Madurai Sundar Concert at Houston Tyagaraja Utsavam on April

vsn207 · Post by **vsn207** » 04 May 2009, 07:43

Sundar started his concert to a packed audience in Houston with:

1 Poorvikalyani (Gamakakriya )ragam alapana, Meenakshi me mudam a composition of Mudduswami Dikshitar set to Adi thalam.

2. SreeRanjani ragam alapana, Bhuvini daasudane a composition of Thyagaraja set to Desadi thalam.

3 .Tharama nee mahima pogada in ragam Kalyani set to rupaka thalam , composed by K.V Srinivasa Iyengar (Tiger Varadachari's brother)

4 .Thodi ragam alapana, Enduku daya raadu in Mishra chapu thalam, composed by Thyagaraja.

5 RTP in thisra triputa talam starting at 1 1/2 edupu in Nattai ragam, alapana and kalpana swaram in five ragams - Natai, Gowla Aarabi,Varali and shree.

6 Thirupugazh in Hamsanandi composed by Arunagirinadar

7. Geetharthamu in ragam Suruti set to adi thalam composed by Thyagaraja.

8. Nirupamaana in ragam Behag, set to rupaka thalam, composed by Puchi Srinivasa Iyengar.

9. Mangalam.

Madurai.R.Sundar was accompanied by Jayashankar Balan on the Violin, Dr. Trichy Shankaran on the Mrdangam and Dr. Ravi Balasubramaniam on the Ghatam. The highlights of the concert was the RTP with Tanam accompanied by the Mrdangam and Ghatam. The tani-avarthanam was a high adrenalin class act.

The team left the Houston rasikas asking for more. It was a great grand finale concert for the Houston Tyagaraja utsavam.

Review contributed by Asha Bakthavatsalam.

http://houstonsangeetham.blogspot.com

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 05 May 2009, 02:35

Madurai Sundar, one of the important vocalists here in the US does not get written about much. Wonder why. I could only manage one concert of his this season. I usually manage two. Apart from the fact that he is from the family circle, I like to listen to him, anyway. Even those who find a high-pitched voice in a man not that attractive seem to like him, once they listen to him. They would find his voice more to their liking these days.

VSN,
Was the hamsAnandi 'tuLLu mada vETKaik kaNaiyAlE' ? It was recorded by his aunt and guru Ananthalakshmi Sadagopan.

vsn207 · Post by **vsn207** » 05 May 2009, 08:35

Arasiji,

I do not remember the Sahitya. I will listen to the recording and post.

Vivek

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 05 May 2009, 14:29

ERu mayilERu is also sung in hamsanandi, I think.

Sathej · Post by **Sathej** » 05 May 2009, 18:29

Usually, have heard Eru Mayileru in Surutti.

Sathej

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 05 May 2009, 21:12

Sathej wrote:Usually, have heard Eru Mayileru in Surutti. Sathej

And our own Mohan (Ayyar) has adapted it for a dance number and tuned it as a rAgamAlikA using SAradapriyA, ranjani, vasantA, nATTaikurinji, bhairavi, and valaci with lovely ciTTasvarams for nritta.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 06 May 2009, 05:07

Mahrajapuram Santhanam use to sing it n hamsanandi; it is there in 'you tube'.

sramaswamy · Post by **sramaswamy** » 07 May 2009, 00:12

If it is Thirupugazh then the Hamsanandi song is most likely to be

"niramathi muganmenum oLiyAlE"