Sankranti Music Festival @ SRLKM

[badari]

Led by Sri Krishna Prasad, RLKM Conducted a weeklong festival featuring youth artists from across the southern plateau.

I was fortunate to attend most of them (except 1)

2017 Jan 02 SikkilGurucharan BaluRaghuram RajeshSrinivasan CPVyasaVittala @ RLKM Sankranti Festival
Vocal: Vid. Sikkil Gurucharan
Violin: Vid. Balu Raghuram
Mridanga: Vid. Rajesh Srinivasan
Khanjari: Vid. CP VyasaVittala

01 calamEla jEsEvayya nATakurinji mUlevIdu rangaswamy nattuvanAr

02 BhAramA i baluni hamsanAdha Adi GNB

03 ETi yOchanalu kiraNAvaLi Adi tyAgarAja

04 kA guruguha shaNmkha kOsala m.cApu kOTIswara Iyer (A)

05 mAmava paTTAbhi rAma maNirangu M.Eka m.dIkshitar

06 marugElarA O rAghavA jayanthashrI Adi tyAgarAja

07 rAga tAna pallavi shaNkarAbharaNa Adi (R T T)
Ananda pUrNa bOdOham shivOham sachid
rAgamAlika in vasantha, naLinakAnti, varALi, Anandabhairavi, AbhOgi...in short cycles

08 Ananda pUrNa bOdOham shaNkarAbharaNa Adi sadAshiva brahmEndra (S)

09 manadai orumai vasantha TALA COMPOSER?

10 tillAna sindhubhairavi srImushaNam rAja Rao

11 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi tyAgarAja


2017 Jan 04 MahadevanShankarnarayann SrinidhiMatur ArjunKumar @ RLKM Shankranti Festival
Vocal: Vid. Mahadevan Shankarnarayann
Violin: Vid. Srinidhi Matur
Mridanga: Vid. Arjun Kumar

01 jaya jaya gaNapati hamsadhvani gaNapati sachidAnandA (S)
swara @ jaya jaya gaNapati

02 mAmavasadA varade nATakuranji rUpaka s.thirunAL (S)
swara @ mAmava sadA

03 rAma bhakti sAmrAjaya shuddhabangALa Adi tyAgarAja (S)
swara @ rAma bhakti

04 anupama guNAmbudhi aTANa khanda chApu tyAgarAja

05 pAlisamma muddu SaradE shrIranjani Adi p.dAsa (A)

06 abhayAmbAyAm sahAna tripuTa m.dhIkshitar (A, S)
swara @ abhayAmbAyAm

07 marivEre dikkevaraiyya rAmA shaNmukhapriya Adi paTNam subramaNya iyer (A, S)
swara @ sannutAnga

08 mOhana rAma mOhana Adi tyAgarAja (A, S, T)
swara @ mOhana rAma

09 rAga tAna pallavi latAngi
pallavi line: madhurabhAnshini latAngi rAja mAtani . . . madhurApuri vAsini
rAgamAlika swaras in dEsh, sindhubhairavi,

10 ETra kalangaL edir pOngi midalippa (ti) nAdanAmakriya chApu ANDAL

11 tA tadhIm tadhIm tanadhirana... tillAna shaNkarAbharaNa ?

12 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi tyAgarAja


2017 Jan 06 ASMurali VishweshSwaminathan SaiShivu BhagyalakskshmiMKrishna @ RLKM Shankranti Festival
Vocal: Vid. AS Murali
Violin: Vid. Vishwesh Swaminathan
Mridanga: Vid. Sai Shivu
Morsing: Vid. Bhagyalakskshmi M Krishna

01 vIribONi varNa bhairavi khaNDa aTa pachchimiriam Adiappayya (O)

02 vAtApi gaNapatim bhajEham hamsadhvani Adi m.dIkshitar (S)
swara @ vAtApi

03 smaraNe ondhe sAladhE malayamArutha rUpaka p.dAsa

04 rAvE himagiri kumAri kanci kAmAkSi varada tODi Adi syAma sAstri (O)

05 pAlimparAvadELarA Arabhi Adi tiSra naDai Pallavi Sesha Iyer (A, S)
swara @ pAlimpa

06 O jagadambA Anandabhairavi Adi shyAmA sAstri (O)

07 kalayAmi hrudinanda kannaDa swAtitirunAL

08 paTTi viDuva rAdhu nA chai manjari Adi tyAgarAja

09 EtA vuanrA nilakaDa nIku kalyANi Adi tyAgarAja (A, N, S, T)
nereval and swara @ shrIkaruDagu tyAgarAja karArcita

10 iDadu padamtUkki khamAs pApanAsam sivan

11 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi tyAgarAja


2017 Jan 09 HKNM HNB PrithviBhaskar GSRamanujam SSrisaila VSRamesh @ RLKM
Violin Trio: Vid. HKNarasimha Murthy,
Vid. HNBhaskar
Vid. PrithviBhaskar


Mridanga: Vid. GSRamanujam
Ghata: Vid. SSrisaila
Morsing: Vid. VSRamesh

01 dwijAvanti varNa Adi paTNamaDai krishNa Iyer (O)

