Neyveli Santanagopalan, NSTSS

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 08 May 2007, 00:00

Neyveli Santanagopalan - V V Srinivasa Rao - Mannarkoil J Balaji - Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan

Ranjani Kalaikkoodam, Nanganallur Sri Thyagaraja Sangeetha Samajam (NSTSS), Nanganallur, Chennai
7 May 2007 6:30 pm

sruti smriti purANAnAm - pUrvikalyANi
jnAna mosagarAdA - pUrvikalyaNi - rUpakam - T (NS)
nAda tanumanisa - cittaranjani - Adi - T (S)
sujana jIvanA - khamAs - rUpakam - T (NS)
nannu brOva - AbhOgi - Adi - T
kshira sAgara sayanA - dEvagAndhAri - Adi - T (RNS)
Emani pogaDudurA - vIra vasantam - Adi - T
kaligiyuNTEgadA - kIravANi - Adi - T (RNS)
tani Avarththanam
muruganin maru peyar - bEhAg - kaNDa capu
kAdalAgi kasindu - darbAri kAnaDA
chandra chUDa - darbAri kAnaDA - Adi - PD
nirai madi - hamsAnandi - Adi - Arunagirinathar Thiruppugazh
kAvEri dIra vAsAya - saurAshTram
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T
madhyamAvati sub sketch

The concert started about half an hour late, thanks to traffic, Sri Santanagopalan couldnt reach the venue on time.

The concert began with a short slOkam and the pUrvikalyANi kriti was rendered nicely with a round of neraval and svarams at 'paramAtmuDu jIvAtmuDu padinAlugu lOkamulu' which were rendered well also. The cittaranjani kriti was rendered nicely with a quick round of svarams.

The khamAs kriti was rendered very movingly with neraval and svarams at ' cAru nEtra shrI kaLAtra shrI ramya gAtra'. The AbhOgi kriti was rendered with the necessary vigour.

The rAga AlApanai of the evening was dEvagAndhAri. Sri Santanagopalan made it an elaborate affair and weaved sancarams one after another and gave a very detailed elaboration of the rAgam. The kriti was rendered with a lot of bhavam. One was expecting this to be the main piece of the evening. There was a quick round of neraval at 'nIrajAkSikai nIradhi dATina nI kIrtini vinnAnurA' which was followed by an elaborate series of svarams. This was followed with the vIra vasantam piece.

The main AlApanai of the evening was kIravANi. It began with a punch and was elaborated well, with quite a few not-so-normally heard sancarams. The quick rendition of the kriti was followed by ultrashort neraval at 'bAguga shrI raghu rAmuni padamula' and a round of svarams to follow. All the post tani pieces were good.

Sri Santanagopalan presented a very classical concert which lasted for about 2.5 hours. All his AlApanais were very good. The kritis were rendered well and the neraval and svarams were all good. The kaNakku svarams were sung making nice patterns and thus making them all the more enjoyable. Though his voice wasnt cooperating at some places, Sri Santanagopalan did present a very enjoyable concert.

Sri Srinivasa Rao was good in all depts. His replies to the main artist in all the manodarmam aspects and the following of kritis were all good.

Sri Balaji played with good anticipation for the kritis and sangatis. His playing for the fast and slow pieces were appropriate and added to the renditions. Sri Gopalakrishnan was good thro' the concert. The tani they shared was nice also.

bharath

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 08 May 2007, 00:07

>>jnAna mosagarAdA - pUrvikalyaNi < jnAnam osaga rAda

>>nAda tanumanisa - cittaranjani << nAdatanum aniSam

>>kAvEri dIra vAsAya - saurAshTram<< kAvErI tIra

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 08 May 2007, 00:19

drshrikaanth wrote:>>jnAna mosagarAdA - pUrvikalyaNi < jnAnam osaga rAda

>>nAda tanumanisa - cittaranjani << nAdatanum aniSam

>>kAvEri dIra vAsAya - saurAshTram<< kAvErI tIra

i usually stick to www.karnatik.com for the lyrics, for i know my transliteration skills are weak. All the kriti lines are copy-pasted from there. May be i should look for a more reliable source...

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 08 May 2007, 07:58

rbharath,
Nice of you for you to go all the way to nanganallur and hear concerts. IIRC,kAdhalAki kasindu kanneer melgi oduvAr (viruththam)- darbAri kAnaDA is tevAram. I have once heard that viruththam, that day neyveli's tevAram in darbAri kAnaDA was simply awesome.

108talas · Post by **108talas** » 08 May 2007, 09:09

Yes, the kamas kriti was very moving. NSG did mention that the kriti is not having kakili nishadam throughout. Thanks to the great saint poet.

When the raag before 'ksheera sAgara' was started, two three phrases were like 'yadukulakAmboji'.. then he settled down. His throat was not very condusive when main raag was sung.

Srinivasa Rao, these days, is playing very well, displaying his increased vidwat.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 08 May 2007, 10:15

rajeshnat wrote:rbharath,
Nice of you for you to go all the way to nanganallur and hear concerts. IIRC,kAdhalAki kasindu kanneer melgi oduvAr (viruththam)- darbAri kAnaDA is tevAram. I have once heard that viruththam, that day neyveli's tevAram in darbAri kAnaDA was simply awesome.

rajesh, it isnt very far from our back gates.

sindhu · Post by **sindhu** » 08 May 2007, 10:47

kAdhalAki kasindu kanneer malgi oduvAr - tevAram - well some years back (think 2003), one unpopular artist sang in abhogi at Ardhanareeswarar temple, Nanganallur still rings in my ears. Saraswati dwells everywhere.

rajumds · Post by **rajumds** » 08 May 2007, 11:08

What a miss (concert & also a chance to meet our own Balaji) My house is very close to the venue & I had planned to attend but got stuck in the office. On 1st May, there was very nice concert of Sri Allam Durgaprasad at the same venue with Sri Easwaran on the mrudangam. I had an oppurtunity to talk to him and he was very appreciative of our forum.

coolkapali · Post by **coolkapali** » 08 May 2007, 11:29

Looks like a great list.

Would anybody have the link for the krithi Chandra chooda....i would like to listen to it.

Thanks.