Gokul Chandramouli - IIT Mumbai - 10th October 2010

[S.Balaji]

The Cultural Council of IIT Mumbai organized a 2 hour programme on 10th October 10 evening with the first session for Carnatic music concert which our Thyagarajadasa alias Gokul Chandramouli performed .

First things first. The 75 odd capacity hall was packed with the bright looking IIT students and few outsiders like me. That’s really a heartening development. Wish IIT organizes more such classical concerts as IIT is a place of multi cultural convergence.

In line with the Navratri season, Gokul started with Nee Sari saTi , a Kriti of Shri Ponnaiah P , set to Kalyani raga. The alapana was nice and the kriti was well sung.

Then came the main raga Bhairavi. An elaborate alapana was followed by a very good Violin work. The kriti was Kamakshi Amba , a Shri Shyama Shastri kriti. There was neraval and swarajathi too at the end and the Violin returns were praiseworthy.

Rohit Prasad , within the 5 minute timespan, did a mini Thani avarthanam admirably !

Gokul ended the concert with Krishna Nee begane .

Nice to see the team efficiently doing the time management well within the 1 hour allotted wherein we could have a kriti, alapana, neraval, swarajathi and thaniavarthanam too !

Mrs. Geetha Gulvady took over and performed Hindustani vocal for the next 1 hour .

Wish, we see more and more concerts of Thyagarajadasa in the years to come

Have uploaded the videos. Pls visit : http://carnaticmusicmumbai.blogspot.com/

[Sathej]

Who was the violinist?

[S.Balaji]

Who was the violinist?

Tejasvi Sunderrajan