TN Seshagopalan @ Chicago Aurora Temple on June 3 2007

rangahome · Post by **rangahome** » 06 Jun 2007, 06:50

Vocal : Shri TN Seshagopalan
Violin: Srikanth Venkatraman
Mridangam: Vinod Seetharaman

1. Sadguru Swamiki - Reetigowla - Tyagaraja (O, S)
2. yOchana - Darbar - Tyagaraja
3. parama pAvana rAmA - PoorvikalyAni - Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar (R, N, S)
4. Evvare rAmayya - Gangeyabhooshani - Tyagaraja (R)
5. yArendru rAghavanai yeNi - Yadukulu kambhoji - Arunachala Kavi
6. kanakana Ruchira - VarAli - Tyagaraja
7. mOkshamu galadA - sAramathi - Tyagaraja
8. AbhayAmbham bhaktim karOmi - Sahana - MD
9. pO mel vaLarum Annaiye - Ananda bhairavi - Mazhavai Chidambara Bharathi
10. O Rangasayee - Khambodhi - Tyagaraja (R, S, T)
11. Shanga Chakra gadhA Paani - sloka - Ragamalika followed by kaNallavO endhan kaNallavo swami - Suruti - Otthukadu venkata kavi
12. bharO krishnaiya - ragamalika
13. Thillana - Chandrakauns - TNS
14. vasana migavetri (Thirupugazh) - Behag - Arunagiri nAthar
15. Mangalam - sowrashtram

Shri.TN Seshagopalan gave a scintillating concert at the Chicago Aurora temple on Sunday June 3 2007. Significant highlights of this concert were the alapana in gangeyabhooshani followed by St.tyagaraja's Evvare Ramayya nee Sari kriti - and the main piece - kambodhi and O-Rangasayee ran to over one hour.

The sloka that preceded otthukadu's kannallavo kriti had a garland of ragas, sung brilliantly where one raga flowed after the other in rapid and quick sucession - thilang, atana, begada, sama, madhyamavathi, pantuvarali, thodi, neelambari, bhoopalam, subhapantuvarali, shivaranjani and surutti to name a few that I could identify. Another treat was the virutham preceding "bharo krishnaiya" in mukhari, sindu bhairavi and maand.

Shri.TNS performed a harikatha program on "seetha kalyanam" last week at the Tyagaraja Utsavam and this was his second performance in the Chicago area.

meena · Post by **meena** » 06 Jun 2007, 08:23

Baro krishnayya ninna bhaktara manege is Kanakadasa's

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 06 Jun 2007, 10:56

rangahome wrote:13. Thillana - Chandrakauns - TNS

Lji/rangahome,
TNS has a tillana composition in the rAgam niroshta. If it is a chandrakauns can I assume the tillana is by Dr BMK or madurai r muralidharan.Can you crosscheck

ram · Post by **ram** » 06 Jun 2007, 11:30

TNS has composed a tillAnA in chandrakauns as well. I am unable to recall the starting words now.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 06 Jun 2007, 12:05

real nice and refreshing list.

dvmk · Post by **dvmk** » 06 Jun 2007, 12:48

TNS Sir's Chandrakauns Thillana is the praise of Lord Ranganatha and Goddess Ranganayaki of Srirangam.

The Lyrics of the Thillana are as follows

RanganAthan Bhavani sEvai bhAva narthanam - udan

RanganAyaki darshanam gIta sangamam - vikasita

pankajAkshan pAdamalar mOksha dAyakam - pani

shankaradAsanukkarul nAdavaibhavanugraham.

ram · Post by **ram** » 06 Jun 2007, 14:59

Thank you so much dvmk !! Will it be possible for you to also post the entire tillAnA whenever you find time?

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 06 Jun 2007, 18:27

Interesting that Sri TNS uses 2 different mudrAs - harikESadAsa (in the nirOSThA composition) and SankaradAsa (in this one) - paying obeisance to his guru and 'grand-guru'!

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 06 Jun 2007, 22:36

afaik, harikEsa dAsa is the mudra of Sri Sankara Sivan who is TNS' guru. the mudra sankaradAsa is that of TNS. could this be confirmed.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 06 Jun 2007, 22:37

The nirOSTha tillAnA has the mudra harikESadAsa....

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 06 Jun 2007, 23:21

rbharath wrote:afaik, harikEsa dAsa is the mudra of Sri Sankara Sivan who is TNS' guru. the mudra sankaradAsa is that of TNS. could this be confirmed.

bharath,
Look at the post #5, Lji has posted the lyrics of the nirOshta thillanA of TNS http://rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=534

thanjavur · Post by **thanjavur** » 06 Jun 2007, 23:30

http://rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=48131#p48131

thanjavur wrote:Niroshta thillana (TNS) by TNS (Sangeethapriya - Vasu Srinivasan link)

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 07 Jun 2007, 00:32

The candrakauns tillAnA must be by TNS. In Madurai N.Krishnan's tillAnA, the caraNa starts with shrI rAma jayarAma.

rangahome · Post by **rangahome** » 07 Jun 2007, 00:54

TNS announced that the chandrakauns thillana was his composition. Dvmk is right - it was on lord ranganatha.