Pantula Rama, Lalgudi sibblings @ music academy 23 Dec 15

[pattamaa]

Pantula Rama
MSN Mur
Palladam Pavi
B.N. Chandramouli - kanjira
4pm, music academy

1. varnam ? missed
2. evarini vegamu - mohana kalyani? - S @ evarini vegamu
3. va velava - tanarupi - kandachapu - KI (R)
4. paraloka bhaya - mandari - adi - T (R, S @ paraloka bhaya)
5. dinamani vamsa - harikambodhi - adi 2 kalai - T(R,N,S @ dinamani vamsa)
6. RTP Varamu - khanda tripua 2 kalai (purvangam chatusram, uttarangam after arudhi - tisram)
adharam maduram vadanam madhuram; madhuratipate akhilam maduram - pallavi
ragamalika swaras in dwijavanti, anandha bhairavi, behag
7. entali kuluke - kalyani
8. venkatachala nilayam - sindhubhairavi

what a concert it was... tanarupi was a revelation, and harikambodhi was very traditional, not hearing much these days... RTP was subjected to detailed treatment, for about 80 minutes, including tani.

for RTP, swarams were sung in chatusram and sequequent avarthanam in both nadais.. tani was in chatusram

Lalgui GJR Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi
Tiruchy Shankaran
KV Gopalakrishnan - kanjira

1. varnam - kadanakuthuhalam - culkatta krishnamurthy bhagavatar
2. pancha mathanga - malahari - adi - MD ( S @pancha mathanga)
3. amba neelambari - neelambari - adi
4. evarichidira - madhyamavati - adi - T (R, N&S @ ??)
5. ninne namminanu - todi - mishra chapu - SS ( A, S @ kamakshi, T)
6. nadaloludai - kalyana vasantham - adi - T
7 RTP Rasikapriya - kanda tripua purvangam in tisram and uttarangam in chatursram
sama gana priye shive
rasikapriye mam pahi
ragamalika - ? , saranga, ? , sama, desh
8. kakkai chiraginile - bharatiyar
...

very nicely played.... and grand support in mridangam by legend....
more comments later..

[sureshvv]

The second question mark in the LGJ duet was Jayantasena, I believe.

They also played:

9. Chandrasekhara Eesa, Sindhubhairavi
10. Tillana, Bhimplas, LGJ (this particular tillana featured on stage 1st time ever)
11. Mangalam

[gardabha_gana]

tillana by LGJ? Interesting a non-LGJ varnam! I have heard rasikapriya RTP by the siblings before. Beautiful!

[sureshvv]

tillana by LGJ?

Yes. Corrected.

[sureshvv]

Rama also did the kalpana swaras for mandari using tanam syllables.

[yours_truly]

Was the kadanakuthuhalam varnam a composition of Calcutta Sri KS Krishnamurthy?

[sureshvv]

Yes, it was announced as such.

[pattamaa]

i would like a lec-dem on chatusra tisram... can someone help?

[sureshvv]

What she said was that the tala vinyasam is in chatusra tisram. what i took it to mean is that the tala stays the same chatusram but it becomes 3 aksharas per beat -

madura dipate akhilam maduram6

[Vocalist]

8. kakkai chiraginile - bharatiyar

LGJ school's version of Kakkai Chiraginile is usually in a beautiful Ragamalika sequence starting in raga Durga, moving to Surya, and then finally to Patdeep. I still remember when the siblings rendered it with their father in 2004; it was really quite amazing. The haunting Patdeep portion still echoes in my ears.

[sureshvv]

Was the same one I believe.

I found krishnan's playing straight & narrow.