Palani Smt. Deivakunjaram, Nadasvaram Concert, Music Club II

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 29 Mar 2007, 00:14

Palani Smt. B. Deivakunjaram - Nadasvaram
Trichy Sri Sankar - Nadasvaram Support
Gudiyatham Sri Annamalai - Thavil
Gudiyatham Sri Srinivasan - Thavil

Music Club IIT Madras
28th March 2007 6:45 pm

gajAnanayutam - vEgavAhini - Adi - MD (short sketch)
parama pAvana - ranjani - Adi - Meesu Krishna Iyer (short sketch)
vAncatOnu - karnaranjani - rUpakam - HMB (R)
bhajana sEya rAdA - dharmavati - rUpakam - MV (RS)
sadAnanda tANDavam - bahudAri - Adi - Achutta Dasa (R)
sentil ANDavan - kharaharapriyA - rUpakam (R)
cEsinadella maracitivO - tODi - Adi - T (RS)
tani Avarththanam
enna kavi pADinAlum - sivaranjani - Adi - Anayampatti Adisesha ayyar (short sketch)
gOvindA ninna - janasammOdini - Adi - PD
enna tavam - kApi - Adi - PS (short sketch)
kurai onRum illai - rAgamAlikA - Adi - Rajaji
maguDi
tuLLumada vETkai - hamsAnandi - Adi - Thiruppugazh
madhyamAvati short sketch

Smt Deivakunjaram comes from the family of Mridangam Maestro Palani Subramaniya Pillai and is one of the Palani Sisters. Her concert for the Music Club IIT Madras, was very good and filled with classicm It was another classical example of hidden talent in unknown pockets of the world. She had chosen quite a few rAgams closely associated with each other, and yet pulled it off with a hitch.

The concent began with a nice short sketch of vEgavAhini and the kriti was rendered well. The short sketch of ranjani and the piece were very enjoyable. The first AlApanai of the concert, karnaranjani was very enjoyable and the kriti was rendered well.

The dharamavati AlApanai was a surprise, for it was just a few minutes after a ranjani piece. However the AlApanai was done in a very elaborate fashion showing quite a few nice sancarams. The kriti was rendered beautifully with a round of svarams to follow. The bahudAri piece was good also.

The AlApanai of kharaharapriyA was very elaborate again. It was very indicative of being the main piece of the evening. The kriti was rendered with a lot of bhavam. However Smt Deivakunjaram chose to not play svarams and started off with an elaborate AlApanai of tODi. She had played quite a few very intricate and enjoyable sancarams and made it very interesting. The kriti couldnt get better. cEsinadElla on nAdasvaram, immortalised by TNR, was tooo good to hear. The svarams which followed were also very elaborate and had quite a bit of intricate kaNakku and a nice kOrvai. The next half an hour, was an illuminating tani. It was one of the best tanis one has heard. The patterns they exchanged very very nice and the korappu started from 4 Avartanams and the final kOrvai was pretty long as well.

All the post tani pieces were rendered very nicely. The maguDi left a lot of us keep a watch on the windows.

To sum up, it was a very enjoyable concert and it gives more reason to believe that the real talent in music actually lies untouched and not even found, let alone, getting recognised.

Will there be a day when such deserving artists make a name for themselves? or is it probably better for them to stay unnoticed and hence uncorrupted?

bharath

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 29 Mar 2007, 00:19

enna kavi pADinAlum is not Sivaranjani- it is nIlamaNi I think

mahesh33 · Post by **mahesh33** » 29 Mar 2007, 00:20

Phew!

Bharath, you have outdone yourself. Nice, nicer, real nice! Outstanding review

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 29 Mar 2007, 00:22

drshrikaanth wrote:enna kavi pADinAlum is not Sivaranjani- it is nIlamaNi I think

thanks DRS.

mahesh33 wrote:Bharath, you have outdone yourself. Nice, nicer, real nice! Outstanding review

Thats so nice of u to tell that

jayaram · Post by **jayaram** » 29 Mar 2007, 00:29

Will there be a day when such deserving artists make a name for themselves? or is it probably better for them to stay unnoticed and hence uncorruped?

Very good question. Reminds me of the transformation (for the worse, I feel) of the likes of Mandolin S. once they become super-famous.

Bharat, thank you for that nice review. Does anyone have recordings of Smt Deivkunjaram they can share with us?

meena · Post by **meena** » 29 Mar 2007, 00:30

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rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 29 Mar 2007, 00:32

on second thoughts, i do think, Smt Deivakunjaram rendered it in sivaranjani only

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 29 Mar 2007, 00:32

meena wrote:bharath, the composer is Ayanampatti AdishEsha Iyer

AnayammpaTTi AdiSESha ayyar

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 29 Mar 2007, 00:33

So there are 2 versions of this song- bothsound like close rAgas even otherwise.

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 29 Mar 2007, 01:18

I have A.Adisesha Iyer's book and the rAgA given is nIlamaNi.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 29 Mar 2007, 11:15

Arent sivaranjani and nIlamaNi related to each other on the pancama sruthi - madhyama sruthi relationship?

if yes, then i think it is probably more convinient for nadasvaram vidwans to stick to the panchama sruthi and hence play it in sivaranjani.

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 29 Mar 2007, 12:47

rbharath wrote:The maguDi left a lot of us keep a watch on the windows.

LOL - good one, Bharath!!!

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 29 Mar 2007, 14:08

rbharath wrote:Arent sivaranjani and nIlamaNi related to each other on the pancama sruthi - madhyama sruthi relationship?

if yes, then i think it is probably more convinient for nadasvaram vidwans to stick to the panchama sruthi and hence play it in sivaranjani.

O! So artistes can wily-nily change rAgas to suit their cinvenience? interesting.

In any case

nIlamaNi scale- S R2 M1 P D1 N3 S | S N3 D1 P M1 R2 S ||

Sivaranjani as popularly sung is S R2 G2 P D2 S | S D2 P G2 R2 S ||

So your observation on the relationship between the 2 rAgas is incorrect.

gravikiran · Post by **gravikiran** » 29 Mar 2007, 14:22

enna kavi padinalum was a madurai somu hit number IIRC.