suryaprakAsh@PS High School on Nov 24th,2007

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 24 Nov 2007, 12:44

Accompanied by M A Sundaresan - violin ; Srimushnam rAjA rao - mridangam , vaikkOm gOpalakrishnan -ghatam and venkatrAman - tamburA(It was announced that shri venkatraman was a retired teacher of ps high school)

1A. slOkham "vakratuNDa mahAkAya" - hamsadhwani - ???
1B. vinAyakA ninnuvinA brOcuTaku (S)-hamsadhvani--E.V.Ramakrishna Bhagavatar
2. aruNAcalanAtham - sArangA - MD

3. KArthikeya kamalEsha siva sudha (R,S) - valaci - Dr Srivastava
4. kA vA vA (S) - varAli - pApanAsam Sivan

5A. cakkani raaja (R, N ,S,T) - kharaharapriyaa - T
52 minutes of rendition , with 17 minutes of alApanai, 6 minutes of violin return, 7 minutes of krithi rendition ,11 minutes of neraval and 11 minutes of swaram
5B. tani (16 minutes )

6. devargal aruL seidha rAgangale - rAgamAligA - suryaprakAsh
7. ninaikAdha nEramiLLai (R) - rAgeshri - sOmu ??? (Lji/Meena help)
8A. nanmaiyum selvamum (viruththam) - sindhubhairavi + brindAvana sArangA - kambar
8B. rAma mantra jabisO - brindAvana sArangA - PD
9. pavamAna (mangalam)

I went to this concert more for the team . A start of the famous ganapathi slokham was very good and there was a good round up of vinAyakA with a well rounded sarvalaghu swarams, certainly not top notch it was just good . Unfortunately all of the artists were not happy with the sound setting . The corrections were done better and I heard a very excellent diction of MD's sArangA .

valachi alApanai was presented aesthetically and Dr V VSrivasta's krithi (who is suryaprakAsh's guru) was delivered excellently with nice diction. The swaras of valaci was measured and quite short.

varAli had a very unique manOdharmam:
Having quite a bit acclimitized with the sequence of suryaprakAsh- tvs - mmi bAni, I was expecting a fast number after two slow numbers (sArangA and valaci), especially I was expecting a sarvalagu downpour like a nalinakanthi,Andholika etc... When suryaprakAsh started kA vA vA ,he presented in a gentle madhyama kAlam speed ,the first half of swaras was very gentle. The unique manOdharmam started somewhere at the beginning of second half of swaras which went quite long. varAli had a sudden racy swara kalpanas , suryaprakAsh alternated with swaras ending with kA vA vA (in samam) and also ended with pazhani malai urayum murugA (for want of not putting a right word let me say that it was somewhere in between Adi tAlam), with every swara being presented aesthetically , the fast swara patterns had at every point a distinct gAndhAram (that varAli drag gAndhAram) and was awesome. Particularly rAja rAo's play gelled very well with the vocalist and he had great sense of proactivness.

A long winding alApanai of kharaharapriya was very good , krithi rendition was also very good. SuryaprakAsh neraval in the popular line "kantiki sundara taramagu" was excellent with long akaram and the swara patterns were quite unique and presentedly aesthetically. His megarAgamAliga(has two dozen rAgas +) was presented just good (I have heard few renditions which were better), possibly it was not the best choice after such an exhaustive kharaharapriya. A viruththam or slOkham would have been better there as this krithi is almost like a submain.

Somu's famous ninaikAdha nEramiLLai in rAgeshri was presented excellently with few distinict piDi's of Somu in some key phrases , but certainly he should add more emotive feeling like sOmu. The viruththam was presented just good , and I heard just a good (possibly he could have slowed) PD's brindAvana sArangA.

rAja rao's remarkable style of play:
There was a consistent excellence in rAja rAO's play. I am not a laya expert , but his play had so much anticipation especially in varAli swaras and in neraval and swaras of kharaharapriya. In kharaharapriya neraval and swaras he played both intelligently and aesthically with a variety of strokes .There was few seconds of silence during long akarams of kantiki , a sudden burst of strokes in sundara ,when there is lung space gap by suryaprakash ,there were some quick strokes and returning baton to suryaprakAsh ,and when upapakkavadyam artist was playing, there was a gentle stroking where for a brief few seconds he gave just a right tap to vaikkOm's play.

All along his strokes had what I would call the genuine nAdham of mridhangam . Also even during the final wrap in brindAvana sAranga he played few amazing strokes. Very exceptional demonstration of vidwat.

MAS was just very good , his usual brillliance was most felt in his valachi rAga alApanai . His kharaharapriya had few western music like patterns .vaikkOm played most only during the kharaharapriya and he teamed up very well to give a very good round of tani.

Overall a very good 2 1/2 hour concert of SuryaprakAsh, the most outstanding was his varAli maodharma swarakalpanA . rAja rao was brilliant.

meena · Post by **meena** » 24 Nov 2007, 13:14

rajesh

Ninaikkada neram illai in raga bageshri.is needed Sree Madurai Somu's.
PDasa kriti is Rama mantrava japiso

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 24 Nov 2007, 13:27

meena wrote:rajesh

Ninaikkada neram illai in raga bageshri.is needed Sree Madurai Somu's.
PDasa kriti is Rama mantrava japiso

tx for pd's correction. ninaikkAda nEramiLLai is in raagEshree(not bhaagEshri as you have mentioned). I just wanted to cross check if the no was composed by sOmu or anAyampatti Adisesha iyer or one of the many unknown composers that sOmu has sung but no one knows the composer. We will wait for the grand jury.

meena · Post by **meena** » 24 Nov 2007, 13:42

apparently somu has rendered this kriti in Rageshree, Bageshri , Karaharapriya and in Revathy.

meena · Post by **meena** » 24 Nov 2007, 13:43

Lji ,
can u pl. post the txt. thanks

rajumds · Post by **rajumds** » 24 Nov 2007, 14:51

Rajesh was the concert on 23rd or 24th morning

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 24 Nov 2007, 22:21

rajumds - The concert was on 23rd, made a mistake in the title.

