Concert Attendance Report

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tkb
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Re: Concert Attendance Report - 12 Jul & 23rd July, 2011

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Nice to see Young NRI artists making a big impression these days in Chennai. I had the oppurtunity to be there for a short while in Hariharah Ravi's vocal concert on the 12th July at BVB mini hall organised under Balakalasagaram Trust by Issaimazhalai Ramjhi with Shyam on Violin and Akshay Ram on Mrudhangam. It was a good concert and i wanted to be there for his full concert on 19th Jul'11 but missed it. I am trying to catch up with his concert at NGS mini hall in the second week of August. Sri Cleveland Sundaram spoke about Hariharani's talents and his growth in his learning process as he is one of the regulars for the Cleveland Thyagaraja Utsavam. Sri Ramjhi informed that he was so impressed with the voice and talent of Hariharan that he arranged this concert in a short notice, sooner he got to know that he was in Chennai.

Kamalakiran Vinjamuri's solo violin concert i attended yesterday is probably one of the best i had attended in the recent past. He had the stamp of his guru, Ms. A. Kanyakumari's school of playing techniques and the smile she carries while interacting with the artists during a concert. Kamalakiran, all of 13 years old, was all at ease with the enhancement team of Sri Arjun Ganesh on mrudhangam, Sri. K. V. Gopalakrishnan on Kanjeera and Dr. S. Karthick on Ghatam who did their best! He also his guru's divine blessings with her presence for the concert.

I entered when Kamalakiran was actually singing Akilandeswari on violin and continued to do so through out the concert. He followed it up with Nadhupai - Madhyamavathi and Ragunadha nannu - Swararanjani. I missed the RTP in Shanmugapriya but came back to listen to Revagupti ragaThillana followed by Bagyadhalaksmi Baramma, Brahma Kadigina Padhamu, Pibare Ramarasam and Mangalam. I had the pleasure of having attended a good concert and also the satisfaction of personally greeting the artist! Understand he is enhancing the vocal concert of Sri Madurai Rajaram today evening at Parvathy, 28/180 Eldams Road, Chennai for Music Education Trust. I will be missing it as i have to attend my wife's vocal concert today at Kumaran Kundram, Chrompet this evening!!

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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Listened to Saketharaman for the first time at BGS last evening. It was an excellent team performance by Saketharaman, Nagai Sriram, Mannargudi Eswaran and S. Karthick. Mukhari premain (enRaikku Sivakripai) and Subhapantuvaraali main (Sri Satyanarayanam Upasmahe), followed by a 3-raga pallavi in Revati, Sahana and Sivasakti in khanDa jaati aTa taaLam. Interesting pallavi line combining the dances performed by Siva & Sakti (tANDavam and laasyam). Finished off with a few kritis on lord Siva.

rshankar
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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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Sridhar, I'm very curious now - what was the pallavi?

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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I no longer make notes but thankfully I messaged the pallavi line to a friend, so here it is from Viber:

takadheem takiTadheem enRu tANDavam || janudheem tajanudheem enRu laasyam || ADiDum SivaSaktiyai paNivOm ||

rajeshnat
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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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Nice thoughtful pallavi by saketharaman . I guess the experience of learning from Lalgudi has indeed brought that . What does laasyam mean?

Nick H
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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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Yesterday I attended four concerts. This is a personal record, and not one that I am interested in breaking! Two is enough, three is overeating.

Another record for me was three consecutive concerts by students of Smt R Vedavalli: Ashwin Anand (veena), Usha Padmanabhan, and Archana & Arathi.

