Sudha Raghunathan at Dallas IFAA Sunday Sep 11

[shankarank]

Indian Fine Arts Academy and Sankara Nethralaya OM Trust jointly presented the MS Centenary Memorial concert of Dallas

Vid. Sudha Ragunathan
Vid M Rajeev - Violin
Vid. Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan Mridangam
Vid Raman Morsing

I entered when SObillu saptsvara was being rendered - don't know what preceded

SObillu saptasvara , with nice swara rounds - finale with kuraippu swarams.
SAntAkAram - Slokam lanching into SrimannarayaNa – Bowli
Ranga Pura Vihara
nI irangAvidil – good off beat rounds with pArkadalil uditta
Janani Ninnuvina – rItigaula – m. cApu ( A S) – swarams at suvasini tamasamu ( swara sAhitya of chittai swaram) .. which starts middle of avarta.. each section of the sahitya was varied – alternately in kAlam to reach samam and swaras were done to the appropriate take off point..Rajeev provided a faithful reply each time.
akilANDESvari - dvijAvanti
rAma rAma rAma rAma ramA ennirO – purandaradAsa – Vasanta - rUpakam
Nanupalimpa – Mohanam – Adi – (RNST) - Neraval at karamuna cara kOdaNDa kAntitO
Bhavayami Gopla pAlam
mErE thO giridara gOpala – meera Bahajan
.. I may have missed few items here
kAtrinilE varum gItam
maitrIm bhajata

With MSS evergreens sprinkled everywhere, the artiste brushed off her voice issues – and presented a decent delivery with usual flair and brighas to a full house – the largest crowd that Dallas has seen recently. She added good amount of verve to her renditions to compensate. I should say her voice was in a better shape than what I would expect these days of her.

Her assiduous cultivation of rasika base during her prime is still getting her committed rasikas to attend - something commendable.

NanupAlimpa swarams had good math rounds – with a caturASra tiSram slipped in between.
Vaidyanathan restricted the length of his tani rounds to give Morsing more time – and Raman displayed all the different sound effects one by one to a cross beat tiSra nadai.

A nice tribute to the memory of MSS.

[arasi]

Sounds like a good concert.

"nI irangAyenil pugalEdu"?

[kvchellappa]

"Bhavayami Gopala balam"

[rshankar]

First off, thanks for the balanced review.
VK - we'll wait for your review of the Chicago-area one!!
Let me add to the minor sAhitya corrections...'karamuna Sara kOdaNDa kAntitO'

[vasanthakokilam]

>VK - we'll wait for your review of the Chicago-area one!!

Did not make it, unfortunately. I was in the middle of a move which went way beyond what I planned for. A facebook friend and a member here ( you know who you are! ) did a FB live broadcast of Bhavayami Gopala. I put down the heavy stuff I was carrying, took a break and watched it. That sounded very nice.

[shankarank]

"Bhavayami Gopala balam"

Looks like I was addressing Yashoda ( I guess that is not the exact Sanskrit to do that ) and made a nick name for the child.

If the Lord had any grace he would come and restore my version of the line - just like he did for Jayadeva in Gita Govindam !

Again thanks all for the corrections.