Sanjay at Music Academy

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 26 Dec 2015, 22:53

I don't have tickets for this concert but it is easy to predict what the comments are going to be so I might as well get credit for opening this topic some 20 hours ahead of the actual event.

1. Unusual and out of this world varnam.
2. Something by Meesu Krishnaiyer.
3. Something else by Mazhavai Chidambara Bharathi
4. Tamil song by Muthuthandavar.
5. Vedanayakam Pillai song.
6. Gopalarishnan Krishna Gandhi song. Sorry, Bharathi not Gandhi.
RTP in Jogeswari. swarams in Priyadarshini, Jaijailalitha, Patdeep and Gorakh Kalyan.
Tamil bhajan in Gorakh Kalyan.
Vazhiya Senthamizh.

The crowd goes ape.

sankark · Post by **sankark** » 26 Dec 2015, 23:01

The souvenir would have the list, wouldn't it?

PS: would be a hoot if he were to read this and follow it to the T.

srinivasan.raghavan · Post by **srinivasan.raghavan** » 27 Dec 2015, 00:04

Do I sense some sarcasm @harimau? Numbers 6 & 7 sound mischievous. And of course the last phrase

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 27 Dec 2015, 07:15

Harriman and straight talk are oxymoron . Sorry Haimau, better luck with ticket next time.

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 27 Dec 2015, 07:52

kvchellappa wrote:Sorry Haimau, better luck with ticket next time.

Never underestimate the resourcefulness of Team Harimau nor their ability to find their way into the auditorium by cornering, if necessary, some Sabha officials; the last has not been attempted yet, not even for the Duelling Abhangists.

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 27 Dec 2015, 08:06

Why don't you conduct your sociological research at the 6am line at the academy and make yourself useful by snaring me a ticket while you are at it?

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 27 Dec 2015, 08:12

[i[/i]He will snatch away and tear the ticket as that is punya a to him. Attending ss concert is papa.

Rsachi · Post by **Rsachi** » 27 Dec 2015, 09:52

Harimau,
How could you miss the words of the Pallavi:
Atishaya aanandam! Carrrom better than rum
At least ludo, drafts & Monopoly vilayaduvom!

Pardon all true rasikas for this attempt at humour.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 27 Dec 2015, 10:03

Striped one,
While those who attend might gain some puNyA (for them, what you say is puN, aiyyA--it's hurting).

You hover around NGS and miss a thODi, and play your tune around this evening's MA!

Here I go, as in a mother's reprimand:
ENDA? nalla kachEri onRukku ellAraiyum varachonnAyEDA? ippOdu pAr, nI kurangA, avargaLA?
(look! You were so good to alert others about a good concert. But in this instance, are you the ape or is it others?)

Going to our region in tamizh nADu of yore: pazhayadu was amritA (scientists seem to zero in on it now?), but to eschew other kinds of fare in modern times--had you been born in our region--I'd say is a bit of an anachronism

MV · Post by MV » 27 Dec 2015, 11:25

I could happily go home on that blissful veena kutcheri (it deserves a separate thread instead of references in others) by Jayanthi Kumaresh yesterday. But I still have a couple on my wishlist-one of them is definitely Sanjay. Still can't source a ticket to his MA concert this evening- to hear the tup-tup artiste belt out some Meesu Krishnaiyyer, some Bharathi and oh that terrible manodharmam he offers. There is no accounting for taste, eh Harimau

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 27 Dec 2015, 13:01

MV wrote: There is no accounting for taste, eh Harimau

Loko bhinna ruchi.

Or, as we say, whatever floats your boat!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 27 Dec 2015, 13:52

In a flotilla--
My boat's better than your float
Is not the refrain--

How many there!
How different!
How good are many!
We wonder and delight--

That's what the season's about--jay hO!
Take your picks, however different
They all are, and ought be too--thus
Each good one a winner, victor-jay hO!

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 27 Dec 2015, 14:21

All musicians when they perform In music academy,they focus on intense carnatic ragas and avoid thamizh krithis in general(there may be just).They usually sing most krithis from trinity. Harimau songlist will be wrong in four hours time is my best guess.

Sankark
Half the musicians donot reveal the songs in the song list. Sanjay's page is blank in the souvenir.

