T V Gopalakrishnan, Sravanam

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 11 Jun 2007, 23:37

T V Gopalakrishnan - S Varadarajan - T V Vasan - V Suresh

Sravanam, T T D Centre
11th June 07. 6 pm

asatOmA saragamaya - slOkam in sAvEri
sarasUDa ninnE - sAvEri - Adi - KVI
girirAja sutA - bangALa - Adi - T (RS)
hiraNmayIm lakshmIm - lalitA - rUpakam - MD (R)
jaganmAtA - pUrvikalyANi - misra cApu - Nadopasana Srinivasan (RNS)
chinna nAdEnA - kalAnidhi - Adi - T (AS)
vEnkaTa saila vihArA - hamIrkalyANi - Adi - Subbaraya Sastri (RS)
tani Avarththanam
centanE sadA - kuntaLa varALi - Adi - T
cEta srI - dvijAvanti - rUpakam - MD (R)
pArvai ondrE pOdumE - bhImpLAs - Adi - OVK
agnE pashyAmi tEjOmaya - slOkam in nIlAmbari
mAdava mAmava - nIlAmbari - Adi - NT
nI nama rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T
mangaLam kOsalEndrAya - srI rAgam

Sri Gopalakrishnan gave a real nice concert. It was announced that he was celebrating his 75th birthday today.

The concert began with the slOkam in sAvEri. The varNam followed. The short AlApanai of bangALa was nice. The kriti was rendered with nice sangatis and a quick round of svarams at the pallavi line. The AlApanai of lalitA was having quite a few suddha svarams and gave a different flavour to the ragam. The kriti was rendered well starting at the anupallavi.

The pUrvikalyANi AlApanai was kept short. The kriti, a nice composition with some intelligent usage of the misra cApu tALam, was rendered moving with very quick neraval and a round of svarams. The short AlApanai of kalAnidhi was followed by the kriti and a quick round of svarams.

The main AlApanai of hamIrkalyAni was rendered with some real nice phrases. The kriti was rendered beautifully with a nice round of svarams. The kuntaLavarALi kriti was very nice. The dvijAvanti AlApanai, made one expect a pallavi, however, cEta srI, begining from the anupallavi was nicely rendered. The pieces which followed were good.

Sri Varadarajan was good in all parts and gave fitting replies. Sri Vasan was good and played some interesting patters. Sri Suresh ably supported him thro' the concert. The tani was differently structured and enjoyable.

bharath

mri_fan · Post by **mri_fan** » 12 Jun 2007, 01:13

All three of those accompanists are established students of his

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 12 Jun 2007, 04:27

rbharath,

Was the first item the following sLOka?

"asatOmA sadgamaya tamasOmA jyOtirgamaya mRtyOrmA amRtamgamaya (PraNava) SAnti SAnti SAntihi"

Sundara Rajan · Post by **Sundara Rajan** » 12 Jun 2007, 07:25

OVK's pArvai onRE pOdumE is in Surati rAga. Did TVG sing it in Bilahari as repoted ?

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 12 Jun 2007, 08:21

Sundara Rajan wrote:OVK's pArvai onRE pOdumE is in Surati rAga. Did TVG sing it in Bilahari as repoted ?

Its reported that he sang it in bhImpalAsi.

Sathej · Post by **Sathej** » 12 Jun 2007, 09:25

Looks like a nice list.I wanted to come but was held up and couldn't make it!
Sathej

ram · Post by **ram** » 12 Jun 2007, 15:21

Bharath has summed up the concert nicely

pArvai onrE pOdumE was sung in bhImpLAs

The first shLOkA was â€œOm sahana vavatu sahanau bhunaktu, sahavIryam karavAvahai, tejas vinAvati tamastumA vidhvishAvahai, Om shAnti shAnti shAntihiâ€

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 12 Jun 2007, 15:37

I was also there for the concert from the beginning of girirAja till the end . When kritis and rAga alApanai had a HM touch, TVG was quite impressive ( the dvijAvanthi alApanai was the best ).Liked his hameer kalyAni alApanai too and chembai's famous narayaneeyam and a wrapup in neelAmbari. On the flip side , he was excessively aggressive in the neraval and swarams of poorvikalyAni had kanakku patterns only, did not take a karuna rasa approach to poorvikalyAni.

