2014 Apr 28 VVV Concert @ SRSM

[badari]

HKVenkatram GRavikiran AshwinAnand (VVV)
UKSivaraman
Guruprasanna
Giridhar Udupa

Venue: Sree Ramaseva Mandali, Fort High School premises, Bangalore

01 vIribONi varNa bhairavi khaNDa aTa pachchimiriam Adiappayya (O shared by all 3 instruments)

02 pArvatIpatim praNaumi hamsadhwani Adi m.dIkshitar (O, S)

03 OrajUpu juchEdhi nyAyama kannaDa gauLa Adhi thyAgarAja

04 dattAtrEya trimUrti rUpa ranjani gaNapathi sachidAnanda (O)

05 khamAs AlApane Flute fwd by brOchEvA revarurA kAmAch Adhi mysUru vAsudhEvAchAr
A solo tani by UKS

06 ShObillu saptaswara jaganmOhini rUpaka thyAgarAja (O, S)

07 kharaharapriyA AlApane vINA followed by pakkAla nilabaDi golicE muccaTa bAga delpa kharaharapriyA tripuTa tyAgarAja
Nereval at manasuna

08 karuNinchuTaku sindhu mandAri Patnam Subramanya lyer

09 kAmbOdhi rAga(violin) tAna (vINA) followed by a Evari mata vinnavo ravo yindu levi bhali bhali and tani (only khanjira, Ghata)
( A, T, S, T)

10 mAmava paTTAbhi rAma maNirangu M Eka m.dIkshitar

11 tillana rAga ??

12 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adhi thyAgarAja


Over the years.. the team is gaining more and more audience.. and that itself is an indicator of the maturity of the team work. It was an heartening scene to see almost housefull crowd who had come to cheer all Bangalore team of Techies !

A very melodious and fast paced concert.. A memorable one indeed.

[rajeshnat]

This is the first time ever I am noticing where tani is broken into two where the first tani is played by Mrudangam artist- UKS , the second tani is exclusively played by other two upa pakkavadhyam (Kanjira and ghatam). Is this a veena venu violin thing where historically ramani-LGJ- venkataraman did do that ? Or is it just a first time that is happening where the mahavidwan UKS felt he should do that way.

[rajeshnat]

06 ShObillu saptaswara jaganmOhini rUpaka thyAgarAja (O, S, T)
A solo tani by UKS

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09 kAmbOdhi rAga(violin) tAna (vINA) followed by a composition ? and tani (only khanjira, Ghata)
( S @ ? )

This is the first time ever I am noticing where tani is broken into two where the first tani is played by Mrudangam artist- UKS , the second tani is exclusively played by other two upa pakkavadhyam (Kanjira and ghatam). Is this a veena venu violin thing where historically ramani-LGJ- venkataraman did do that ? Or is it just a first time that is happening where the mahavidwan UKS felt he should do that way. Has any one noticed ever this split before, to me it is a first time thing ?

[badari]

Remember an instance in KGS, (UKS, Malladi Bros - 2012 season) where UKS had raised objection for 1 tani .. as he insisted that there should be 2 tanis in a concert.

[rajeshnat]

2 tanis where participation by all percussion artists was indeed there where one is for main and the second for pallavi. But this kind of split where mrudangam plays for one tani and other upapakkavadyam artists play for the second tani is not some thing I have heard , has any one heard this exclusive pakka and upapakkavadhyam percussion tanis?

[badari]

If my memory is correct ....In this concert... I remember each paercussionist dominating one tani each... and joined hands in equal partnership for the third one.

http://arohanaavarohana.blogspot.in/201 ... kumar.html

[arasi]

Rajesh,
Badari meant Violin, Vocal (not vINe), VENu. G. Ravikiran sings.

[braindrain]

Rajesh,
Badari meant Violin, Vocal (not vINe), VENu. G. Ravikiran sings.

This is G.Ravikiran who plays the flute in the trio and not G.Ravikiran the vocalist..

[badari]

A picture of the artist is on my Blog page. You could check out the flutist G Ravikiran there.

[rajeshnat]

Arasi,
With the name G Ravikiran you were mistaken as vocal violin and Veena forgotting the indru varuvaNO venu flute. Chek this url for G ravikiran - the flautist
https://www.google.co.in/search?q=g+rav ... B630%3B221


Badari ,
Perhaps you can cross check if there was exclusive tani 1 by one percussion artist and tani 2 by another set of percussion artist etc.

All,
HAs any one heard in the last 70 + years where one percussion artist plays one tani and another set of percusscion artist plays a second tani. If Yes please do share those details.

Finally a cheeky comment,
What if some time in the future an artist by name Veena plays violin , an artist by name Venu plays veena and finally Vi. O. Lingaraju plays venu-flute (Lingaraju's father is vizianagaram OmPrakash ). That would be a great V V V team .

[braindrain]

All,
HAs any one heard in the last 70 + years where one percussion artist plays one tani and another set of percusscion artist plays a second tani. If Yes please do share those details..

Here is one concert I should attend for the tani avartanam ! It will be a riot !

