Hydearbad brothers, Lemont temple, Chicago, oct 23, 2009

kedharam · Post by **kedharam** » 24 Oct 2009, 18:40

Hyderabad brothers
Sri. Nagai Sriram
Sri. J. Vaidyanathan
Lemont temple, Chicago, Thyagaraja utsavam

Bhiaravi - ViribonI, Ata thAla varnam
NAttai - NinnE bhajana, Adi, Thyagaraja
AsAvEri - RamachandRulU nApai Seethamma -kanda chApu, BadrAchala RAmadAs (?)
Arabi - Nadha sudhA rasa, roopakam, Thyagaraja (A, S)
ShanmukhapriyA - mariverE dhikkeverayya RAmA, Adi, PaTnam Subramanya Aiyyar(A, N at MariverE, S)
A short piece in BalahamsA by Saint ThyAgarAja (DidnÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢t write it down, as my mind wandered off a while catching the puliyOdarai aroma wafting from the temple kitchen)
Hari kAmbhOji - dhina mani vamsa, adi, ThyagarAja ( A)
Thani Avarthanam
REvathi -RTP
Pallavi Text:
KA UmA UmA mA MAthangi MaragathAngi
Chathusra triputa, 2 kalai, eduppu at samam

NavarasakannadA - Nan orU vilayAttu bomiAh
Shudda DanyAsi - NarAyanA - mishra chApu, Purandara dAsar
Mangalam

My thoughts:
The concert was a part of their Thyagaraja utsavam and the brothers through a meditative dreamscape squeezed out the cosmic aura of the saint composer with their intense diction and sustained tones.
Their trademark ninnE bhajana came with intense lyricism.
In arabi raga alapana, Sri. SeshachariÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢s took artistic license, peppered it with ustAdi touches meandered between his artistic expression and classical symmetries, which I thought was quite charming.
RagavachariÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢s shanmukhapriya alapana was quite unpretentious, hovering around the middle registers with classical serenity.

In revathi raga alapana and thAnam by Sri. Seshachari, he brought the poignant expressivity of the raga to the fore.

Sri. Sriram, nephew of Sri. Nagai. Muralidaran accompanied well with his fluid playing and Sri. VaidyanathanÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢s elegant anticipatory playing was polished with technical excellence.

The concert was well attended with plenty of younger generation keeping thalam on a rainy friday evening and it was inspiring to watch the brothers hook the imagination of a new generation of fans as Sri. Seshachari broke into explaining the meaning of some of the compositions and revel at the thought process of the great vaggeyakaras with such intense emotion...

Rasika911 · Post by **Rasika911** » 24 Oct 2009, 20:01

Revathi RTP...interesting.
Dinamanivamsha seems a little out of place there with just the alapana - but then again its not fair to judge a concert by a song list.

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 24 Oct 2009, 20:31

I'm guessing it (dinamaNi) was intended as the main item, but due to shortage of time, they decided to forgo N,S to get to the thani and subsequent RTP. The Hyd brothers sang a killer dinamaNi vamsa main in Singapore last year.

kedharam · Post by **kedharam** » 24 Oct 2009, 20:48

I am sorry, they did sing kalpana swarams at thilaka lAvanyA..., a beautiful one...

Neeraja veni · Post by **Neeraja veni** » 24 Oct 2009, 20:59

The bala hamsa kriti must have been ``dandamu pettenura'' by Tyagaraja which i have heard them sing. A very cheerful- sounding kriti.

Cheerful enough to distract you back from the puliyodarai aroma i thought!

kedharam · Post by **kedharam** » 24 Oct 2009, 21:08

Yes, it did have a nice folksy tune to it.
"Cheerful enough to distract you back from the puliyodarai aroma i thought!"
No, not when you find out that the kitchen will be closed around thani time and the mind trying to figure out a way to engage my intestines during my 3 hour trek back home...

basukrish · Post by **basukrish** » 24 Oct 2009, 23:02

I guess Mari vere dhikkevarayya is not thyagaraja's . It must be PSI. just check

mmani · Post by **mmani** » 24 Oct 2009, 23:33

Thanks for the rapid coverage-reporting of the Chicago concert.

The Brothers' next concert is today (Oct 240 at Indianapolis at 4pm. Check the schedule at sankritilaya.blogspot.com

-mani

kedharam · Post by **kedharam** » 25 Oct 2009, 00:34

Thanks. it is PaTnam Subramanya Aiyyar's.

HeyNarayana · Post by **HeyNarayana** » 25 Oct 2009, 08:25

Thank you Kedaram for a good review but it was painful to hear we missed great concert by Brothers and puliyodarai as well. Nice combination on a fall day in Chicago.
Heard their Arabhi in Singapore long time back, just amazing. I was fortunate to listen to their Dinamani in Chennasi last year, simply superb for lack of better words. Not an easy raga to handle.
Looking forward to attend their concert in San Diego

ForCarnaticMusic · Post by **ForCarnaticMusic** » 25 Oct 2009, 09:05

Nice review

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 25 Oct 2009, 09:34

revathi rtp should have had rAgamAliga swaras . can some one recollect and post those ragas.

kedharam · Post by **kedharam** » 25 Oct 2009, 18:52

In revathi RTP, in the supposed to be swara ragamalika, they started with sahana swarams which was quite good but they drifted back to revathi....

appu · Post by **appu** » 28 Oct 2009, 04:08

The revathis RTP should have been Maheshwari, Ka Uma, Uma, Ma, Mathang, Maraghatani

Jigyaasa · Post by **Jigyaasa** » 28 Oct 2009, 08:14

appu wrote:Maraghatani

LOL!!! marakatAngi... I've heard BMK's RTP rEvati RTP with the same pallavi lyric.

HeyNarayana · Post by **HeyNarayana** » 01 Nov 2009, 19:38

Jigyaasa wrote:
appu wrote:Maraghatani
LOL!!! marakatAngi... I've heard BMK's RTP rEvati RTP with the same pallavi lyric.

Jigyaasa, you might be correct. Brothers are singing quite a fe pieces of Sri BMK if you haven't noticed, this might be their appreciation and guru bakthi towards sri BMK sir.