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Chembai presenting an award to Madurai Somasundaram at Shanmukhananda Sabha, Bombay

M.S.Gopalakrishnan applauds.

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Chembai blessing Yesudas at Shanmukhananda Hall, Bombay, 1968. Chembai also honoured him with a congratulatory shawl, which was presented by the Kanchi Paramacharya to Chembai sometime earlier. This was the concert at the end of which Yesudas expressed his desire to become Chembai's disciple, and Chembai accepted.

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Chembai and Semmangudi perform together, with Chowdiah on the violin.

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sambamoorthy honoured by chembai!
This is CM history!

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Chembai being honoured in the Music Academy in the presence of Prof. Sambamoorthy.

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That Chembai/SSI picture must be of the 30's. Can we have the list of persons pictured...

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Chembai (sitting second from left) and Palghat Mani Iyer (sitting centre) in 1925.

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CML, I have no idea of the others in the Chembai/SSI picture.

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Chembai playing violin

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For this photo, Veena S.Balachander writes his caption:
"Old King Cole,
was a merry old soul!
He called for his fiddlers three...
And told them to take a day free!!!"

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The above words are from S.Balachander himself. Later when he got the Central Sangeet Natak Academy award, he was to write, refusing the award "This is a late award for Balachander, instead of an award for Late Balachander. There is a mahanubhava called Chembai who already has honoured me with the supreme title 'Nada Brahmam', and I cannot aspire to get a title any higher than that."

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Chembai's 75th birthday celebrations, 1969

coolkarni

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phew !!!
great stuff.
thanks Srkris.

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Chembai - these are fabulous pictures of the yester years. Thank you so much for sharing them.

chithra

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Srikris,

Trust you would be able to upload the entire concert of Chembai that you have mentioned in the first page of this entry. Thanks.

Kaumaaram Sivakumar T

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Kaumaaram,

I have now made the concert available at http://www.sangeethapriya.org/~chembai

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Srikris,

Thanks. But I cannot save it in my hard disk. The moment I click the track(s), it gets copied into temporary folder and real player gets activated.

If possible, kindly send it to me : kaumaaram@yahoo.com through yousendit.com.

Kaumaaram Sivakumar T

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You can download it by right-clicking on the file link and selecting "save target as".

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Thanks a ton. Done.

Kaumaaram Sivakumar T

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Post by ninjathegreat »

I heard from "chembai" in the sangeetham forums that CVB was an expert in Kathri swarams.

Can someone post more rederings by CVB with kathri swarams? I'm fascinated by them...

Is there any math behind kathri swarams? I assume they are also a type of kanakku swaram...

Cheers
Ninja

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http://rapidshare.de/files/8431342/chem ... i.mp3.html

This is a Thani avarthanam by PMI preceeded by swaraprastara by Chembai and TNK in Thodi (contains kathriswaras also). I'm also posting this link in the thani avarthanams thread.

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Dear Ramki

Grateful if you would kindly upload the relevant concert of Chembai in full. I am looking out for concerts of Chembai other than the pre-recs released by different companies.

Regards

Kaumaaram

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Kaumaaram,

I have limits on my internet bandwidth which unfortunately forbids me from uploading or downloading anything substantial... and for this reason, I will not be able to upload whole concerts even though I have a good number of them... you are however welcome to take a copy of them offline on CDs from me if you stay in Chennai... my email is srkris@gmail.com

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Ramki,

Thanks for the offer. I am of course in Chennai and will get in touch with you by email.

Kaumaaram

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Dear Kaumaaram, if you have the bandwidth could you please upload the concerts onto rapidshare.

Thank you.

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Yes. I will as and when I pick up the concerts from Srikris.

Kaumaaram

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We might have heard the expansive Swarajati of Shyama Sastri in Bhairavi as sung by the Pitamaha, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, who more or less patented the same.

So it was a bit surprising when I heard the same piece sung by Chembai, because Chembai was not known to have rendered this often. It was a different experience altogether... it seemed to me to be a mix of Semmangudi and MDR's styles.

