Vidwan Vijaya Siva @ BVB - live blog

[sureshvv]

started with a slokam but mike amplification was too low and most of it was inaudible.

Neelayadakshi in paras was the opening gambit. Been a while since i heard this and was nicely done and voice seemed to be in good form.

Inta kannanandamemi in bilahari followed. Neraval & swaras at nee bhajamula

Now a soaring pantuvarali alap with fast knife edge brighas

[sureshvv]

after a quick detection of the slightly out-of-tune tambura between the pair of accompanying tamburas and adjustment, ramanatham bhajeham presented with gusto

now neraval at kumara guruguha mahitam

[sureshvv]

forgot to mention that the fast paced swaras in bilahari had many characteristic "ga ga"s carefully strung together sounding absolutely sensational

Devagandhari alap just beginning..

[sureshvv]

vittal ramamurthy's bilahari swaras were very pleasing... Didn't have the same punch in pantuvarali may be because he played too low

Enneramum undhan is the kriti being presented now

[sureshvv]

the clear diction and feeling with which the charanams were sung drew some aahas from the the bustling crowd...

Now a fast manasuloni marmamulu presented as filler

[sureshvv]

bhairavi presented as main - same as preceding concert. Hope he doesn't sing the same koluvaiyunnade.

[sureshvv]

excellent moving sonorous alap in the tara sthayi getting the audience swaying to it and breaking off for the violin at the mel sa

[sureshvv]

nee padamuley is the kriti chosen.. Nice choice... Neraval at sri panchanadiswaruni rani with some extra attention on the mandira sthayi...

[sureshvv]

excellent 2nd speed neraval and now breaking into swaras...

Friend of mine likes to say attending vijay siva's concert is like visiting a temple... Today he has taken us to tiruvarur

[sureshvv]

umayalpuram mali playing rather unintrusively so far but sounding brisk and bright in the thani

[sureshvv]

ragamalika kavadi chindhu of a ramayanam based verse starting with "villai murithidum vallavanukku"

[sureshvv]

slokam in kapi, harikambodhi (evoking spontaneous applause), ahiri, neelambari, - "hey goplaka hey krupajalanidhe hey sindhu kanyapathe"

Followed by madhava mamava deva krishna

[sureshvv]

tiruppugazh in saranga

[rshankar]

Suresh, thank you for the on-the-spot real-time posting!

ragamalika kavadi chindhu of a ramayanam based verse starting with "villai murithidum vallavanukku"

Smt. DKP used to sing this - it describes the preparations for the wedding for rAma and sItA (villai murittiDum vallavanukkenru vAkiTTu, nalla vAkiTTu...). IIRC, it has reference to a 'tirumaNa kurippu'.

[Nick H]

How was the crowd? Was it rumbustuous? --- that was the word I was getting confused with the one you used on a previous live-blog, but my brain didn't tell me that until now.

Anyway: I wish I had been there. I went to see G S Mani, not realising that it was only 5% song and 95% talk. There was nothing at all wrong with the talk, only with my ability to understand. Still enjoyed his voice!

[sureshvv]

Suresh, thank you for the on-the-spot real-time posting!

You are most welcome! Enjoyed it immensely

Smt. DKP used to sing this - it describes the preparations for the wedding for rAma and sItA (villai murittiDum vallavanukkenru vAkiTTu, nalla vAkiTTu...). IIRC, it has reference to a 'tirumaNa kurippu'.

You are right! But I have to confess that I could not really get into it, may be because I was hearing it for the first time. Also, the quick raga changes and the folksy delivery of them didn't help.

[sureshvv]

How was the crowd? Was it rumbustuous?

Nick.. You should know by now that I would never use such a pompous sounding word, especially when the dictionary doesn't contain it

Anyways, rambunctious would be appropriate for the Mylapore species (homing area: BVB, easily identified by the full length snake gourd that they carry into the concert hall) while the T.Nagar variety (homing area: Ayodya mandapam, marked by liberal amounts of religious make-up) is more aptly described as raucous!

[Nick H]

'Tis in the dictionary!

Well, it would be if I hadn't mis-spelt it :$. Seems it should be -ious, which certainly looks better. It is in my Concise Oxford. It is qualified as colloquial, though, so if you want to go 'formal-English' on me, then I shall have to concede

I'm curious to know your choice of word for our usual meeting place (missed you at Sumithra's concert), Ragasudha? How about Sastri Hall?

I've heard that BVB is so hard to get into for the evening concerts, in the season, that it is necessary to go to the afternoon performance too just to get a seat. Maybe the person who told me that had not thought of fighting their way in with a snake gourd!

[Ranganayaki]

Enjoying this thread, nice blog, thank you, Suresh.

It's a new word to me too, odd that there should be two rather similar sounding words to mean exactly the same thing!

Looked it up, was amused to see the misspelling, and was looking forward to Nick's red face .

[arasi]

And your smiling face
Better arm myself with a snake gourd if I'm going there for a concert.

Suresh,
Hope we meet somewhere...if you recognize me, please say hello.

[Nick H]

Really, these days, it's best not to go anywhere without a snake gourd ...