Bombay Jayashri_Rajalakshmi Fine Arts_Coimbatore_13th Sep 2015

[arvenky]

September Season 2015 13th September
Rajalakshmi Fine Arts, Coimbatore
Kikani School Auditorium
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Vid : Bombay Jayashri
Vid : H N Bhaskar
Vid : Patri Satish Kumar
Vid : S Karthick

Thematic Concert : Theme 'VAANI' Saraswathi Gayathri
It was just an experience for 3 hours and 10 mins. Top Stuff !!
I havent heard her recently and her voice was really good.

Brilliant mukhAri. I am biased towards Sankarabaranam one of my favorite.
Her alapana and exceptional kalapana swaras was mesmerizing. Except I felt a screech during charanam for couple of mins (might
have been mikasura too, not sure). Expecting tAni after this but she started ananda bhairavi and I was convinced that rtp in the offing.
Saraswathi alapana done in 3 stages (initially i had the feeling of hemavati). H N Bhaskar was getting rousing applause for his
tAnam. raga Durga in rama mAlika was superb.

The laya vidwans continued what they let off from yesterday night,another fantastic tAni.

LGJ's tillAna was icing on the cake.

List of Krithis :
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1. sakala kalA vANi-Hindolam-GNB (V)
2. saraseeruhaasana-nAta-Puliyur Duraiswamy Iyer (O,S)
3. parAkEla sarasvati-nAtakurinji-Tirupati Narayanaswami
4. pAlisemma muddu shAradE-mukhAri-Purandaradasa (A,S)
5. srI saraswathi namOsthuthE-Arabhi-MD (N,S)
nerAval at 'vAsavAdyakhila nirjara vara"
6. devi jagajjanani dehi-Sankarabaranam-ST (Navarathi Krithi) (A,N,S)
nerAval at 'vINApustaka ra~njita karatala'
7. Vanor vanangum annaiye-Anandha Bhairavi-Papanasam Sivan
8. rtp Saraswathi- Alapana in 3 stages
pallavi : vAni kalaivAni enakkaruvAi nEE, manadhAra nidham unAi pAda'
swara raga malika in Saraswathi,Durga, Sri
9. tAni
10. Virutham - VAni Vanakkam - Panchalai Sabatham, Subramanya Bharathi
'thelivurave arinthidal,thelivu thara.....'
11. Vellai thAmari pOovil irupAl-Bhimplas-Subramanya Bharathi
12. sAradhey karunAnidhey-hamir Kalyani-Chandrasekara Bharathi
13. tillAnA - Bindumalini - LGJ
14. Slokam : yakundendu thushara hara

Tailpiece : Another two concerts to go today hoping I will withstand with my health not improving a bit.

[HarishankarK]

The theme being Saraswathi, this song list is fantastic.

[arasi]

Yes, fantastic indeed.
Some thematic lists just happen to be merely stringing together songs about different deities. Not so here.

To take up Bharathi's pAnJAli sabadam invocation was impressive too.