Hear it yourself at http://rapidshare.de/files/10635486/CVB ... rajati.mp3

Alternatively, it can be accessed by clicking the "Audio Folder" link at the top-left of this page, and entering the password "carnatic" when required.

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Here is an AIR concert of CVB-MSG-TVG-TN Balappa (Dholak)

http://rapidshare.de/files/12664712/Chembai.zip.html

Kaumaaram

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Chembai's rendition in Vani Film:

http://rapidshare.de/files/12668510/Nik ... a.mp3.html

Accompaniments:
MYSORE T.CHOWDIAH - VIOLIN
PALAKKAD MANI IYER - MRIDANGAM

Kind Attn: Mr Srkris: Please include the above concert and this one in your Audio Folder. Thanks.

Kaumaaram

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Post by param »

Dear Friends,

I will be in Chennai for a day and a half (before I proceed on a detailed and long trip down south) on 10th and 11th of this month. Will it be possible to share a glass of beer or two with all those of you who are in Chennai - and ofcourse get to know you better. In case most of you might come out with a response that "I do not drink" - no problems at all - u can definitely clink my glass with yours (filled with coke or orange or lemon.......).

I would defnitely like to meet as many people as possible. Please suggest a suitable venue and time.

Thanks,

Param

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Thank you for posting the chembai concert

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Post by mantra »

Excellent AIR concert... Thanks
Shyam

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I've been listening to that Swarajati on repeat for the past hour. It loops very well!

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Post by srkris »

Pinkchry, that was amusing... I will upload a fuller version soon, he has sung it in another concert that I have. ;)



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Post by tgrgod »

hi everybody a new guy in the block can anyone upload some chembai good vocal concert:D

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Post by meena »

tgrgod wrote
hi everybody a new guy in the block can anyone upload some chembai good vocal concert:D
tgrgod welcome!

excellent concerts/clips of sree chembai's have been u/l so far. THIS forum sole purpose is NOT just u/l concerts BUT to discuss what was d/l.

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Kaumaaram or some one else, can you please uplaod this Chembai concert as one [or] two Zip file? Many thanks.

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Post by kaumaaram »

Mahesh,

I have uploaded track-wise because rapid-share hangs up when I load a big file. Despite the drawback of a wait time, I believe that you would be able to complete the exercise within a day or two.

Tgrgod

Welcome! If you visit sangeethapriya.org, you will find a dedicated page for Chembai. The Administrator of this forum, Mr S Ramakrishnan has uploaded a concert and some other pieces. Please download them by right clicking. Second, this forum contains an audio folder, password for which is carnatic. You may get one more chance then to download the songs that have been discussed in detail by the forum members.

Kaumaaram

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Mahesh - I will downsample and see if i can zip it into 2 or 3 files.

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http://rapidshare.de/files/13392495/Nav ... _62-65.zip
almost all the songs except #5 - hoping you can download that separately.

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Thanks very much! Much appreciated!

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Mahesh - let me know if you think the quality is poor - i can resample at a higher rate. This one was at 32kbps

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Hi, new-cmfan: Thanks for uploading it as a zip file.

Here is yet another concert from the same series. I have removed the songs that have been rendered earlier.

Your Download-Link: http://rapidshare.de/files/13450309/Che ... 2.zip.html

Please let me have your feedback. Thanks.

Kaumaaram

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Post by Mahesh »

new_cmfan - This is fine ta very much, a brilliant Saveri. Chembai can mesimerise me with his captivating voice!

Kaumaaram - Juts downloading the file, thanks very much for sharing!

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The third from the Poomuli Navarathri series, with repetitions duly eliminated for quick uploading:

http://rapidshare.de/files/13463274/Che ... 2.zip.html

Thanks

Kaumaaram

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Thank you very much for the uploads. Could you upload the repetitions too if possible.

Thanks

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Post by kaumaaram »

Here is a full length concert of Chembai:

Chembai_full_concert.zip

Kaumaaram

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This is a 11.9.66 concert of Chembai at Mumbai. The person delivering the opening speech that runs for about 20 minutes, speaks of the greatness of Chembai.

Chembai_BBY_11-9-66.zip

Kaumaaram

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