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 27 Dec 2015, 15:04

Is it true that Tamizh kritis will not fit the bill as depicting carnatic ragas faithfully? Pasupathi's post about kalki's encomium on MS concert with all Tamizh songs is not for the connoisseur? Has not MA also distanced itself from the mindset that Tamizh songs are taboo? I am sure Sanjay will not carry any feeling that Tamizh song is to be avoided . He made bold to include his flair for Tamizh songs in his speech.

devan · Post by **devan** » 27 Dec 2015, 15:48

Nice one harimau.there will be tirukural.there will be one for the nonbelievers.

kunthalavarali · Post by **kunthalavarali** » 27 Dec 2015, 16:15

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sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 27 Dec 2015, 18:50

Starting with kalyani ata tala varnam which many 19th century harimaus roundly criticized as hindiwallah stuff

Top order of a cricket team on stage, all in white.

After Savita's concert feels like a buffalo run across a china store

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 27 Dec 2015, 18:53

vAh rE vAh!

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 27 Dec 2015, 19:02

Varadarajan
Neyveli Venkatesh
KVG
swarna rethas (support)
Rahul? (sruti)

Kamalamba rakshatu maam, anandabhairavi

Nice malayamarutham alapana with a couple of long kaarvais & violin rounding off all the musical ideas neatly

Anumaaney samikku indha adayalam sollaiyya in rupakam, swaras at the pallavi. Brighas flowing more freely by the end.

Kaanada alapana

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 27 Dec 2015, 19:18

thanks for updates.
A Tamizh song!

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 27 Dec 2015, 19:29

Started with a feather's touch and picked up pace with trademark tra ras & vroom ooms in tara sthayee. Brigha speed has caught up with the violin. Compact violin alapana. Sukhi evvaro kriti follows.

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 27 Dec 2015, 19:35

Appreciation for Venkatesh's sarvalaghu & launches into the anupallavi.

MDR esque swagger in the charanam.

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 27 Dec 2015, 19:44

Extended vilamba kala swaras at pallavi line giving way to some brisk mel kala swaras ending in ga ga. Concluding with nice korvai & thani (starting at super speed) follows. Fast finger harakiri in the thani.

Vande sada padmababham in navarasa kanada

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 27 Dec 2015, 20:06

RTP in sankarabharanam. Forceful alapana steadily built up with long karvais & hitting the tara sthayee panchamam again & again like a young boy jumping to slap the heavy brass disc at the temple. Ending with the hint of nottu swaras, also emulated on the violin.

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 27 Dec 2015, 20:42

Electric tanam with both violin & vocal finishing in unison.

Seems like an 8 kalai pallavi in rupakam?

Sree saraswathi namostute
Paradevate Varade

rummy · Post by **rummy** » 27 Dec 2015, 20:44

thx for the ball by ball commentary!

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 27 Dec 2015, 20:46

Good to be posted of the progress. Thanks.

sridhar_ranga · Post by **sridhar_ranga** » 27 Dec 2015, 20:49

tisra jhampa, methinks

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 27 Dec 2015, 20:59

What inspired imagery in your posts, Suresh

ArunAchalak kavi, one could guess. Yes, tamizhp pATTu, Chellappa.

SBharaNam--big in CM league--unless Harimau calls it western music. Sri sarawathi namOstutE--in praise of the goddess who is MA's logo?

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 27 Dec 2015, 21:16

Rasikas add vivid colours here (ignoring one or two who daub). Enjoyable.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 27 Dec 2015, 21:27

Posted in the wrong thread and so deleted...

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 27 Dec 2015, 21:32

deleted.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 27 Dec 2015, 21:38

Chellappa,
Both our posts belong in the Savitha Narasimhan thread

Please take it there...

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 27 Dec 2015, 22:33

sridhar_ranga wrote:tisra jhampa, methinks

Chatusra Rupakam, if I may say so.

One beat, followed by 3 finger counts, followed by a beat and a turn.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 27 Dec 2015, 22:37

You may say so. But who told you? You were not there, of course...

pattamaa · Post by **pattamaa** » 27 Dec 2015, 22:42

Please trash all harimau post from this thread.
That was a classical "madi" concert from sanjay.

