Sanjay Subrahmanyan @ Karpagam Gardens, Chennai (24 Mar 2007

ram · Post by **ram** » 25 Mar 2007, 10:39

Venue: Karpaga Vinayagar Temple, Karpagam Gardens, Chennai

Date: 24 Mar 2007

Organizer: Karpaga Gardens Sat Sangh

Vocal: Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyan

Violin: Sri S. Varadarajan

Mrudangam: Sri Neyveli B. Venkatesh

Ghatam: Sri N. Guruprasad

List of songs:

1) ninnE kOri (varnam) - kAnadA - Adi - tiruvOtriyUr tyAgayyA (O)

2) vAraNa mukhavA - hamsadwani - rUpakam - kOTIswara iyer (S)

3) enta rANi - harikAmbOji - Adi - thyAgarAja (NS)

4) arivAr yAr unnai - mukhAri - misra chApu - aruNAchala kavirAyar (A)

5) srI rAmam - nArAyaNagowLa - Adi - muthuswAmi dIkshitar

6) sAmaja vara gamanA - hindOLam - Adi - thyAgarAja (AS)

7) nI dayachE - yadukulakAmbOji - Adi - thyAgarAja

8 ) eduTa nilachitE - shankarAbharaNam - Adi - thyAgarAja (AST)

9) jAnAti rAmam (viruttam) - jOnpuri

dasharata suta - jOnpuri - tisra Eka - vAnamAmalai jIyar

10) rAmanai bhajithAl - mAnD - Adi - pApanAsam sivan

11) kandugamada kariyai (viruttam) - rAgamAlikA (aTANA, mOhanam, hamsAnandi, sindhubhairavi, behAg, chenchuruTTi)

angai koDumalar - chenchuruTTi & nAdanAmakriyA - misra jampa & kanDa tripuTa - aruNagirinAtar

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

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

Sri Sanjay, as usual, presented a beautiful concert. The mukhAri, hindOLam and shankarAbharaNam alapanais were too good. The shankarabharaNam alapana featured nottuswaram like patterns towards the end. Sri Sanjay seemed to almost sing the first two lines of â€œOsOsiâ€

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 27 Mar 2007, 11:54

Sanjay does not shy away from supposedly "light" ragas like Mohanam and Hindolam...and his rendition proved once again that such ragas are indeed worthy of inclusion as main/sub-main pieces. I'd certainly like to hear an RTP in Hindolam one day!

coimbatorerasigan · Post by **coimbatorerasigan** » 27 Mar 2007, 19:48

Sanjay has sung an RTP in Hindolam on several occasions......though in recent times, Sahana has taken pride of place in his concerts....Ofcourse, his Neerajakshi in a commercial album is sung in a beautiful, subtle manner...I consider Sanjay's specialties to be Sahana, Hindolam, Mohanam and ofcourse Brindavana Saranga...Vijay, that review you wrote of Sanjay in Music Academy still appeals, I enjoyed it as much as I did the concert itself....

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 27 Mar 2007, 22:43

vijay wrote:Sanjay does not shy away from supposedly "light" ragas like Mohanam and Hindolam...and his rendition proved once again that such ragas are indeed worthy of inclusion as main/sub-main pieces. I'd certainly like to hear an RTP in Hindolam one day!

IMHO, if people sing/play with out mimicking bhUp or mAlkauns, their mOhanam and hindOLam will also be heavy. You can probably give the bhup-malkauns flavours post pallavi. I think Sanjay does a good job by sticking well to the basics and improvising in those lines. A couple of years ago (Dec 2001 or 2002), he sang a superlative hindOLam followed by karuNAlayanidiyE at nArada gAna sabha. I have not heard him sing mOhanam yet.

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 27 Mar 2007, 22:59

vijay wrote:Sanjay does not shy away from supposedly "light" ragas like Mohanam and Hindolam...and his rendition proved once again that such ragas are indeed worthy of inclusion as main/sub-main pieces. I'd certainly like to hear an RTP in Hindolam one day!

IMO, ragas such as mOhana and hindOLa can be termed light in only the sense that even musically light

' singers such as myself can try them

with some success

That does not mean the rAgas themselves are light by any means!

-Ramakriya

coimbatorerasigan · Post by **coimbatorerasigan** » 27 Mar 2007, 23:59

Santhanam...Light!
Mohanam...Light!

Together...Romba LITE

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 28 Mar 2007, 00:20

ramakriya wrote:That does not mean the rAgas themselves are light by any means!

Well said

shripathi_g · Post by **shripathi_g** » 28 Mar 2007, 02:12

He sang Mohana Rama recently at a concert at Madipakkam and it was by no means light. The past three or four concert reviews have featured either Narayani or Narayanagowla. It was nice to hear Narayani in a concert after a long time. But my wish for a Narayanagowla hasn't been fulfilled yet. I've heard that both Sanjay and TMK sing Sri Ramam very well.

sraja · Post by **sraja** » 28 Mar 2007, 11:44

Yes indeed Sanjay's exposition of Mohanam and Hindolam are always brilliant. Two special instances spring to mind--an alapana before Samajavaragama for Mylapore Academy in 1997 and a pallavi he sang in Rochester in the US in 2000.

sirsub11 · Post by **sirsub11** » 28 Mar 2007, 12:27

In recent months Sanjay has singled out Mohanam for major treatment in two concerts that this writer attended - Music Academy in December '06, and in Bangalore a month earlier at the Ganjam Flights of Fantasy series in Chowdiah Hall. On both occasions he chose the same krithi, "Kapali". The nadaswaram bani, which is his latest penchant, was greatly in evidence during the alapana in both venues, drawing repeated applause when he held a note for well over 30 seconds on more than one occasion.

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 28 Mar 2007, 14:33

Coimbatorerasigan, thanks...good to note that there is a possibility of a Hindolam in the not too distant future!