Karnataka College of Percussion Trust (R)

49th ANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
SEVA SADAN , 14th Cross, (Opp. Sri Sai Mandir, Sampige Road), Malleswaram,
Bangalore - 560 003.

08-05-2014 Thursday

Vidwan Sri. Bellary M. Raghavendra Vocal
Vidwan Sri. B. Raghuram Violin
Vidwan Sri. T.A.S. Mani Mridangam
Vidwan Sri. Ranganath Chakravarthy Ghatam
Vidwan Sri. R. Dileep Khanjira
Vidwan Sri. Bhaskar Thavil
Vidwan Sri. Karthik Mani Drums
Vidwan Sri. S. Sudarshan Dholak
Vidwan Sri. V.R. Chandrashekar Khol
Vidwan Sri. M. Gururaj Morsing
Vidwan Sri. T.N. Ramesh Konnakol

[arasi]

Sorry folks, Cleveland has been playing so much of vINA, vENu, violin and vocal that my memory overload led to this slip

[SuhasYogin]

The practice of having more than just one Thani is not unheard of. I've heard stories of how Palghat Mani Iyer, the legend himself played more than one Thani during a concert. So, it isn't the first time that a Shri UKS split the thani, as well. Last year, during the Rama Navami season, I remember this concert of Mysore Brothers (Sriyuths Nagaraj and Dr.Manjunath) with UKS sir on Mridangam and Vidwan Bangalore N Amrit sir on Khanjira. Shri UKS sir played a solo thani for Raghuvamsha Sudha. The thani was mostly in Chaturashra Nadai with conclusive Mohra and Muktaya. During Nagumomu, Shri UKS sir asked Vidwan Amrit sir to play thani avarthanam. Amrit sir then played fulls solo rounds of Chaturashra nadai and ~8 minute Thrishra nadai. The duo concluded the thani avarthanam with a high-on-adrenaline Koraippu, Mohra, and Muktaya.

Incidentally, UKS sir and Amrit sir were accompanying Vidwan Neyveli Shri R Santhanagopalan sir and Vidwan Mysore Shri Dr. Manjunath sir yesterday. The thani turned out to be an extension of the KedaragowLa swara prasthara in Khanda Nadai. It was simply breathtaking to be honest! What started with Khanda Nadai, had textures of Chaturashra and Thrishra Nadais, as well. This time around, there was just one thani and both UKS sir and Amrit sir played incredibly brilliantly to round-off what was an engaging concert! Their thani ended with flourish of fierce exchanges in the Koraippu section followed by Mohra and Muktaya.

[arvenky]

Here is one concert I should attend for the tani avartanam ! It will be a riot !

Jayan am also eying this since its happen to be my house rear door literally Lets catch up if you come around.

Karnataka College of Percussion Trust (R)

49th ANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
SEVA SADAN , 14th Cross, (Opp. Sri Sai Mandir, Sampige Road), Malleswaram,
Bangalore - 560 003.

08-05-2014 Thursday

Vidwan Sri. Bellary M. Raghavendra Vocal
Vidwan Sri. B. Raghuram Violin
Vidwan Sri. T.A.S. Mani Mridangam
Vidwan Sri. Ranganath Chakravarthy Ghatam
Vidwan Sri. R. Dileep Khanjira
Vidwan Sri. Bhaskar Thavil
Vidwan Sri. Karthik Mani Drums
Vidwan Sri. S. Sudarshan Dholak
Vidwan Sri. V.R. Chandrashekar Khol
Vidwan Sri. M. Gururaj Morsing
Vidwan Sri. T.N. Ramesh Konnakol[/quote]

[rajeshnat]

Last year, during the Rama Navami season, I remember this concert of Mysore Brothers (Sriyuths Nagaraj and Dr.Manjunath) with UKS on Mridangam and Vidwan Bangalore N Amrit sir on Khanjira. Shri UKS sir played a solo thani for Raghuvamsha Sudha. The thani was mostly in Chaturashra Nadai with conclusive Mohra and Muktaya. During Nagumomu, Shri UKS asked Vidwan Amrit to play thani avarthanam. Amrit sir then played fulls solo rounds of Chaturashra nadai and ~8 minute Thrishra nadai. The duo concluded the thani avarthanam with a high-on-adrenaline Koraippu, Mohra, and Muktaya.

Suhas,
Based on thee posts so far ,One percussion artist exclusively playing one full tani and another percussion artist exclusively playing one more tani has happened atleast twice both when shri UKS played . I can safely assume this exclusive tanis by different percussionists is fairly a new thing(unless some one posts some post to counter that) . Perhaps shri UKS felt like when a vocalist sings an alapana of one raga and a violinist can play another raga, why cannot a team of percussion artists play exclusively more than one tani.

While I would love to hear in general a 3 hour concert with just one tani, but even if there is a 3 hour concert when there are two or more tanis it nearly goes back to a 2+ hour concert.

Thanks for your post .

[SuhasYogin]

Rajeshnat,

You're right about:

Rajeshnat says:
I can safely assume this exclusive tanis by different percussionists is fairly a new thing (unless some one posts some post to counter that)

Curious, but why would you prefer just one Thani in a 3-hour concert?

Regards,
Suhas Yogin