Ravikiran at Kalatsov 2010 Bangalore

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rajaglan
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Ravikiran at Kalatsov 2010 Bangalore

Post by rajaglan »

Not sure whether anyone is writing a detailed review.
I guess ravikiran is in this forum and like to tell him that his
Begada Alapana ( I guess this is the main) was excellent today.

sappri
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Re: Ravikiran at Kalatsov 2010 Bangalore

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Ravikiran's concert was BRILLIANT despite the honestly terrible accoustics. I'll post the highlights now and put up the full song list soon - Kalayani Ata tala varnam, grreat Sriranjini, Alapanai, Neraval, Swaram - marubalga, rocking begada (as rajaglan mentioned) followed by an awesome RTP in Varali, lovely virutham in 5 ragas, followed by mahadeva shiva shambho in revathi. Like one of the organizers said - they've seen and heard various RTP's but this one truly STOOD OUT in all qualitative aspects and was truly scholarly.
Detailed list to follow

squims
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Re: Ravikiran at Kalatsov 2010 Bangalore

Post by squims »

Oh man! That sounds like one amazing concert! Where was it? Can't believe I missed it! :(

rajaglan
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Re: Ravikiran at Kalatsov 2010 Bangalore

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I had to leave after the alapana of Varali. He earlier also sang a song in sindunamakriya (am I correct?).
I wanted to attend Ravikiran and this is my first attendance of his concert. It was worth it.
And apart from that reason, I also had a feeling that TMK is going to try something next day so rather
attend his sishya's concert the previous day.

Like to add to the facilities problem at this sabha. If the organisers can correct these problems (below),
it will be better.

1. The sound system/acoustics need to be better. Unnikrishnan, two days back sang here a begada
song, believe it, I couldnot get what was the song. The sound was so bad. May be someone can
tell me what was the song. Today it is far better. Ravikiran had bad acoustics till his third song and
later it settled.

2. There are no advt in any news paper. Every concert seem to start only at 630pm though
I guess it is to start at 6pm. May be Ranjani Gayatri started at 6.15pm. Ambi subramaniam's violin
concert started at 7PM.

3. And on one particular day, the toilet room was filled with 2 inch water and could not enter.

sappri
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Re: Ravikiran at Kalatsov 2010 Bangalore

Post by sappri »

http://swanubhoga.blogspot.com/ - has the complete song list

But here goes...

vanajakshi - ata talam - varnam - pallavi gopalayyar
alakalallaladaga gani - madhyamavati - rupakam - thyagaraja (S at 'samayamuna...')
sri parvati parameshwarau - bowli - adi - dikshitar
marubalka - sri ranjini - adi - thyagaraja (R,N,S) at 'doora bhaaramandhu....'
devadi deva sadasiva - sindhunamakriya - adi - thyagaraja
nadopasana - begada - adi - thyagaraja (R,N,S) at 'tantri laya swara...'
edayya gathi - chalanata - adi - koteeswara iyer
RTP Varali - trisra triputa - 'shiva shankara karunakara, shambho pahimam parama' ragamalika swarams in athana, mohana, megha ranjani and behag
shlokam 'kara charana kritham' in kedaragowla, hameer kalyani, saveri and revati
mahadeva shiva shambho - revati - adi - tanjore shankar iyer
sapashyat - jonpuri - adi
tiruppugazh
mangalam

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