Carnatica's SAMARPANAM 2010 - Dec. 1st - 8th

[ramanathan]

Carnatica in association with Swara-Laya Fine Arts Australia
Interactive Thematic Music Festival
Arkay Convention Centre, Oms Lakshana, 3rdFloor, R. H Road
(Above Jainsons Showroom, next to Bombay Halwa House), Mylapore, Chennai – 600004.

Event supported by MyCarnatic.org, TS Mahalingam Group & Sumeru Soft

1st December
4.30pm: Inauguration by ex-CEC Shri. N. Gopalaswami & Conferring Awards of excellence on Shri. EM Subramaniam (Ghatam Vidwan), Shri. S. Johnson (Mridangam Maker & Repair Technician), Shri. S. Venkatesan (Sound Engineer & Recordist)
5.00pm: O.S.Thyagarajan, MysoreSrikanth, Tiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam, E.M.Subramaniam
7.00pm: Sangita Kalanidhi R.K.Srikantan & Rudrapatnam Ramakanth, Dr.Sriram Parasuram, Srimushanam Raja Rao

2nd December
4.00pm: Dr. Sriram Parasuram (Sangeetha Charchai)
5.00pm: Suguna Purushothaman & K. Gayatri, V.V.S.Murari, Kallaidikurichi Sivakumar
7.00pm: Chitravina Ravikiran, M.A.Sundaresan, MannargudiEaswaran, Guruprasad

3rd December
4.00pm: Jayalakshmi Sekar, V.Chellappa - Narration (Sangeetha Charchai)
5.00pm: Mambalam Sisters, Dr.R. Hemalatha, NellaiBalaji, K.S.Rangachari
7.00pm: Parur Quartet- M.S.Anantharaman, M.A.Sundaresan, M.A.Krishnaswamy & M. S. Ananthakrishnan, K.V.Prasad

4th December
4.00pm: Anil Srinivasan (Sangeetha Charchai)
5.00pm: Rudrapatnam Brothers (Theme-Krishna), NagaiSriram, Melakkaveri Balaji
7.00pm: T.N. Krishnan & VijiKrishnan (Violin Duet), Thiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam, Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan

5th December
4.00pm: Dr. Premeela Gurumurthy - Marathi Harikatha Forms (Sangeetha Charchai)
5.00pm: P.Vasant Kumar (Veena), GuruvayurDorai, Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan
7.00pm: Bombay Sisters (Compositions of Dasakootas), Usha Rajagopal, K.R.Ganesh

6th December
4.00pm: M.A.Bhagirathy - DivyaPrabandams (Sangeetha Charchai)
5.00pm: Mahadevan Shankaranarayanan and Party
7.00pm: Dr.PantulaRama – Ragam Taanam Pallavi – Special Concert, M.S.N.Moorthy, ThanjavurMurugabhoopathy

7thDecember
4.00pm: S.Sowmya Theme: Art Of Niraval Singing (Sangeetha Charchai)
5.00pm: Carnatica Brothers, NagaiMuralidharan, Mannargudi Easwaran
7.00pm: Sangita Kalanidhi R.Vedavalli, Dr.R.Hemalatha, Neyveli Narayanan

8thDecember
4.00pm: S.R.Janakiraman - Select Group of Ragas with Two Or More Compositions (Sangeetha Charchai)
5.00pm: Sangeetha Sivakumar and Party
7.00pm: Suguna Varadachari, Dr.M.Narmada, K.ArunPrakash

ALL ARE WELCOME!!

[PUNARVASU]

An exciting programme for the music lovers! Lucky are those who can attend these.
Awaiting detailed report after every day's discussion/concerts.

[raghukumar]

MyCarnatic is proud to be sponsoring this event by Carnatica!

We will be recording many of the concerts and posting them in high resolution, video format at www.mycarnatic.org/concerts/

If you are in Chennai, do come to the event. It is a new, A/C hall that is well equipped with a great audio system as well as state of the art video and audio equipment.

Cheers,
Raghu

[gobilalitha]

Excellent programmes What a galaxy of stars, All credits to carnaticas..Being in Mylapore area, it will be a full house , i am sure.. In addition Bombay Halwa House is nearby !!! gobilalalitha

[sureshvv]

Don't mean to rain on this parade, but with all the other events going on in December, I fear that the audience for these great artistes may be somewhat thin. Why not schedule such events for April/May when there are fewer events competing for attention?

Just my 2 paise...

[rajeshnat]

4.30pm: Inauguration by ex-CEC Shri. N. Gopalaswami & Conferring Awards of excellence on Shri. EM Subramaniam (Ghatam Vidwan), Shri. S. Johnson (Mridangam Maker & Repair Technician), Shri. S. Venkatesan (Sound Engineer & Recordist)

ramanathan
Nice of you to recognize EMS and Johnson. May I know little bit more about S Venkatesan

[srikant1987]

Don't mean to rain on this parade, but with all the other events going on in December, I fear that the audience for these great artistes may be somewhat thin. Why not schedule such events for April/May when there are fewer events competing for attention?

Some kinds of pens sell because they're expensive! Imagine gifting a colleague a Cello Gripper for their birthday! Similarly, many concerts in Chennai get audiences BECAUSE they're held along with a thousand other concerts in December. People in Chennai suddenly become concert-active -- AND a lot of people come from other cities -- and countries -- to attend concerts held in this month.

[sureshvv]

Good points! May be we need a summer festival for the connoisseur organized by the smaller sabhas in concert. And the out-of-towners now have a choice of festival to attend - the crudely commercial or the tasteful traditional!

[mankuthimma]

In five years time There will , indeed be an Alternate festival . No Doubts about that .

[rajeshnat]

Suresh VV
Till 2003 the festival generally starts only from Margazhi Dec 15th,2010. I was thinking from 2004 onwards that concerts used to start from Dec 10th etc, it gave me an oppurtunity to hear more artists. Now kutcheri is even starting end of November . It is November-December festival. In short atleast to me ,I can have considerable spread because of much earlier start, than clubbing too many during dec 15th to 30th,2010. But all this puts a bit of strain on the artists.

I am with you that on May and June period few sabhas can create few festivals("April may illa pasuamaiyE illai kAnju Pochu Da").

Carnatica team
You had your kutcheri season in MGR Janaki college a year before , last year it was in tattvalOka. I am assuming you still have those scheduled . Also the venue is a new place , next to Bombay Halwa house.

[sureshvv]

Also Dance seems to be ruling the roost after Jan 1st. A couple of important venues promote Dance much more than music during the season.

[Nick H]

re Arkay Convention Centre ----

Wow... Chennai's new luxury concert venue! It is more like a conference suite in a five-star hotel. It is comfortable and amazing.

Everything is brand new and just finished, and that, for a few days, is going to be its problem. There is an overpowering smell of new polish/melamine/materials.

If the owners/concert organisers manage to see this in time, please not that some open windows and extractor fans are urgently needed, just for a day or two, otherwise, vocalists in particular are going to have a very hard time.

I'd also suggest to the owners a shoes-off policy: this place is carpeted!

Teething troubles aside, it is wonderful that the owners are making this place available for music: they must be music lovers themselves!

[sureshvv]

I'd also suggest to the owners a shoes-off policy: this place is carpeted!

Oh Lord... no!

A mountain of stinky shoes/slippers/sandals outside damages the feng shui irreparably.
I would rather that they invest in a vacuum cleaner.

[Nick H]

I wasn't aware of that!

Regrettably, December has begun, for me, with laryngitis, and my plans to attend these concerts must be shelved, at least for a day or two.

[VISHNURAMPRASAD]

Any reviews of Shri RKS's concert on the 1st?