I just came across this video where an individual who speaks Chinese gives a CM concert. He is a student of D.K.Pattamal. May be some of you have watched it. Can you identify the violinist and mridangist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vMIVuT7R0Y
Prof Rama Krishnamurthy
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vasanthakokilam
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Yes, we have discussed this Malaysian Chinese CM vidwan in another thread but it is great to listen to him again. His style of singing, especially that mohana varnam, reminds me of PithukuLi murugadas in some places for some reason.
His lyrical and diction skills are quite amazing. I always found the splitting of srinivasa into sri and nivasa a bit odd in the charana sahiyam of the Mohana varnam. I am not a big stickler for such things usually and in this case I do not even know if it is wrong but I find it a bit odd and jarring. That is how everybody sings due to the way the the words and the syllabic attack are set in that varnam. He also sings it that way. But in the final flourish where he has more freedom, he sings srinivasa together ( 27th minute ). Small pleasures!
His lyrical and diction skills are quite amazing. I always found the splitting of srinivasa into sri and nivasa a bit odd in the charana sahiyam of the Mohana varnam. I am not a big stickler for such things usually and in this case I do not even know if it is wrong but I find it a bit odd and jarring. That is how everybody sings due to the way the the words and the syllabic attack are set in that varnam. He also sings it that way. But in the final flourish where he has more freedom, he sings srinivasa together ( 27th minute ). Small pleasures!