On top of those concerts at MA and Raga Sudha, I fulfilled a promise to an old friend from London to see his program: Manikam Yogeswaren. His performance was full of gusto and passion. The difference from the previous concerts made this, the fourth course in a rich meal, palatable and digestible

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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sridhar_ranga wrote:I no longer make notes but thankfully I messaged the pallavi line to a friend, so here it is from Viber:

takadheem takiTadheem enRu tANDavam || janudheem tajanudheem enRu laasyam || ADiDum SivaSaktiyai paNivOm ||
Beautiful...I was imagining this danced, with vigorous jumps and leg lifts for the tANDavam, and an almost mohiniATtamish grace for the lAsyam...
Rajesh...if Siva dances the vigorous tANDavam, pArvati dances the lAsyam with languorous grace. It is a way of dancing. Lalgudi Sri Jayaraman in his nATya composition, jaya jaya dEvi, refers to it as 'naLinam migunda lAsyam'. Myth has it, that umA taught this firm of dancing to ushA, the daughter of bhANAsura...
Also, some believe that the word tALa, comes from the union of tANDava and lAsya.

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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Yesterday: Just K P Nandini (missed 'h'?).

My favourite new-to-me-this-year vocalist (also a violinist.) Great voice, great concert.

About to go to MA. I guess I'll be late for 9.15 concert --- but it's midnight according to my personal clock!

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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Today i went around 7pm to hear hyderabad brothers after a long time. the venue was meenakshi college of engg . I mistook this venue for the meenakshi college in kodambakkam-liberty which has also an engg college. I went and the watchman said the concerts at this college got over few days back , there is also few concerts here. I just checked kutcheris.com to find the venue was meenakshi college of engg in kk nagar .

Govinda govinda one day of concert gone despite just trying my best to sneak in out of office bit early. we have aishwarya and sanjay ambiguity, now we also have venue ambiguity.This post is just a caution for all of you that meenakshi college of engg is in kknagar and not kodambakkam.

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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:( That is too bad Rajesh, that has got to be quite disappointing. Thanks for the warning

Nick H
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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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My concert going is interrupted by visitors from USA.

However, there was never any doubt that Smt Vedavalli's concert would be included in our itinerary. It is always a little nerve racking to introduce people to carnatic music at the deepest of the deep end, but they were able to share my bliss.

Having them here brought me a new experience, because I would not often look even for the great names in dance, but they wanted to see some, and a quick scan of the newspaper resulted us in us being at Kalakshetra in the evening, watching the ladies from Nrityagram, whose dance is one of just one of the most extraordinary wonderful experiences in the world! In fact, a world-wide dance follower friend, who introduced me to them, described them to me as "The best dancers I have ever seen." I have experienced very little dance --- but I'm certainly not arguing with this!

Sunday, therefore, was an amazingly special day from beginning to end.

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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Had a wonderful morning at Krishna Gana Sabha with a serene TN Seshagopalan kutchery.

TNS @ SKGS 19 Dec 2014 9:30 AM supported by - TNS Krishna, M Chandrasekharan, Patri Satishkumar

1. Sri Varalakshmi - Sri - Rupaka - D (RS)
2. Sri Balasubrahmanya - Bilahari - M Chapu - D (RS)
3. Jaalandhara supIThastE - Valaji - Rupakam - HMB (R, NS@bhavaroga nivarini bhaktajana paripalini)
(trademark swara fireworks by sri TNS and sri MC started swara return after a pause and the comment 'ivvaLO amakkaLapaDuttina appuRam naan enna vaasikkaRadu)
4. nILA tungasthana kiritaTI + paadagangaL tIrkkum (brief viruttams) + violin return + Azhi mazhaikkaNNaa - VaraaLi - Adi - ANDAL
5. SaravaNabhavaa samayamidiraa - paSupatipriya - Adi - HMB (S)
6. dhyaanamE varamaina - dhanyaasi - Adi - T (RNST)
7. puLLin vAi piLandiTTAi - periyaazhwaar paasuram - ragamalika viruttam in saveri, bagesri?, ? + barse badariya saavan kI - Mira Bhajan in ?
8. pavamaana + Sriyah kaantaaya kalyaaNa

I believe most ragas chosen were morning specials! Blissful it was.

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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Heard the post-thani avarthanam items of today's concert by Mahanadhi Shobana Vignesh at BVB mini hall. Her voice was quite good and she did quite well in the higher octaves generally. I believe the main item was Kharaharapriya though.

