T.M.Krishna @ Sastri Hall, Chennai (12 Oct 2006)

ram · Post by **ram** » 12 Oct 2006, 23:10

Venue: Sastri Hall, Luz, Mylapore, Chennai

Date: 12th Oct 2006

Organizers: Balaganamrutam and Karnataka College of Percussion

Vocal: Sri T. M. Krishna

Violin: Sri M.A. Sundareswaran

Mridangam: Sri K.V. Prasad

Khanjira: Sri B. S. Purushottam

List of songs:

1) sAmI daya (varnam) - kEdAragOwLa - Adi - tiruvOtriyur tyAgayyar (S)

2) nenaruncharA - simhavAhini - Adi - thyAgarAjA

3) kANa kaN kOdi - kAmbOji - Adi - pApanAsam sivan (AS)

4) rAmachandrENa samrakshitOham - mAnji - rUpakam - muthuswAmi dIkshitar

5) rAgam tAnam pallavi (RTP) - shankarAbharaNam - Adi (2 kalai)

pallavi wordings: "sakkagAnibhajana, jEsE vAriki; takkuva galadA srI rAmA dinadinamu"

6) pibarE rAmarasam - yamunA kalyANi - Adi - sadAsiva brahmendra

7 ) shAntAkAram (viruttam) - danyAsi, kAnadA, gOwLa & behAg

smarajanaka shuba charita - behAg - misra chApu - swAti tiruNAL

8 ) thillAnA - pUrnachandrikA - Adi - rAmanAthapuram srInivAsa iyengAr

9) pavamAna (mangaLam) - sOwrAshtram - Adi - thyAgarAjA

Words cannot describe this awesome concert of TMK. The shankarAbharaNam RTP stole the show with the beautiful rAga AlApana and tAnam mesmerizing the audience. kAmbOji rAga AlapanA was also very well executed by both TMK and Sri Sundareswaran. While playing the shankarAbharaNam rAga AlApana, when Sri Sundareswaran held the note "ga" for some time, there was an exactly similar sounding "ga" from the horn of a MTC bus plying on the road outside. The timing and the match of the two sounds was so perfect that Sri K.V. Prasad and TMK couldn't help but laugh and enjoy the moment.

Sri Sundareswaran's rAgA AlapanAs were very good. The one thing that however seemed slightly annoying was that whenever Sri TMK sang an AlApanA, even before he came to the lower or the upper "sa", Sri Sundareswaran would start playing "sa" as though forcing the vocalist to come quickly to "sa" leaving aside whatever he was singing. The way he put "sa" on the violin was also not in a manner that would give a base shruti kind of effect. For example, when TMK would come down to "ri" after singing a pattern, suddenly Sri Sundareswaran would play an extended "sa". This certainly could have been avoided.

While singing the pallavi, TMK sang the kalpanA swarams so as to end in a way that would provide an appropriate start to "sakkagAni", "takkuva" and "dinadinamu" . Sri K.V. Prasad and Sri B.S. Purushottam played a good taniAvartanam and at the end of it played the kOrvais in a way so as to lead to the start of "sakkagAni", "takkuva" and "dinadinamu" respectively and each time they did that, TMK picked up the words and then gave a space for them to play the next set of kOrvais so as to end at the next appropriate place.

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mohan · Post by **mohan** » 13 Oct 2006, 08:54

Interesting that Kambhoji & Sankarabharanam were chosen as the two main ragas for alapana. Also, Krishna hasn't rendered any raga with a prati madhyamam in it.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 13 Oct 2006, 11:01

nice list. which tillAnA was it? was it the one which begins as 'thom thom thadara thadarathaani naathrudeem'?

ram · Post by **ram** » 13 Oct 2006, 11:51

Yes Bharath, it was the thillana you have mentioned.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 13 Oct 2006, 21:17

ram wrote:Sri Sundareswaran's rAgA AlapanAs were very good. The one thing that however seemed slightly annoying was that whenever Sri TMK sang an AlApanA, even before he came to the lower or the upper "sa", Sri Sundareswaran would start playing "sa" as though forcing the vocalist to come quickly to "sa" leaving aside whatever he was singing. The way he put "sa" on the violin was also not in a manner that would give a base shruti kind of effect.

Ram
Very nice observation . Nevertheless his response is very fast and enjoyable many times. Incidentally I used to like him a lot few years before . Now I have seen him that he is little over exuberant in his search of newer music patterns in every rAga , sometimes gives me a feeling that what vocalist is going to render is sometimes already rendered by Shri MA Sundarewaran .

padren68 · Post by **padren68** » 14 Oct 2006, 07:48

The artist is famous for claiming copyrights for all his concerts. Recently he objected to a sampe clip u/l in one of the carnatic forums which was quite baseless in my opinion. He might object reviews also of his concerts. Should we offer free review/publicity!!!
Just a loud thought. No offence meant...

gravikiran · Post by **gravikiran** » 15 Oct 2006, 18:43

Hi all,

Apologies in advance for digressing from the basic subject of this thread..but my two cents.
If I remember correctly, the same artist had no objections when a year ago a full length concert was posted on this site for all to share/download.
The difference was that in that case, the submitter had requested permission from the artist to post to which the artist had agreed.
My understanding is that maybe the issue is one of "intellectual property" also.
I am sure if the submitter had requested the artist for permission (his email is available from his site) the artist might not have had any objection...

Thanks,
ravi kiran.

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 16 Oct 2006, 02:44

Padren, all musicians are entitled to protect their copyrights, but IMHO if it goes as far as being over-protective even about few-minutes illustrative clips, it may probably backfire for the musician, since people usually prefer to buy after sampling it somewhere. That said, law is law, and we cant circulate music clips without the copyright-holder's explicit permission.

gravikiran,

In my knowledge no such concert was uploaded here (on this website) a year ago. Perhaps you are talking of some other website, or something has inadvertently escaped my attention?

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 16 Oct 2006, 03:06

I think, by "this site", gravikiran is referring to the site from which the recent clip had to be withdrawn.

padren68 · Post by **padren68** » 16 Oct 2006, 06:43

srkris
I agree with you totally. However, my contention was that in this particular song from the concert u/l, it was a mere sample and the artist was not sure if it was copyrighted and he claims copyrights universally, which is absolutely incorrect. True, this attitude will backfire on him.
FYI, it was not u/l on this website.

mahesh3 · Post by **mahesh3** » 16 Oct 2006, 07:58

Padren68,

It wasn't a sample...it was in fact a complete song followed by an email promising to upload the rest of the concert. Clearly, it could have been construed a legal infringement at some point.....we are perhaps better off just discussing music rather than indulge in propaganda against individual artists!

gravikiran · Post by **gravikiran** » 16 Oct 2006, 08:48

just to clarify:
by "this site", i actually meant www.sangeethapriya.org. Apologies for the confusion (rasikas.org and rasikapriya.org somehow got me confused

)
on sangeethapriya.org around a year ago, a full length concert of this artist had been uploaded (with permission).

thanks,
ravi kiran.