02 vAtApi gaNapatim bhajEham hamsadhvani Adi m.dIkshitar (S)
Swara @ vAtApi

03 jananI ninnuvinA rItigauLa m.cApu subbarAya shAstri (A)

04 enta muddO enta sogasu bindumAlini Adi tyAgarAja (A)

05 rAja rAja rAdhitE nirOshTa tiSra Eka muttaiah bhAgavatar

06 upacAramulanu cEkonavayya bhairavi rUpakA tyAgarAja (A, N, S, T)
nereval @ kapaTa nATaka sUtradhAri

07 rAga tAna pallavi kAnaDa khaNDa tripuTa

08 jagadOdhArana ADisidaLu yashOdha kApi p.dAsa (O)

09 VenkatAchala nilayam sindhubhairavi Adi p.dAsa

10 bhAgyAda lakshmi bAramma madhyamAvati Adi p.dAsa

11 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi tyAgarAja



2017 Jan 10 PadmaSugavanam BKRaghu BCManjunath SNNarayanaMurthy @ RLKM
Vocal: Vid. PadmaSugavanam
Violin: Vid. BKRaghu
Mridanga: Vid. BCManjunath
Ghata: Vid. SNNarayanaMurthy

01 brOchevArevarE srI ranjani Adi tyAgaraja (O)

02 kUDArai vellum pUrvikalyANi shir gOvinda undanai (ti) pUrvikalyANi Adi ANDAL (O)

03 srI ranganAtham upAsmahe pUrNachandrika Adi m.dhIkshitar (CS)

04 shashi vadana bhakta candrajyOti tyAgarAja (A)

05 ninnAda nEla nIrajAksha shri rAma kannaDa Adi tyAgarAja
Swara at ninnADa

06 sarasijanAbha murare tODi swAthi thirunAL (A, N, S)
Nereval at muravAri

07 chinna nAdenA chEyi kalAniDhi Adi tyAgarAja

08 rAga tAna pallavi mOhana chaturaSra tripuTa 2 akshara eDUpu
mOhana muddu rangayya ... Nannu brOvavayya
Ragamalika in Lalita... nATakuranji.... HamsAnandi...varALi

09 ugAbhOga followed by Isha ninna charaNa bhajane dEsha kanaka dAsa

10 tillAna khamAs

11 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi tyAgarAja

expect a summary review shortly on my blog
http://arohanaavarohana.blogspot.in/

[badari]

Learning how to squander.

Given the rather crowded phalanx of artistes (particularly young ones yet to fully establish themselves) that is at the vanguard of Carnatic music today, squandering an opportunity to perform in front of a discerning audience is sacrilege; yet that is exactly what a bunch of youngsters did at the recent YUVA festival organised by Sri Rama Lalita Kala Mandira.

The line up was quite star studded. A master in his own right ... Sikkil Gurucharan; Old gun on the circuit, but new to Bangalore - AS Murali; Debutant Mahadevan ShankarNarayanan; The 3 generation Trio on Violin; and another artist on Debut season at bangalore - Dr. Padma Sugavanam.

All the artists had full 3 hours each to show their potential and make a mark on the rasikas of Bangalore. Except for Junior Shankarnarayanan, the other 3 vocalists squandered the opportunity through a mediocre performance.

The full 3 hours slot was used by none, non co-operative voice adding issue with one of them, missing pre concert dicussion to sing a RTP with the other and at last but not the least, peeping into lyrics even for a tried and tested kriti, dropped my thrill of following up my Chennai season attendance.

But while whatever that was presented was aesthetically crystal clear, I left each of the concerts wanting more and in a dissapointed mood.

It's a coincidence, writing this review on the birthday of one of bangalore's most famous and favoured sons was born. The most popular meme on THE WALL which I have come across goes "when your name is Rahul, make it Dravid and not Gandhi!"

Sad to see a bunch of Rahul's move the Gandhian way.....

[Rsachi]

Badari,
Your comment about artistes "not choosing their shots wisely and thus squandering away their chances" is a rasika's pointer to the importance of the SRLKM fest.
I had too many things going on personally to attend a full concert. But I breezed in and out for 20 min or so during Ms Sankari Krishnan's concert. I enjoyed the ambiance of the colourful shamiana auditorium, somehow fully insulated from street sounds and mosquitoes. The audio system was quite acceptable. Her rendition of Anandabhairavi "Kamalamba Samrakshatu" was enjoyable. Ranjani Venkatesh was on the mridangam.

[arasi]

Wish I had more free time for music. Could attend only half of the concert in the series

Badari,
Wish I had stayed on for the RTP at the violin Trio of three generations-concert.I had to leave after tAni.
The violins sang, I would say--especially in enta muddO, enta sogasO and janani ninnu vinA.

I was hoping to see Bhagwan who is keen on violin concerts. Sachi, wish we had met. Badari, I'm glad we could meet

When a dozen people in the audience grew to a hundred or so, I was happy. Chennai perhaps doesn't draw a crowd like this for instruments?

I was early, and was happy to speak to H.N.Bhaskar. He has played for Suryaprakash in his engirundO vandAi CD (Arasi Vol: 4).

[arasi]

Sorry, repeat post...

[Lakshman]

In the Jan 2nd concert the song manadai orumaippaDutti is in Adi and is by Chidambaram Natarajasundaram Pillai.