sanjay,s concert at Fort high school grounds

tmt fan · Post by **tmt fan** » 31 Mar 2007, 22:37

Unforgettble Kamboji raga and beautiful and meaningful neraval was today,s menu.(Evarimata and the neraval at ,Bakthaparadheenuda,)Sanjay has already joined the galaxy of musicians and he is ,the pride of Chennai,no,no, the pride of carnatic music.

tmt fan · Post by **tmt fan** » 31 Mar 2007, 22:52

the voilinist Nagai Muralidharan was in good form to match the main artiste and Mrudhangam Artiste Guruvayur Dorai
opported Sanjay with bright strokes , enhancing the quality of the concert.The totality was very admirable,one does not want to get up from the magic of music.

ram · Post by **ram** » 31 Mar 2007, 23:06

Must have been a great experience. I heard the whole of Bangalore was there ... some 7000-8000 people easily !!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 01 Apr 2007, 02:20

Sounds like sivarAtri or vaikuNta EkAdasi crowds--not rAma navami festival! Of the seven or eight thousand, would someone post the concert list?

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 01 Apr 2007, 02:26

ram wrote:Must have been a great experience. I heard the whole of Bangalore was there ... some 7000-8000 people easily !!

:-O

vinayo · Post by **vinayo** » 01 Apr 2007, 05:00

Must have been an amazing concert. Can any one post the list of songs and the duration of the concert? Lucky Bangaloreans!

Ananda Bhairavi · Post by **Ananda Bhairavi** » 01 Apr 2007, 06:36

Vocal-Sanjay Subrahmanyan
Violin-Nagai Muralidharan
Mridangam-Guruvayur Dorai
Ghatam-M A Krishnamurthi

1)Ramaikanannu-Sahana-Rupakam-PSI(S)
2)Raghunayaka-Hamsadhwani-Adi-Thyagaraja
3)Manasunilpa-Abhogi-Adi-Thyagaraja(R,S)
4)Etijanamamidiha-Varali-Mishra Chapu-Thyagaraja(R)
5)Evarimata-Kambodhi-Adi-Thyagaraja(R,N,S,T)
6)Kandena Govindena-Chandrakauns-Adi-Purandara Dasa
7)Modi jese-Khamach-Adi-?
8)A Dasar Krithi in Sindhu Bhairavi preceded by a wonderful alapanai
9)Raamanai bhajittal-Mand-Adi-?
10)A Bharathiyar kriti that I can't recall
11)Neenama-Sourashtram-Adi-Thyagaraja

meena · Post by **meena** » 01 Apr 2007, 07:06

9)Raamanai bhajittal-Mand-Adi-?

Papanasham Shivan's

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 01 Apr 2007, 07:19

Thanks Ananda Bhairavi, for spelling the vocalist's name right, and for the song list.
If only someone would let us know which song of bhArathi Sanjay sang! Every time a bhArathi song is presented on stage, some of us here go 'rah'!

Was the sindhu bhairavi song 'haridAsara upavAsada"?

Ananda Bhairavi · Post by **Ananda Bhairavi** » 01 Apr 2007, 13:09

Yes, Haridasa Upavasada was the song. Thanks!
The Bharathi song-I just can't remember it now. But it was a Ragamalika with Hamsadhwani, ummmm...what is happening to my memory:). It ended with Sindhu Bhairavi-that I remember. Sorry about this!

sowmya · Post by **sowmya** » 01 Apr 2007, 19:12

The Bharathiar song was KaaninilaM veNDum

Ananda Bhairavi · Post by **Ananda Bhairavi** » 01 Apr 2007, 19:13

Thank you:)

pallavi.pr · Post by **pallavi.pr** » 02 Apr 2007, 11:43

7)Modi jese-Khamach-Adi-?

PattABhiRAmayya

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 02 Apr 2007, 20:32

Thanks, Sowmya. The same Sowmya who delights us with bhArathi's compositions, I presume

sowmya · Post by **sowmya** » 02 Apr 2007, 21:03

Oh No! I'm not that Sowmya... I'm a music student from Bangalore. Learning Veena...

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 02 Apr 2007, 22:23

The world has room for many Sowmyas who would make it a more agreeable place to live--with their sowmyam. A veena player too! Great!

rajaglan · Post by **rajaglan** » 03 Apr 2007, 19:19

hi,

The concert was very good. Some of the highlights of this concert are
1. All his raga alapanas (abogi, varali, kamboji, sindhu bairavi) were toooo good.

