Heard Pantula Rama is getting the Isai Peroli award this year
Recently attended a couple of concerts of smt.Rama
one was for charsur mid year series on 13th aug.and the second one was for vasantha memorial trust on 27th at Dakshinamoorthy auditorium.
There it was announced that she was getting the ISAI PEROLI.
In the charsur cocert all the kritis were St.Thyagarajas
Meluko dayanide saurashtram
Enduko mohanam
Pariyachakama vanaspathi
Manamuleda Hamirkalyani
Venkatesa madhyamavathi
Srirama jayarama edukulakambodhi
pavamana
The concert was an excellent one with sri.M.S.N.Moorthy on the violin,Patri Sateeshkumar on mrudangam and Madippakkam sri .murali on ghatam.Her alaaps of vanaspathi hameerkalyani and madhyamavathi were done so beautifully esp.hameerkalyani.And the swarakalpanas were really
superb.Sri.Moorthy was equally good in his returns. Sri.Sateeshkumar was so inspired by her singing he along with sri.Murali presented a tani which i
still cherish in my mind.Even during the kritis he was playing with what you call anusaranai.
Smt.Rama s mother tongue being telugu she could sing Thyagarajas kritis with full involvement and understanding,as a result we could enjoy the concert very well.Even the mangalam she sang the whole thing not the usual 3 lines.before the mangalam she sang another kriti which i have never heard before.
The second concert was Enrenrum M.S. for the Vasanta memorial trust.She sang selected kritis from Smt.M.S.s concert in Bombay in 1978.
She started with Mathe malayadhwaja ,the daru varnam by Muthaiah Bhagavatar in kamas
Muruga muruga saveri periasamitooran
Ojagadambha Anandabhairavi SS
T salagalla Arabhi ST
Dasarathi Todi ST
RTP Hemavathi
her aalaaps and kalpana swarams for saveri and anandabhairavi were not elaborate but nice. The todi was elaborately rendered with niraval at prakasimpajesina rasikasiromani and swarakalpanas were very well done.Kumbakonam Swaminathan played the tani after this.She said she will present a brief RTP in Hemavathi.RTP was in chatusra jampa talam kanda nadai.After the niraval we had to leave as the heavy rains had stopped for a while.on the whole it was a very satisfying concert.
As there was some speeches in the beginning by the trust the concert started a little late and this was in aid of the trust which helps cancer patients.