Suguna Varadachari, Music Club IIT Madras

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 10 Apr 2008, 10:54

Suguna Varadachari - Padma Shankar - Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar

DoMS Hall. Music Club IIT Madras.
9th April 2008. 7 pm

paramEsvara - nATTai - Adi - MD
entamuddO - bindumalini - Adi - T
manasAvruta - AbhOgi - Adi - PSI (S)
dEhi tava pada bhakti - sahAnA - Adi - T (RS)
kanugoNTini - bilahari - dEsAdi - T
srI kAntimatIm - hEmavati - Adi - MD (RNS)
bhOgIndra ShAyinam - kuntaLa varaLi - kaNDa cApu - ST
vAridhi nIku - tODi - misra cApu - T (RNST)
lAli lAlayya lAli - kEdAragauLa - kaNDa cApu - T
rAma rAma rAma rArA - senjuruTTi - rUpakam - T
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T

That was an amazing concert. All AlApanais were awesome. The kritis were all majestic and rendereing amazingly. The opening piece in nATTai was beautiful. The bindumAlini piece was rendered with a kAkali nishAdam, as a janyam of sUryakAntam. The AbhOgi kriti was followed up with a quick round of svarams.

The first elaborate AlApanai for the evening was a moving sahAnA. The kriti, a rare tyAgarAja number, was rendered soulfully with a fitting round of svarams with the bilahari piece to follow. The AlApanai of hEmavati started off unambiguously and was developed very beautifully. The kriti was rendered with elaborate neraval and svarams as "sukha saunakAdi sadA ArAdithAm suddha tAmraparaNi taTastitAm". The quick kuntaLavarALi was followed by a grand tODi. The AlApanai was amazing. It was developed very carefully and the kriti followed was rendered beautifully with a lot of intricate sangatis, to followed with elaborate neraval and svarams at "sAreku nI hrdayAravinda munanu". The two utsava sampradaya kritis were also rendered beautifully to lead to the mangaLam.

The scholarly vidwat of Smt Suguna Varadachari was evident thro' her concert. Each piece rendered with utmost perfection and the necessary amount of gait and each phrase perfectly falling in place.

Smt Padma Shankar ably supported the main artist on the violin. Her replies were all perfect and matched up. Her solo versions and the accompanying were both very good. Sri Sivakumar on the mridangam played with good anticipation and added a nice flavour to all the compositions presented.

bharath

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 10 Apr 2008, 11:40

Thanks Bharat for the review and the photo

Must have been an amazing concert. The song list is very impressive and Bhogindra Shayinam is a Musiri School speciality.

Keep it up Bharat. Look forward to more reviews from your end.

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 10 Apr 2008, 16:53

Fantastic list from an amazing artiste.

maithree · Post by **maithree** » 11 Apr 2008, 08:55

Really amazing list. And looking at the uncluttered and serene setting for the concert - it must be have given quite the feeling of a chamber concert.

Thanks bharath for the review and photo !

sathya_vrathan · Post by **sathya_vrathan** » 11 Apr 2008, 17:36

hi bharath,
this seems to be a very great concert. if you have any recording of this concert can i get the songs dEhi tava pada bhakti and vAridhi niku-todi.

my mail id is [email protected]

srikrishna · Post by **srikrishna** » 11 Apr 2008, 19:24

sathej,

You can find the lessons by suguna maami for the kriti varidhi in todi at

http://www.aradhana.org/sampradaya/2008 ... /index.htm

sathya_vrathan · Post by **sathya_vrathan** » 12 Apr 2008, 11:38

thanks a lot sri krishna. it was very useful.

vainika · Post by **vainika** » 12 Apr 2008, 16:29

srikrishna wrote:http://www.aradhana.org/sampradaya/2008 ... /index.htm

It's so nice to see the entire list of PBV songs with class recordings and photos of the notation on here http://www.aradhana.org/sampradaya/2008 ... /index.htm
Kudos to whoever put this together!

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 12 Apr 2008, 22:27

Indeed Vainika. We are all very thankful to the Cleveland Aradhana Committee for making the lessons available to the public.

Remember the thread, http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5123 where you pointed out the source of the marriage song Anandam Anandam, Smt. Suguna Varadachari's lesson for that song is there. This is a ( relatively ) easy song for rasikas of all ages to learn from her lessons. And rasikas can sing this song as a group in temples and in functions where appropriate.