The thukkadas section started with an abhang which seemed to be a cross between Mand and Bhoopalam possibly. She then took up a viruttham in Chalanattai? and Revathi. Can't remember the starting words exactly, but I did make a note about "Kanne Kanmaniye". The krithi she sang in Revathi started with the words "Munnavane Siriyavanaan" which I think was in praise of Lord Nataraja, but no idea who composed either. She then sang Payumoli Nee of Subramania Bharathiyar in raga Brindavani. She also sang a Thillana in Karnaranjani composed by K. S. Raghunathan containing Tamil sahithyam (the alternate version I've heard of the same Thillana is in Telugu) before Pavamana.

Nick H
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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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Nick H wrote:Yesterday I attended four concerts. This is a personal record, and not one that I am interested in breaking! Two is enough, three is overeating.
I broke it with a 5-concert day this year. I'd find it very hard to list them from memory!
Another record for me was three consecutive concerts by students of Smt R Vedavalli: Ashwin Anand (veena), Usha Padmanabhan, and Archana & Arathi.
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No consecutive record, but have added three more to my RV-school experience, this year, which now includes, I think, all the actively performing students

nirmalaraghavan
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writing reviews without attending

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I was surprised some 10 years before when even senior critics would write without attending concerts. I've seen musicians flock round these critics begging them to write- to write with a list and not by listening. Now at least its better off. critics are given cd's of concerts to review. For a really good artiste and who is confident of his/her artistic skills,I think these don't matter. Dr. Balamuralikrishna would always say "Avaalukku therinjada avaa ezhudara" and he would brush it off.

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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Wow I've always thought I'm a loner in such thoughts this is a really good forum to express our views and may be a more realistic review for Sabhas and organisations to note

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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Here is a brief on the concerts I attended during the 2015 season in Chennai. If I see a detailed concert review of these concerts I will copy and paste the relevant portions there if appropriate.

Abhishek Raghuram at Bharath kalachar - Every raga Abhishek takes up gets the special Abhishek treatment ( and the Abhishek experience as Sachi called it elsewhere ) and the raga to have that privilege in this concert was Nalinakanthi (RTP). The 3 hour duration gave him the the flexibility to indulge in the pallavi portion alone for 45 minutes. The laya concept he used is 'Atheetham' as in the usual meaning of the song line starting before the beat. Every sub portion of the pallavi line is also set in Atheetham. He explained that it gives him the flexibility to do nadai bedam with ease. It was a great treat. I am not sure half the audience was with him in all the laya intricacies but I enjoyed it very much. ( in his explanation about the pallavi he said in passing that if you come to the hall before the concert starts that is atheetham. It went over the head of most of the audience except a few of us who caught on to the humor ;) ).

Malladi Brothers at Narada Gana Sabha - Very enjoyable concert. They did an RTP with the words that are relevant to the flood situation in Chennai. Their Shankarabharanam was just too good. It does not hurt they sang a song that I like very much ( eduTa nilicitE nIdu ). Can not describe how great a time I had listening to them sing that song.

Saketharaman at Indian Fine arts - Someone I have been wanting to hear live for a while and I am glad I did. 'chalamElarA sAkEtarAmA' was a nice touch putting smiles on a few people around me! Another one of the youngsters who can sing with enormous confidence and who can let loose. Too bad it was only a two hour concert ( what is with that 2 hour 4:30 pm slot at Indian Fine arts? Does not make any sense to put an artist like Saketharaman there with top notch accompanists for a two hour concert)

Jayant (flute) at Indian Fine arts - This youngster has matured into an accomplished professional flute player and I enjoyed his concert. Flute concerts do have a special charm, whether it is due to the greatness of the sound or the possibilities of techniques afforded by the instrument and Jayant brought them all to produce a wholesome experience. Chakkani rajamargamu was the main, it was great to hear it on the flute. This youngster knows to do the right and respectful thing. He asked Vittal Ramamurthy the violinist to start the Thillana by Lalgudi Jayaraman. Pleasant symbolism there.

