Gokul Chandramouli and Party at Mulund, Mumbai

[arunsri]

Mulund Sri. Guruvayoorappan Temple: Sunday - 13th June 2010, 10 AM to 12:30 PM

Gokul Chandramouli - Vocal
Smt. Sharada Murali - Violin
Sri. Rajesh Srinivasan - Mdgm
Smt. Sudha Chandramouli - Tambura

vAtApi - hamsadhwani - Adi - dIkshitar (S)
brOchEvArevarE - shrIranjani - Adi - thyAgarAja
lOkAvanaCatura - bEgaDA - Adi - thyAgarAja (R, S)
nAdupai - madhyamAvati - khaNDa chApu - thyAgarAja
RTP Todi - 'shrInivAsa tava charaNam santatam chintayE' - Adi (2 kaLai) - swaras in nATakuranji and darbAri kAnaDa
tani
virittam in darbAri kAnaDa
chandrachUDa - darbAri kAnaDa - Adi - purandaradAsa
Speech
chEtashrI - dwijAvanti - tishra Eka - dIkshitar (RS, S)
iravu pagal - sAranga - aruNagirinAthar
patiki hArati - suraTi - Adi - thyAgarAja
pavamAna

Gokul (our forumite -- thyagarajadasa) gave a nice concert on sunday at the Guruvayurappan temple. I reached when the begada alapana was unfolding. He is a disciple of his maternal grandmother Smt. Bhagavati Mani (who learnt from the Swati Tirunal college), and also of Sri Neyvel Santhanagopalan (his paternal uncle). Currently he is learning from Smt. Kalyani Sharma of Mumbai. Gokul is a BTech from NIT Nagpur and is currently purusing a MTech in IIT Bombay. I know him well, I am not posting a review perse, but just highlighting points from the concert

Very nice rendition of Begada raga - very creative in many parts, but with some flat notes ala shankarAbharaNam at places. The kriti rendition (a rare one) was brisk with swaras at the pallavi line. Lots of rounds of slow swaras, with the bulk of the second speed swaras in khanda nadai.
The highlight was the pallavi, with a nice alapana with shruti bEdham into mOhanam, a beautiful madhyamakala tAnam. The whole R and T suite took 30 mins, the pallavi in simple Adi 2 kalai was rendered well with the trikalam. The swaras, were also quite mathematical in nature with khanda nadai featuring prominently.

The violinist played well, and answered the vocalists laya challenges credibly. The mridangist was very good, especially for songs which he knew, the acompanient for lOkAvanachaturA was supreme. All in all a nice concert without any sag and kept the listeners engaged.

[ganeshkant]

It seems he performed for Pune sangeetha sabha last sunday.My brother reported that he sang Manamuletha in HK,Vinadha sudhava in JS and main Sankarabharanam.He said his singing is o.k.

[tyagarajadasa]

@arunsri,

Thank you for the review, the swarams at lOkAvana caturA were in tisra naDai (i hope )

[tyagarajadasa]

@ganeshkant,

I got the good fortune of singing for the Pune Sabha in place of an artist (and his party ) who were not able to make it. (thanks to him, I got two thiDeer kutcheris! ). Kindly extend my thanks to your bother for attending the kutcheri. I also managed an RTP in kApi (Catusra roopakam, khanda naDai) after the Shankarabharanam piece (sarojadaLa nEtri).

[arasi]

Gokul,
Good to hear about your two concerts.
'Substituting' isn't bad at all. It gives exposure and leads to 'let us book him!' concerts. Good luck!

[tyagarajadasa]

@arasi,

I hope more such substitutions take place in Mumbai! Only then local artists like me get a chance to perform here!

[S.Balaji]

Gokul,

Best wishes.

There is a thread for concerts in Mumbai. In future if you have any concert, pls post it so that we can attend.

By the way, do you have videos/audios of the Pune/Mulund concert ? I am maintaining a blog for happenings in Mumbai . I can upload to the blog. The latest coverage was Veenai Gayatri's performance at Shanmukananda on 12th.

http://carnaticmusicmumbai.blogspot.com/

[tyagarajadasa]

Dear balaji,
I have been trying to record during my last few concerts, but all of them are very poor recordings |(

I will inform about my future programs for sure!