The biggest crib to me was TVG's own interrruption in speech for almost each and every krithi. A small mini lecture either at the end or the beginning was somewhat ok(just give a benefit of doubt), but he interrupting during the rendition of cheta sri explaining two lines in the middle of krithi rendition was unnecessary. Also during the middle of tani there was a short speech. The concert was advertised from 6 to 8:30pm ,but got over by 8:05pm.

bharath,
I thought it was agrE pashyami (not agnE).

bhaktha · Post by **bhaktha** » 12 Jun 2007, 19:17

rajeshnat wrote:bharath,
I thought it was agrE pashyami (not agnE).

It was...and was a favourite with Chembai too!
-bhaktha

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 12 Jun 2007, 20:01

[quote="ram"]The first shLOkA was â€œOm sahana vavatu sahanau bhunaktu, sahavIryam karavAvahai, tejas vinAvati tamastumA vidhvishAvahai, Om shAnti shAnti shAntihiâ€

sbala · Post by **sbala** » 12 Jun 2007, 20:13

It was the same prayer at my school too ( Vidya Mandir Mylapore...)

bhaktha · Post by **bhaktha** » 12 Jun 2007, 21:56

sbala,
I think Shri Sanjay and shri sashank are from vidya mandir, mylapore....one of them your batch probably.
-bhaktha

sbala · Post by **sbala** » 12 Jun 2007, 22:11

Shashank was a few years my junior. I was more of the academic and sports kind and had little interest in music then. But, every class had a few kids who were good in music. I read Gurucharan and Sriram Gangadharan are also from VM. Sanjay must have been my senior by a margin.

bhaktha · Post by **bhaktha** » 12 Jun 2007, 22:17

One also finds that a lot of our current crop of musicians are Vivekananda pass-outs.
Vijay Siva, TMK, Sanjay(?), Sikkil Gurucharan and many more....
Viday Mandir/PSBB-Vivekananda-CM I guess go hand-in-hand, so to say.
-bhaktha

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 12 Jun 2007, 23:08

i wrote the list, from memory and did not make notes during concert and hence believe in ram and rajesh who meticulously note down all thro' the concert in their mobile phone and notebook respectively.

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 13 Jun 2007, 03:29

Rshankar u from DAV?

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 13 Jun 2007, 05:31

No, from Kendriya Vidyalay - our morning prayers were selected to be sort of non-denominational, with no mention of names, except a general prayer to 'god'...Began with 'asatOma sat gamaya (rAm, rahIm or yEsu could do the leading from bad to good, darkness to light, and from death to immortality if you get my drift!)....and went on to a prayer in hindi - dayA kar dAn vidyA kA hamE parmAtmA dEnA (once again, parmAtmA is non-denominational) - and ended with 'Om
sahanAvavatU...':P

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 13 Jun 2007, 06:25

Nobody has asked me where I am from and I am offended beyond belief!!!!!!. I will volunteer. I am from P S High school. We started our morning with "gajavadanaA.."."vANI aruL purivAy..", "pUraya mama kAmam.." etc in the zinc shed. At that time I didn't know what "zinc" was except the shed was meant to gather students for the morning prayer. In college chemistry class I knew what it meant. Apparently it was not a pure metal zinc. It was zinc-coated steel to prevent rusting.

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 13 Jun 2007, 06:59

Shankar - Thanks for clarifying.

Mahakavi - gajavadanA bEDuvE or gajavadana karuNasadana? BTW where is the smiley after the exclamation marks?

Sbala - Gurucharan passed out of Vidya Mandir in 1999.

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 13 Jun 2007, 07:49

I don't use smileys! My exclamation marks speak for themselves!!