Carnatica Bros for Sri R.K.Srikantan's 87th Birthday

CM-Fan · Post by **CM-Fan** » 19 Jan 2007, 13:28

The 12th annual Shankranti festival & the 87th birthday celebration of Sri R.K.Srikantan was inaugurated by the Karnataka chief minister H.D KumarSwamy.Concerts were organised by the trust from Jan 16th-19th in Malleshwaram, Bangalore.

Vocal:K.N.Shashikiran & Chitravina.P.Ganesh(Carnatica Bros)
Mridangam:Renuka Prasad
Violin:C.N.Chandrashekar
Ghatam:Krishnamurthy

Song List:
1.KanakAngi(Varnam)-Thodi-Khanda Jati Ata tala
2.Jaya Jaya JAnaki KAntha(Devarnama)-NAtai-KhandaChApu-Purandaradasar
3.Nejeisi nene-Poornachandrika-Adi-Patnam Subramanyam Iyer
4.Entha ninne-Mukhari-Roopaka-Thyagarajar
5.UmaGowri-Poorvikalyani-MishraChApu-Chitravina N.Ravikiran
6.JagadODhArana-KApi-Adi-Purandaradasar
7.Thillana-Janjooti-Adi
8.DashAvatara Mangalam

The brothers started off well with the Thodi varnam followed by the lively rendition of the devarnama Jaya Jaya JAnaki in Natai.
Chitravina Ganesh's Mukhari alapana was simply superb.His kalpanaswarams showed his creative caliber.K.N.Shashikiran's deep-throated soulful alapana in Poorvikalyani was extremely appealing.It was elaborate,very moving & evocative.They sang the chitteswarams followed by the swarasahithya for the Poorvikalyani kriti.One notable feature was the ragam itself was introduced while rendering the chitteswarams.Overall a good and enjoyable concert.The taniAvartanams presented by all the accompanying artists was amazing.
The organiser/speaker was so overwhelmed by their vocal performance that he could not stop praising them although the time was running out.He compared them to Alathur Brothers and was reminded of their concerts.

Raja Chandra · Post by **Raja Chandra** » 19 Jan 2007, 22:39

CM-Fan wrote:The 12th annual Shankranti festival & the 87th birthday celebration of Sri R.K.Srikantan was inagurated by the Karnataka chief minister H.D KumarSwamy.

Mr.H.D. Kumara Swamy never turned up !! He only delayed the program. With the result Dr. Sukanya Prabhakar's concert had to be curtialed to few kRuti's.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 19 Jan 2007, 22:45

What a WASTE!

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 19 Jan 2007, 22:50

Kumara Swamy and Karnataka sangIta .. shiva shivA!

-Ramakriya

mahesh_narayan · Post by **mahesh_narayan** » 19 Jan 2007, 23:09

Jayaram Sir, the young iyengar couple you referred to would have uttered 'Vishnu Vishnu' after reading Ramakriya's post

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 19 Jan 2007, 23:59

Mahesh Sir,
We wouldn't have told viSnu viSnu. We would hve muttered nArAyaNA (once) and slapped our forehead.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 20 Jan 2007, 00:00

I see that Queen's birthday list is rather expansive this time around!

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 20 Jan 2007, 00:09

ksrimech wrote:Mahesh Sir,
We wouldn't have told viSnu viSnu. We would hve muttered nArAyaNA (once) and slapped our forehead.

yam shaivAh samupAsatE shiva iti brahEti vEdAntinah
bouddhAh buddha iti pramANapaTavah kartEti naiyAyikAh |
arhan ityatha jaina shAsanaratAh karmEti mImAsakAh
sOyam vO vidadhAtu vAnchitaphalam trIlOkyanAthO hariH ||

- From a stone inscription in the vijayanArAyaNa temple in bElUru, karnATaka (Popularly known as chennakEshava - the handsome kEshava

whom the shaivas meditate as shiva, and the vedantis call brahma
whom the bouddhas call as the enlighened one, and the realists call karta
whom the jainas term arhan and mImAskAras call action
he, hari, the lord of three words, bestow our desires

(alternately,
he, Sri kEshava, always bestow us our desires)

Peace

-Ramakriya

(The lAst pAda has an alternate pATha as below:

sOyam vO vidadhAtu vAnchitaphalam srIkEshavEshassadA ||)

jayaram · Post by **jayaram** » 20 Jan 2007, 00:57

In this context, I am reminded of MDR's lovely kriti 'hariyum haranum ondRE'...

