Nadasurabhi Karnataka Vaibhava on 15,16,17 August 2014

[kssr]

Here is the invitation. The three concerts start at 6 PM.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Nadasurabhi
Welcomes you to the
Third Karnataka Vaibhava Festival of Music - 2014

Venue: Indian Heritage Academy Hall
20th Main, Near Koramangala Police Station,
6th Block, Koramangala, Bangalore.560 095.

Programme
15th August 2014- Friday
6.00 PM
Inauguration of Karnataka Vaibhava series
By
Vidwan Bangalore S.Shankar, Senior Vocalist

Special Independence Day Concert by
Karnataka Kalaashri
Vidwan Bangalore S.Shankar Vocal
Vidushi H.M.Smitha Violin
Vidwan B.R.Srinivas Mridangam
Vidwan Ranganatha Chakravarthy Ghatam

--------------------------------------------------------------
Programme
16th August 2014- Saturday
6.00 PM

This concert is held in association with
Suswaralaya College of Music, Jayanagar, Bangalore

Bangalore Brothers
Vidwans M.B.Hariharan and S.Ashok Vocal Duet
Vidwan C.N.Chandrasekhar Violin
Vidwan H.L.Shivashankara Swamy Mridangam
Vidushi Bhagyalakshmi Krishna Morsing

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Programme
17th August 2014- Sunday
6.00 PM

Vidushi Vani Sateesh Vocal
Vidwan Mathur R Srinidhi Violin
Vidwan C. Cheluvaraju Mridangam
Vidwan Ranganatha Chakravarthy Ghatam
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ADMISSION FREE. KINDLY DONATE GENEROUSLY
.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[kssr]

Wishing all rasikas a very happy Independence Day. Pls do attend the special I.Day concert at Nadasurabhi and also the other two Karnataka Vaibhava concerts. Concerts start at 6 pm. Entry free.

[braindrain]

Vidwan Bangalore S.Shankar Vocal
Vidushi H.M.Smitha Violin
Vidwan B.R.Srinivas Mridangam
Vidwan Ranganatha Chakravarthy Ghatam

01. evarunnAru nannu brOvu (varNam) - naLinakAnti - Mysore Vasudevachar ( O )

02. vandisuvadadiyalli gaNanAthana - nAta - Purandara Dasa ( A,S )

03. dASarathi ninnukOri - rishabhapriya - Bidaram Krishnappa ( A,N,S )
neraval & swara @ kamalabhavana sEvanuta charita (?)

04. satatamu nInE SaraNamu nInE - SivakAmbOji - B K PadmanAbha Rao ( A )

05. amba vANi nannu - kIravANi - Muthaiah Bhagavathar ( A,N,S )
nerava& swar @ ' varavINapANi vAgvilAsini'

06. chintayAmi jagadamba - hindOLam - Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar ( O )

07. raghuvIrA raNAdhrIrA daSaratha sukumAra - hamsAnandi - Y K Sreekantaiah ( A )

08. SrI kAmaOti pIThasthitE - sAvEri - Mysore Sadashiva Rao ( A,N,S,T )
neraval & swara @ ' kadambavananilayE amba kanchalOchani'

09 manavE manthrAlaya - sudhasArang ? - Padmacharan ( Krishnamachari?)

10. thillAna ( dhiraNa thana dhImta dhiraNa ) - chenchurutti - Veena Seshanna

11. vachana ( nuDidarE muttinahAradanta irabEku ) - ? - Basavanna

12. vandEmAtaram(kannada version) - dEsh - D V Guntappa

Interesting selection of kritis and composers. Very well presented concert, including few commentary on the kritis, composers and music in general.

[rshankar]

All the composers were from Karnataka, huh? Very nice!!

[braindrain]

All the composers were from Karnataka, huh? Very nice!!

Ravi, this series is called 'Karnataka Vaibhava'.

[rshankar]

I richly deserve what my daughter would have said to me with as much disdain as she can pack into into one syllable: duh! I am seriously embarrassed!

