Oct 24th - Excl Dikshithar Concert by Vid Neela Ramgopal

sappri · Post by **sappri** » 22 Oct 2009, 15:50

This Saturday's concert...

Commemorating Dikshithar Day, there's a Special Concert by Vid Neela Ramgopal - *exclusively* on Dikshithar Kritis being organized at Sree Rama Lalitha Kala Mandira, Banasankari.

It is on the 24th of OCTOBER at 0530 PM.

Accompanying Vid Neela Ramgopal, would be

Vid Mysore Srikkanth on the violin
Vid Poongalam Subramaniam on the mridangam
Vid Guruprasanna on the Khanjira

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 23 Oct 2009, 11:20

sappri - thanks a lot for the invite. Very eagerly waiting for this concert... Hoping to hear some rare gems of Sri. Muthuswamy dikshitar..

-hari

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 24 Oct 2009, 04:14

Hope Neela Ramgopal (gnaanam personified!) will let us hear a sampling on the forum

sappri · Post by **sappri** » 24 Oct 2009, 10:50

This time let me keep up my word

- with mami's permission, I will try and do this within a reasonable time!!!!

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 24 Oct 2009, 23:16

24 October 2009, 5.30pm
Sri Rama Lalitha Kala Mandira, Banashankari, Bangalor

Vidushi Neela Ramgopal - vocal
Vid. Mysore Srikanth - violin
Vid Poongulam subramanyan - mridhangam
Vid Guru prasanna - kanjira

Exclusive concert on muthuswami dikshitar keerthanas

1. maha ganapathim - naati - chatusra ekam (brief outline, swara @ maha ganapathim)
2. bruhadeshwari bhajare re chitta - lalitha panchamam - adi (alapana, swara @ bruhadeeshwari)
3. sri swaminathaya namasthe - ,,, - kanda chapu (alapana)
4. chetah sri balakrishnam - dwijavanthi - rupakam 2 kalai
5. sringAra sakthyayuda dhara - ramAmanohari - misra jampai (alapana, swara @ sringAra)
6. akshaya linga vibho - shankarabharanam - misra chapu (alapana, neraval & swaram @ badari vana mula, tani avarthanam)
7. maye twam - tarangini - adi 2 kalai
8. sri venugopala sri rukmini lola - kurinji - kanda ekam
9. sarasa soudheera rasavada - suvarnangi - adi
10.sri dikshitendraya gayekebya (viruttam, mangalam) - surati

A nice concert to be cherished for long time. A well planned concert, and well executed ably supported by the team. Rare compositions were intelligently mixed with popular ones, still adhering to katcheri paddati adhering to different tala, different ragas.

-hari

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 24 Oct 2009, 23:26

-hari

keerthi · Post by **keerthi** » 24 Oct 2009, 23:29

Woe is me! I had to play host to guests and couldn't go. When I tried to slip out around 5.30, a dirty look from the feminine parent put me back into gracious host mode.

Such an interesting songlist. I had guessed that she may sing the sauvIra/suvarnAngi piece. Neela mami has sung this on radio, and even sang an RTP suvarNangi, 4-5 years ago at the Gayana samaj.

How did Mami sing Lalitapancamam..? with the kaisiki or the kakali ni..?

Most versions of Paramapurusham I have heard use the latter, while it should be the former.

And which kind of Tarangini did she sing..? the janjuti species or the carukesi species..?

It must have been a challenge singing kuranji after a Sankarabharanam main. is it sung in Madhyama sruti...?

I too went to a concert.. And it was terrible and half-decent in patches.. So I won't file a report.

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 24 Oct 2009, 23:48

keerthi - i guess, mami sang with kaisiki nishadam - making it a janya of vakulabharanam

Not sure about maye twam..

kurinji was sung in madhyama sruti, so was maye twam.

Shankarabharanam was very interesting, had very classical phrases and some improvised phrases also. She did graha bedam, resulting in yamuna kalyani and kadanakutuhalam (i didn't observe later raga, mami clarified this after concert). Shankarabharanam swarams had some nice patterns, and tani avarthanam was equally interesting. I was so happy to hear dwijavanthi piece rendered very movingly.

If i need to talk some thing in negative, mami profusely used text reference, even for akshaya linga vibho, and in one place in shankarabharanam swaras, it seemed as if she missed edam once (i could be wrong, corrections welcome).

Keerthi - i believe there is another mami's (awsome) concert scheduled next week, wait for details in few days..

-hari

keerthi · Post by **keerthi** » 25 Oct 2009, 08:43

s_hari wrote:Keerthi - i believe there is another mami's (awesome) concert scheduled next week, wait for details in few days..

-hari

Great! Pass the word when you get to know more details.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 25 Oct 2009, 21:45

2. bruhadeshwari bhajare re chitta - lalitha panchamam - adi (alapana, swara @ bruhadeeshwari)
5. sringAra sakthyayuda dhara - ramAmanohari - misra jampai (alapana, swara @ sringAra)
9. sarasa soudheera rasavada - suvarnangi - adi
10.sri dikshitendraya gayekebya (viruttam, mangalam) - surati

2 I have heard , cannot recollect . 5 and 9 not heard at all(especially suvarnangi is a teaser)
Is the last sri dikshitendraya sloKham composed by some one else. I am always assuming only thamizh should be called viruththam ,rest like sanskrit ,telugu or kannada should only be called slokham,sloka or slokhamu and not viruththam

keerthi · Post by **keerthi** » 26 Oct 2009, 09:10

rajeshnat wrote: Is the last sri dikshitendraya sloKham composed by some one else. I am always assuming only thamizh should be called viruththam ,rest like sanskrit ,telugu or kannada should only be called slokham,sloka or slokhamu and not viruththam

There are no sloka-s in kannaDa or telugu either. You are right when you say it is an assumption.

I too am interested in knowing who composed the verse on MD.

sappri · Post by **sappri** » 26 Oct 2009, 11:43

I can confirm this - but to the best of my knowledge the "sanskrit" Dikshithar shlokam in Surutti was composed by Shri V V Srivatsa

Naada Priya · Post by **Naada Priya** » 26 Oct 2009, 13:18

keerthi wrote:
And which kind of Tarangini did she sing..? the janjuti species or the carukesi species..?

I guess it was in jhanjhuti species ..
If I am not wrong, TM Krishna sang maaye twam in carukesi species in sangeetha samprada pradarshini demo held at gayana samaja some time ago...

bhavarasa · Post by **bhavarasa** » 13 Nov 2009, 11:58

Here's the link to that TMK concert you are referring to. The intro to mAyE is worth listening to. He explains how it's closer to Charukesi and not jenjhuti as it has morphed into today. Very enlightening.

URL Deleted per request from Ravi Kiran.

gravikiran · Post by **gravikiran** » 13 Nov 2009, 13:42

Dear Bhavarasa,

I was part of the Organizing Committee of Ananya Sampradaya and I would just like to mention that the above recording is not an authorized one.
Kindly retract the same from public space (and from sangeethapriya).

Hope you understand.

Regards,
Ravi Kiran.

bhavarasa · Post by **bhavarasa** » 13 Nov 2009, 20:14

gravikiran wrote:Dear Bhavarasa,

I was part of the Organizing Committee of Ananya Sampradaya and I would just like to mention that the above recording is not an authorized one.
Kindly retract the same from public space (and from sangeethapriya).

Hope you understand.

Regards,
Ravi Kiran.

I have removed the URL. Unfortunately, I do not own the space on sangeethamshare to be able to delete it out of there as well.