Trivandrum Navaratri Mandapam concerts 2017

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Sivaramakrishnan
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Trivandrum Navaratri Mandapam concerts 2017

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Navarathri Mandapam Concerts 2017
September 21 to 29
Venue : Navarathri Mandapam , Adjacent to Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple,
Thiruvananthapuram

September 21, Thursday
Main Kriti : Devi Jagajjanani – Shankarabharanam
Sri Ashwath Narayanan – Vocal
Sri B. Ananthakrishnan – Violin
Tanjore Sri Praveen Kumar – Mridangam
Udupi Sri Sridhar – Ghatam

September 22, Friday
Main Kriti :Pahimam Sri Vaageeshwari- Kalyani
Ms Amrutha Venkatesh – Vocal
Avaneeswaram Sri S.R.Vinu - Violin
Sri S.J.Arjun Ganesh – Mridangam
Dr S.Karthick – Ghatam

September 23 , Saturday
Main Kriti : Devi Pavane - Saveri
Prince Sri Rama Varma – Vocal
Avaneeswaram Sri S.R.Vinu - Violin
Sri B.Harikumar – Mridangam
Dr S.Karthick – Ghatam

September 24 . Sunday
Main Kriti : Bharati Mamava – Thodi
Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyan – Vocal
Sri S.Vardarajan – Violin
Nanjil Sri Arul – Mridangam
Perukavu Sri P.L.Sudheer – Ghatam

September 25 , Monday
Main Kriti : Janani Mamava – Bhairavi
Sri S.Varadarajan – Violin Solo
Prof T.V.Gopalakrishnan – Mridangam

September 26 , Tuesday
Main Kriti : Saroruhasana Jaye – Kamavardhini
Prof K.Venkataramanan – Vocal
Sri S.R.Mahadev Sarma – Violin
Chertala Sri Krishnakumar – Mridangam
Vazhapally Sri Krishnakumar – Ghatam
Tirunakkara Sri Retish – Morsing

September 27 , Wednesday
Main Kriti : Janani Pahi – Shuddha Saveri
Prof Parassala B.Ponnammal – Vocal
Idappally Sri Ajith Kumar – Violin
Palghat Sri Maheshkumar – Mridangam
Adichanaloor Sri Anilkumar – Ghatam
Payyanur Sri Govindaprasad - Morsing

September 28 , Thursday
Main Kriti : Pahi Janani – Natakuranji
Tamarakkad Sri Govindan Namboothiri – Vocal
Trivandrum Sri Sampath – Violin
Dr G.Babu – Mridangam
Manjoor Sri Unnikrishnan – Ghatam
Kottayam Sri Murali - Morsing

September 29 , Friday
Main Kriti : Pahi Parvatanandini - Arabhi
Sri Vishnudev Namboothiri - Vocal
Trivandrum Sri Sampath – Violin
Nanjil Sri Arul – Mridangam
Payyanur Sri Govindaprasad - Morsing

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Re: Trivandrum Navaratri Mandapam concerts 2017

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A judicious blend of young, the established and the old 'is gold' vocalists, instrumentalists. Rama Varma makes it happen year after year--with new combinations.

Local talent, Trivandrum Sridhar (made himself visible to many of us after Cleveland a few years ago) is featured more than once. Youngsters, oldsters, anchor--all add flavor to the event. Hope we get some on You tube--guru playing mrudangam to Sishya's violin too!

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Re: Trivandrum Navaratri Mandapam concerts 2017

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I have been fortunate to have attended Navaratri Mandapam concerts as a Rasika for about 20 years in a row during my time at Trivandrum (1965-84). As a Veena enthusiast I was blessed to enjoy Veena music of the greats like Sangita Kalanidhi KS Narayanaswami, MK Kalyanakrishna Bhagavathar, R Venkitaraman and later Prince Rama Varma himself (with whom I have a proud yet cherished friendship). Ravikiran ( Chitraveena), Jayasree Arvind and Amrita Venkatesh have also played there.

However Veena concerts have not been taking place for a few years now. I had discussed the matter with Sri Varma and hope he would restore reverberations of the divine strains of the instrument in the Saraswati Mandapam every year to come.

And believe me, the venue is perhaps the only place on earth where you can listen to Veena without electronic amplification -thanks to the vintage acoustics design of yore!

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