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 25 Nov 2007, 00:28

I just have a partial text of the song.

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 25 Nov 2007, 01:34

I listened to the song again and figured out most of the words. Perhaps Suryaprakash can proof read this and make the corrections:

ninaikkAda nEramillai murugA. rAgA: rEvati. Adi tALA.

P: ninaikkAda nEramillai murugA nIla mayilil varum kOla vaDivai eNNi
A: unai kANuvOm enru urimai migazh vETku aNaiyA tI pOlE anudinamum kANa
C: varuvAr varuvAr inru (murugA) vADi mayakkinrEn taruvAr tanimaiyil tavikkinrEn
oru nALum illai OdinavE palanAL ellAm murugA perumAnE vandu pEraruL purivAiyO

Suryaprakash · Post by **Suryaprakash** » 25 Nov 2007, 14:07

Dear Lakshmanji (and Meenaji)

While I would prefer just to enjoy, reading all your comments (and critiques

) in such a thread, I venture to post the lyrics to get myself clarified on the same, since it is different from the above except the first 3 words..

Ninaikkaada neramillai - Rageshri, Adi

Pallavi

Ninaikkaada neramillai Murugaa
Ninaindu Ninaindu Urugi Paadinen

Anupallavi

Ninaiththa podu nee en mun vara ven(d)um
ninaithadellaam neeyaaga ven(d)um

Charanam

Agam magizhndu aadi mayil eri varum Murugayya!
Inaiththukkonde ennai etri vayppaay Muruga Urugippaadida nee enakkarul purivaay

With regards

Surya

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 25 Nov 2007, 18:05

Obviously, the song you rendered is a totally different one from Madurai Somu's. Thanks Suryaprakash.
Is this also one of your own compositions?

Suryaprakash · Post by **Suryaprakash** » 25 Nov 2007, 19:04

No No Lakshmanji

This is also a song popularised by Mahavidwan Shri.Somu. He has probably sung two versions of the song

Surya

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 25 Nov 2007, 22:19

meena wrote:apparently somu has rendered this kriti in Rageshree, Bageshri , Karaharapriya and in Revathy.

Meena,
You indicated that bhAgeshri is also there. I personally doubt that as rAgeshree is very close to bhAgeshri and many of us must have assumed it as bhAgeshri. From Where did you get a kharaharapriya rendering info, any pointers there?

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 25 Nov 2007, 22:21

Lji/SuryaprakAsh,
It looks there are definitely 2 different songs starting in the same lines "ninaikkAda nEramillai " by Somu.
The revathi is in the url http://www.sangeethapriya.org/~asokan/C ... Bombay-20/
and the rageshree is in the url http://www.sangeethapriya.org/~rasika/S ... r_concert/

Incidentally there are 2 lines that are slightly different from your lyrics
He sings in revathi "varuvAr varuvAr inru (murugA) vADi mayakkinrEn" as vAruvAr varuvAr enrE(i) (murugA)vADi maLarsooDi

He sings in rAgeshri "Agam magizhndu aadi mayil eri varum Murugayya" as anaiThu koNdu aadi mayil eri varum vadivELA

Perhaps you both have different recordings ,where sOmu sings in such extempore fashion that he takes little liberty to bring more emotions at that time.That perhaps explains why sOmu's tukkadA was ecstasy to all .

Suryaprakash · Post by **Suryaprakash** » 25 Nov 2007, 23:26

Rajesh ji

i learnt this song directly from someone (a very senior man) who used to follow Shri. Madurai Somu. I feel that sangeethapriya version is more apt with anaiththukkondu-inaiththukonde. I will make the correction in my notebook, myself.

thanks very much

Surya

meena · Post by **meena** » 26 Nov 2007, 01:16

Lji / Suryaprakashji

thanks for the lyrics.

Rajesh,

From Where did you get a kharaharapriya rendering info, any pointers there?

I have an audio clip.I have to check if he renders same lines.

raju54 · Post by **raju54** » 28 Nov 2007, 07:40

Meena,
Sri Somu used to render two entirely different songs- Only the starting pallavi line is same for both the songs. Sri Lakshman has already provided lyrics for both the songs- one is Rageshree and the other one in Revathi. audio version available at my e-snips folder.

http://www.esnips.com/web/MaduraiSomu

Raju

raju54 · Post by **raju54** » 28 Nov 2007, 07:47

"where sOmu sings in such extempore fashion that he takes little liberty to bring more emotions at that time.That perhaps explains why sOmu's tukkadA was ecstasy to all ."

rajeshnat,
Somu used add his own sangathis as needed. for example "Urugippaadida nee enakkarul purivaay"
he would change it to "Urugippaadida Somanukkarul purivaay"

Raju

meena · Post by **meena** » 28 Nov 2007, 10:22

rajuji

Thanks for the info/clips .