Can't expect harimau to stoop to such low. I had a spare ticket until yesterday, didn't know harimau is this keen.

Back to concert, no tuptup, lollipop etc....a chaste kanada, and shankarabharanam, along with bonus malayamarutham

Pallavi tala, I thought it is chatusra rupakam, 4 Kalai, but based on tala Anga displayed, it looked like rupaka 8 Kalai..but, I am sure it was 4 Kalai and also sung in 2 Kalai later.

Or, was it a tala with 6 beat/count in 4 Kalai, not part of saptha tala ?

Virutham and a tamizh song in patdeep was engaging, and nice virutham in madhyamavati in karpagambal at end was lovely

pattamaa · Post by **pattamaa** » 27 Dec 2015, 22:43

sridhar_ranga wrote:tisra jhampa, methinks

Can be, I was also,thinking same, but angas doesn't match

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 27 Dec 2015, 23:12

pattamaa wrote:Please trash all harimau post from this thread.
That was a classical "madi" concert from sanjay.

Hey, I got two things right:

1) Patdeep
2) The crowd goes ape.

With that kind of a hit ratio, I should be sitting under a tree telling arul vaakku to people and I could be minting money!

Didn't that Tamil song say this is the land of arul vaakku?

I agree that this turned out to be a madi concert.

Perhaps there is no need in the future for tup-tups and dugu-dugus, now that the Sangeetha Kalanidhi has been awarded.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 27 Dec 2015, 23:29

Well-said, my friend

So, you WERE there in the balcony, studying the primates

MaheshS · Post by **MaheshS** » 28 Dec 2015, 04:03

harimau wrote: I agree that this turned out to be a madi concert.

Perhaps there is no need in the future for tup-tups and dugu-dugus, now that the Sangeetha Kalanidhi has been awarded.

Even if the tup-tup and dugu-dugu's go away, you will not, He has been "harimauled"

narayan · Post by **narayan** » 28 Dec 2015, 05:42

Hey, I got two things right:

1) Patdeep
2) The crowd goes ape.

Dear harimau,
I'm not aware of what exactly tup-tup and dugu-dugu mean, although you have been using these for so long. It's one of those things that one is supposed to know, I guess.
But what I do know is Patdeep and I am curious as to why you object to it. It is a perfectly good tune and worthy of solid elaboration - Carnatic style. Sanjay is a few years ahead of his time, that is all.
You should try singing it. I have.

Vedavanam · Post by **Vedavanam** » 28 Dec 2015, 07:51

Point is do Carnatic musicians need to elaborate Hindustani ragas? Many artists today have gone this route or sing everything with a Hindustani twist. The boundaries are getting blurry.

Ananth · Post by **Ananth** » 28 Dec 2015, 08:03

Vedavanam wrote:Point is do Carnatic musicians need to elaborate Hindustani ragas? Many artists today have gone this route or sing everything with a Hindustani twist. The boundaries are getting blurry.

Point is, so what if they do. I can accept that the boundary is blurry or whatever if this became the norm, rather than an occasional beautiful exception.
Finally it's only about how chaste and musical the rendition was.
Savita Narasimhan sang a lovely Hamirkalyani and wasn't that good.

Ananth · Post by **Ananth** » 28 Dec 2015, 08:04

Chaste, only to distinguish against light music.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 28 Dec 2015, 09:37

Suresh,
Thanks for taking the rest of us along into the auditorium

The only thing missing is the virutham lines. Wonder if they were S Bharathi's patriotic lines...

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 28 Dec 2015, 09:53

Bingo!

Viruttam was in Bhimplas, Begada, Sindubhairavi and Patdeep.

Finished with a karpagambal viruttam in madhyamavati and then pavamana.

PS: My battery ran out at the viruttam.

kvchellappa · Post by **kvchellappa** » 28 Dec 2015, 10:16

adadA, varutthamA irukku. jorA ellAtthaiyum sollindu vanthInga.

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 28 Dec 2015, 17:09

Did some interesting improvisation with the words udal & uyir while singing the last kriti

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 28 Dec 2015, 17:36

AIR was recording this, so should be on the radio soon

pattamaa · Post by **pattamaa** » 28 Dec 2015, 20:46

Good. Hope to hear RTP again....