Carnatica Brothers in Toronto

[Lakshman]

Carnatica brothers- K.N.Shashikiran and Ganesh
Jayashankar Balan – violin
Mannargudi Eswaran – mrdangam
Karthik Venkataraman – kanjira
3.5 hr concert – April 5, 2008

Songlist:
neranammitinayya – kAnaDA – Poochi Iyengar
praNamAmyaham shrI – gauLa – Mysore Vasudevachar -S
sadAnanda tANDavam – bahudAri – Achutyadasar
hirNmayIm lakSmIm – lalita – Dikshitar –A,N,S neraval@ giTa vAdya
nI bhajanagAna – nAyaki – Tyagaraja - S
ekkAlattilum – nATakuranji – Ramasvami Shivan
amba paradEvatE – rudrapriyA – Krishnasvami Ayya
pArvati nAyakanE – SaNmukhapriyA – Papanasham Shivan – A,S
RTP kannaDa – tAnam drifted into Ahiri, violin replied with dvIjavanti, then nIlAmbari and violin replied with suraTi
pallavi in k/tripuTa tALA – tiruvaDi sharaNam enru nAn nambi vdEn
svarAs – kannaDagauLa, kannaDamaruva (to which violin replied with kAnaDA)
manamE kaNamum maravAdE – bhImpalAs –Papanasham Shivan
tungA tIravirAjam – rAgamAlikA (sAlagabhairavi, ahIrbharav)
tillAnA – cenjuruTi –Vina Seshanna
makuTakke mangaLam –madhyamAvati - Purandaradasa

[vijay]

Kannda-Maruva...wonder what the strcuture of that raga is...a mixture of carnatic kannada and hindustani marwa?

[Lakshman]

Two varieties are given Both have the scale SGMPDNS/SNDPMGS. One is placed in mELA 53 and the other in 65.

[vijay]

Thank you sir...I guess they would be the same since Rishabham is the only diff b/w the two scales, and the note is varja in the raga...

Marva (the raag not the thaat) is of course Hamsananadhi which falls under Mela 53 and Kannada and except for madhyamam, the other notes are the same as Kannada so I suppose the name makes sense!

[Lakshman]

In fact, before the concert started, Shashikiran announced that since they are in Canada he will start with kAnaDA. I guess he followed it up with the general theme of some kannaDa... ragas.

[nivedita]

In fact, before the concert started, Shashikiran announced that since they are in Canada he will start with kAnaDA. I guess he followed it up with the general theme of some kannaDa... ragas.

Ah, I should've guessed!

[mahavishnu]

Shashikiran announced that since they are in Canada he will start with kAnaDA

That is hilarious.
It is nice to see Kannadagowla outside the realm of the usual kritis.

thanks for the songlist, Lji.

[yours_truly]

Was "tiruvaDi sharaNam enru nAn nambi vdEn" the complete line for the Pallavi? Where was the aridhi at? Thanks.

[Lakshman]

I am sorry I do not know the technical details of pallavi singing. Someone else will have to provide an answer to this.

[Lakshman]

I am sorry I do not know the technical details of pallavi singing. Someone else will have to provide an answer to this.
I also posted the incomplete pallavi line. It should have read:
tiruvaDi sharaNam enru nAn nambi vandEn dEvAdi dEvanE.

[cz8zpk]

The pallavi was set as we were walking to the stage by Eashwaran Mama. FYI.

[Lakshman]

Perhaps you can answer the question asked by yours_truly about aridhi.