Madurai G.S. Mani @ Sringeri Mutt, Chennai (10 Mar 2007)

[ram]

Venue: Sringeri Jagadguru Pravachana Mandiram, Sringeri Mutt Road, R.A.Puram , Chennai

Date: 10 Mar 2007

Organizer: Raja Annamalaipuram Bhakta Jana Sabha



Vocal: Sri Madurai G.S. Mani

Violin: Sri Sikkil Bhaskaran

Mrudangam: Sri Madrimangalam Swaminathan



List of songs:

1) inta chAlamu (varnam) - bEgaDa - Adi - vINai kuppaiyer (O)

2) varaguNa gambhIra gajavadanam - kAnaDA - Adi - madurai g.s. maNi

3) rArA mAyiNTi - asAvEri - Adi - thyAgarAja

4) manavyALakin - naLinakAnti - Adi - thyAgarAja (AS)

5) mEru samAna - mAyAmALavagowLa - Adi - thyAgarAja (ANST)

6) srI rAma pAdamA - amritavAhini - Adi - thyAgarAja

7) chalamElarA - mArgahindOLam - Adi - thyAgarAja

8 ) muchaTa brahmA ? - madyamAvati - Adi - ?? (A)

9) chinna nADE nA - kalAnidhi - Adi - thyAgarAja

10) viruttam - yamunA kalyANi

namAcha bazare ? (abhang) - yamunA kalyANi - chatusra Ekam - ??

11) dO din kA zindagi (viruttam) - ??

bhajO rE bhaiya - ?? - Adi - kabIr

12) slOkam - sindhubhairavi

bhajarE srI rAmam - sindhubhairavi - Adi - ??

13) dhiranA tana ta dhIm (tillAnA) - kAnaDA - Adi - jalatarangam bAbu iyengAr ?

14) Eru mayil - rEvagupti - kanDa chApu - aruNagirinAtar

15) nI nAma rUpa mulaku (mangaLam) - sowrAshTram - Adi - thyAgarAja



(Key: O=raga outline, A=raga alapana, N=neraval, S=kalpana swaram, T=taniavartanam)



The bEgaDa outline with which Sri G.S. Mani started this concert was simply out of the world. The use of three not-commonly-heard-but-beautiful patterns in the outline had me floored. The bEgaDa varnam was elevated by Sri Swaminathan's mrudangam accompaniment which was full of beautiful ghumukis. The second song was truly top class stuff. kAnaDA rAga just flowed with all its beauty. Sri G.S. Mani sang the song beautifully. I think it is his own composition as it has the mudra "rAjapUjitar" in it. This is probably the most brilliant start to a concert I have seen in a long time now. The other highlight of the concert was Sri G.S.Mani's good rendition of some of the kritis.


Source: http://ramsabode.wordpress.com/2007/03/ ... i10032007/

[meena]

Muchchata brahmadulaku dorakuna - T
Namacha bajara Pandharee -Santh Balakadasa

dO din kA zindagi (viruttam)
ram, this cannot be a viruttam, its in hindi

[Lakshman]

bhajarE shrI rAmam is by Bhadrachalam Ramdas.

[ram]

Lji & meena,

Thank you so much for the correct song names and the composer names.

As for the "dO din kA zindagi", I should have put a "?" mark right after the word viruttam ...... it was not even in hindi ... some butchered version of it Need some new term to describe such escapades.

[annapoorne]

In his harikatha discourse Sri Kalyanapuram Aravamudhachariar opines that Sri Thyagaraja would have sung the asaveri piece as

RA RAmA Inti and not RArA mAinti

[rajeshnat]

11) dO din kA zindagi (viruttam) - ??

bhajO rE bhaiya - ?? - Adi - kabIr

smt mss used to render this bhajO rE bhaiya. IIRC, this rAgam is mishra piloo.Can someone clarify.

[arasi]

Meena, in a CM concert, sung in any language, can't a tALA-less item be called viruththam? True, we employ the word SlOkA for a sanskrit verse which is rendered without tALA. We use words from several languages in CM. eDuppu and piDi are examples of thamizh words...

[rasaali]

Meena, in a CM concert, sung in any language, can't a tALA-less item be called viruththam? True, we employ the word SlOkA for a sanskrit verse which is rendered without tALA. We use words from several languages in CM. eDuppu and piDi are examples of thamizh words...

Since this was followed by a Kabir Bhajan, I am guessing this was a "doha" by Kabir. These are couplets in fairly colloquial Hindi, like the rest of Kabir's compositions.

I do agree with arasi though, there is nothing wrong in calling it a viruttam in Hindi.. :>) I believe, alangaaram is another word, especially used for tamil lyrics prefacing Thirupugazh.

PS: ONLY A GUESS

[rshankar]

Kabir has composed many many dOhA's, but he has also penned compositions that are not in the dOhA format as well.