Sydney Music Festival

[musiker]

Folks, anyone who attended the Sydney Music Festival - believe there were many of the frontline performers -any reviews?

[mohan]

I attended a few of the concerts. There was some excellent music produced. Here is a a quick summary of what items were featured:
Carnatica brothers (Chatre vilagiyirum in Purvikalyani and RTP in Vasanta/Bhairavi)
OS Thiagarajan (hecharikaga - yadukula kambhoji, chakkani raja - kharaharapriya)
Shashank (RTP in Kalyani)
Sudha Ragunathan - (Sun)dharini telusukontini -Suddha Saveri and Jesini - Thodi
TM Krishna - (kalai thooki - yadukula kambhoji) and (viriboni -bhairavi)

I didn't attend these but my better half informs me:
Malladi Brothers sang Matanga Sri in Ramamanohari and Sri Subramanya Namaste - Kambhoji
Nithyasri - Sri Rajagopala - Saveri and RTP in Simhendra Madhyamam

Other artistes featured included A Kanyakumari with Embar Kannan, Nisha Rajagopalan, VK Manimaran
Accompanying artistes included Prof Trichy Sankaran, Mannargudi Easwaran, RK Shriramkumar, Tanjore Muragabhoopathy, SV Ramani and Trivandrum Balaji

[shankarabharanam]

Reviews are here http://sydhwaney.com/

[ramanathan]

Pictures from the Sydney Music Festival 2010:
CLICK HERE

[arasi]

Great pictures, Ramanathan. Thanks.
Such color (rAgam) in winter along with musical rAgams. CMusical fashions too--vidvAns and vidUshis alike!

[cienu]

Lovely pictures Ramanathan

[rajeshnat]

ramanathan
Pictures are great. It would also help all of us to avoid too much of repetitive photos for eg there are about 10 to 15 photos uploaded of manimaran,almost the same , looked like I was in the photo studio where they keep hanging lots of passport size photos.Your one round of filter will help all of us. Thanks

[kssr]

Pictures from the Sydney Music Festival 2010:
CLICK HERE

Excellent photos. Thanks. We could get a feel of the entire event, much more than a million words.
Good camera- Which one? Good photographer- brilliant close ups- who is he- Sri.Ramanathan himself, I guess. Great work.

Observations:
1. Who is the mama, presumably giving introductory remarks, who is in the first picture, just a curiosity?
2. What is Sudha's speech about?
3. Managed to get Shashikiran's photo with a straight face once. Great
4.Great to see Sri.OST's pictures. Of late I have become his ardent fan. His kacheris are indeed topclass now.
5. Interesting seating for the aaradhana. Young Shashank and TMK getting the pride of place. Even OST appears a bit squeezed in. That is what perception building does, over a period of time
6. The hall and other arrangements are spotless and impeccable.
7. Nithyashree's dad had got missed out?
8. Who are the two youngsters- one man with a beard (not TMK) and the young lady who appears after Shashikiran + gottuvadyam + tabla concert? Sorry for not being up to date.
9. Good to see M Easwaran mama in great form performing in many concerts.
10. Interesting TMK dress. New Jarigai veshti with a rajasthani folk top!

Thanks again for the wonderful pictures. Other organisers can emulate.

[semmu86]

1. Who is the mama, presumably giving introductory remarks, who is in the first picture, just a curiosity?

Mrudangam maestro Trichy Sankaran..

[semmu86]

8. Who are the two youngsters- one man with a beard (not TMK) and the young lady who appears after Shashikiran + gottuvadyam + tabla concert? Sorry for not being up to date.

The lady i guess is Subhashree Thanikachalam from Jaya TV, if am not wrong.

[mohan]

1. Who is the mama, presumably giving introductory remarks, who is in the first picture, just a curiosity?

Yes it is Trichy Sankaran

2. What is Sudha's speech about?

GNB

7. Nithyashree's dad had got missed out?

He didn't come

8. Who are the two youngsters- one man with a beard (not TMK) and the young lady who appears after Shashikiran + gottuvadyam + tabla concert? Sorry for not being up to date.

The young lady is Nisha Rajagopalan. I couldn't see the person with the beard?

[kssr]

1. Who is the mama, presumably giving introductory remarks, who is in the first picture, just a curiosity?

>>It is Trichy Sankaran<<
Oh. I have heard a lot about this maestro. Great to see his photos.
>>The young lady is Nisha Rajagopalan. I couldn't see the person with the beard?<<
The vocalist I am referring to is the singer with the red shirt immediately after the aaradhana photos.

Thank you very much for the info.

[Nick H]

If you have never seen Trichy Sankaran then a treat awaits you!

[ragam-talam]

The vocalist I am referring to is the singer with the red shirt immediately after the aaradhana photos.

Perhaps it would help if you could just refer to the photo number.
E.g. picture #122 is of VK Manimaran

[kssr]

Perhaps it would help if you could just refer to the photo number.
E.g. picture #122 is of VK Manimaran

Yes. Absolutely correct. Manimaran. Is he a resident of Australia. The name does not sound a bell

[semmu86]

Mohan, if KSSR refers to the young lady in photo#215, then it is Subhashree Thanikachalam.. But if he is referring to the photo#222, then it is Nisha Rajagopal. Since KSSR referred the photo after "GottuvAdhyam+Tabla", i assumed he was referring to photo#215..

[kssr]

Mohan, if KSSR refers to the young lady in photo#215, then it is Subhashree Thanikachalam.. But if he is referring to the photo#222, then it is Nisha Rajagopal. Since KSSR referred the photo after "GottuvAdhyam+Tabla", i assumed he was referring to photo#215..

Now I know both Nisha and Subhashree- both familair names but not faces. Original question was only about Nisha, a very attractive looking lady, I should say. Thank you both Mohan and semmu for taking pains to explain.

[ramanathan]

Excellent photos. Thanks. We could get a feel of the entire event, much more than a million words.

Thank you!

Good camera- Which one?

Canon EOS 550D, a.k.a. EOS Rebel T2i... my new toy!

Good photographer- brilliant close ups- who is he- Sri.Ramanathan himself, I guess. Great work.

Yes. Thanks again!

1. Who is the mama, presumably giving introductory remarks, who is in the first picture, just a curiosity?

As mentioned by other posters, the "mama" is indeed Prof. Trichy Sankaran and he was sharing his memories of Sri. GNB

2. What is Sudha's speech about?

Her guru, Smt. MLV. The session was devoted to GNB & MLV, with a slideshow on each of them. Prof. Sankaran spoke on GNB and Sudha Akka spoke on MLV

7. Nithyashree's dad had got missed out?
8. Who are the two youngsters- one man with a beard (not TMK) and the young lady who appears after Shashikiran + gottuvadyam + tabla concert? Sorry for not being up to date.

Already answered by others By the way that was not a "Shashikiran + gottuvadyam + tabla concert". It was Subhasree Tanikachalam's Ragamalika programme on Ilayaraja's classical melodies, involving Shashikiran, Ganesh (Chitravina), Kishan Jeyendran (Tabla), Anand Dixit (Vocal) and S.V. Ramani (Mridangam), in tandem with Subhasree. Quite an interesting programme, IMO.

Re: VK Manimaran - He is not based in Sydney. He is very much Chennai-based. Besides being a vocalist, he is Subhasree Tanikachalam's partner at Maximum Media, the production house that brings out several music programmes on Jaya TV, including Margazhi Maha Utsavam, Ragamalika, Hariyudan Naan, Cleveland Aradhana and the recent Carnatic Idol.

[kssr]

Thank you, Ramanathan. Subhashree is household name for all CM rasikas, but not her face.