Premiere of Ravikiran's 35-tala compositions

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divyamramesh
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Premiere of Ravikiran's 35-tala compositions

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Carnatica is presenting Contemporary Composer festival on February 29th and March 1st 2016 featuring exclusive compositions of Sangeet Samrat Chitravina N Ravikiran in 35 talas premiered for the first time as a special 2-day series at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore.

Ravikiran​, who recently created world history by setting the entire 1330 Tirukkural verses, to tune in a record time of 16 hours,​ was also the first vaggeyakara to create the 35-tala compositions. He was inspired to do this in Aug-Sept of 1997, in 30 days, averaging more than a song a day. The 35-tala set spans over 3 languages - Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit. They include two varnams and one tillana, the rest being krtis. They cover a range of ragas including ghana ragas like Todi, Kalyani & Kharaharapriya, rakti ragas like S​ahana, Ahiri & Anandabhairavi, ragas such as Phalamanjari, Rudrapriya and Bahudari, desheeya ragas like Behag as well as one of Ravikiran's discoveries, Garudapriya. Some of these feature interesting chittaswaras and madhyamakalas. Deities eulogized include Vinayaka, Rama/Krishna, Shiva, Devi and Subramanya. The songs were composed in no specific order of talas.

February 29th, 2016
5.15 pm - 6.00 pm - Inauguration
Vidushi Aruna Sayeeram will preside over the festival and light the lamp.
Dr Umayalpuram K Sivaraman will be the chief guest.
Shri V V Sundaram (Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival) will be the guest of honour.

Programme schedule
6.00 pm Kunnakudi M Balamuralikrishna
6.35 pm Bhargavi Balasubramanian and Srividya Ramanath
7.10pm Ashwath Narayan
7.45pm Nisha P Rajagopal
8.20pm Anahita and Apoorva

Violin - M A Krishnaswamy, Padma Shankar
Mrdangam - R Shankarayanan, Thanjavur Praveen Kumar
Ghatam - Madipakkam Murali, N Guruprasad


March 1st 2016
5.15pm-6.00pm Inauguration
Former Chief Election Commissioner, Shri N Gopalaswamy, who will preside over the second day of the festival
Shri R Seshasayee, Non-executive Vice Chairman and former Managing Director of Ashok Leyland, will be the chief guest.

Programme schedule
6.00pm Amritha Murali
6.35pm Carnatica Brothers (KN Shashikiran and P Ganesh)
7.10pm K Gayathri
7.45pm Bharat Sundar

Violin - M A Sundareswaran, Parur M S Ananthakrishnan
Mrdangam - Thanjavur Praveen Kumar, Sumesh Narayanan
Ghatam - Madipakkam Murali
Khanjira - K V Gopalakrishnan

ganeshkant
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Re: Premiere of Ravikiran's 35-tala compositions

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I attended yesterday and all sessions were good.Good to hear songs in a no.of talas not so often heard.

Amrita Murali sang exceptionally well.Her music was both melodic & aesthetic.her songs in bahudari (tisra ata) and sriranjani (misra ata) and a couple of more were excellent.her voice is capable of producing very minute gamakams and brighas beautifully.

GarudapriyA ( kAntAmani sans P ) was sung by carnatica bros.A tough song not just to sing but to listen to also.They also sang one in kApinarayani which was good & a few more.

K.G sang compositions in off beat ragas like garudadhwani and rudrapriya & a few more.

Bharat sang hindolam varnam and a good kalyani & a few more.

Not only composing songs but to write lyrics for such complex talams are not that easy.Kudos to Ravikiran.

Chief guest Seshasayee gave a sensible and nice speech.

Singer_USA
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Re: Premiere of Ravikiran's 35-tala compositions

Post by Singer_USA »

Thanks for sharing your experience ganeshkant.

Ravikiran Ji's brilliance shines in all these compositions set to 35-Tala , that he has composed in his 20's.

Given the fact that he has composed over 700 compositions since age 11, the Carnatic music world is looking forward to many more programs like this, that will show case some of his other compositions.

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