Vijay Siva at BVB Mylapore on 6.12.2010

[grsastrigal]

N.Vijay Siva
Umayalpuram Mali
R K Sreeramkumar

BVB Main hall 6.12.10

VS gave another stellar performance in BVB. The incessant rain had taken its toll resulting in
half-full hall and his voiche had a light-cold but nothing deterred his rendition. As usual he
has taken kritis from various composers and two hour "satisfying concert"


1) Sruti smiriti purananam- slogam followed by

sri shAradAmbAm bhajE-kamAs-rUpakam-bhArathi theertha mahA swAmigal

Neraval in "Shree Shankaracharya Tvamsevetangrim" and swaram.

2) 7 minutes Varali ragam followed by nee vanti deivamu kAnanu ninne (R N S)
Neraval in "Tejonmaya Sri Janakicha" - composer Spencer Venugopal

3) Chetashri-Dwijavanti-MD

4) Raagam-Darbar followed by "InimElAyinum undan" - darbAr - Adi - rAmasvAmi sivan
swaram in "InimelAyinum"

5) Main-Shankarabharanam-followed by Enduku Peddala-Neraval in "Veda Sastra Tatwartha" and
Swaram.

6) Tani

7) Parvati Ninune- Shyama sastri

8) Tiruvai PaNindu-Bharati- Ragamaliga

9) Nama Japan ko Chod diya-Bhajan

10) Eppo varuvaro-Jonpuri-GKB.

11) Mangalam


When I entered Smt.Sangeetha Shivakumar was finishing her last but one piece "Poonguil Koovum Poonjolai"
in Kapi, a beautiful rendition of Kalki, and she forgot the line and asking Manjo Siva
and Akkarai Subulaxmi, the accompanists. She hummed and went to next charanam. Fun to
watch artists forgetting line and gasping for words !!!

VS' each and every raga alapana, be it Varali or Darbar or SBM had a class and beyond
any doubt full of sowkyam. His SBM and return by RKS were very good. Tani is simple and
good.

Now a days all the concerts become 2 hour programme. The artist had to perform well and
give equal importance to accompanying artists. A lengthy patient Main ragam was always
a casuality.Despite the rain-threat, the audience did not even move till the last kriti.

[anonymityatlast]

When I entered Mrs.TMK was ...

Imho it would make better sense to call her Sangeetha Sivakumar.

Fun to
watch artists forgetting line and gasping for words !!!

:envy: Can't even wish for such a subtle sense of humour!

[yours_truly]

I guess item no 2 in varali is a composition of Spencer Venugopal

[rajeshnat]

I guess item no 2 in varali is a composition of Spencer Venugopal

nee vanti deivamu in varAli is indeed by Spencer Venugopal.

[HarishankarK]

Please - do you have recording of this concert - i would really like to hear the Khamas song and the ragamalika song.

Thanks

Did Ms Sangeetha Sivakumar stop the song and ask the accompanists for the lyrics ? That would have been shocking to do before the audience,

[grsastrigal]

Thanks for correcting. I did make the change. Interestingly, I happened to see VS kalarasana review in the same forum. The same song was rendered without the composers name. No one corrected it. Thanks for knowing this now.

Normally I do record the concerts. Yesterday, i did not.

Iam against Senior artists forgetting the lines or referring a book. Sometimes it happens. Actually I screamed from the audience side those lines since I know the full song), but she could not hear it. Some may take this seriously or some may enjoy the scene or some forget it. I took it in lighter sense. Harishankarji took it seriously. Anonymityatlast took it offensive.,,,,

Mrs. TMK - Someone feels pained. Iam sorry. I have changed this also

[anonymityatlast]

Some may take this seriously or some may enjoy the scene or some forget it. I took it in lighter sense. Harishankarji took it seriously. Anonymityatlast took it offensive.,,,,

Mrs. TMK - Someone feels pained. Iam sorry. I have changed this also

Thank you, grsastrigal! May be I shouldn't have been so sharp and harsh :$ , but it had the effect I wanted.

[squims]

At TMK's recent performance at Chowdiah Hall at B'lore, he forgot the charanam of 'munduvenuga' in Darbar and got it only once an audience member shouted it out to him across the hall. An unsightly blemish upon an otherwise lovely concert. Oh well, here's hoping things like this don't happen again.

[Nick H]

Please - do you have recording of this concert ... ...

OK. Couldn't resist that. I'll behave now.



(for a while, at least)

[arasi]

Well Nick...at least, you have been economical in your use of smilies and the other kind

[Nick H]

Would I ever overdo such a thing?

[HarishankarK]

OK. Couldn't resist that. I'll behave now.



(for a while, at least)[/quote]
why - did i say/mean something wrong by asking ?

[srikant1987]

why - did i say/mean something wrong by asking ?

No, indeed no -- it is good you asked here, rather than Vijay Siva. You see, Vijay Siva is in general very strongly against recording of concerts.

[Nick H]

Sorry, HarishankarK. It was obvious from your post that you were not aware of Vijay Siva's policy on this. I should have explained. It wasn't very nice to post it as a "in joke" --- I didn't think.

[HarishankarK]

Sorry, HarishankarK. It was obvious from your post that you were not aware of Vijay Siva's policy on this. I should have explained. It wasn't very nice to post it as a "in joke" --- I didn't think.

Oh! Had i known wouldn't have asked :$

[thenpaanan]

At TMK's recent performance at Chowdiah Hall at B'lore, he forgot the charanam of 'munduvenuga' in Darbar and got it only once an audience member shouted it out to him across the hall. An unsightly blemish upon an otherwise lovely concert. Oh well, here's hoping things like this don't happen again.

memory is a funny thing. You may have practiced that very song the previous day and not had a hitch and yet on the stage you run into a fierce mental block. The reasons are perhaps many but the main one I think is that some times when the mind goes deep into one thing (such as a long alapana) otherwise known as a reverie, it starts to lose connections for other things -- just as you can forget the way home as you are driving because you are listening to something on the radio.

In fact I am surprised that this sort of memory loss does not happen more often. Perhaps artists cover it up well.

-Then Paanan

[Nick H]

I suspect that some of the artists that appear with 'vocal support' do so partly as back up to their memories. I don't have any problem with that: these people have committed to memory far more than I will ever know.

On a couple of occasions I have seen a vocalist brought to a stand. On one occasion, it was Vijay Siva. I seem to remember that we discussed, in this forum, that he could easily have turned to one of his accompanists for a prompt, but he did not. It seemed to me that he demanded, as a matter of discipline over his own faculties, that he remembered for himself. Just my theory.

[harimau]

N.Vijay Siva
Umayalpuram Mali
R K Sreeramkumar

9) Nama Japan ko Chod diya-Bhajan

In future, can we expect bhajans featuring China, Russia, the Philippines, etc.? ]

[arasi]

Harimau,
I read it as Jap(A)n too at first--since (Viet)nAm preceded it, though I know the bhajan! Yet, that's the way the hindi word is written in english, isn't it?
So, you did zero in on the bhajan

[grsastrigal]

In a concert at BVB Mylapore, TMK was singing a fast swaram, as usual, (the kriti was Sri Krishnam-todi), In the flow he forgot the swara pattern and violin was following it. TMK was showing big round with his hand indicating that he missed the tempo....and he got the rhythm back after 30 seconds.

Unfortunately this happended to only TMK and Mrs.TMK, sorry Sangeetha Sivakumar.