Concert by S.Aishwarya - Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple - 7/9/10

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suswara ranjaka
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Concert by S.Aishwarya - Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple - 7/9/10

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Kumari S.Aishwarya - Vocal
Sri C.N.Chandrasekhar - Violin
Sri C.Cheluvarju - Mridangam
Sri Dayanand Mohite - Ghatam.

Concert List :

1) Om Namah Pranavarthaaya
2) Viriboni - Pachamiriam Adiyappa - Ata - Bhairavi
3) Narayanathe Namo Namo - Annamacharya - Pancharatna Ragamalika - Adi
4) Sriman Narayana - Annamacharya - Bowli - Adi
5) Aparama Bhakthi Yento - Thyagaraja - Pantuvarali - Rupakam (RNS)
6)Vaa Muruga Vaa - Spencer Venugopal - Begada - Rupakam
7) Dolayam - Annamacharya - Khamas - Adi (Raga outline)
8) Jo Achutanananda - Annamacharya - Kapi - Khanda Chapu
9) Mukhe the Thambulam - - Virutam
10) Ksheerasagara Shayana - Jayachamaraja Wodeyar - Mayamalavagowla - Dhruva (RN)
11) Sarasa Sama Dhana - Thyagaraja - Kapi Narayani - Adi
12) Gajavadana - Todi - Kumara Yetindra - Adi - (R,Chittaswaram, Swaram, Tani)
13) Bhavayami Gopalabalam - Annamacharya - Yaman Kalyani - Khanda Chapu
14) Jagadhodharana - Hindustani Kapi - Purandaradasa
15)Neelambuja Shyama komalangam - Valmiki - Slokam
16) Naininame Siyaram - Goswami Tulasidas - Behaag - Adi (Raga outline)
17)Chediyaya Valvinaigal - Virutam
18) Srinivasa Thiruvenkata - Papanasam Sivan - Hamsanandi - Adi
19) Kaatrinilaye - Kalki .
20) Nadhru Dheem Dheem - Tillana - Poochi - Sankarabharanam - Deshadi
21) Kurai Onrum Illai - Rajaji - Ragamalika - Adi
22) Hari Tuma haro - Meerabai - Darbari Kanada - Adi
23) Managalam - Seetha Kalyanam - Thyagaraja - Kurinji - Khanda Chapu

Needless to say that Kum.Aishwarya.S comes under the tutelage of Smt.Radha Vishwanathan (daughter/disciple of Smt.MS Subbulakshmi). The 3 hour concert proved to be a success for the organizers and Aishwarya's budding aspirations as well.

Aishwarya commenced her concert with a Prelude to Lord Dakshinamurthy which was followed by the Viriboni Varnam in 2 kalams. The 'tishram' to the varnam added to its glory. This aspect was well rehearsed and managed on the concert stage. The next few songs which followed were of the MS reportire and they were done justice to. The audience lit up when she started Sriman Narayana. To speak of the main song, Gajavadana in Ragam Thodi apparently, which MS amma and Radha mami had learnt from Semmangudi mama & couldn't perform on stage due to Mami suddenly falling seriously ill in 1982. Aishwarya, dedicated this song to her Grandmother and spoke a few words on the history before presenting it. The tukkudas were more or less were the ones made famous by MS amma like Jagadodharana, Srinivasa Thiruvenkata (nostalgic about the viruttam which was beautifully sung by Radha mami in concerts), Katrinile Varum Geetham, Hari Tum Haro. To mention the Thillana in Shankarabharanm which also was learnt by MS amma & Radha mami from Semmangudi but not presented on stage together. The Mangalam was unusual, as she rendered Seetha Kalyana in Kurunji.

Some of the highlights in the concert were the raga alapana in Kamavardhini & Thodi. Swaras in Kamavardhini , especially in slower speed brought out the beauty of the raga so well . Sarasa Sama Dhana was rendered superbly in great speed .The chittaiswaram in the song Gajavadana was sung with intense care, in particular the Gandhara , soaked in the Semmangudi style. The veteran accompanists (Sri CNC and Sri Cheluvaraju in particular) provided Aishwarya great support for the entire duration of 3 hours with lots of "bhales" and "bhesh" in between. There were requests which kept creeping in continously from the fully packed hall. (inspite of an auto strike) The organizer who gave a very short speech towards the end of the tani, blessed Aishwarya and complimented her for having performed a great concert at the age of 14 years and that she should make a niche for herself in the field of Carnatic Music like her great Grandmother.

The overall effect of the concert was emotive for Grandmother Smt Radha who was seated in the front row in her wheel chair as well as the proud parents of Aishwarya. The audience were overwelmed too, on listening to this young girl with an outpouring enthusiasm to shruti-shuddham and kaala-pramaanam. The concert was certainly worth to speak a mouthful ! A picture of the concert in full flow.
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Thanks for the review. I was about to write one actually. It indeed was an excellent concert. All the pieces were beautifully executed, and impeccable maturity for some one who is just in her tenth standard. And an even more lovely drive back with Cienu, wherein i got treated to a double delight of Smt.MSS' "once in a life time" bhairavi and shankharAbharaNam... All in all a wonderful evening it was.

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Post by suma »

Good job Aishwarya! Keep up the good work. 3 hr concert must have required a lot of effort and preparation. Nice to note that their is someone within the family continuing the glorious tradition of MS Amma.

Cienu - See if you can post a video clip or 2.

rshankar
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Congratulations to Aishwarya and her family - they must be justifiably proud!! Cienu - I second Suma's request...

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Good selection of songs and I am sure the audience had a grand Feast. Congrats to Aishwarya

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Way to go Aishwarya!
A mega concert indeed for a youngster. Such good accompanists too!
Here's a teenager who hopes to carry the torch of the family's music into the future (little sister Soundarya all raring to go too!). That's not all. Aishwarya is an athletic star of her school too.

