I was hoping that someone would post a review of this concert, so that I could just add my few subjective words to the thread. Request to Sri Nageswaran, please, to post the song list and his comments.
I can't let the concert go, however, without some comment on the site, because it was one of those programmes that was a new experience for me. There were some interesting comments on duet singing and its limitations, a few months ago, on this site. In my experience, the regular combinations consist either of one main performer plus support, or of a joint presentation so slick that, actual siblings or not, the impression of continual playing, practice and performing together is given. This performance could not be pigeon-holed into any such category: it was, simply, two great artists making music together.
Fellow rasikas will be very familiar with these two ladies, possibly for a long time. I have only been introduced to them recently, and have them seen them individually just a very few times. Seeing them together in this wonderful co-operation (on thing that struck me during the concert was the absolute lack of any competition on the stage) was a great experience.
How's this for a week in music? R. Vedavalli, Suguna Purushothaman, Suguna Vadachari so far, and, tomorrow: Neela Ramgopal