[braindrain]

Vocal : Bangalore Brothers ( M B Hariharan & S Ashok )

Violin : C N Chandrsekharan

Mrudangam : H L Sivashankara Swamy

Morsing : Bhagyalakshmi Krishna


01. intha chowka sEya ( varNam) – pantuvarALi – Mysore Sadashiva Rao

02. lambOdara raktAmbaradhara – nAta – Jagannatha Dasa ( O,S )

03. bAlakrishNan pAdamalar – dhanyAsi – Papanasam Sivan

04. aparAjitE amarESanutE – kannaDa – Muthaiah Bhagavathar ( A,S ) * chAmuNDAmba ashTothara kriti

05. tuLasammA – dEvagAndhAri – Thyagaraja ( O )

06. rAvE himagirikumAri – thODi – Shyama Shasthri ( A,N,S,T )

neraval & swara @ ‘kalyANi, kAnchikAmAkshi nI pAdamE dikku’

07. muNDu konaya mElE ( muNDige) – Anandabhairavi – Purandara Dasa

08. AnjanEyam sadA bhajAmi (nottuswaram) – Western styled notes- Dikshitar

09. bhajan vinA jIvan paSu samAn (bhajan) – dEsh – Kabir ?

10. kaDi mOdi (tirupugazh) – SankarAbharaNam – Arunagirinathar?

11. thillAna ( dhim dhim dhim dhimta dhiraNA)- kApi – M D Ramanathan

12. SLOkam ( paramAnandavu vittalige) – surutti

indina dinavE Subha dinavu – surutti - Purandara Dasa

13. srIrAma jayamangaLam – surutti – Bhadrachala Ramadas ?

Fabulous concert yesterday by the duo. Outstanding swarajati.

[arasi]

Jayan,
Wish I had been there. Sankar's concert would have appealed to me no end. chintayAmi jagadambA, after all these years would have been a treat. The youngsters too would have introduced me to some unheard songs...

[braindrain]

Vidushi Vani Sateesh Vocal
Vidwan Mathur R Srinidhi Violin
Vidwan C. Cheluvaraju Mridangam
Vidwan Ranganatha Chakravarthy Ghatam

01. vanajAksha ninnE kOri (varNam) - mandAri - Mysore Vasudevachar

02. SrI chAmuNDESwari tava pAda bhaktim dEhi - kannaDa - Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar ( A,S )

03. pULu challarE puNDarIkAkshu nI pai - Anandabhairavi - Mysore Sadashiva Rao ( O )

04. pAkArinuta parama pAvana - rishabhapriya - Veena Krishnamachari ( A,S )

05. tribhuvana jananI tribhuvana pAlini - manOranjani - Bellari Seshagiri Achar ( O )

06. nArAyaNa ninnA nAmada - sudha dhanyAsi - Purandara Dasa ( O )

07. ratna kanchuka dhAriNi - kAmbOji - Muthaiah Bhagavathar ( A,N,S,T )
neraval & swara @' mandagamanOllAsini dEvEndranutE mrudubhAshiNi'

08. nInoLidare koraDu - dwijAvanti - Basavanna ( O )

09. ugabhOga ( dIna nAnu samastha lOkage ) - dEsh - Kanaka Dasa
kula kula kulavennu tiharu - dEsh - Kanaka Dasa

10. thillAna ( tadara tani udana tOm tOm dru dhiraNA ) - rEvati - Bellari Seshagiri Achar

11. mangaLam jayamangaLam - madhyamAvathi - Purandara Dasa ?

Concluding concert of the three day Karnataka Vaibhava event. As expected another 100% adherence to Karnataka Composers.

Any pointers to 'Veena Krishnamachari' ? Read somewhere that he is Tiger Varadachari's brother ? Not sure of the connection with Mysore.

[Sreeni Rajarao]

Jayan,
You are right about Sri Krishmamachar being Tiger Varadachar's (younger) brother! I think his connection was with Bangalore - I believe he had moved to Bangalore in his final years.

[arasi]

Sreeni,
I wish someone had included one of your father's compositions too...

