M.M.Dhandapani Desikar Birth Centenary celebrations –

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Vocal: S.P.Ramh
Violin: M.R.Gopinath
Mrudangam: Erode Nagaraj
Kanjira: C.S.Venkatramanan

(Birth Centenary celebrations of Sri Dhandapani Dhesikar - Sri Krishna Gana Sabha - 6.30pm)

Mostly these are dhEsikar’s compositions. Names of others who wrote the songs and which were tuned by dhEsikar is mentioned.

1. AnaimukaththOnE - dhEva manOhari - Adhi
2. aruLa vENdum thAyE -sAramathi - rUpaka chApu
3. kadavuLai maRavAdhE - thANdavam - Adhi
4. thamizh mozhiyaip pOtRuvOm - sAma - Adhi
5. ellAm sei vallavanAm - kIravANi - Adhi - Thisra gathi
6. vElanai nI ninai manamE - AnthOLikA - rUpaka chApu
7. thiruppathi malaiyuRai -sarasAngi - Adhi
8. ennai nI maRavAdhE - amruthavarshiNi -Adhi
9. unnai anRi utRa thuNai - bhavAni -rUpaka chApu
10. aiyE meththa kadinam - rAgamAlikai- Adhi - Gopalakrishna
Bharathi
11. jaga janani - rathipathipriyA - Adhi - Ganam Krishna Iyer

This concert was followed by a Lec-Dem on the works of Desikar by shrI Muthukumaraswamy, a disciple of Desikar.

1. annamum vEdhamum - nattappAdai - thEvAram -
thiruchengAttangudi (birth place of dhEsikar) - Adhi

2. AnaimukaththOnE - (sung with the chitta swaram of that song).

3. ANdaruLvAi - gowLa - Adhi

4. anbu koNdu - Arabhi - misra chApu

(he wrote it as he felt, it was mInAkshi’s blessings that brought the fame and name he earned by entering the cine field )

5. shaNmukhapriyA -KavimaNi dhEsika vinAyakam piLLai - rUpaka
chApu (tuned by dhandapANi dhEsikar)

6. sinamadaiyAdhE - bahudhAri - Adhi

7. senthamizh thAyaip pOtRuvOmE - chakravAham - thisra thruputa -
mu. aruNAchalam piLLai (dhEsikar tuned this as there was a feeling
that the songs in thamizh were lacking sangathis in those days)

8. EzhisaiyAgiya - kalyANi - Adhi (he has written the thamizh names
kural, thuththam, kaikkiLai, uzhai, iLi, viLari, thAram for saptha
svarAs )

9. unnai vENdinEn - bhavapriyA - Adhi

10. thAmarai pUththa thadAgamadi - hindhusthAni gAndhAri -Adhi

11. AdugiRAn ennuL - mANd - Adhi

12. jaga janani - rathipathipriyA - Adhi - Ganam Krishna Iyer

13. kalai mEvu jnAna - sarasvathy -Adhi -Thiruppugazh - Arunagirinathar.

We felt blessed and honoured as Shri Lalgudi Jayaraman sir stayed for both the programmes.

[rshankar]

Isn't Sri Ramh a disciple of Sri LGJ's?

[arasi]

Thank you Nagaraj.
I liked DD's tAmarai pUtta taDAgamaDi a lot when I was little. The pallavi of the song brought a rich image to my mind. Did not know the rAgam then. Until this day, I hadn't heard of a hindustAni gAndhAri.

[mohan]

Isn't Sri Ramh a disciple of Sri LGJ's?

yes he is!

[espras]

This I remember to have read a while back. As a youngster, when Lalgudi Jayaraman was starting his music career, it was Dhandapani Desikar who, recognizing the precocious talent in Lalgudi, encouraged and gave many opportunities for violin accompaniment to the teenaged prodigy.

Lalgudi’s accomplishments thereafter are stories of a legend.

Considering this, Lalgudi’s disciple S. P. Ramh’s music tribute to Dhandapani Desikar is most appropriate and fitting.