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 20 Jan 2007, 01:25

Ramakriya, Jayaram and mahesh_narayan Sirs,
People got me wrong I guess. I have no problem with people saying Siva SivA. I just wanted to record my reaction for the chief minister's act. I wanted to make it a lil funny by adding that slapping part. But, it turned out bad and people did not like it. I wouldn't have corrected anyone to say nArAyaNA instead of SivA. The problem is that the first name which comes up for me is nArAyaNA like annamayyA would say vEnkatESA or sadguru tyAgarAjasvAmi or SRIrAmadAsa would say SRIrAmA for being the iSTa dEvatA. For me, Sivah is also a name of SRImannArAyaNa as stated by BiSmACAryAr - "sarvah sarvah Sivah stANuh". I would like to add the references made in annamayya keerthana "enta mAtramuna" popularized by Smt MS. I apologise if I have hurt anyone.

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 20 Jan 2007, 01:30

ksrimech.

I did not get you wrong at all - because there was nothing wong there! I just thought of sharing this wonderful shloka will all of you.

-Ramakriya

clueless · Post by **clueless** » 20 Jan 2007, 01:46

On a related note, a joke told to me by my pre-teen daughter:

What do Carnatic musicians sing when it is cold?

Shiver Shiver Shiver ena raada

CM-Fan · Post by **CM-Fan** » 20 Jan 2007, 08:27

Raja Chandra wrote:
CM-Fan wrote:The 12th annual Shankranti festival & the 87th birthday celebration of Sri R.K.Srikantan was inagurated by the Karnataka chief minister H.D KumarSwamy.
Mr.H.D. Kumara Swamy never turned up !! He only delayed the program. With the result Dr. Sukanya Prabhakar's concert had to be curtialed to few kRuti's.

I attended only Carnatica Bros' concert on Jan 17th & someone told me that H.D.Kumarswamy had inaugurated the program on Jan 16th.I also heard the concert on 16th was pretty good.It was just hearsay.
Anyways,it doesn't matter who inaugurated the program.The program was primarily for Sri R.K.Srikantan.He was present throughout the concert.I enjoyed the concert on Jan 17th.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 20 Jan 2007, 09:20

ksrimech,
None of the gents you addressed took offense! What you said was funny--see, I'm silly enough to savor it, but then, certain SERIOUS minded (not senior minded!) youngster(s) are so intense that humor sounds frivolous to them. Cool, the ready reckoner for 'the best medicine' would chime in now, I hope--to tranquilize the ones who take things too seriously. Ravi, you know what I mean...

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 20 Jan 2007, 11:03

Ksrimech
Here, I am directing another joke at Arasi and Co.
last one for today, I promise.
Let me see if she gets angry and asks me to return the wonderful breakfast they gave me , last month !

[quote]Wife reading Husbandâ€™s Fortune card from weighing machine:
â€œYou are a leader with a magnetic personality and strong character.You are intelligent , witty ,and attractive to the oppositeâ€¦.â€

Raja Chandra · Post by **Raja Chandra** » 20 Jan 2007, 12:04

CM-Fan wrote:.Anyways,it doesn't matter who inaugurated the program.The program was primarily for Sri R.K.Srikantan.He was present throughout the concert.I enjoyed the concert on Jan 17th.

Sorry ! I mistook you for a C.M.Fan who reached the venue after 24 Hours !

Thank God you are a cm lover

( sorry CML)

(pun intended)

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 20 Jan 2007, 12:11

:lol:

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 20 Jan 2007, 12:18

Since I edited out some icons, you wouldn't know, would you? The laugh is on you now, Cool...
And I promise to behave and be a 'serious' woman...

jayaram · Post by **jayaram** » 20 Jan 2007, 18:51

<<<And I promise to behave and be a 'serious' woman...>>>
that would be like superwoman going back to her office-wear