Palghat Raghu Lecture Demonstration on Misram

iamkirinlemon · Post by **iamkirinlemon** » 11 Jan 2009, 11:53

Some clips of Sangita Kalanidhi Palghat Raghu's lecture-demonstration at the Music Academy during the 2007 December Season have been uploaded to Youtube. This set of clips deals with the Viriboni Ata tala varnam and how it can be sung in different ways using different mixtures of talams and nadais. It is performed by Abhishek Raghuram, Mysore Srikanth, and A. Anand (who in the US goes by Anantha R. Krishnan)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRm-rOuBUXI
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrhbfdKpprk

I was fortunate to have seen the whole presentation, and it was information-packed ... I'm really happy to have found this, and I hope you all find it as enlightening as I did. I'm keeping my eyes open for updates and will post them in this thread. I am curious of what others think about the contents of this lecture-demonstration.

iamkirinlemon · Post by **iamkirinlemon** » 12 Jan 2009, 02:51

A new set of videos has been added for the thani avarthanam demonstration (for the Thyagaraja kirthana Enthundi in Durbar). There is a nice introduction on how a thani avarthanam should really be an extension of the kirthanam it is following.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYa3ksSrCqw
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtPCcyyzrKA
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwzSMTCWZf8

mri_fan · Post by **mri_fan** » 12 Jan 2009, 07:27

Thank you very much for these. Are you associated with Sri Raghu? I'm a huge fan of Anantha R. Krishnan's playing and these demonstrations are a good representation of his mastery (and Abhishek and Srikanth's as well).

iamkirinlemon · Post by **iamkirinlemon** » 12 Jan 2009, 10:41

I have learned from him in the past and am a great admirer of his.

sankirnam · Post by **sankirnam** » 18 Jan 2009, 08:07

Thanks for these videos... I was intending to attend this lecdem back in 2007 but I missed the chance. I also like Anand's playing a lot... the way he played at the music academy last december will be forever etched in my memory (esp. the way he played for Maamava Maadhava with a lighter approach using plenty of gumki... and the way he played for kaapali and the following thani, that kandam was superb).

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 19 Jan 2009, 00:43

May be this is question late by a year or so? I didn't know if you have seen it.

Did anyone see the Palghat Raghu Documentary released after the music season of 2007-08? It has videos (yes videos) of chembai vaidyanAtha bhagavathar with MTC and PMI (video from the 40s, I guess), KVN with MC and PR (video from the 80s) and g nA bAlasubrahmaniam with LGJ and PR (video from the 60s). Amazing stuff. LGJ looks very handsome

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ4NiMWAWzc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mm6dHgY ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsDD_I8g ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzZorUCb ... re=related

rajivpb · Post by **rajivpb** » 29 Mar 2015, 06:47

iamkirinlemon wrote:Some clips of Sangita Kalanidhi Palghat Raghu's lecture-demonstration at the Music Academy during the 2007 December Season have been uploaded to Youtube. This set of clips deals with the Viriboni Ata tala varnam and how it can be sung in different ways using different mixtures of talams and nadais. It is performed by Abhishek Raghuram, Mysore Srikanth, and A. Anand (who in the US goes by Anantha R. Krishnan)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRm-rOuBUXI
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Would be great if someone can confirm that my calculations are correct here

. I found that it's easier to follow the math when he's singing the Muktayi Svaram (at t=5m47s). I am using http://www.shivkumar.org/music/varnams/Viriboni.pdf for the svaram reference (not exact, but good enough):

Terminology: Atta talam has 14 beats and each beat has 4 aksharams (so 56 in all). The Muktayi Svarams occupy 2 avartanams (and starts and ends 2 beats into the avartanam).

AR seems to do the following: First 16 akasharams in the 4-aksharams-per-beat nadai, the next 20 aksharams in the 3-aksharams-per-beat nadai, and the last 20 aksharams in 6-aksharams-per-beat nadai. So total number of beats is 4 + 20/3 + 20/6 = 14 and it works out. He seems to do this for both the avartanams.

Is the above correct? The camera doesn't focus on his hand, so I'm a little uncertain if my math is right

Also, I'm assuming that this is a standard pattern followed for singing atta tala varams in the multi-nadai approach?

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