[rajeshnat]

virittam in darbAri kAnaDa
chandrachUDa - darbAri kAnaDa - Adi - purandaradAsa

tyagarajadasa
Nice to hear that you are shri Neyveli's nephew . Uncles and nephews combination of guru sishya always bring excellence to CM. Neyveli sings darbAri beautifully during tukkadas , what was your viruththam . By any chance was that tevAram "kAdhalAki kasindu " that neyveli takes up .

[S.Balaji]

A review by Bhanu Kumar in Mumbai Mirror :

It was a day dedicated to music. Morning session of talent recognition concert by Gokul Chandramouli and evening session by senior vocalist Sankari Krishnan from Chennai, both concerts hosted by Mulund Fine Arts Society at the Bhakta Sangham temple complex hall, Mulund West on June 13.

The morning concert presented by Gokul Chandramouli had a good crowd in spite of Sunday morning. A B-Tech graduate in electrical engineering, presently he pursues his post graduation in Energy systems from IIT Mumbai. Trained by his maternal grandmother Bhagwathi Mani in the formative years, Gokul continues learning music under his paternal uncle an illustrious vocalist Neyveli Santhanagopalan.



“Music runs in the genes from both sides and Gokul has been performing from the age of fourteen. Recently he performed in Pune,” informs his father Chandramouli.“He is the recipient of Yuva Kalakar award in the year 2008 and D K Pattammal Best singer in the metropolis award and has also won a tambura award, all from Shanmukhananda Sangeet Sabha. All this besides many prizes and laurels in music, Gokul is a winner throughout,” says his mother Sudha Chandramouli.

Gokul presented Vatapi Ganapati and the Ragam Tanam Pallavi in Thodi was well rendered. Endowed with a good musical voice Gokul exhibited the good training received and practice that he has put in. He was ably supported by Sharada Murali on the Violin and Rajesh Sreenivasan on the mridangam. His mother Sudha played the tambura. “Gokul has been able to balance studies and singing, doing justice to both,” adds his father.

The concert was supported by Music Forum, an organization that encourages young artistes by showcasing their performances in Mumbai. The audience went home and came back in the evening for the second session of music.
Sankari Krishnan, disciple of musical maestro Lalgudi G Jayaraman displayed high standard of singing that was a combination of meticulous training and creativity.

Beginning with a brisk Andolika Varnam, she went on to present a Lalgudi pancharatnam in ragam Thodi. The ragam tanam pallavi in Ragam Madhyamavati was very well delineated. For the tail piece items, she chose Enna Thavam, a Kavadi Chindu and concluded the concert with a Kanada thilllna.

“The concert was of a very high standard and kept the audience spell bound,” says Hema Veeramani, music teacher from Mulund. Sankari was accompanied on the violin by B Anantharaman and S Sankaranarayanan on the mridangam.
“We do avoid programs during rainy season as members find it difficult to attend but it did not rain on that day and many could attend this pre monsoon program,” says N Rajgopal, president of MFAS.

http://mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?Page ... tname=CITY - Briefs&sectid=35&contentid=20100619201006171148497643ae3a817


GOD BLESS YOU GOKUL . CHEERS.

[tyagarajadasa]

@ rajeshnat,

I always plan that I will sing one of the few other tEvArams I know, as viruttam, but I am always unsuccessful in that. kAdalAgi kasindu is what comes to mind every time!

@ S Balaji:

Thank you for the blessings and cheer!

[bilahari]

Looking forward to hearing you in the future, Gokul. If you have some recordings to pass our way, we'd lap them up!

[tyagarajadasa]

@ bilahari:

As I already posted before, i am always unsuccessful at recording during a kutcheri. Nevertheless, I am posting links for some gems that I had the good fortune of learning from Smt Kalyani Sharma, who is a disciple of Brindamma (I stil continue to learn padams from mami). I record them as a substitute for "notations".(notating these is very difficult and i am sure i need some reference in the future!)

So here u go: (hope they are ok!)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2dznaghledj/kAntimati.mp3

http://www.mediafire.com/file/vjunyhjytnu/ososi.mp3

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mzyuy2gluex/pusa.mp3

PS: lyrics may not be correct; they are just the same as people of the Dhanammal school sing...

[rajeshnat]

@ rajeshnat,

I always plan that I will sing one of the few other tEvArams I know, as viruttam, but I am always unsuccessful in that. kAdalAgi kasindu is what comes to mind every time!

tyagarajadasa,
You have not told what you sang as viruththam in this concert?

[tyagarajadasa]

rajeshnat,
I sang kAdalAgi (once again!)