Carnatica Brothers at Johnson City, TN. ETSU on March 16th 2

sjm · Post by **sjm** » 21 Mar 2008, 06:45

â€œExploring 2000 Years Of Classical Music Compositions And Traditionsâ€

appu · Post by **appu** » 21 Mar 2008, 08:56

Was Neyveli Santhanagopalan part of this presentation. His name was listed somewhere on the Carnatica brothers US concert schedule on this site.

sjm · Post by **sjm** » 21 Mar 2008, 09:02

Neyveli Santhanagopalan - Dr.Ram Sriram and Ramakrishnan also performed at the same venue ,same day and I will also post his song list soon.

Bhindi · Post by **Bhindi** » 21 Mar 2008, 23:40

sjm, there seems to be a lot of carnatic music in your nhbd. I see an interesting lecture series titled "The Math behind South Indian Music" this Friday March 28th at ETSU by Prof. Vinod Venkataraman. Any details would be appreciated. I may consider driving from Raleigh for this series.

sjm · Post by **sjm** » 22 Mar 2008, 01:47

ETSU to present â€˜Divine Strings: Music of South Indiaâ€™

JOHNSON CITY â€“ Violinist Aishu Venkataraman will perform her program, â€œDivine Strings: Music of South India,â€

Bhindi · Post by **Bhindi** » 22 Mar 2008, 02:57

The concert is on Friday, March 28th, 2008 at 7:30 PM. Not march 12 th, 2008. The lecture is at 10:25 AM according to Dr. Allison Deadman. Still waiting for the NSG review sjm

sjm · Post by **sjm** » 22 Mar 2008, 08:14

Vocal - Neyveli Santhanagopalan
Violin - Ramakrishnan
Mridangam - Ram Sriram

Date: Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Where: Auditorium of East Tennessee State University

Song List

1. Thyagarajaâ€™s song.
2. vaathaapi- raagam: hamsadwani. taaLam: aadi
Composer: Muttuswaamee Dikshitar.
3. raamabhadhra raa raa -raagam: shankaraabharaNam . taaLam: tishram
Composer: Badraacala Raamadaas
4. akhilaaNDEshvari- raagam: dvijaavanti. taaLam: aadi
Composer: Muttuswaamy Dikshitar (Main Piece).

5.Thyagarajaâ€™s song

6. Lalithe

7. raama mantrava japiso-Raagam:Jonpuri.
Composer:Purandara Dasa.

Introduction was done by Mannargudi Eashwaran. He remembers playing Mridhangam in Neyveli town when Neyveli Santhanagopalan was 10 years old and that Neyveli Santhanagopalan still has the hand written Pallavi note given so many years ago by Mannargudi Eashwaran.

He also introduced Dr. Ram Sriram. They grew up as kids in Chennai and when they were about 7 years old they would dress themselves like Thyagaraja and wear mridhangam from their necks and go singing on the streets during thyagraja aradhana. It brought back a lot of old memories for these senior musicians and it was nice of them to share this openly in a public forum was heart warming and touching.

It was a great concert from start to end with excellent accompanists displaying their talents in Tani. Given a choice Neyveli Santhanagopalan would not have stopped. I learnt the same trio had performed the night before in Atlanta temple too.

sjm · Post by **sjm** » 05 Apr 2008, 05:53

Thanks for the information from Bhindi, I got to attend an excellent concert by this young talented girl Aishu Venkataraman accompanied by her father on the mridhangam on March 28th,2008 at ETSU School of Music. They both kept the audience in mind and did a lot of explanation for the predominantly American crowd which was good for all of us. I also got to buy her CD titled "Bliss" which is a fund raiser for Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative. She played a Varnam in Aabhogi to start, vathapi ganapathim,raga Shankarabharanam and ended with the fast paced English note.