(Indian fine arts should feel the shame for picking Ethiraj Kalyana Mandapam as the venue ( I hear it was changed to this venue this year ). It may be great for a wedding but totally unfit for CM concerts unless one is going for cacophony as a theme. Every horn sound of the thousands of vehicles that pass by the road in front is heard inside. After enduring that torture for a couple of songs by Sakthetharaman, I upgraded my ticket and moved closer to the stage. It was better but I could still hear them. I am sure the artists can hear them too and full credit to them to still produce a great concert amidst such chaos. At one place in Jayant's concert, he was doing a great purvi kalyani alapana where he was building it up with very short and subtle phrases that one can do with the flute. It was awesome and I was totally amazed at the subtlety of it all until a horn sound from the road totally destroyed the third variation he did. Indian fine arts bills itself as a top tier organization ( as the season is not like just as any other sabha but like the MA it is a conference etc. ) and hope they find a better home consistent with their billing. Anything will be better than this.)

Akkarai Sisters Vocal - Charsur Foundation concert at Narada gana sabha mini hall - The speciality of this series is to encourage full coverage of all the 72 melakarthas ( by all the artists involved in the series ). Nice concept. The hall was over flowing. For some reason the concert itself started 15 minutes earlier than advertised. Fortunately I was there for the start but there was disturbance with people arriving late ( on time ) and getting seated. They sang well with Shanmugapriya Main. Edayya Gathi was also done well ( noticed how the bhavam of the song comes across to me differently when sung by different singers )

Sriranjani Santhanagopalan at Music Academy - I was there for her Kharaharapriya RTP. She sang great enough that I need to take in a full concert. I am sure there will be ample opportunities. She does come across as a natural singer.

Abhishek Raghuram at Parthasarary Sabha. The raga that was afforded the Abhishek treatment was Purvi Kalyani. I heard he sang that raga for one of the Margazhi utsavam concerts. I guess he was not satisfied and decided to give it the full on treatment. It was a treat. It was a new song for me, one by Tanjore Ponnaiyah. His Durbar was also quite royal.

Sanjay Subramaniyan at Tamil Isai Sangam, Raja Annamalai Manram. This is totally Arasi's doing ( and am quite thankful for that!! ) We talked on the phone and she recalled the Tamil Isai Sangam concert of SS is either the day before or that day or day after. It was around 3 P.M. Had a few errands to run since it was the day before I had to take off from Chennai and forgot to check the schedule. I was somewhere in Besant Nagar around 5:30 PM when I remembered the conversation with Arasi, checked Ram's site Musicrux.com and found out it was indeed that day at 7 P.M. Changed a few things around and got there to George Town with enough time to spare. The people there are quite nice. For a 250 rupees ticket, they seated me in the 4th row with an added guarantee that if I find that to be not suitable, they will seat me in the member's section after half hour. I do not see such things happening in any Mylapore Sabha. There was no need for that since that was great enough seat( but for the squeaky push back chair!). Tremendous concert indeed. Enjoyed his Begada and Kamas RTP. I am not sure if people say this aspect about SS but he combines his open throated all out singing with enough voice modulation to bring out different bhavams. It is easier said than done. All that came together for an emotional rendition of Chinnachiru Kiliye. Sometimes core CM rasikas have the tendency to treat such songs as 'oh not that again!' and not pay enough attention but I am glad I did not do that this time. For whatever reason, his rendition of this song that day got to me quite deeply. I also noticed a few moist eyes around me.

