T.R.Mahalingam - Mali (Flute)

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Vayoo Flute
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Flute Mali recordings

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If you are interested in listening to some rare Mali recordings that you may not find anywhere else, please visit:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvOjLJ ... i-g6Jw_q0A

The latest upload is the video recording of his last concert. Although that has been available elsewhere on Youtube for quite some time, this one has been audio enhanced.

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Wow!! I look forward to listening. Thank you!

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Here is the latest upload in the "Best of Carnatic Flute" channel in Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxci9YxwkPQ

Any information on when and where this concert took place in the US would be appreciated. This is NOT the 1978 Columbia U concert, nor is it the Los Angeles one with L. Subramanian.

Do listen to this concert. Mali is in great form here.

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One of the major ragams that Mali played very rarely was kharaharapriya. Here is one such rare occasion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpoezHfDaWM

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VayooFlute: This concert is certainly the Columbia Concert. Myself along with Dr.P.Rajagopalan--the Founder of CMANA-USA arranged this concert with T.Rukmani and Tricky Sankaran @ the McMillan Theatre in the Columbia University campus.Mali Sir at that time was temporarily residing in the US ina farm near Philadelphia.We had great difficulty in getting him to play--he was under a detox program at that time and it had sapped his energy--despite all these difficulties,notice the aweetness of the "blowing".

When I was growing up Mali Sir was my inspiration and I would venture to say even today his music stands out relative to the flautists who succeeded him. In private(he was a good friend of my father and uncle) and I have been a silent listener to several discussions he had with them. For all his idiosyncrasies he was a very devoted family man. Like all geniuses he was a tormented man within himself and contrary to the illwill he had created amongst the audience for his moods and antics,deeply he was never satisfied with his playing and felt short of his own expectations.

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Shri MKR Sir: Thank you so much for your input. As a big Mali fan, I am always interested to hear about him from those who have had interaction with him. Your impressions are certainly very similar to what I have heard from others, including my guru, Shri TS Sankaran Sir, and family members (Mali was a distant relative of mine). Once you have listened to a lot of Mali, it is indeed hard to listen to other flutists.

There are clearly two different concerts that took place around the same time. I always thought that the concert uploaded in Sangeethapriya:

https://www.sangeethamshare.org/manjuna ... York-1981/

was the Columbia U one. Although that concert and the one I uploaded had many of the same items, they are clearly different - the beginning piece in the Sangeethapriya upload is the sankarAbharaNam kriti mariyAda gAdurA, and the one I uploaded has bhairavi varnam. Also the ragamalikas in the bEgaDa RTP are different. Also, the lack of audience clap in the one I uploaded suggests that this may have been a private concert. To your knowledge, did he perform any more concerts around that time?

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A rare ragam and pallavi in usEni:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTP6FKJS6OM

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Please listen to the latest upload in my other YTB channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgRcGrTalo

Can any other Carnatic musician produce music like this?

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among the thukda pieces that mali sir used to play was nandavanathil orandi and adupambe as ragamailka kavadi chindu is unforgettable.
still mali sirs school students play the same.

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One of my all time favorite recordings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8c_LYsn0v8

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apadhooru
kamaaj
T.R.MALI
https://youtu.be/XMdcGsyy6Y4
upload by Shankar Rajasekaran

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apadhooru
kamaaj
T.R.MALI
https://youtu.be/XMdcGsyy6Y4
upload by Shankar Rajasekaran

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Under the following upload (an absolutely soulful sahana RTP):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_MJg5X ... naticFlute

one Vallur Sivaraman commented:
"While listening to this great RTP, I remember a concert of him about 50 years back in Mylapore near Nagswara Rao Pantulu Park..A concert of this incredible genius was organised by Krishna Gana Yagyan Mandali We went to the venue an hour early to occupy our seats as it was a free concert. Schedule time of the kutchery was 7 PM, to all our surprise he started it on time . There were occasions, he didn't turn up for the concerts. This time he stated at sharp with a begada varnam & I have never seen a varnam was played for 11/2 hours. He then played a short song hardly for five.minutes . latter he played Kamboji as main Raagam , alapanai alone was played for 45 minutes followed by a Thyagaraja keerthanai.Maa Janaki, with exuberance niraval & Excellent swaram , thereby 3 hours for the main Raaga & then RTP in Sankarabharanam with Raagamalika swaram. Then Chinnam chiru Kiliye for 1 hour
By the concert was over by 4 am. There was pin drop silence till the kutchery was over. He was accompanied by Mysore Gururajappa in violin -an extraordinary violinist from Mysore & Ramanathapuram Murugabhoopathy yet another genius mridangam . Since didn't want to miss a minute of his concert , we missed our Dinner. In Madras there was no bus service in early morning we came to our house in Westmambalam by foot. But the sweet experience is still in our memory like a nail , nailed in a green tree. All the pleasant sangadhis he played still linger in our ears. He might have been eccentric but likable by all the Rasikaas from popular figure to poor . We were fortunate to enjoy the music of this exemplarily great musician."

Has anyone heard about this 9-hour concert of Mali's?

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The above post is superb and incredible.! nine hours free concert! what was the year Sirs? How did he manage to play 'chinanchiru kiLiye' for 30 minutes? which version- DKP or MLV?

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The above post is superb and incredible.! nine hours free concert! what was the year Sirs? How did he manage to play 'chinanchiru kiLiye' for 30 minutes? which version- DKP or MLV?

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Vayoo Flute wrote: 29 Sep 2020, 08:29 Under the following upload (an absolutely soulful sahana RTP):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_MJg5X ... naticFlute
@Vayoo Flute ,
Sahana as a RTP is very very rare. Personally my first taste of sahana RTP was with a Ramnad Krishnan extraordinary rendition. Mali builds brick by brick the sahana sedate and mystical aura ,how he gets such incredible clarity in lower register where it does not sound fleeting and just suggestive . Also from sahana he continued into the mood of deeper contemplation which is the aura of sahana and he went from there in ragamaliga to ragas like kuntala varali it is all boxed and intact with that let go and stay still meditative play. The violinist is also fantastic without robbing the contemplative muse of Mali. Genius at play no wonder every one in that generation always had Mali as one of their favorite musician.

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Since Sahana and RamnadK are mentioned here....

this is from 30+ years ago..
...exceptional Sahana padam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjSMGbA28qw

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225->
@cacm
Great and true observation Sir.
Especially the last line about the supposed disciple of Semmangudi

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Mali had a very unique approach to thODi. Listen to the following excerpt from an RTP ragamalika.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz679WNMc80

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