Vid Neela Ramgopal, Brahma Gana Sabha, tomorrow

[sappri]

This post is for all those fortunate rasikas at Chennai or who've traveled into Chennai for the season!

Vid Neela Ramgopal would be accompanied by Charulatha Ramanujam on the violin and Arjun Ganesh on the mrudangam.

A bad flu is keeping me from traveling to Chennai for this concert

[arasi]

Sappri,
Too bad you can't be there
Well, now that the rasikas have been reminded about it, I hope to see several of them tomorrow evening...

[sappri]

Yes Arasi - there's one correction' Vid Arun Prakash is on the mrudangam....and Arasi - a li'l bird told me that an 'Arasi-composition' was figuring in the concert !!

[rbharath]

Sappri, one is hoping to meet u on wensday atleast.. When mami is going to sing at nada inbam.

[pattamaa]

It was awsome concert..but poor turnout..some of items rendered, navaraga malika varnam, a keerthana on ganapathi in saramathi?? (jayachamraja woodayar composition?? - sorry i am not familiar with this keerthana), a bright and brief kannada gowla and neelotpalamba keerthana, beautiful bhavapriya and swathitirunaal keerthana, bagesri RTP in misra triputa, and wonderful accompaniment and team effort...Hoping for similar performance in raga sudha hall tomorrow, and a good turnout.

And ofcourse, little bird was right, arasi's new composition in tilang was presented towards end.

[arasi]

What a concert it was! Neela Ramgopal surprises me every time, though I know I will be in for surprises. Her imagination, based on years of practice, and her search in the realms of creativity all along, is her own trade mark--all this in an old timer and a woman vocalist from the era where going beyond traditional boundaries was quite uncommon. I can only think of MLV who was her senior, of course.

As for the tilang song, it's new in the sense Sumitra Nitin has sung it in the new CD. The song is twenty years old, perhaps. I was surprised to hear Neela sing it, because she has recorded another tilang song of mine--varuvEn enRavan kURiyadum kanavO? She fancied singing this one it seems--so had a quick conference with Sumitra yesterday on the phone (?) and practised it to sing it today! Yes, the lady is full of surprises

Yes, Pattamma. I was disappointed that the turn out was poor. The accompaniment was rich. Charulatha was joined by Arun Prakash (I hear him after quite some time, but this season, twice within a few days--playing for Gayathri Venkataraghavan at NAda Inbam and this evening. Both times, excellent playing as usual, and not at all in the minimalist mode which at times he adopts Rajganesh's Khanjira embellished the concert. Just before the RTP, wondered if she was having trouble with her voice for a moment, but how she sang the pallavi!
The team gave their all and we felt privileged as if we were at a house concert.

Vidushi Neela Ramgopal is going to be awarded Academy's Sangeetha Kalacharya. I am not going to be in Chennai for that, but I'm glad I could hear her today

[pattamaa]

I am always captivated by her raga alapana, and neraval. She proved again that. It is very interesting to see speed variations in the alapana, and how layam is integral part, even in alapana. We hear the topic as lecdem, but hearing her sing alapana is practical example. neravals were great, and swara's had some kanakku also. A complete concert in all aspects.. wondering what is in store for today..If someone is interested, i will provide songlist later, i haven't taken notes.

[tiruppugazh]

Bageshri RTP ? Et Tu mami ?

[sappri]

rbharath - if wishes were horses!!!!!!!!! me grounded in Blr thanks to the awful flu

Please look out for young Vittal Rangan - and mami's warm and encouraging smiles that go in his direction!!!!

I'm sure today's Nada Inbam concert would be the typical "classical" "mudiyaana" sangeetham....I really feel so bad!

[keerthi]

pattamma,

saramati ganesha song is most likely JC Wodeyar's composition in AmRtavAhini.

[cienu]

Please look out for young Vittal Rangan - and mami's warm and encouraging smiles that go in his direction!!!!

Extremely good prospect from the school of Vidushi Kanyakumari.

[squims]

Bageshri RTP ? Et Tu mami ?

Might I ask what is wrong with that?

[arasi]

Squims,
So, there was after all a valid reason for my stating the time period from which she comes

Keerthi,
It sounded 'like' sAramati, I thought. AmrutapravAhini? With Keerthi around, I learn a thing or two, if I don't forget them, that is ...