This was an aerial view of the TMK & party from the upstairs Silver Pass Rs 300 seat at the poorly attended Bengaluru Sangeet Utsav at ISS. I was thinking this might be the way music sounds to God in heaven when we present it downstairs on stage.
They sang a lovely O Rangashayi with a variety of niraval positions pretty much from Kailash peak to the milky ocean and Vaikuntha to Bhuloka. The swaras were like climbing those mythical steps to Kailash. Krishna, Sangeetha and Shriram Kumar shared the honours equally in a very sedate rendering.
Then came Varali RTP. The pallavi line was as I caught it:
pArthadu manam mayangine, pavaim parvaiyyi. They sang swaras in different ragas - Kapi, Sankarabharanam, Mohana, Khamach, Nilambari, Dwijavanti etc. A very sedate affair again.
Then Baro Krishnaiyya. then a Marathi song, Dhava VibhO in Yamuna Kalyani.
The Tani between Arun Prakash and Guruprasad was also a sedate affair.
With more appearances together, Sangeetha and Krishna will move up in optimising the combined voices and manodharma. Best wishes.
Post-Edit : when I was in engg and MBA loong back, we had a golden rule. To do combined studies successfully, both guys had to be equally prepared and equally strong in the subject. Then it would be like a successful batting partnership like between Gilchrist and Hayden. Otherwise it would be a bit like a tail-ender giving Dravid company.
