Tapovanam Leelavathy@sadguru gnanananda sangeeth sammelan on Sept 02nd,2018

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Tapovanam Leelavathy@sadguru gnanananda sangeeth sammelan on Sept 02nd,2018
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Vocal : Tapovanam Leelavathy
Violin : MSG SureshKumar
Mrudangam : Jayadev
Occasion : Annual sadguru gnanananda homage

Concert Type : Non Nirvana - concert to follow
Day/Duration : Sunday/ 1 hour and 30 mins
Hall : NGS Mini Hall

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1. guru varalum thiru arulum -Abhogi?? - ???
2.narada gAna lola -atAnA -T
3. sarasa sAma dhana - kapinarayani- T

4A. slokham - swabAva chinamayanandam ... gnananandam gurum bhajE
4B. gnana tapOvana sidddalinga -?? - ??
5A. slokham - mouna vakyAH gnana nanda moorthim - shankarabharanam
5B. dakshinAmoorthE (R) - shankarabharanam -MD

6A. slokham -vasudeva sudham devam
6B. asaindhAdum mayilonru(S) - simmhendra madhyamam - OVK
6C. tani

7A. slokham - sadAgnana nandam
7B. purushOtamA moyyanannu pOdAgAnti - shankarabharanam - ???

8.inbamellam tarum anbu deivam -??? -????

9. krishna beganE - yamuna kalyani -kanakdAsa
10.muddugArE yashodE - kurinji -AC
11A. slokham - krishnAya vasudevAya devaki
11B. vandAdum solai thannilE kanden - harikAmbOdhi?? - kalki

12.kannanai kAnbedhappo - hamsanandi + nattaikurinji + suddhadhanyasi + ????- composer unknown
13.punya mangala ...gnana sadhguru sharanam sathgurO
14. ellorum ..gnananantha...

This concert series sadguru gnanananda sangeeth sammelan is a yearly homage where for two or three days from 10AM to 9PM artists are invited for 90 mins each. This is held in NGS Mini hall and for those who donot know sadguru gnanananda hall is the NGS main hall .This swamiji sadguru gnanananda played a big part along with Haridoss Swami(was haridoss swami the disciple of Gnanananda) with few lovely patrons like Late Shri krishnaswamy to build NGS and NGS mini hall in prime alwarpet.

I saw the hindu paper and I plannned to be for Kanakadurga venkatesh and subsequent Sandeep Narayanan(atleast part of it). But as I entered at 12 noon , I just realized that I misread the hindu paper and kanakadurga was slated to perform after Tappovanam Leelavathy at 01:30

I had no clue on this artist Dr Leelavathy ,her family has been blessed by sadguru gnanananda. Looks there is some connection in learning to Dandapani Desigar.Check http://musicleelavathy.com/about-dr-leelavathy/. OVer to brief review

Review:
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CM listening always has some connection to an early past . IN 80's as I was just tasting maharajapuram santhanam there was a bhajana seva mandali from triplicane who come near my home at nungambakkam where they conduct yearly radha kalyana utsavam.To me that utsavam atleast on that key prime day of radha kalyanam you taste so much of music with so much of ragas , you dont know then how the dynamics of each raga brings an emotion .The joy of hearing anandabhairavi and even mistaking huseni for anandabhairavi for atleast 15 years till the internet forum came into existence . In all of this there is bhakthi with the prime religion Hindu(not the paper) by the performer.Particularly there was a bhagavathar by name krishnamurthy bhagavathar from triplicane who gave so much of muse then, the joy of hearing his radha krishna bhajans.

Leelavathy adds that bhakthi in many places , the anchor of almost bringing slokham , viruththams etc for almost all songs is just a great way to give that extra raga bhavam muse . Her start in abhogi (hope it is not shreeranjani) in guru varalum thiru arulum?? was lovely. The atana narada gana lOla was very open throated she bit reminded late Jayalakshmi santhanam and may be her manaseega guru Late DK pattammal. The kapinarayani trademark krithi sarasa sama was just ok. The brief slokham on dakhinamoorthy and connecting mouna vakhyah was just ephemeral but the anchor with the grand dikshitar krithi dakshinamoorthE was unexpected and was quite well done (I had to suspend SSI and Ramnadkrishnan there , I struggled but i just partly failed). The thamizh OVK krithi asaindadum in simmhendra madhyamam was a vocal throw Of JS and DKP for sure and I liked it. In all the tukkadas she mixed up popular krithis of each of the languages like krishna nee begane(kannada) and muddugare yashoda (telugu). When she came to tamil she came to a rare one vandadum solai thannilE of kalki, i think it was popularized by ms amma .

I also heard kanakadurga venkatesh for the first time for about 40 mins , hunger pangs hit me and I left .SRK was there and he can continue .Heard kanakadurga sing gopalaka pahimAm , kannAra kandanayyO gurunathanai - poorvikalyani and murugA tirumAl -harikAmboDHi- TSI , chinna nadana

Dr Leelavathy has a nice throw of voice and decent rhythmn . The mrudangist Jayadev (whom I hearing for first time,whose disciple is he??)played very well. MSG suresh could have impressed me bit better. This was a good to very concert.

Srimushnam Raja Rao Sir conducts this and as every year he leads from the front. He usually introduces briefly the artist and this time he forgot to say one thing,which I am saying now in bold below.

Overall a great RadhE krishnA concert for 90 mins .

[HarishankarK]

kannani kanbadeppo - last raga is Abhogi