2. Though I got a bit disappointed with the kamboji as main song, Sanjay kept everyone to guess which song he is going to deliver. He kept giving flavours of many songs in kamboji and definitely he exhibited superb manodharma in the alapana. At times I thought it is going to be Maa janaki or O Rangasayee or is it an RTP (?) with parimelazaga rangapatha as pallavi (MMI's fav) considering the fact that KEB delayed the concert start by half an hour.
But it was evari matta which I have not heard in a concert by Sanjay. The neraval was for a longer duration than what I have observed in Sanjay's concerts. Neraval was good. Just before the climax of swaraprasthara and till the end of swarams, the power went off and still he got great applause. Actually I was sitting closer to the dais and the audio reception was soothing when the power went off.

3. Normally Sanjay gives an RTP in most concerts in Blore with rare ragas. Last I heard was his bahudhari RTP in a different venue. He could not do it here but he compensated that with a good sindhubairavi R&S. I hope he will do it at GST at Ulsoor.

3. The audio was not good, like old time temple speakers. The speech by the organiser compared Sanjay to Sanjay of Mahabharatha (the person who gave a running commentary of the war to Dhirudrashtra) in giving the intricacies of CM to us. That was very nice. This is what I made out from the kannada speech. The crowd being 7000-8000 is definitely on the higher scale. I think 4000-5000. Thanks to sanjay and party for a great concert and for being there on time. Hope other concerts will be reviewed here in this forum by others. If someone takes the initative, thanks in advance. I am out of station for few days.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 03 Apr 2007, 20:09

rajaglan,
Thanks for the post. We seem to be similar in getting somewhat disappointed when there are no RTPs in concerts--especially from someone who delves into the rgA for substantial elaboration. To reach the minds of the audience with many shades of the rAgA and to keep them guessing and anticipating, speaks of the vocalist's rich repository. I have heard Sanjay sing evari mATa in Narada gAna SabhA--also on a DVD of the same.

For those of the forumites who cannot guess what KEB is--it is Karnataka Electricity Board (power cut central).

parimaLa ranga pathE, I would have relished too...

I do not recollect your writing anything about Prasanna Ramaswamy's documentary when it was shown in Gayana Samaja last month. Where you not there? Sanjay is mighty popular in Bangalore (thousands at this concert). A full house that day would have been the norm, but as the emcee pointed
out, the test match was going on at that time!
The film had a lot to say, not just about an individual musician, but about the never-dying quality of CM, and of a practitioner who feels the pulse of it--because of his approach to it...

sirsub11 · Post by **sirsub11** » 04 Apr 2007, 11:52

I was the MC at the Aaraar Aasaippadaar film screening in Bangalore. Arasi's quaint reference to "the test match going on at that time", needs a technical correction. It was actually the disastrous India - Bangladesh lung opener at the World Cup in Trinidad. But no harm done, Arasi. We know what you meant.
Speaking for myself, those who decided to stay away thanks to the cricket, must have been eating their hearts out. Sanjay's film would have been a far more entertaining and elevating way of spending an evening, and they could have still gone back home to witness the tragic denoument on their TV screens.
But alas, one can only take a horse to the water trough !

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 05 Apr 2007, 04:00

sirsub,
Ask me about baseball, and I may be able to tell you of some dramatic moments that kept me on the edge of my seat. Cricket? I am a gnAna sUnyam. After a few years of playing cricket with neighborhood children wih a ball of crunched up paper wrapped around with oodles of rubber bands, my interest faded.
As for the film, I think it may take time to catch on, simply because it is not a run of the mill documentary. I am thinking of Satyajit Ray's films. Until the praises came from different quarters of the world, they remained obcure. There is no pretense of an art film here, and yet, it is artistically done. When I saw it for the second time, it was even better in some ways. It affirmed my feeling that it was a lap in the journey of CM rather than an excercise of the camera chasing a vocalist. Sanjay (or, I would say, his music) figures prominently in the film. The film is about CM in a crucible--the experiments of an artiste within the territories of the discipline, his total involvement in its antiquity and its new terrains.
Awards or not, this film has made a mark in the annals of CM history...

svkashyap · Post by **svkashyap** » 09 Apr 2007, 12:09

Hi Moderators, just wondering if we could start a separate thread to discuss Ramanavmi concerts going on in Fort school Bangalore.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 09 Apr 2007, 19:23

svkashyap,
I'm missing all those concerts. Would be nice if you start a new thread as Ramanavami Concerts in Bangalore. I hope others would join in to give us a flavor of the BengaLUru concerts...

svkashyap · Post by **svkashyap** » 10 Apr 2007, 10:37

arasi,

I have started a new thread.