Gayathri Venkataraghavan for IFAS - 27.12.11

[erode14]

Violin: Pakkala Ramadas
Mrudangam: Erode Nagaraj
Ghatam: Trichy S.Krishnaswamy

(4.30pm at Balamandir German Hall)

One of the fine and awesome concerts I played. Just posting the song list.

vibhONi - bhairavi
paramESvara -nAttai
satrE vilagi irum piLLAi - poorvi kalyANi
shrI Sankara guruvaram - nAgasvarAvaLi
veeNaa vENu mrudhanga vAdhya rasikam slOkam and meena lOchana - dhanyAsi
kaligiyuNdE - keervANi
pAl ninaindhoottum - viruththam in mOhanam and shaNmukhapriya
followed by thEnena inikkum thiruvarutkadalE theLLiya amudhamE sivanE...
murugA murugA - sAvEri (listener's request).

[Jigyaasa]

I came in during the violin AlApana of pUrvIkalyANi. The Neraval and swaras were sung at Bhakthiyil Karai Kandavan avan Parthu Parthu Undavan

One of the shlokas from Shri Shankaracharya's mInAkshi pancharatnam

shrImatsundaranAyikAm bhayaharAm gnAnapradAm nirmalAm
shyAmAbhAm kamalAsanArchitapadAm nArAyaNasyAnujAm
vINA vENu mrudanga vAdya rasikAm nAnAvidhADambikAm
mInakshim praNatOsmi santatamaham kAruNyavArAnnidhim

was sung in dhanyAsi before mInalOchana. Swaras were sung at gAnavinOdini.

Neraval and swaras for kaligiyuNTE were at bAguga shrIraghurAmuni pAdamula bhakti jEsina rIti tyAgarajuniki ippuDu

[sankark]

What a voice - guess she would have easily played 10 concerts so far this season - and she still has such a voice, jack-fruit dipped in honey kind of voice.

All the alapana's were top notch; entire dhanyasi was the highlight; a; kIrvani - she just sang unending cascade of patterns/phrases mostly in akara, I was kind of put of by the song selection because I was expecting innamum or devi neeye or OVK's ratna (bAla sarasa), have had enough of kaligi.

Very few # of listeners, < 100. Why isn't such good music much more popular?

[jagan]

100 is a big crowd in IFAS for the evening concerts!