rao?

Violin Varadarajan

It was Gambheeravani thillana of T K Govinda Rao.

The 'kannada' kriti in kannaDa was this : http://myalltimefavouritesongs.blogspot ... amiya.html

[kvchellappa]

I am sorry I made too many slips. It is 'vedi konde' not 'vefilonde'.
Braindrain, have you not written your review?

[Purist]

Sorry KVC, I have to correct , it is ' Bedi Konde ' meaning ' prayed for '

[Ramam]

I will try to recollect my experience of the concert.

The Ganjam representative ( also he is Sanjay's uncle) introduced the vocalist as designate SK.
There was a resounding applause emphatic and agreeing.
Kadanakudookalam varnam was a right kick off seeing the ball already around the opponents D a number of times.
Venketesh was not comfortable with his mridangam; changed it.
So was the Saaveri MD piece. There was a want of perfection in it. Chalamelara compensated it. Sanjay gives a nasal Sa (upper)
and bring out this very nice always. Old mridhangam re-tuned.
Kannada alapana was very good. It had a good swara emphasis. I thought it is going to be Geeti Chakra (MD)
Varadarajan reply got most of the sangathis. Kannada song was suiting the raga name.
ShanmukhaPriya was a surprise and more was the common Mariveragathi. The alpana was targeting the same.
Being Ekadasi the paasuram was apt.
The best of the day was KKPriya. The brigaas were all very well brought out They were covering all lakshanaas to say it was a RTP to follow though
SS did not give the usual second essaying covering higher octaves.
At places Semmangudi style was unmistakable. Yet this R and T showcased why SK at 47.
The reply from Varadarajan showed why he is the best man for the SK-designate.
I do not agree with the thaani as kvvhellappa pointed out.
Venketesh always goes for a thundering and continuous approach to complete his arithmetic. That is to say it does not contain dexterous sollus.
The ghatam Sudhir cut his reply short for it was not possible to match the speed in Ghatam. I thought he could have gone for his own interpretation of the kanakku. I need to hurry and say that his accompaniment to the vocalist was one of the best up to that point. There was some wanting in the thani.
Sudhir got all the swaraprastara in RTP while supporting the violinist.
It was behag but not the song as listed. It was indeed PSivan.

I did not get the raaga of the thillana for that matter it was the first time that SS sang a thillana in Bangalore.

[rajeshnat]

It was behag but not the song as listed. It was indeed PSivan.

This should have been karpakAmbigai nee alllavO - behag - psivan

[hnbhagavan]

Thanks to Ramam for well written review.I personally felt that Varadarajan was excellent in his turn.

[braindrain]

I did not get the raaga of the thillana for that matter it was the first time that SS sang a thillana in Bangalore.

Not really. He sang the same at 'R T Nagar Cultural Association' a month ago.

Thanks for the nice summary.

[harimau]

Vocalist Sanjay Subramaniam

You corrected Sanjay. The original poster got his last name right subrahmanyan , you got it wrong

If someone named Prasanth can spell his name Prashant to please some illiterate Northies, the least I can do is to spell the tup-tup artist's name the South Indian way.

[kvchellappa]

Harimau, there is no restriction as to what you can do, but Subrahmanyan is the south indian way. (maybe h is missed often).

[arasi]

Chellappa,
Sorry, I have to correct you on the thread title. We don't want the violin maestro taking offence from
above

This happens at times with a concert:

vocalist: ....Subramaniam
violinist: something something
Mrudangist:....Subramoni
Kanjira:....Subbaramanian

Of course, many organizers do not pay much attention to how the artistes spell their names. So, it's possible that in the above list, the spelling of their names are all wrong! Even the simple enough name of god MayilERu--murugan becomes Murukan

I am not pleased when they write my simple enough name with an 'i'. I'm sure you don't relish your name changed either.
Chill appa (!) for instance

Anyhow, artistes put up with this as they do with other inconveniences. And 'name' calling
Tup tup is the way the house feline reacts to this musician: a criticism gun in hand

[arvenky]

Here is the full review -
https://kpjayan.wordpress.com/

[hnbhagavan]

I agree with Jayan's review that Mridangam was very loud during Tani and did not allow much for ghatam artist.However the accompaniment during songs was better.

[harimau]

Harimau, there is no restriction as to what you can do, but Subrahmanyan is the south indian way. (maybe h is missed often).

Check out the Chennai telephone directory and then tell me what is the most common spelling.

[arasi]

The Bengaluru directory might yield more SubrahmanyA-s. Reason? Both versions derived from the sanskrit word without undergoing local 'treatment'. SuppANi also comes to mind when thinking of family preferences in endearment

[MaheshS]

My Name and its story - SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAN

[kvchellappa]

A person's name is as given. If it is Subrahmanyan, Prashant or Muthuswamy it is just that. There is no place for research, survey or logical anlysis.

[kssr]

Harimau, there is no restriction as to what you can do, but Subrahmanyan is the south indian way. (maybe h is missed often).

Like Psmith with P being silent

[kssr]

There is so many arguments for and against the Cow, let us not add one more with this musical Cow-diah. Kindly correct the name of the great artist.

[kvchellappa]

Cow-die-ah? PAvam!