[gardabha_gana]

After a long time, I made it to a live concert. Concert by Vani Sateesh was very well planned and executed - and it was very nice to hear composers of Mysuru. The raga and song selection was very nice. One does that hear rishabhapriya often (the only one in my memory is by MLV) - and as our fellow rasika kssr pointed out - the sahitya shuddham was noteworthy. Enjoyed the concert very much, Mathur Srinidhi gave excellent support, I was hearing him for the first time. Wonder who is his guru? The percussion support was well done. The sound systems were w/o any hitches Met Jayan and Kssr - after a long time. Thanks much to Vidushi Vani and Nadasurabhi for this thematic format - and an excellent evening. Hope many such compositions are included in "regular" concerts.
P.S: I do remember now Vijay Siva singing rishabhapriya here http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=22599. Also Ashwin played Rishabhapriya - Seshanna Krithi IIRC

[rajeshnat]

Vocal : Bangalore Brothers ( M B Hariharan & S Ashok )

06. rAvE himagirikumAri – thODi – Shyama Shasthri ( A,N,S,T )

neraval & swara @ ‘kalyANi, kAnchikAmAkshi nI pAdamE dikku’

Outstanding swarajati.

Jayan
This is the first time I am hearing the bangalore brothers thru you. I was particularly very interested in hearing the swarajathi in todi being detailed as main that too with a neraval. I was lucky to get a youtube link of a previous rendering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Ny9taxwlI
looking forward to hear them . Looking forward to hear them live soon.

[espras]

Rajeshnath:

S. Ashok plays excellently on the mrudangam too.

Bangalore Brothers are connected with Suswaralaya College of Music whose banner it is behind the artists in the youtube clip.

This college is a well known institution being run by the eminent mrudanga vidwan Sri H. S. Sudhindra.

[pperumal]

Was it mandatory to render composition of Karnataka composers? Just curious.

[gardabha_gana]

Nope. As you can see from the Bangalore brothers' concert.

[kssr]

Some newspaper clippings

[rshankar]

What is 'Bellary Style' of music?

[pperumal]

Bellary style?? eh?? :-p
Critics get away writing gibberish and no artist takes him/her on in a public forum unfortunately.

Vani Satish is a fine artist - in fact of the three artists talked about in this thread, she is my personal pick.
<rant>
To me, S Shankar is too sedate - I don't want to troll but very often such sedate music is hailed as "pure" and "pristine" and god knows what else.
</rant>
Bangalore Brothers are fine but too many rough edges to be polished still - but good and sincere artists and a great song list. Wish them all the best in their journey.

[keerthi]

Bellary style?? eh?? :-p
Critics get away writing gibberish and no artist takes him/her on in a public forum unfortunately.

I think you are being too harsh. All the so-called styles - shaili/ bAni etc in South Indian music and dance revolve around the artistic ethos of one individual, but they name it after the place the person is from. Take the dance styles - Pandainallur, vazhuvur etc. or the music styles - the Mysore Veena style or the tanjavur bani.

It is obvious that all vainikas in Mysore don't play in the same way, or that all dance teachers in Vazhuvur don't dance/ teach the same things. But this terminology has come to stay.

Vani Satish belongs to the family of Bellary Seshagiri Achar and Raghavendra Achar, who had forged a fairly distinct style of their own, in terms of presentation as well as repertoire. It wouldn't be too far-fetched to call students of their style as belonging to a 'Bellary' school or style.

While I don't think Vani S's singing reflects that familial style too much, I disagree with your comment on Bellary Style being a case of critics spouting gibberish.

p.s. I think there is greater honesty in names like the Dhanammal bani, since there was a shared set of stylistics in singing and voice modulation, that ran through all the family members' singing; even while they had differences in approach and repertoire.

[Sreeni Rajarao]

When I first read the article, I noticed the phrase "Bellary Style" which is not commonly used. I took it as the author saying "Bellary lineage and the pAThAntara that comes because of the lineage"

[Sreeni Rajarao]

I have been listening (again!) to the 13 CD set in the series Veeneya Bedagu - Compositions of Veene Sheshanna. There are so many beautiful compositions but they are not heard in concerts at all.
I hope this situation will be corrected by today's performing artistes!

[kssr]

I went thro' the list of songs given by braindrain in the three concerts. Not a single Veena Seshanna. Surprising. I think the popularity of compositions come thro' sishya parampara. Also, I have heard people say that out of the mummoorthigaL compositions, Saint Thyagaraja's are more popular because he had a wider sishya parampara. I am not sure how good is this broad generalisation. There may however be something in that view.

[arvind.brahmakal]

Saint Tyagaraja and Purandara Dasa took music to the common person during Uncha Vrutti ; most other vaggeyakaras preferred to popularise through sishyas and / or books. A larger question : Music for music's sake (technical brilliance) or music beyond technicalities !!