Seetha Narayanan, Music Club IIT Madras

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 18 Sep 2008, 23:37

Seetha Narayanan - Usha Rajagopalan - Thanjavur Ramadass

Central Lecture Theatre, Music Club IIT Madras
18th September 2008. 7 pm

srI rajamAtangi - suddha dhanyAsi - Adi - HMB
siddhi vinAyakam - cAmaram - rUpakam - MD (RNS)
bruhaspatE - aTANA - tisra tripuTa - MD
kaligiyunTE - kIravANi - Adi - T (RNST)
jaya jaya durgE - maNirangu - Adi - NT
RTP - kAmbhOji - catusra jhampa (4 kaLai) 1/4 eDuppu, 3 akshara aridi
sArasa daLa nayanA harE krishnA
rAgamAlika svarams in sAvEri, nItimati, valaji, dEsh
rakhiyO rAj hamAri - sindhubhairavi - Ekam - Surdas Bhajan (pallavi also sang as a slOkam)
tillAnA - nAgasvarAvaLi - sankIrNa jAti dhruva tALam - Chingleput Ranganathan
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T
dhanam tharum - viruttam in madhyamAvati

The concert was very well rendered. The AlApanais of cAmaram, kIravANi and kAmbhOji were all very classical and had some vintage phrases carefully interwoven into them. The kritis were all very beautifully rendered with the required gait. The neraval, svarams were all perfectly executed. The pallavi had anulOmam and pratilOmam rendered as well. The accompanists were very supportive and made it a great concert.

bharath

PS: short post for want of time.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 19 Sep 2008, 00:34

Seetha Narayanan is a very senior musician who renders chaste music. Nice to read about her concert.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 19 Sep 2008, 02:49

rakhiyO lAj hamAri?

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 19 Sep 2008, 03:45

arasi wrote:rakhiyO lAj hamAri?

Is there a problem with that?

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 19 Sep 2008, 03:51

rbharath has posted it as rakhiyO rAj hamAri.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 19 Sep 2008, 03:57

Lakshman wrote:rbharath has posted it as rakhiyO rAj hamAri.

OK...I read the original as lAj - trick of the mind!

I think Arasi is on the money!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 19 Sep 2008, 08:27

Ravi,
I was not clear. I should have said: Isn't it lAj instead of rAj?

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 20 Sep 2008, 10:38

a couple of photos from the concert

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 20 Sep 2008, 20:20

rbharath,
thanks for the nice photos here and elsewhere.

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 21 Sep 2008, 21:19

srI rajamAtangi - suddha dhanyAsi - Adi - HMB

The varNam was new for me, and very enjoyable too.

Svarams in shanmukhapriya were beautiful, and just flowed from the two viduShIs. There was a word-by-word svaram as the concluding svaram verse for that, and the violinist also replied to it.

I loved the neraval for kaligiyuNTE, and the RTP was totally superb, especially the pallavi and svarams. I incidentally had just been hoping to listen to a kAmbhoji since the previous day.

rakhiyo lAj hamaari was very nicely sung, almost like a native speaker of Hindi.

I absolutely loved the tillAnA!

I even enjoyed the post-mangalam shlokam.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 21 Sep 2008, 21:28

Mrs.Seetha Naraynan grew up in the north I think-Delhi or Jamshedpur and had lived in Bomby also. Her diction in Hindi is quite good.