SrividyaC wrote: ↑06 Oct 2018, 08:30
September 29, 2018
Vocal concert at the Grand Clubs Plano
Smt Nandita Padmanabhan- Vocals
Smt Deepa Sastry- Violin
Shri Shankar Rajagopalan- Mridangam
SrividyaC
Are these artists all based out of us. I am assuming they are the next gen kids born and trained in the US . I like their musical attitude the concert is bit short but hey still there is RTP. May be there is the anjaneya balam from the nearby hanuman temple (I do know there is one in Dallas Metro area ) that gave them the drive to sing RTP.
You have already graduated to write great reviews . In future do open a new thread for each concert proper title date and placeholder please. I am sure there was a ragamaliga swaras,may i know the ragas.
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"Deepa Sastry, a carnatic classical violinist from Bangalore who is currently in the United States, started learning carnatic vocal and violin at a very early age and has been playing violin for about 15 years. She started learning violin with Vidhushi Savithri Srinivas in Bangalore and then continued with Late Vidvan Sri S V Ananth. Deepa is now a disciple of Vidwan Mysore H K Narasimha Murthy and Vidwan Bangalore H S Sudhindra. She has performed for various senior and upcoming artists in India and US and has been performing in the Chennai Music season for the past 7 years. Some of the senior artists she has accompanied and performed with are Bangalore S Shankar, D V Nagarajan, Anoor Anantakrishna Sharma, Sukanya Ramagopal, Carnatica Brothers, to name a few. Some notable highlights of her performance include playing in the violin symphony directed by A Kanyakumari, accompanying Sukanya Ramagopal in Stree Tala Tarang, a special Ghata Tarang troupe formed by her, performing in a special program on Muttiah Bhagavatar’s compositions for AIR, Bangalore and performing in a special series of concerts on“Dasar compositons” conducted by Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam. She has won many awards including the Bangalore Ananya Nada Jyothi award, the Karnataka Yuva Pratibhe award and the Best Junior Violinist award from the Indian fine arts Society, Chennai. Deepa is a graded artist from All India Radio, Bangalore. She has an M.Com from Annamalai University."
"Nandita Padmanabhan is an 'A' grade artist of All India Radio. She is being mentored by music, sanskrit and kannada scholar - Dr TS Sathyavathi. She also learned from Vidushi Madhavi Rajagopalan and Vidushi Nagavalli Nagaraj. Nandita won first prize in prestigious All India Radio music competitions. She received HRD and CCRT scholarship from the Govt of India for advanced training in music. She has performed in several music sabhas across India and US including programs for Doordarshan and All India Radio. She is employed as a Software professional at Cisco Systems here at Dallas."
"Shankar Rajagopalan 8101 Towne Main Dr Plano TX 75024
Offering mridangam and dholak lessons for children and adults. Playing for the past 28 years; accompanied leading musicians for concerts. Recently moved from India."
Rajeshnat ji, pratyaksham bala ji has put a very detailed bio of all the artistes. I was out so missed your post. Thanks pratyaksham bala ji .
All three are india born and raised artistes , all of whom seem to be employed here in Dallas area. I did want to say that i found it admirable that they're able to keep up with their practice while managing jobs and families (they all are around 30-40 age bracket or maybe 45). But that's hardly an exception. There are loads of artistes who have moved abroad for jobs are doing the same, so I refrained from saying so.
Thank you for your appreciation, i'll put my next review as a separate post (just realised my next post on Bharat Sunder concert didnt get submitted due to timeout/leaving browser unattended)
rajeshnat wrote: ↑06 Oct 2018, 09:22
I am sure there was a ragamaliga swaras,may i know the ragas.
Rajeshnat ji, i'm still a novice in CM but i tried my best to guess the ragas. My guess:Kaapi, Shankarabharanam and Kamboji.
Shri. Shankar (the mridangam artiste) put up the RTP on yotube: https://youtu.be/SXlYdLevQ3I
I'd be so glad if you would take a look at it, and tell me if i got atleast one of the them correct..
Brief report of TM Krishna's recent Boston concert (3/31/2024).
