Neyveli Santhanagopalan - IIT Bombay - Oct 2, 2010

[arunsri]

Neyveli Sri. Santhanagopalan - Vocal
Gokul Chandramouli - Tambura and Vocal Support
Pakkala Sri. Ramadas - Violin
Neyveli Sri. venkatesh - Mridangam
Shaktidharan - Ghatam

October 2, 2010 - P.C. Saxena Auditorium, IIT Bombay (6:45 pm to 9:40 pm)

1. chalamEla - nATakuranji varnam - Adi - rangaswAmi naTTUvanAr (S)
2. sarasIruhAsanapriyE - nATTai - Adi - puliyUr doraiswAmi iyEr (R)
3. sujana jIvana - khamAs - rUpakam - thyAgarAja (R, N, S at chAru nEtra)
4. O jagadambA - Anandabhairavi - Adi - shyAma sAstry (R)
5. unnai allAl vErEgati - kalyANi - Adi - pApanAsam sivan (R, N, S at nIyE mInAkshi...)
6. tani Avartanam
7. RTP sAvEri - 'karimoraliDa vinalEdA karuNAjaladhE' - chaturashra jhampa (tishra naDai) - start 5 aksharam from samam in a 42 beat cycle.
8. pArukuLLE nalla nADu - jOnpuri - Adi - subrahmaNya bhArati
9. krishnA nI bEganE - yamunakalyANi - chApu - vyAsarAya (preceded by kastUri tilakam)
9. dharmasamvardhani - madhyamAvati - rUpakam - muthuswAmy dIkshitar (R)
10. karpahamE - madhyamAvati - Adi - pApanAsam sivan
11. madiyA vittaganAgi - suruTi - Adi - tiruppugazh (preceded by a rAgamAlika viruttam in bEgaDa, shaNmukhapriyA, kadanakutuhalam and suruTi)
12. maitrIm bhajata
13. mangaLam

All raga alapanas were very good. sAveri traverses in upper otave were a treat (his voice was in fine shape). A very different set list from Neyveli Sir, with dharmasamvardhini, unnai allAl, sarasIruhAsana and sujana jIvana being surprises. Gokuls singing some raga and tanam phrases in saveri were beautiful. Accompanists were solid and supported the concert well

[tyagarajadasa]

Shri NSG's lec dem the next day was very good too. He touched upon topics like bhakti, bhava and gamakas in CM; with reference to Tyagaraja swami's compositions.

Rohit prasad gave a wonderful accompaniment on mridangam and madhavan on violin. Our own Arunsri accompanied him on the vINA....

[S.Balaji]

Indeed, it was an excellent concert. Kalyani & Saveri were the highlights. We had 2 Madyamavathis ! Cheers to the accompanying artists and also our member Thyagarajadasa

Pakkala's responses to the main ragas were of high order. Neeye Meenakshi Neraval and Swarajathi, splendid.

Wish NSGji performs more in Mumbai.

Some videos and audios have been uploaded.

Pls visit :

http://carnaticmusicmumbai.blogspot.com/

[narayan]

Saveri tanam was outstanding and very fluent. The ragam preceding it was short, but focused and effective. The main ragam, Kalyani, was striking in that NSG did not halt for any perceptible time on the top Sa, something rather sa-crosanct to me! The alapana was anything but routine and had some breathtaking phrases, but it was somewhere incomplete because of the refusal to establish the top Sa.

If I recall, he hummed a quick couple of ragams before the maitrim bhajata also. The two madhyamavatis were welcome, the more the merrier!