Priyanka Prakash @ Nadasurabhi 15.2.2013

[kssr]

There was a brief children's group singing programme before Priyanka Prakash.

15th Friday 4 PM Students of Parampara School of Music.

In the 45 minutes available the students of Smt.Savitha Kartik gave a full concert format for the programme. Starting with a Varnam and Ganesha Sthuthi the programme was followed by a sub-main song in Mayamalavagowla with brief raga alapana and swarams. After a crisp Kapi kriti, the main item Abhogi was elaborated with good ragam and swara prastharam with each one taking turns in the singing in interesting and unpredictable sequence. It was conclude with a pair of tukkadas.



1. Entho Prema Varnam Surutti
2. Mahaganapathe Palayashumam Natanarayani Dikshitar
3. Tulasidalamula Mayamalavagowle Thyagaraja R, S.
4. Meevallagunadoshamemi Kapi Thyagaraja
5. Sreelakshmi Varaham Abhogi R, S.
6. Jayajagadeesha Nandakishora Kalyani
7. Vandemataram Jaya Jaya Ragamalikai

15th Friday 5 PM Priyanka Prakash-Vocal; Aditya M.P.-Violin; Anirudha Bhat -Mridangam; Raghunandan B.S.-Ghatam

For a young upcoming artist Priyanka sang with great confidence and took on heavy songs in Todi and Kalyani one after the other. Also, she took a tough Ragam Thanam pallavi with difficult sahitya and laya in Simhendramadhyamam and did fair justice to the effort. The violinist made a good impression and the percussionists were adequate.



1.Ekadantam Mahakayam Virutham followed by Mate Malayadhwaja Daru Varnam Kamach.
2. Arakimpave Todi (R) Neraval at saramaina divya (S)
3. Kathaya Kathaya Madavam Kalyani (R) neraval at Aravinda lochanam (S)
4. Edaiah gati enakkedaiah Chalanata
5. Veenabheri Abheri
6. Simhendramadhyamam RTP Tisra Jhampa-Misra Nadai-2kalai in gopuchcha yati ‘Jagannatha sahite, natha sahithe sahithe, hithe,the,namasthe.
Ragamalika swaram in simhendra madyamam, behaag, vaasanthi, madhuvanthi, revathi,- Thani avarthanam
8. Virutham – Gopala rathnam Bhuvanaika rathnam followed by Jagadhoddharana Kapi -
9. Kalyana Gopalam karunalavalam Sindhu Bhairavi Narayanateerthar Tarangam
10. Thillana
11. Mangalam Ramachandraya

[arasi]

Kssr,
Good to see reviews from you about the mighty and the emerging artistes alike!
I heard Priyanka in Chennai, and you are right. She is confident and is improving at a fast pace.
Nadasurabhi is really doing well--encouraging young artistes of CM and Bharathanatyam alike. This speaks of the sabha recognizing gurus and their work in the area.

[vivek@mel]

Amazing upcoming talent! I`ve listened to her at Krishna Gana Sabha and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan during last Dec season, and she has the potential to become one of the foremost singers in carnatic music

[cienu]

Great going Priyanka For the benefit of forumites she is the daughter of "Sappri" and the disciple of Vidushi Neela Ramgopal.

[arasi]

Cienu,
And you have two very talented stars in the making at home yourself.
When it comes to Aishwarya, her singing and veeNA playing vie with each other! Good to see that she's going to be singing in Cleveland.
Little Saundarya, apart from singing, is advancing with her playing on the violin. Clean are her notes, for someone so young. Let's not forget her dancing lessons too!

[rshankar]

Cienu - thank you for that piece of information!

Sappri - you must be very proud! (must be one of many 'mecci unai UrAr pugazhndAl..' moments for you!)
Best wishes to the vidushi!

[sappri]

Thank you so very much - kssr, Arasi, vivek@me, cienu, rshankar.

We are really blessed that Priyanka has *the most wonderful Guru* in Sangita Kala Acharya Vid Neela Ramgopal.

[sirsub11]

"........Priyanka was the most wonderful guru........?" Bit of a Freudian slip there, Sappri. Doubtless one day she could become a wonderful guru as well, but for the nonce, I think you meant "...... Priyanka has the most wonderful guru" in Smt. Neela Ramgopal !

[arasi]

I supposed it was a typo on Sappri's part, Sirsub
I had written to her asking her to correct it
Was it because I knew this was coming? Clairvoyance?
Anyhow, Sappri doesn't look at her mail every day, it seems

Was a tad jet lagged then. Still, thought I'd ask her to correct the word, with Neela Ramgopal in mind...

[sappri]

Thanks Arasi for pointing this out, since corrected - I was traveling the past couple of days, just got back and logged on to rasikas.org as soon as I saw Arasi's mail to me. Thanks once again.