Venue: Regis College, Weston MA
He started with a Reethigowlai with a brief alapana and sang Janani Ninnivina followed by a Dikshitar krithi -- Kanakambari Kaarunya with a long alapana followed by tanam. He spent a brief while expounding on the differences between the Raagaanga Raga scheme followed by MD versus the Melakartha scheme followed by Thyagaraja and SS and how they are materially different, and hence Kanakambari is not the same as Kanakangi. For a casual listener like me, it all went a little over my head. I had heard this krithi once or twice before and thought it was kanakangi. Moving on... Followed that with a beautiful rendition of Saraguna Palimpa with extended alapana in Kedaragowlai. To me this was the highlight of the concert. The rest of the pieces were light and shortish. A poem by poet Perumal Murugan (Azhuthen Kangal Sivakka...), an interesting alternate version of the national anthem tuned by two musician friends of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Bruhi Mukundeti and one or two other pieces which I do not recall.
It left me, a long time fan of TMK, wanting more. But in his defense, this concert was part of a festival and regrettably the organizers were urging him to finish up, presumably to set the stage for the next sarod concert by Ken Zuckerman.
I'll put myself in the camp of people who won't stop listening to TMK any time soon.
Oh and someone asked what is the composition of the audience. Seemed to be very knowledgeable CM fans mostly. Age range was from young families with little children to many vayasana thathas and pattis. Whatever his politics are it didn't seem to deter this lot. Not many empty seats.
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this recorded version was sung by Captain Lakshmi. Sister of Mrinalini Sarabhai and daughter of Ammu Swaminathan. One of the oldest recordings of this anthem.
Mohan/kamalamba,
I am glad you brought that up. Yes, Captain Lakshmi as she was known, but look at the label! She was Lt. Colonel by then! Little did I know. She was one of the women we young girls looked up to in our ancient times.
I am looking at this thread just now, after months. Rajesh is right. How this thread got hidden in the Attendance Report thread! Yes, Thamizhisai_piriyan, please write more reviews and post them in Concert Reviews
I am very much with you when it comes to TMK's concerts of late. I will still go to one, hoping that he would sing more in his performances. I am still savoring the one where he nearly did--at Bengaluru in February!
Just a listing of what I could catch this time in Chennai (December 2025). Choices of music dictated by logistics, largely.
1) Abhishek Raghuram, Vittal Rangan, Vijay Natesan, Karthik at Charsur - very striking Purvikalyani, Sriranjani and Kannada ragams. Vittal's shadowing was great.
2) Vidya Kalyanaraman, Rajeev Mukundan, Arjun Ganesh, K V Gopalakrishnan at Charsur - Rame neeyeda main, followed by R K Shriramkumar (violin solo), K V Prasad, Anirudh Athreya - Solid music, Mamava raghuvira in Mahuri, preceded by a brisk ragam and Nadaci nadaci in Kharaharapriya
3) Rama Verma, A Vinu, B Harikumar, Karthik at Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha, Pantuvarali main followed by sparkling tani avartanam, followed by Pantula Rama, MSN Murthy, Kotipalli Ramesh, Harish Chandra - Vasanta, Suddha Dhanyasi and Begada pallavi (composed by MSN Murthy)
4) Akkarai sisters (vocal), Tumkur Bhargav, B Sivaraman, Karthik - a highlight - morning 600 a.m. concert, mikeless, at Raghavendra Swamy temple, Mylapore, great atmosphere. Todi swarajati, Anjaneya in Saveri was the main piece, Ni dayace in Yadukula Kambodhi. Very nice accompaniment by Tumkur Bhargav.
5) Kruthi Bhat, Vittal Rangan, N C Bharadwaj, S Krishna - Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha, Saveri (Sankari Sankuru) and Brindavana Saranga pallavi
5) A bit of Archana + Aarathi at Music Academy
6) JB Sruthi Sagar, L Ramakrishnan, Bhaktavatsalam, K V Gopalakrishnan at Charsur - superb - Dhanyasi, Dharmavati and Kharaharapriya
7) Ritwik Raja, M. Rajeev, N.C.Bharadwaj, Chandrasekhara Sarma at Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha, Keeravani main
8) N.J.Nandini, V. S. Gokul, Trivandrum Balaji and Sriram Natarajan, at Narada Gana Sabha - 4 Ranjani pallavi (Ranjani, Manoranjani, Janaranjani and Sriranjani) was the highlight, very nicely sung
9) A bit of Anahita and Apoorva at Music Academy
10) Lec dems by Rajashri Ramakrishna, G. Ravikiran/Madhusudanan Kalaichelvam, Rama Ravi and Nandita Ravi, Ravi Rajagopalan at the Music Academy
