Ranjani Sivakumar@Ragasudha Hall, 12/Sep/2017

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A great concert.

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For those who are curious but not curious enough to click, this is a concert of Ranjani Sivakumar Siddareddy.


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Good concert. To listen to her more in the season.

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Very nicely done! The raga is listed as "koMDamalahari". Sounds a bit different from the regular Malahari. May be someone can shed some light on this.

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About 9 to 10 years back we had a meet with Lakshman Ragde /Arasi/Arasi's husband Krishan and many more in New Woodlands . This vidushi Ranjani was also there with her dad Sivakumar . I forgot now if she has posted here with her id . Right now after googling i find that she is learning from seetha narayanan and pantula rama - 2 eminent gurus .

Best wishes to Ranjani Sivakumar Siddareddy.

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Can you include her name in the title

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sureshvv wrote: 13 Sep 2017, 12:12

Very nicely done! The raga is listed as "koMDamalahari". Sounds a bit different from the regular Malahari. May be someone can shed some light on this.
koNDamalahari doesn't really have much to do with malahari.

koNDamalahari:

Ar: S G1 M1 P D1 S
Av: S D1 P M1 G1 R1 S

malahari:

Ar: S R1 M1 P D1 S
Av: S D1 P M1 G3 R1 S

It's kind of like Asaveri and Saveri.

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Great. Thank you. The m p d s' matches :)

Which other composers have used this raga?

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The only composer is Annamacharya with about 50 songs.

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Thanks for bringing the 'hill' rAgA to those of us who knew not of it. I'm assuming the word konDa is from telugu--hill. Better use 'D'. Otherwise, it could mean 'having slayed' in kannaDa! koNDa in tamizh would be the malahari married! Ah, the Tower of Babel!

Coming back to Ranjani (Rajesh, she's Ahiri on Rasikas? Or is it another talented young woman's id?), enjoyed listening to her. RamanAtham bhajEham was a welcome choice. Two excellent gurus and her own fine tuned personality are evident in her singing. She is a good writer too, and I still remember the piece she wrote in her blog a long time ago which she wrote from the UK. The rich imagery I found there certainly is an asset in enhancing her music...

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arasi wrote: 13 Sep 2017, 22:51 Coming back to Ranjani (Rajesh, she's Ahiri on Rasikas? Or is it another talented young woman's id?),
Arasi,
Wonderful your memory is great you got it , it slipped me . As a bonus I hope you have your lunch despite identifying ahiri. Good night it is almost neelambari for me

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1. sarasija mukhirO - Arabhi - Pallavi Duraiswamy Iyer - Adi
2. dayajUDa samayamidE (S @ samayamidE) - Jaganmohini - Syama Sastri - Mishra Chapu
3. evaritO nE telpudu - Manavati - Tyagaraja - Deshadi
4. viDa jAladurA - Janaranjani - Tyagaraja - Adi
5. rAmanAtham bhajEham (R, N S @ kumAra guruguha mahitam) - Panthuvarali - Dikshitar - Rupakam (2 kaLai)
6. sari samAna daivamu lEdani - viTapi - Spencer R. Venugopal - Deshadi
-Lots of swaraksharam in this song
7. paritApamu - Manohari - Tyagaraja - Rupakam
8. lOkAvana caturA (R, N T @ lOkavana caturA pAhi mAm) - Begada - Tyagaraja - Adi (2 kaLai)
-No swarams!
-After neraval, pallavi sung in different speeds and naDais
9. mollalEle nAku - Kondamalahari - Annamacharya - Adi
10. navanIta cOrA - Navaroj - Tyagaraja - Mishra Chapu
11. Ananda kandA gOpala gOvindA (Bhajan)
12. iyal isaiyil (Thiruppugazh) - Huseni - Arunagirinathar
13. rAmacandrAya (Mangalam) - Kurinji - Bhadrachala Ramadas - Adi (tiSra naDai)
Last edited by narayara000 on 14 Sep 2017, 23:28, edited 1 time in total.

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narayara000 wrote: 14 Sep 2017, 03:54 6. sari samAna daivamu lEdani - Ar: S R1 M1 P D2 S Av: S D2 P M1 R1 S scale (Raga name?) - Composer? - Deshadi
-Lots of swaraksharam in this song
I did google for sari samAna daivamu lEdani. There is a thanjavur sankara iyer krithi in poornachandrika with the above line as anupallavi. May be she sang that .

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rajeshnat wrote: 14 Sep 2017, 08:12

I did google for sari samAna daivamu lEdani. There is a thanjavur sankara iyer krithi in poornachandrika with the above line as anupallavi. May be she sang that .
I googled that too,but that's a different song called Paripoorna Chandra

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narayara000 wrote: 14 Sep 2017, 09:15
rajeshnat wrote: 14 Sep 2017, 08:12

I did google for sari samAna daivamu lEdani. There is a thanjavur sankara iyer krithi in poornachandrika with the above line as anupallavi. May be she sang that .
I googled that too,but that's a different song called Paripoorna Chandra
May be Sari samana is in Keshavapriya. This raga was created by chitraveena Ravikiran. i heard that song just now and I can see it is hovering in the zone of harikambodhi janya , but not very sure . May be ahiri or even ravikiran himself can clarify.

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Sounds like rasali to me.

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sari samAna is in the rAgA viTapi. The composer is Spencer R.Venugopal.

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Lakshman wrote: 14 Sep 2017, 15:35 sari samAna is in the rAgA viTapi. The composer is Spencer R.Venugopal.
Thanks sir I have updated my post. Can u please post lyrics of this song.

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sari samAna daivamu. rAgA: viTapi. Adi tALA. R.Venugopal.

P: sari samAna daivamu lEdani sArasAkSi ninnE sharaNaNTini
A: varadarAja nIdu caraNa vArijamu mari mari sadA pUjincE nannu brOva
C: cira kAncIpura nagara nilaya cintitArtha prada sadaya hrdaya

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Thank you

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I heard the evaritO (manavati) and with the speed of rendition she kept her voice production so balanced!

Something noted in this review as well : http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday ... 765778.ece

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shankarank wrote: 16 Sep 2017, 07:31 I heard the evaritO (manavati) and with the speed of rendition she kept her voice production so balanced!
Yes it was the speed MLV would sing it.

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Lakshman wrote: 15 Sep 2017, 02:07 sari samAna daivamu. rAgA: viTapi. Adi tALA. R.Venugopal.

P: sari samAna daivamu lEdani sArasAkSi ninnE sharaNaNTini
A: varadarAja nIdu caraNa vArijamu mari mari sadA pUjincE nannu brOva
C: cira kAncIpura nagara nilaya cintitArtha prada sadaya hrdaya
There's one more line at the end:

vara khaga turanga karuNAntaraga vadanakamala madanakOTi sundarAnga

An elaborate rendition with AlApana is available here at around 1:08:32:
https://youtu.be/vV-lBji0U_o

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