Recently I had an opportunity to attend the concert of a popular vidwan of our generation organised by a non descript sabha and that too at a non descript hall. Bhakatas (as they had come to listen to a pravachana) continued to stay back with additional audience who had come specifically to attend vidwan's concert.
The concert started at 7.30 and the scheduled time to end was around 9.00 pm.
Without much ado to setup of the paraphranelia... Vidwan started off with rAma bANa .. bringing out the essence of rAmA's bANa power in slow motion. Violinist and mridangist indeed did a great job of accompanying at this tempo. Had few bhesh bhesh moments even though they are not regular accompaniments to this Vidwan. They did a job on par with his regular accompaniments.
A detailed khamAs was followed up by sujana jIvana, another rarely heard composition in kutchEris now a days. A good treat of nereval and swaras once again followed at an apt tempo. Vidwan was singing as though there was no derth for time.
Brief dEvagAndhAri Alapane and kshIra sAgara ensured that shEshashayana had a good sleep tonight. The bhakti bhAva was oozing out of both vocal and violin performances.
By now it was already 8.30 and was expecting a main piece to follow.
Vidwan started off with mAyAmAlavagaula (was easy to guess) . But some rasikas (bhaktAs ?) started scratching the head.. which prompted the artist to announce the name of the raga. mEru samAna that followed had all the majestic improvisation to reiterate that it was the majestic composition in mAyAmALavagaula. a 15 min krithi presentation and a 10 minute tani completed the allocated slot for the concert.
However, a noted artist (read organiser) came out to give a 2 min speech which took up 12 + minutes..
Vidwas was is no mood to stop , He starated off with a viruttum on mAuLav ganga... the traditional SSI trademark.
( composed by appayya dIkshitar from a village called adapalayam near arani town .. 40 kms away tiruvaNNAmalai. Thanks to his role as mukhya mantri under the nawAb of ArcOT, who was instrumental in preserving hindu temples in north Arcot , Kanchi region from the influence of nawAb).
This was a way of Vidwan thanking the composer for all the good work he did for hindus.
Violinist accompanied par excellence during viruttum. It was followed up with a small dESh composition of purandara dAsa .. viTala salahO swAmi.
Finally concluded the 2 hrs concert with trademark mangala song nI nAma rupamulaku.
Neither me nor did the other rasikas .. (I believe they wont contest) did expect such a power packed concert in such a short time slot.
It was a memorable concert indeed, and it was a long time since I heard such a pure classicism in such short concert. Infact I have never heard this Vidwan delivering such short concerts.
:ymapplause: :ymapplause: :ymapplause: :ymapplause: :ymapplause: :ymapplause:
Your guess to the name of the Vidwan.. will make you feel you missed a treat right at your door step for some of the forumites.
Let the guess work begin.. (those who are very sure... pl PM me.. dont break the suspense online) :-$ I will reply online for the messages that I receive) . Will break the suspense at an appropriate time.
Did you miss this treat of classicism ?
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Did you miss this treat of classicism ?
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Re: Did you miss this treat of classicism ?
not sure, but sounds like Vijay Siva. First four items are staples of DKJ school.
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It is adayapalam (அடயபலம்) village where Appayya Dikshitar, that great scholar of Samskritam and philosophy, was born.
R K Padmanabha who grabbed each opportunity to deliver a talk mentioned that what the artist (I leave it to you to break the suspense) sings is music proper as if to put the matter straight about the criticism of the singer. Coming from another musician, who was confined to Bangalore probably because of his job, I consider it creditable.
R K Padmanabha who grabbed each opportunity to deliver a talk mentioned that what the artist (I leave it to you to break the suspense) sings is music proper as if to put the matter straight about the criticism of the singer. Coming from another musician, who was confined to Bangalore probably because of his job, I consider it creditable.
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Re: Did you miss this treat of classicism ?
now that RKP speech is a giveaway. I'm in the TMK camp now...
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Assuming I only read the first postpvs wrote:not sure, but sounds like Vijay Siva. First four items are staples of DKJ school.
The list of first four may be vijaysiva-TMK'ish- GRavikiran-Prasanna and few more musicians- . But I am fairly sure that maulav ganga has been only sung by TMK-Gravikiran - Prasanna Venkatraman (Pretty sure Vijay has not sung that) .
Other pointers like crowd etc coming in may happen to TMK for sure, Gravikiran also him being in bangalore , but Prasanna may not be that likely.
Any way it could be tmk or gravikiran, but anyway KVChellapa is out with an answer TMK.
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Re: Did you miss this treat of classicism ?
What now? A new trend? You reviewers are tired of writing reviews with list and in sequence? (inspired by one of the above-mentioned performers) or by sureshvv? 
Bhakti comes in many forms. In a music performance, if it touches the fine emotions in the listener with its power, the music you hear has done its job. That power comes from many sources--the performer's own devotion, rAga bhAvA, the surroundings and so on. Then comes the most important factor: the listeners' response. How much they are stirred by the music is what counts in the end.

Bhakti comes in many forms. In a music performance, if it touches the fine emotions in the listener with its power, the music you hear has done its job. That power comes from many sources--the performer's own devotion, rAga bhAvA, the surroundings and so on. Then comes the most important factor: the listeners' response. How much they are stirred by the music is what counts in the end.
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Re: Did you miss this treat of classicism ?
Quite so true. The bhava is complete only when there is a connect between the singer and the listener (like an electric circuit). When the listener goes with a pre-conceived idea, there is a resistance to the current.
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Re: Did you miss this treat of classicism ?
I read this in Sruti:
"She (Bombay Jayasree) is firmly convinced that the musician can transmit her own deep-felt emotions to the rasika in the audience, no matter what expectation brought him there in the first place."
"She (Bombay Jayasree) is firmly convinced that the musician can transmit her own deep-felt emotions to the rasika in the audience, no matter what expectation brought him there in the first place."