Semmu,
I'm glad you could make it. After all, Bengaluru offers enough music for a Chennaite who craves CM--you'd agree.

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Suswara Ranjaka, thank you for the nice review. The songlist looks impressive! Kudos to Aishwarya and here's to her continuing the rich tradition of her mother and grandmother!

Cienu, another request here for some videos if possible!

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Post by Nick H »

semmu86 asked me if I had seen this review, so I'm glad to see it.

Congratulations to Aishwarya on her continuing career. Will we see her in Chennai soon? In December?

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bilahari:
Do you mean "mother and grandmother" or "grandmother and great grandmother"?

bilahari
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Oh dear - I meant the latter. Thanks for the correction (though the former may be true as well)! This is what happens when you spend your days and nights in lab counting dots in thousands of cells, hoping everything will somehow finally make sense. Alas...

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Still counting colonies in agar plates, manually? There are some automatic cell counters (for a few years now) in the market. Tell your boss to buy one. Is he a penny-pinching slave driver? If you are in UCSD, I know a couple of people there in the biochemistry department.

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Sorry all for hijacking this thread, but...

MK, I count pools of PI(3)P in cells. While the Cell Profiler software allows for the counting of dots and any discrete entities, I have never been satisfied with it and prefer to count manually. Tiring, but experimental science is quite a battle anyway. Especially since biological systems are so whimsical. :D

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Thank you to all for your comments & wishes. As requested by Suma,Ravi & Bilahari I am uploading a few video clips of the concert (courtesy of TVG).
Viriboni : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2a4guqWO9I
Sriman Narayana : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3fWNZ-eoeA
Kaatrinilaye : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tb5otL2_hQ
Kurai Onrum Illai : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKJiZil4VUU
Hari Tuma Haro : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVi8uDd7zk4
Pavanaja : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ9HxEQQPbo

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I would have liked to listen to her recording of Thodi or MMGowla R,N,S more than the regular MS CC numbers. I am sure that she must be musically shaping up well in all spheres.

cienu
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kssr,
The concert (audio) will be uploaded at Sangeethapriya shortly.

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Cienu - thank you! Lovely!

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Thanks to modern technology , I had the pleasure and privilege to hear and see a wonderful performance by a young and talented artist, in the comfort of my favourite chair in my drawing room half a way around the world. As V(erum) Narayanaswamy, (verum means ordinary or some thing like mammoli in Tamil ) my command over language and vocabulary may not be adequate to describe the grandeur of the concert inappropriate words but I can certainly say that nurture and environment have played a great part in grooming this artist who will certainly enhance the reputation of her scions Were I a poet I would have composed a couplet about Sow Aiswaryas mother in similar terms Kamba Nattar used to describe Kausalya for being the mother of Sri Rama or Sri Papanasam Sivan used to describe Yasodha for being the mother of Sri Krishna.May Sri Rama bless Sow. Aiswarya

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Sri Veeyens,
Coming from you sir, (possibly the seniormost Rasika on our forum !) we consider it a great blessing :) Will convey this to Aishwarya and her mother surely.

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Cienu and TVG sir, Thank you. She has a great voice. I always wondered how MS Amma, Semmangudi would hold a kind of sound (nadham/depth) in their voice while singing. Looks like Aishwarya got the same thing. The depth in the voice is so good.

Great Job! Keep it up Aishwarya!

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Re # 18, the statement that I am senior most may be true with respect to my age, it is really true in respect of the freebies mentioned by Sri Papanasam Sivan " nadaiyum thalara deha modungo navadhu kuzaro kangal manga"(pardon my phonetic rendering)But what keeps me going , day after day pounding at the keys a la Columbus (remember he discovered America by landing on the proper "keys") is my love of carnatic music , which I still practice during my bathroom sessions more as an audio latch,an alternative to a defective mechanical latch.Thanks to fellow rasikas like you and forums like ours, I am keeping alsheimer at bay. May Sri Rama bless you all

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Thank you for the clips, cienu!
Aishwarya has an excellent voice - I was thoroughly impressed by her viribhOni. She will go far! I look forward to listening to the meat of the concert - the RNS, as kssr says - via Sangeethapriya.

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Thank you Bilahari, Ravi and Suma :)
will inform you when the audio is uploaded in Sangeethapriya (courtesy - TVG.)

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Thanks for the clips cienu. Superb artist ! Aishwarya definitely has that extra edge of shruti and swarasthana purity. God bless.

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Cienu- Thanks for the Clippings. Wish Aishwarya all success in CM.

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It was very heartening to see young Aishwarya sing so earnestly, displaying devotion and fidelity to the great lineage she hails from. First and foremost, I would like to mention that not only was her music pitch-perfect but even the entire atmosphere seemed pervaded by the Tambura Sruti, a rare occurrence in most Carnatic concerts nowadays, where the electronic tambura (and now even ipods!) have completely replaced the charm and innate beauty of the natural tambura with something far more pedestrian. Furthermore, the tambura seemed to be tuned to perfection, which in my frank opinion is "half the battle won"!! :grin: Just listening to the tambura one could hark back to the days of yore when her grandmother and great-grandmother sang with 2 perfectly tuned tamburas that always filled the auditorium with perfect sruti, creating a heavenly backdrop for ethereal music. Aishwarya's rendition of Viriboni was impeccable and the tishram section was obviously practised to perfection. Even the last chittaswaram was flawless in the upper speed, a credit that goes straight to her grandmother, Smt Radha, for tutoring her granddaughter so well. Srimannarayana was sublime and serene!! One can only look forward to the remainder of the songs from this concert, before the famous tukkadas.

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