Ramakrishnamurthy, Charumathy R, Manoj Siva @ IFAA Dallas April 7th, 2018

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1. viribONi - Bhairavi vaRNam
2. Jaya Jaya Jaya JAnaki kAnta - nATTai, khanDa cAPu
3. ravicandrikA Alapana, mA kElara vicArvamu - Adi
svarams @ mA kElara

4. mAnADa mayilADa - kalyANi viruttam in lieu of Alapana.
cidambaram ena manam - SrI pApanAsam Sivan.

5. DhanyAsi Alapana, nI cittamu - m. cApu - SrI tyAgarAja svAmi
GuruDe uttama gati guruvumi nIvanu konTi - neraval and svarams

taniyAvartanam.

6. rAma rAma kali kaluSha - rAmakali - rUpakam - SrI muttusvAmi dIkshitar

7. bhagESri - RTP -
tAnam - other rAgas kuntalavarALI, kannaDa , mOhana kalyANI, HindOlam

(3/4) pallavi sAgara Sayana vibhO | (5) pAhi prabhO - Adi - 2 Kalai.

rAgamAlika svarams in dEvagandhAri, pURrvi kalyANi, PunnAga varALi

Rounded off with the full rendition of the MDR kriti

8. vaidEhi sahitam suratrumatalE - SlOkam - sindhu bhairavi

9. SrI Ramachandra kripALu bhajamana - yamuna kalyANi

10. pURvi - tillana - ninirigamagarisA - the KVN popular one. - rUpakam

11. vangakkaDal kaDainda - tiruppAvai. - suruTTi - rUpakam

A vibrant concert with top class accompanists. Lot of verve and energy through out. His traditional approach with gana katchitam renditions as well as svarams as always I have heard on youtube. ravicandrikA @ No 3 was the pace setter. A very creative Alapana, and Charumathy picked it up @ mAmava maragata - but later turned out to be a different song.

The No 4 - viruttam based Alapana - as it was elaborate won people's hearts as he ended with SivakAmi nESanE , enai yInDRa ISanE reemphasizing those two lines back to back. It covered all stages of kalyAni.

The kriti seemed a short lived exercise.

DhanyAsi Alapana was in proportion - not too elaborate. the neraval was the high point - a long drawn one. The svarams took advantage of the 2 offset - leaving 12 to cover for the Avartanam - he peppered it with caturaSra triSram in between. Manoj's crisp accompaniment enhanced the concert, with precise landings.

Manoj gave a scholarly, but a short tani , with triSram and lot of split sollus in caturaSram.


rAmakali kriti was a serene interlude.

RTP : rAgam was usual flourishing bhAgESrI - a switch off for many. The tAnam in kannaDa and mOhana kalyaNi were impressive by both of them.

The pallavi had the familiar MDR kriti line from same rAgam. The setting was bit asymmetric for pURvAngam, he had a 4ish landing on na, vi, bho|.
After rAgamAlika svarams , he sang the kriti.

With HM filling the air, it took time for me to identify sindhu bhairavi for the SlOkam - I had to scratch my head and try and remember an AIR time adjuster from yore - a MSG violin something.

After a nice Bhajan in yamunakalyANi, he rendered a vervy tillAna in pUrvi , popularized by KVN. Rounded off with tiruppAvai in suruTTi.

A nice vibrant concert, with a bit of let down in pallavi - both the setting and the rAgam choice.

[Sachi_R]

gana katchitam renditions as well as svarams

घन खचित ... Like the expression very much!

[shankarank]

I fixed most other issues that I could see, except that one where I stand ground as a poly-lit