My Dec 2010 Chennai Music Season

[vasanthakokilam]

I rarely get to experience the Chennai music season and I had been meaning to do something about it.
This year I did do something about that, though not as many days as I would have liked for music. I had Dec 4th and then between
15th December afternoon to 21st December morning with 20th not available due to an out of statin trip.

That is not much time but believe me, I went nuts with wall to wall CM in the available time. All sorts of personal records were broken.
Thanks to Arasi for suggestions for each slot out of which I picked the ones I knew something about based on prior discussions here or just out of convenience of location.
I was at 8 A.M. sharp at the MA, I hung around there after that, so my attendance had that big built-in bias for MA concerts.

Here are the concerts I attended. ( some partial ) I will write about some of the experiences in this thread later.
(All December 2010 )

4th
-Ranjani&Gayatri, NGS

15th
-Shankaran Namboodiri, srkris wedding reception, hotel palm grove

16th
-Prasanna Venkataraman (Vocal) MFAC
-K. Gayatri (Vocal) MFAC
-A. Kanyakumari & Embar S. Kannan (Violin Duet) MA
-Manda Sudharani (Vocal)

17th
-Sumathi Krishnan (Lec Dem – Variety in varnams) MA
-Deepti Bhalla (Lec Dem – Dundubhi Natyam – Compositions based on rare talas of Kerala) MA
-B. Kannan (Veena) MA
-K. Dharini (Vocal) MA
-Savita Narasimhan (Vocal) MA
-Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Vocal), YGP - Bharat Kalachar

18th
-David Nelson (Lec Dem – Structure of Taniavartanam) MA
-Vijay Siva (Lec Dem – Ragas Devakriya, Devamrtavarsini, Manjari & Kharaharapriya A comparative study) MA
-Bombay Sisters (Vocal) MA
-K. Bharat Sundar (Vocal) MA
-Prasanna Venkataraman (Vocal), MA
-Vijayanagaram D. Vardhini (Vocal), Sivagami Pethachi
-N. Ravikiran (Chitraveena), Sivagami Pethachi

19th
-B.M. Sundaram & Injikkudi E.M. Subramaniam (Lec Dem – Mallari), MA
-V. Narasimhan & The Madras String Quartet (Lec Dem – My way of taking Carnatic Music to Globalization), MA
-Srinidhi concert and Rasikas meet
-Sikkil Gurucharan (Vocal), Sivagami Pethachi

20th
no concerts, out of station trip

21st
-Mala Chandrasekar (Lec Dem – Flute – The Technique and the Stalwarts), MA
-Padma Subrahmanyam (Lec Dem – Brihadishwara Temple – Its influence on music and dance), MA
-Trichur V. Ramachandran (Vocal), MA

[rbharath]

sir, twas nice catching up with you at srkris' wedding. unfortunate that i couldnt make it on the 19th, as i had promised.