Nisha Rajagopal - FAS, Chembur on June 20, 2009

arunsri · Post by **arunsri** » 22 Jun 2009, 12:28

Smt. Nisha Rajagopal - Vocal
Trichy Sri. N.C. Madhav - Violin
Trivandrum V. Balaji - Mridangam

FAS Chembur 6:30 PM - June 20, 2009

1. sAmi ninnE - shrI rAga varnam - Adi - karUr dEvuDu iyEr
2. karpagamanOhara - malayamArutam - khanDa chApu - pApanAsam sivan (S)
3. sItApati - khamAs - Adi - thyAgarAja (N, S at prEmajUchi nApai)
4. durusuga - sAvEri - Adi - shyAma sastry (R)
5. padumanAbhan marugA murugA - nAgaswarAvaLi - Adi - ?
6. nidhichAla sukhamA - kalyANi - mishra chApu - thyAgarAja (R, N, S at mamatabandhanayuta) + tani Avartanam
7. kanakasabhApatikku namaskAram - aTAna - rUpakam - gOpAlakrishna bhArati
8. RTP karnATaka dEvagAndhAri - 'pAgAi urugudE nenjE pankaja kaNNani ninaindu' - tshragati
tishrajAti aTa - swaras in bhavapriya, kAmbhOji and bEhag and in reverse order.
9. kanDEn - chandrakauns - Adi - purandaradAsa
10. nAnATi - rEvati - Adi - Annamayya

Few points
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decent concert, well supported by the accompanists.

nice set of swaras for items 2 and 3.

durusuga was sung in 1 kaLai as opposed to 2 kaLai,

the nagaswaravali song was OK, Nisha mixed up the words maruga and muruga a few times. Who is the composer?

swaras in kalyANi were 3 after samam in a 14 beat mishra chApu cycle, nice korvai by her, goo dtani Avaratanam too.

raga alapana for the pallavi had few slips - a bad voice is probably the reason, the pallavi was nice in structure. started 1 aksharam before samam, arudi after the first laghu at the syllable 'jE' of nenjE. I could not take down much more abut the pallavi. the bhavapriya swaras were a little 'searching' for raga bhavam. Violinist response was better. Somehow I felt that the raga alapana for the pallavi was a let down and as a personal opinion choice of this raga, was not the best, since there was quite a struggle. It seemed that she was searching for the raga unlike sAvEri or kalyANi which came effortlessly.

chandrakauns after k dEvagAndhAri was not a great choice IMHO.

I had to leave as the rEvati piece started.

anandabhairavi · Post by **anandabhairavi** » 22 Jun 2009, 12:42

I too heard that the concert was good till Kalyani.A sore throat took over from RTp and she struggled a lot from RTP.Still a decent concert I was told.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 22 Jun 2009, 21:32

anusri,
padumanaban marugA is a PS kruti.

Haven't heard kanaka sabApatikku of GKB in a long while!

cz8zpk · Post by **cz8zpk** » 24 Jul 2009, 01:52

small typo and/or error. Nisha is still not Smt...

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 24 Jul 2009, 05:26

What is the difference between Smt. and Sow.?

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 24 Jul 2009, 05:43

VK RAMAN- the same as between Mrs. and Miss.

Rasika911 · Post by **Rasika911** » 28 Jul 2009, 13:26

cz8zpk wrote:small typo and/or error. Nisha is still not Smt...

Attention single males.....