Dr.T.S.Satyavathi-Mysore Vasudevachar day-MA-July10.

[satyabalu]

Accompaniments.
Usha Rajagopalan- Violin.
B.Ganapathy Raman-Mridangam,

The violinist was elaborating Reethi Gowlai as I was entering the minihall to the concert moderately attended. Could someone complete the list?

*Mamahridaye- Reethi Gowlai

*Karunithov thaye--maye-Saraswathi Manohari inTisra nadai .This is the only composition of MV in Kannada(language) she said.The chittaswaram was very nice. The way the accompanists followed this with anticipation- as if they are already familiar with this rare one!
*Gokula nilaya kripalaya Govardanadara Murali-Aberi.
*Manasavajasa....sivasa-Begada-RNS.chittaswaram.
Tani.
Thillana-Kanada-Tisra Rupagam
mangalam.
Great effort on her part to have brought the rare nos( I have not heard any of them before.)
Nice to see her disciple giving vocal support was initiated on these kritis very well throughout.
Begada raga elaboration took a lot of time.I thought one more kriti could have been covered if more time was given beyond 8.30 or by pruning the Raga time!(By the way, what do forumites think -Does raga Begada offer scope for very detailed treatment?)

[Sreeni Rajarao]

karuNisou tAye mAye is Sri. Acharya's only kannaDa kRti - I hope I will get a chance to hear this kRti one day!

Sreeni Rajarao

[keerthi]

Begada raga elaboration took a lot of time.I thought one more kriti could have been covered if more time was given beyond 8.30 or by pruning the Raga time!(By the way, what do forumites think -Does raga Begada offer scope for very detailed treatment?)

not only does begaDa afford for elaboration, it has been sung as the main rAga/ taken up for pallavi several times, by several artistes.

VoleTi especially was exceptional at making graceful expositions of the rAga. He has sung at least 4 different pallavis.


It is only appropriate that a vAsudevAcharya special should include begaDa, as he was said to be very fond of/ good at elaborating it.

His guru - patnaM S.Iyer was dubbed Begada Subrahmanyayyar by MysUr sadAshiva raO; and apparently taught VasudevAcharya his own Ata-tAla varna - marachitluNDedi in this raga and then told him that there was nothing left to teach in begaDa; and that he(vasu) could pick up krti-s himself.

[Radhika-Rajnarayan]

Yes indeed, Keerthi, Voleti was a Begada specialist, and could conjure up all sorts of sancharams! He could go on and on with the raga, and still have the audience want more of it. I do not remember the year, but he presented an eka-raga concert at Gayana Samaja Bangalore where the raga was Begada. Unforgettable. I wonder if the Gayana Samaja has a recording of this priceless concert.

[keerthi]

Oh! I didn't know about that one.. He also started the idea of eka-raga concerts on Vijayawada radio, where he sang the begaDa suite, Dr.PANi sang thODi, and MLV sang kalyaNi.

Dr.PANi's concert was special in that he covered the swarajati-varnam-krti(s)-pallavi-padam-javali-tillana gamut in his thodi concert.

p.s - all of Voleti's begaDas are priceless, and wonderfully crafted cascades of ragabhava, while maintaining absolute fidelity to raga grammar.

[satyabalu]

Thank everyone for the clarification/info on Begada.Why then only a few take it for detailed treatment (as I have been hearing).

[rajeshnat]

Review of this concert
http://www.hindu.com/fr/2010/07/16/stor ... 400500.htm