Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi @ Toronto

[Lakshman]

Concert on the 30th of March with Trichy Shankaran on mrdanga and Tirupanitura Radhakrishnan on the ghata.
3hrs 40 mts. Song list (corrections welcome):
nIvEgAni evarunnAru (tv) - mandAri - Lalgudi Jayaraman
shrI shankara guruvaram - nAgasvarAvaLi - Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer - S
aruL seyya vENDumayyA - RasikapriyA - Kotishvara Iyer - A
shankari shamkuru - sAvEri - Shyama Shastri - A, N @ shyAmakrSNa sOdari, S
cEtah shrI bAlakrSNam - dvIjavanti - Dikshitar - sk
paripahimam shrI raghurama - kannaDa - Mysore Vasudevachar
naDaci naDaci - kharaharapriyA - Tyagaraja - A, S, tani
RTP hamsAnandi in m/tripuTa - sendil nagar mEvum selva vElavanE SaNmukhanE guhanE - svarAs: hindOLa, dhanyAsi, suraTi, dvijavanti, mini tani
enna tavam seidanai - kApi - Papanasham Shivan
shrI jagadIshvari - Ahirbhairav - Lalgudi Jayaraman
rAma mantrava - jOnpuri - Purandaradasa
vEda vErpilE? - bhImpalAs - Arunagirinathar
tillAnA - mishrapahADi - Lalgudi Jayaraman
tillAnA - mOhanakalyANi - Lalgudi jayaraman
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurASTra - Tyagaraja

[mahavishnu]

Thanks, Lakshman-ji. I wish I could have been there for this. So many Lalgudi school classics!

vEda vErpilE? - bhImpalAs - Arunagirinathar

Yes it is a thiruppugazh "vEdha veRpilE punaththil mEvi niRkum abirAma" tuned by LGJ in bhimplas. You can find a vocal version in the commercial release by charsur http://www.charsur.com/index.php/spirit ... 17244.html

[Lakshman]

Thanks Ramesh.

[rajeshnat]

Mahavishnu
I atleast think that you not being at toronto is a big loss to you. Nice to hear a grand concert that too to hear the legendary TS playing for so long must have been a delight. Kudos to Lalgudi siblings on continuing the legacy of their legendary father. I am not aware of the mandari varnam of LGJ till this review

[arasi]

Rajesh.
He will be listening to them when they play in CA, and we can look forward to his review from there!

[manisubramaniyan]

Am I in a time warp
Bay area concert was over some time ago..and Mahavishnu did post a review: http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=23218

[arasi]

You young thing! (my guess, anyway--hey, I'm much older!)

Sorry for that Not time warp but time of life warp.

As always, I relished Ramesh's review, but had forgotten at that moment that he was there at the concert.

I am glad though that he is now living in a place where there are concerts galore, and he will oblige us by writing more reviews here!

[mahavishnu]

How I wish I could be in two places at once, especially for concerts like this! Till such star trek times, I will have to live vicariously through this forum

And yes, Rajesh. Toronto does a very good job with their scheduling. Most artistes give close to 4 hour performances there.