Veenavaadhini's Music Festival - 25 & 26 April 2015

[Rajani]

VEENAVAADHINI SAMPRADAYA SANGIT TRUST
celebrates
240th Jayanti of Nadajyoti Muthuswami Dikshitar
VENUE: Arkay Convention Centre, Luz, Mylapore, Chennai – 600 004
DATE: 25th and 26th April 2015
All Are Welcome

PROGRAMME : DAY 1 – SATURDAY 25TH APRIL

5:30 PM: Inauguration
Chief Guest: SRI G S Raghavan (CEO and Global President, TVS and Sons)
Guest Of Honour: SRI NV Subramanian (Founder Of Saraswathi Vaggeyakara Trust)

5:45 PM: Audio Visual Presentation By Smt Revathi Sadasivam
On Brahmasri A Ananthakrishna Iyer – Prominent Disciple Of Ambi Dikshitar
(Great Grand Nephew Of Muthuswami Dikshitar)

6:30 PM: Grand Violin Solo Recital by Lalgudi Smt Vijayalakshmi
Sri J Vaidyanathan – Mridangam,
Sri BS Purushottaman – Khanjira

[Rajani]

DAY 2 – SUNDAY 26TH APRIL

Morning Session :
Chief Guest: Sri A Chandrasekhar (Industrialist – Proprietor Of Mambalam Builders)
Guest Of Honour: Veena Vidwan Sri P Vasanth Kumar
9 AM: Veenavaadhini Sadhanalaya Concert - Kum Meenakshi Ramamurthy – Vocal,
Sri Kalmady S Poornaprajna – Violin, Sri R Ramkumar – Mridangam

10 AM-12 PM: Grand Veena Recital - Smt RS Jayalakshmi – Veena,
Sri Trichur KMS Mani – Mridangam, Sri Rajaraman - Ghatam

Evening Session
6 PM: Address by Chief Guest Smt Prabha Sridevan (Writer, Retd. Judge)
Guest of Honour – Padma Bhushan Prof. TV Gopalakrishnan
6:15 PM:“A SOJOURN IN KASHI” – Thematic Veena Concert
Sri Jeyaraaj Krishnan and Smt Jaysri – Veena Duet, Sri Tanjavur Kumar– Mridangam,
Smt Rajani Arjun Shankar - Narration
8 PM: Speech by the Guest of Honour Prof TV Gopalakrishnan
8:15 PM: Vote Of Thanks

[rshankar]

J&J and Rajani - best wishes for a wonderful festival. Hope rasikas in Chennai avail themselves of the opportunity to listen to these fabulous concerts.

[arasi]

What an array of programs! J&J, a lot of thought and effort has gone into this festival.

Rajani,
You will do a great job, no doubt about it!

Note the number of Rasikas members in the series

And TVG to crown it all

[Rajani]

Thanks a lot for your warmth and wishes - Ravi and Arasi.

I hope many rasikas will attend. There are many rare gems to be heard, particularly in the thematic concert.

[thanjavooran]

Rajani
Best wishes for the grand success of the function
Thanjavooran
24 04 2015

[Rajani]

Thanks for the wishes Sir.

[arasi]

So good to know that the festival was very well-received. The concluding concert, J&J's journey to kASi is reviewed by an appreciative Balasubramanian in The Hindu. Happy to hear that the festival drew a large crowd.

J&J make us proud and so does Rajani. Our Rasikas.org members! RAm too has played mrudangam for the first concert in the series...

May the veena gain more and more audience...

Rajesh, or someone, please give The Hindu link here

[Rajani]

Thank you, Arasi.

Here is the link

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp ... 159692.ece

[veenajj]

Thank you arasi ji and Sri rshankar. The event went well, was particularly noteworthy for the rasika support over all sessions.
Regards,
Jeyaraaj & Jaysri