G Ravikiran - Sydney

[HarishankarK]

Vocal : G Ravikiran
Mridangam : Bala Sankar
Violin : Trivandrum Sampath
Kanjira : Aathava

Tharuni - Varnam - Kambodhi
Raga Kalyani - Rama Nee Vadhukondunduvo -T - Neraval, Swara at Naamanasu Nee endu
Chalamelara - Margahindolam - T
Ananda Bhairavi alaap - O Jagadamba - SS
Nenarunchi naanu - Malavi - T
Vamsavathi raga - brief alap - Bhakthavathsalam - MD- Raga name announced and kshetra name Tirukannamangai (one of 108 divya desams) announced
Bhogindrasayinam - Kuntalavarali - ST - Swaras
Orajpuju- KannadaGowlai - T
Saveri raga alap - Sri RajagopalaBala - Adi tala two kalai-MD Neraval at Srividya dhara
Behag- Irakkam Varamal - GKB
Maandu - Ranga Baro - PD
Madhava Mamava Deva - Nilambari - NT
CheliNenetlu - Javali - Paraaju
Pavamana
Swastiprajapa slokam - Surutti

Average concert. I expected much more after listening to his youtube videos (which were really good). He seemed tired and was coughing in between the concert. Maybe the winter in Sydney affected his voice.
Violin was very good.
Mridangam was not upto the mark - talam was being missed and abaswarams also. Has a long way to go. Mridangam artistes parents had organised this concert by inviting Ravikiran from India to promote their son. I think because mridangam was not so good, Ravikiran lost interest and did not sing well

[mahavishnu]

Mridangam was not upto the mark - talam was being missed and abaswarams also.

I am all for considering the mridangam a melody instrument, but how did the mridangam produce apaswarams? Do you mean that it was poorly tuned?

[HarishankarK]

I don't know that much about mridangam but i can feel when the sound is not right. Like summa thattaradhu. There were a few instances like that. It was not sunaadam.

[syd_murthy]

dear friend harishankark,
i am new to this forum but have been a silent reader of this forum from sydney.
could not resist following up on this thread as i attended this concert.

i dont know any of the artists personally but loved this concert absolutely.
surprisingly i loved his voice and enjoyed the way he reached the upper pa or da in saveri (my daughter who sings tells me it is upper da) with ease.
violin was very good too. (sampath)

i agree though that the mridangam and kanjira was not up to the mark of the rest of the two artists - but appreciate the fact that local talent is being encouraged though. here in sydney, we need to build the local talent too. (

i loved the emotional anandabairavi and saveri.
my daughter tells me that the "idam" for the neraval was before the samam in the sri rajagopala keertanam.

i guess it started with the words "murari...hari.." (cant rememebr the exact lines.

just few words from a listener who loved this concert and wanted to share it with others.

cheers. (mate!! )
murthy.

[kvchellappa]

Keep writing. We love each other here intensely, so intensely that we fight heartily.

[syd_murthy]

thanks for those words kvchellapa
here at sydney i hardly get to write reviews as we dont have that active a music scene - ofcourse it is improving drastically with sydney festival, pallavi and now this new saba tht was inaugurated (sadjam).

[HarishankarK]

Hi syd_murthy,

Nice to meet you here in this forum. Glad to know you enjoyed the concert.
I had been listening to G Ravikiran in youtube in anticipation of this concert and found his youtube concerts really good. Plus that he is a student of TMK. That is why i went to this concert.
But for me i found that this concert was not so satisfactory. I though he had some voice problems, a couple of sruthi laspses here (didn't your daughter notice this!) and there and also the bad mridangam.

For me, having come from UAE to Sydney, i feel that many many concerts are being organised here. Youth festival concerts are held every month and then there is the Sri Lankan organised festival that took place in June. Then again Pallavi organisation have their concerts in August. Recently Syama Sastri day was observed.

By the way the newest sabha in Sydney is Sadja not Shadjam. Although it means Shadjam, the one constant note.