Just spent a wonderful evening at Asthika Samajam in Alwarpet listening to Vijay Siva. S. Varadarajan was on the violin and Manoj Siva on the mridangam.
Concert started after Karaikkudi Mani gave an introduction of how he is running his Sruthi Laya Kendra organization. He mentioned that he wants to help senior musicians and in this regard asked if Vijay Siva would oblige by performing that day. He then said that he got a reply from Vijay Siva immediately accepting. KM also introduced a senior vidwan (name escapes me) who learnt from MDR and others. KM said that the nominal fee charged at the gate (Rs 25 can you believe it?) goes to help senior musicians - a very noble cause. KM also asked VS to honor the senior musician by giving the proceeds and also offering him a ponnaadai.
the following is the list of songs
1. shankachakra gadApANim aham - in Purnachandrika - MD
2. vinAyakuni - madhyamAvati - T
3. piravA varam thArum - latAngI - Sivan
4 a short slokam on Kanchi Kamakshi - then rAvE himagiri - swarajathi - tOdi - SS
5. annai janaki vandaley - sankarabaranam - arunachala kavirayar - awesome alapana by both VS and SV. very blissful experience this.
6. Etu namminavo manasA inchukaina - sAverI - PS
At this point it looked an offering of distinct composers since so far no composer was repeated.
7. elaborate alapana in AberI - so I was thinking it will be bhajarE rE mAnasa by MV. but it was not to be - after a very stirring alapana by SV too, VS started with jagamElE then of course launching into nagumOmu ganaleni by T. tani by Manoj Siva was exceptional.
8. slokams and then Adum cidambaramO in behAg - gopalakrishna bhArati
9. oonjal songs on Srirangam Ranganatha and Ranganayaki - by Pillai PerumAl Iyengar - this was indeed superb.
10. his usual offering of a tiruppugazh
11. mangalam
SV was fabulous on the violin - some of his AbEri phrases were amazing.
thoroughly enjoyable.
DS
Vijay Siva at Asthika Samajam - December 12, 2010
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