Finally, on a lighter vein, when Akkarai Sisters started Shanmukhapriya main alapana, I over thought it and figured it is something related to S'priya but not quite it. I managed to confuse my friend who was firm on S'priya as well. In the upper tetrachord it sounded very much like S'priya but at the lower one, I thought it sounded a bit different. ( again, it was a problem with me and not with Akkarai Sisters ).
So, if not, S'priya, what is it? My theoretical mind took over ( bad, I know ) and added 6 to 56 and thought it may be 62 ( Rishabapriya ). Long story short, as the alapana progressed it was clear I was overthinking this and it is indeed S'Priya and confirmation came when the song started.
At SS concert, it started the same way, it sounded like S'priya and not quite that. I said to myself 'oh, not again' but kept to my conviction it is not S'Priya knowing fully well that I am on the verger of strike two. ( though this time the evidence was a lot stronger ). SS himself announced soon it is Rishabapriya. Wow! I do not know Rishabapriya at all at the lakshya level. The krithi he sang was by Koteeswara Iyer and that added a few more layers to the raga reminiscent of Kalyani and Mohanam . I need to listen to this raga more to get familiar at a holistic level rather than thinking it sounds like S'Priya, Kalyani etc. Anyway, I was glad that my hunch it is not S'priya came out true preventing strike two!!

One notable miss was Amrita Venkatesh. I really wanted to listen to her live, I like her confident extemporaneous style of singing. I was gunning for her but could not make it happen due to my schedule difficulties. Hopefully on my next visit to Chennai or may be she will do a NA tour.

It would have great to meet up with members of our forum and attend concerts with them but this trip turned out to be quite unpredictable in terms of schedule which prevented me from doing so. Also, I stayed a bit away from the city (Uthandi) and I did not have the energy to get to the city early and often to do the 8 A.M to 10 P.M. sabha hopping that I used to do in earlier years. But I am glad I took in the concerts I did.

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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vasanthakokilam wrote: Too bad it was only a two hour concert ( what is with that 2 hour 4:30 pm slot at Indian Fine arts? Does not make any sense to put an artist like xyz there with top notch accompanists for a two hour concert)
Now you are complaining like me . All these years many may have felt that I am bragging in this but with the chief janitor i can brag more on this point

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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29 December 2016
Bharathi Ramasubban started her concert late at Mylapore Fine Arts with Dikshitar's "Pavanathmaja" in Nattai. I am not sure I enjoyed her voice today, and swaras which followed sounded plain. There were 12 people in the audience. Junior vocalist Kruthi Bhat stayed back to hear more I guess.

I caught the end of Abhishek Ravishankar's concert for BGS after 2pm with his rendition of Suddhananda Bharathi's "Brindavanam Idhuvo" in Suddhadhanyasi (which was preceded by a viruttam) and Subramania Bharathiyar's "Kani Nilam" in ragamalika (starting in Hamsadhwani and ending in Sindhubhairavi). He has an open throated style of singing; sangathis speak well from his voice, and pronunciation is clear (and good)! I wish I heard more. The next concert was by Shruthi Kumar who started with Panthuvarali varnam followed by Tyagaraja's Bhuvinidasudane in Sriranjani.

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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2 January 2016
Caught the end of the concert of Vivek Sadasivam at Parthasarathy Swami Sabha. He concluded the concert with a viruttham (Kulam Tharum - Pasuram) followed by Narayananai Thudhipom in rags Komalangi.

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Chitraveena P Ganesh@Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple, Frisco, Texas on 17 August 2018

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Chitraveena Shri. P Ganesh was accompanied by Shri. Narasimha Kikkeri on violin and Shri. Krishna Thirumalai on mridangam and Smt. Prithi Narasimhan for vocal support.
Apologies for incomplete list of pieces performed; although Shri. P. Ganesh announced the names of the pieces as is customary, it was unclear to me due to distractions.
1. Varnam in Sri Raagam
2. Thyagaraja Keerthanai in Renuka Raagam
3. Heccharikaga rara in Yadukulakamboji Raagam
4. Keerthanai in Hamsaanandi raagam Rupaka Thaalam
5. RTP in unknown raga but I might guess Abheri.

Great performance, very pleasing to the ears. Shri. P Ganesh displayed his mastery of chitraveena amply. I enjoyed hecharikaga rara the most, probably because i identified the song and could appreciate all the nuances of the chitraveena. Shri. Narasimha excelled in the RTP. Shri. Krishna gave a lively accompaniment on mridangam. He was very energetic and his playing further enhanced the uplifting mood of the kutcheri.
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Mysore Brothers Sangeetha Seva@KSHTemple, Frisco, Texas on Sep 11, 2018

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Mysore Brothers Dr. Manjunath and Shri. Nagesh. Accompanied by Shri. Patri Satish Kumar on Mridangam and Shri. Giridhar Udupa on Ghatam.

