Neyveli Sri R Santhanagopalan @Margazhi Tamil Isai

[srini02]

Date : 17th December
Venue: Chettinad Vidyashram

Vocal :Neyveli Sri R Santhanagopalan
Violin :Sri R K Sriramkumar
Mridangam: Chennai Thyagarajan
Morsing : Sri Krishnan

Topic : Tamil Isai (All songs were Tamil Kritis)
Song List:
1.varnam - hindolam - adi - swaram
2.varna mukha va - hamsadhwani - rupakam - Koteeshwara iyer - alapanai,naraval,swaram.
3. yarukudanteri - devamanohari - adi - gopala krishna - swaram @devamanohara
yum bharati
4.Jagadishvari - mohonam - adi - alapanai,swaram (Main)

The consert began with a small sloka Aindukarai t Anaimuga composed by Ouvaiyar in hindolam .The tani aavardam was a very big one.
Neyveli Sir punctuated the concert with a lot of anecdotes. Like : For an elephant the trunk (vaai) is most important. Hence the words in the song Arulvaai, taruvaai...
while singing Yarukudanteriyum he said that even Gopala krishna bharati uses raga mudhra like Deekshithar
he put the swara @ the line Devamanohara .

[sridrect]

Is this the complete song list ?

[srini02]

No,this is not the complete song list. I left after the main piece.