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Vocal : DeekshitA
Violin : K J Dilip(disciple of MSG)
Mrudangam : NC bharadwaj (second generation disciple of Srimushnam-some one in the audience told me that, not sure?)
Concert duration : 2 hours and 35 minutes
Sponsors : Music Circle
1. nee manasu - gavathi - GNB
2. vArana mukha(R,S) - hamsadhwani - KI
2 mins alApanai with no violin return
7 mins swaras
3. shAntamu lEkA sowkhyamu lEdu(R) - shyamA - T
2 mins alApanai with no violin return
4. sundara tara dEham (R,S) - pantuvarAli - T
6 mins alApanai and 4 mins violin return
8 mins swaras
5. nee cittamu nishcalamu(raga sketch) - dhanyAsi - T
6. murugA thirumAl marugA (R N S) - harikAmbOdhi - TSI
7 mins alApanai and 5 mins violin return
6 mins neraval in "karunai kaDalE uNNai kanamum maravEN kandA"
and 7 mins swaras
7. renukA devi - kannadabanglA - MD
8A. etA unarA (R N S T) - kalyAni - T
11 mins alApanai and 5 mins violin return
9 mins neraval in "seethA gowri vAgEEshwari"
8 mins swaras
8B. tani for 8 mins
9. meragAdu rammanavE (padam) – sahAnA – kSEtragna
10A. viruththam "PAlinai ninaindhOOthum" - kAMbOdhi + moHanam + shanmughapriyA + ranjani + sindhubhairavi
10B. chidambaranai dhigambaranai - sindhubhairavi - madurai GS Mani
11. mA rAma chandrunikki subhamangalam - kEdAragowlai - ??
Deekshita is the student of two brilliant musicians ,one is performing rAji gOpAlakrishnan and the other retired Prof TR Subramaniam . SHe must be in her 12th standard or so. In the last concert that I attended she sang all compositions of GNB.
As I came late she was wrapping GNB's gavathi , so in the sense it was continuation of the first concert. A brief alApana in hamsadhwani rolled with vArana mukhA , her swaras and the speed that she delivered just reminded a lot of smt Raji. THe contrast of hamsadhwani with shyAmA had yes to both sowkhyam and shantham and was well done with a very moving T krithi .
Most youngsters stack up T's krithis in their early musical career , deekshita was no different and she delivered three T's in a row. The pantuvarALi had a nice alApana and the GNB popularized krithi with her swaras just reminded again of Smt rajee there. The pick of the day was indeed the TSI harikAmbOdhi krithi. I always used to wonder when harikAmbOdhi alApanA is taken if musicians sing in such a way that they donot make up their mind between khamas and kAMbOdhi for the whole alApana
. Well exactly it was nearly that way,the alApana had the right thrust and a lovely thamizh diction .The neraval and swaras oozed with slight aggression that goes well with hurry kAMbOdhi. Smt raji came back again for the third time as renukA devi, it was a very poignant rendition with emote and the contrast was really good. Few years back when smt rajee took sArangA in early part of the concert I was confident that she would not take kalyAni then as main. When pantuvarAli was taken up yesterday, I was quite confident that it would not be kalyAni. Like Guru Like Sishya both of them came up with kalyAni as the main and proved me wrong. kalyAni was really well done her voice brought in lot of sowkhyam and she sang the krithi and neraval very well . Swaras could have had more patterns and towards the end of kuraippu swaras there was a bit noticable slip.
The contrast of sahAna and kalyAni could have been bit avoided , this padam was definitely slightly boring in the context of the sequence ( Not that I dont like this sahana). If harikAmbOdhi was the top pick , I would say the viruththam was really superb it was very elaborate liked the shanmughapriyA and mOhanam a lot , ended with GS mani's janaranjakamana krithi. For a change I liked the mangalam in kedAra gowlai.
The violinist dilip was bit off key during his play.Dilip can avoid lot of western style like playing ,for many krithis the western touch was indeed there . The mridangist bharadwaj played well , little more sound would have been better at times it was bit too feeble. Tani was just good.I felt both the accompanist could have played little more better to suit deekshitA.
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1.As I entered bit late , the usual top two rasikas of mylapore (JS and TRS)were not there.At the end of hamsadhwani Smt jayalakshmi santhANam walked in and then when sundara tara deham was just getting started Prof TRS came inside the hall , his face was beaming with joy. I was thinking GNB popularized krithi (GNB being his idol), the rAga pantuvarAli which he has mastered ,and perhaps one of his youngest disciple taking up , with Prof TRS enjoying certainly a master card moment
.2. When deekshitA was finishing the viruththam in the fourth rAga ranjani after kambOdhi,mohanam and shanmughapriyA , she was taking an interesting line there some thing like "yAn unnai thEdi sikkana piddithEn",when she repeated that line again for a brief moment she landed back in shanmughapriyA(instead of sindhubhairavi) and rolled her eyes and stopped .
THen she came to sindhubhairavi and then sang gsmani's tukkadA. I was just thinking sikkana in thamizh means something like a knot and exactly in those lines she also got bit in a knotty tangle . At times in rAgamAligA the overlap of shanmughapriyA and sindhubhairavi hues confuses a bit , I have experienced that confusion as the listener for very brief seconds and deekshita landed bit in that sikku (knot) |( . Nevertheless despite that minor slip, the viruththam was really well done and she wrapped up well in sindhubhairavi.
Overall a very good concert for 2 hours and 35 minutes with nice selection of various composers.
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