Bombay Jayshree - 03 Oct - Private Concert - Bangalore

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 04 Oct 2008, 08:55

Vidushi Bombay Jayshree - vocal
Vid Embar S Kannan - Violin
Vid Manoj Siva - mrudangam
Vid K.V.Gopalakrishna - kanjira

1. Sri saraswathi - arabhi - muthuswami dikshitar (swara @ sri saraswathi)
2. sarasa samadhana - kapi narayani - thyagaraja
3. mara vairi ramani - nasikabhushani - thyagaraja (neraval & swara @ dharma vardhani vadana hasa subha phalade)
4. sukhi evvaro - kanada -thyagaraja (alapana, swara @ sukhi evvaro)
5. anandamrutha karshini - amruthavarshini - muthuswami dikshitar
6. sri raghuvara - kambhoji - thyagaraja (raagam, swaram @ sri raghuvara)
7. ranjani niranjani - ranjani - GNB
8. RTP - Gowri manohari - kanda jaati triputa taalam (sarasamukhi sakala dayaki mampahi chamundeshwari - pallavi line)
- samam eduppu; ragamalika swaram in behag, mahati, dwijavanthi; tani avarthanam
9. ragi tandiro biksheke - revati
10. natha hare - bageshri - jayadeva
11. dhim dhim ta udanadhim dhim ta tirana - tillana - ? - lalgudi jayaraman
12. sri ramachandra srutaparijata - sloka - nadanamakriya

Concert started @ 6.30pm, i went 10 minutes late, arabhi swarams were in progress. nasikabhushani swarams were good, had phrases without panchama.
Kanada alapana was very slow paced, and was little unconventional. Embar kannan's reply was very good, i liked his playing. Sukhi evvaro was sung well, brought out the bhava quite well. kambhodi was main piece, no neravals were sung, swaras were very good. RTP was very brief - raga alapana was done in two rounds. Pallavi was hardly for few minutes, and swara may be two, three rounds and shifted to raga mailka. Jayshree sang the pallavi in all three ragamalika ragas, in reverse order and got back to gowri manohari. thani was excellent, and enjoyable.

-hari

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 04 Oct 2008, 09:15

Being navarathri, after kanada alapana, i expected - mamava sadha janani of swathi tirunaal - and kind of disappointed. After she sang kambhoji and since it was 4th day of festival, i thought she will sing 4th navavarnam - kamalaambikaayai in kambhodi - and got disappointed again!! Neraval was done for nasika bhushani song only, no where else..

-hari

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 04 Oct 2008, 09:18

Thanks for the review, Hari.
Wish I had invitations to such nice private concerts too!

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 04 Oct 2008, 17:10

The tillAnA is in the raga tilang.

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 06 Oct 2008, 20:31

On a recap about this concert - Embar kannan used two violins - one probably tuned in madhyama sruthi - during last two songs. Is that a common practise? It saves time to tune the violin back and forth for madhyama shruti. I have seen artist use different flutes during concert, not different violins though..

-hari

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 07 Oct 2008, 11:32

s_hari wrote:On a recap about this concert - Embar kannan used two violins - one probably tuned in madhyama sruthi - during last two songs. Is that a common practise? It saves time to tune the violin back and forth for madhyama shruti.
-hari

Hari,

That was an interesting observation.
Normally only a single violin is used.

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 07 Oct 2008, 11:42

What is the tuning like for madhyama shruti?

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 07 Oct 2008, 11:55

We had a long discussion on this before. There are two explanations:

1) Tambura is tuned to Sa-Ma and Madhyam becomes the tonic. Obviously the compositions should be largely in the mandra/madhya sthayi esle god help the vocalist
2) The tambura is tuned as above but tonic continues to be shadjam. This is possibly sutably for ragas that have no panchmamam but a madhyamam - Abhogi, Hindolam etc. Hindustani musicians tend to retune tamburas depending on the raga whereas CM artistes generally use the S-P tuning for all pieces.

Corrections welcome - this is only based on my understandong from the previous discussion