This was a Sangeetha Seva concert at the Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple, Frisco, Texas. The violin brothers played raagams followed by  the compositions of Shri Ganapathy Sacchidananda Swamiji. Once again, my apologies for the incomplete list. This was a large open space in front of the deities where the concert was performed and hence, the voice of Dr. Manjunath was nearly inaudible.
The first ragam played was Chakravakam and they concluded the program with a swamiji composed bhajan in Dwijavanthi. The rest are my guesses: there was a Ananda Bhairavi followed by Desh. In Desh Ragam,  the brothers set the Pallavi which went as follows "Aananda, Chitaananda, Satchitaananda, Karya Siddhi Hanumatrupa" as an ode to Sri Ganapathy Sachidananda Swamiji.

Once again, a very lively concert. The audience enjoyed the artistry of the Mysore brothers and the mridangam and ghatam were equally masterful. The mysore brothers control of the violin was savant-like. As a violin learner myself, this concert was a golden opportunity to watch the masters. Yes, it did remind me that i need to get back to the practice of swaravali, janta varisaigal, and 3rd kalam etc. :)

The artistes received huge applause and cheers multiple times for the extremely fast paced performance. The mysore brothers played a lot in upper sthayi...even going to upper sthyai s and staying in that region. Only once could i detect a slight deviation in the sruthi, it was in an avarohanam in 3rd speed played jointly by both the brothers and that too was smoothed out within a matter of seconds. If thats not a sign of mastery, what is?
An jawdropping and eyecatching performance.

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Re: Chitraveena P Ganesh@Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple, Frisco, Texas on 17 August 2018

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SrividyaC wrote: 13 Sep 2018, 11:22 4. Keerthanai in Saanandi raagam Rupaka Thaalam
Assuming you had in mind hamsanandi,thank you for your review.continue writing from dallasfortwoth area

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Re: Chitraveena P Ganesh@Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple, Frisco, Texas on 17 August 2018

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rajeshnat wrote: 13 Sep 2018, 12:02
SrividyaC wrote: 13 Sep 2018, 11:22 4. Keerthanai in Saanandi raagam Rupaka Thaalam
Assuming you had in mind hamsanandi,thank you for your review.continue writing from dallasfortwoth area
Yes .. Hamsanandi Raagam is right, will correct it now.
Thank you for the encouragement, will keep writing :)

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Re:CAR Sept 29 2018 Smt Nandita Padmanabhan Vocal Concert at The Grand Clubs Plano

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September 29, 2018
Vocal concert at the Grand Clubs Plano
Smt Nandita Padmanabhan- Vocals
Smt Deepa Sastry- Violin
Shri Shankar Rajagopalan- Mridangam

List of pieces:
1. Charukesi Varnam composed by Shri Lalgudi Jayaraman
2. Sri Rangapura Vihara composed by Shri Muthuswami Dikshitar, Brindavana Saranga, Rupaka Talam
3. Saraswati Namostute composed by Shri GN Balasubramaniam, Saraswati, Rupaka Talam
4. RTP in Kaapi, "Govardhana Giridhari Gopala Krishna Murari"
5. Bo Shambo Shiva Shambo Swayambo
6. Mangalam

All 3 artistes were very good. Smt Padmanabhan's voice was full of vitality. At times the violin's sound got hidden by the vocals and mridangam (sound issue). This program was organized by Saptami foundation which had Indian Classical Dance and Music competitions throughout the day (before this concert). So the auditorium was full of kids mouthing along the words to the krithis :).

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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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."

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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)

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Re: Concert Attendance Report

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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..

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SrividyaC wrote: 10 Oct 2018, 09:59 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..

Kapi, Begada and Bahudari.

You are in the general area :D

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