My picks from Parivadini's webcast of Naada Inbam concerts

[musiclistener1221]

Thanks to Parivadini's initiative with their webcasts of concerts, I could get a chance to listen to concerts that I missed during the season this year. I got a chance to listen to almost all of the vocal concerts at Naada Inbam that were posted by Parivadini. Amongst the youngsters, there were a few vocalists that I particularly enjoyed listening to. I have listed these concerts here. Please note that this is just my humble opinion that I wanted to share with the group based on what is posted by Parivadini

1. Amritha Murali: I attended her concert at the MA and it was a very good concert. As mentioned by another rasika on this forum, the soukhyam in her singing is one of a kind. A memorable performance indeed that was uplifted by RKSK on violin and AP on mridangam
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M77sYIwfmYY

2. Bharathi Ramasubban: I didnt attend any of her concerts in person this year. Her strengths are her powerful voice and good pronounciation. It was a well balanced concert with the right amount of emotion and poise. Her concert made me want to listen to more of her.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMwBfuA9Z-o

3. Sumitra Vasudev: I attended her concert at the MA and enjoyed it. Her music clearly shows that she is technically sound. I like the way she expanded on the ragam and her sahityas were clear. Hopefuly more manodharma comes across in her music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B7x0SjDFgQ

4. Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath: I couldn't attend her concert this season. I enjoyed listening to her concert at Naada Inbam. She has a rich voice and is traditional in her presentation - these are her biggest strengths. Overall, it was a well-planned concert at Naada Inbam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W62fKkU5FYs

5. Bharat Sunder: I attended his concert at BGS as well this year. His concert at Naada Inbam was brisk and lively. His presentation was effortless and confident. I liked listening to him. I think his concert will be uplifted if he develops some more emotional content in his music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTIpG9wrmnY

[Nick H]

3. Sumitra Vasudev: I attended her concert at the MA and enjoyed it....

Her Naada Inbam concert (2 Jan?) was wonderful. Extremely powerful. For some reason she finished at 8.15pm, but I still felt musically satisfied.

In the context of her being one of my favourite artists, I have, in previous years, enjoyed her MA concerts less than others. They seem to be a little stiffer and more formalised. Perhaps that is the Academy environment. This year, I did enjoy her MA concert very much.

I don't think there is any less manodharma in her music. I think she is blessed with a beautiful voice, is a great performer in her own right, and a worthy representative of her great teacher --- although she herself once told me off for making any such comparison. Doubtless, rightly so!

[sathguru]

Great effort from this group of enthusiasts from Parivadini.
I too am enjoying what I missed during the season, thanks to their untiring efforts at web casting the concerts.
One commendable job they have done is in instituting the Fernandes award for the mridangam makers. Selvam richly deserves the award for his untiring efforts in making high quality mridangam s for the artistes.

[parivadini]

Thank you all so much for your magnanimity and support.
Keep watching Parivadini,later into the year as we launch ourselves as a full fledged classical music channel with in-house content,acquired (curated) content as well as live content, we definitely need your support.So please do subscribe(free) to our youtube channel,check out our FB page etc and help us a bit on word of mouth.
We hope to be coming out with innovative shows,documentaries,interactive content as well as unique content.
The vision of Parivadini is to be a platform for youngsters,upcoming and talented artists as well as yester-year greats.
From the rasika point of view- Content of the category mentioned above is currently free and will remain free for ever on Parivadini.

Thanks
PS: We follow creative commons and our simulcast technology as well as our broadcast methodology is based on the Open Source Broadcasting community, we have decided to give away our product/code for free and the apk/architecture are available on our FB page, wherever you might be in the world we would be glad if you want try this yourself and feel free to ping us for help.

[Nick H]

check out our FB page etc

Do remember that Facebook is not the internet ...yet. Some of us don't use fb and don't want to.

[sankark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfCye99UQpM - Nandita Ravi is worth your time; very aesthetic

[parivadini]

Do remember that Facebook is not the internet ...yet. Some of us don't use fb and don't want to.

Yes Sire! Kind of epiphany! Should be putting up the Parivadini Blog in a couple of days Lalitharam(Gamakkam) would be leading the initiative,will be incorporating our code and architecture in it.

Thanks
Venkat

[Nick H]

Thank you