Sikkil Gurucharan @ Nadasurabhi on 15.5.2011

[kssr]

Nadasurabhi invitation reads as follows:

Nadasurabhi Cultural Association, (Regd.)
662, 6th Cross, 17th Main , 3rd Block, Koramangala, Bangalore.560 034.
Phone: 25539368. Email:[email protected]

Cordially invites you for the Monthly Programme on
Sunday, 15th May 2011 at 4.15 PM


Venue: The Indian Heritage Academy Hall,
6th Block, Near Police Station, Koramangala, Bangalore. 560 095.

A Grand Vocal Recital

By

Vidwan Sikkil Gurucharan - Vocal
Vidwan B.Raghuram -Violin
Vidwan Arjun Kumar - Mridangam
Vidwan Guruprasanna - Khanjira


All are Welcome.


• Sikkil Gurucharan is making musical waves all over the world with his sweet sonorous voice. He comes from a family of musicians, being the grandson of Padmashri , Sangeeta Kalanidhi Sikkil Sisters Kunjumani and Neela . Born and brought up in an environment full of music he was trained in vocal by Shri Vaigal Gnanaskandan of the Semmangudi school of Music . He also learns from his aunt, Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar and is now under an advanced training program with Vidwan B Krishnamurthy through a fellowship from Sangeet Natak Akademi , New Delhi . He has won numerous awards like Yuva Puraskar from Sangeet Natak Akademi, Yuva Kala Bharati , Isai Chudar , Swarna Venkatesha Dikshitar award from the Madras Music academy for 3 consecutive conferences .
• The children’s carnatic music competition is being held on Saturday, 14th May in two batches one at 10 AM and the other at 4 PM. All are requested to attend the encourage the children.

[srikant1987]

ninnE nammi? - kadanakutUhala varNam - Adi (sketch)
ennagAna rAma bhajana - pantuvarALi - rUpaka - Bhadrachala Ramadas (RNS)
Emani vEgintunE - husEni - Adi - T (sketch)
abhimAnamu - bEgaDe - Adi - PSI (R)
gajavadanA sammOdhita - tODi - Adi - ? (RS)

It was a good concert.

kadanakutUhalam sketch lacked the KKH "punch". Singing could be more open-throated. I was pushed to outside the hall by the huge crowd and couldn't hear the shruti. pantuvarALi AlApanais aren't much fun without it. The neraval and swarams were good.

Sri Raghuram played very good neravals, and his AlApanais, while less "elaborate", were filled with more classical phrases. There were some noticeable shruti errors, though. Sikkil didn't let him reply to finishing neravals and swarams, sadly.

Sri Arjun Kumar accompanied beautifully. Would've been nice if Sri Guruprasanna had participated more actively.

There was a shruti bhEdam to hindOLam (apparently) by Gurucharan -- and it was the naThabhairavi-janya hindOLam which would need ma to be set as the new sa. People sing hindOLam in samashruti itself for tODi, is it really necessary? :devil: Interestingly, the gentleman sitting to my left said an "acchaccho" when the violinist did a shruti bhEdam to mOhanam (ri set as sa ... kalyANi janyam), though he swallowed Sri Gurucharan's shruti bhEdam happily. Probably because of the samashruti-singability of hindOLam in tODi.

I liked neraval and swarams in pantuvarALi and the bEgaDe and tODi krti renditions, though tODi was spoiled a little by AlApanai within krti. I tend to be absurdly sensitive to this. ;( |(

I left after the tODi krti.

[kssr]

Neeve Rakshaku- kadanakutUhala varNam - Adi (sketch)
ennagAna rAma bhajana - pantuvarALi - rUpaka - Bhadrachala Ramadas (RNS)
Emani vEgintunE - husEni - Adi - T (sketch)
abhimAnamu - bEgaDe - Adi - PSI (R)
Jaya Jaya Jaya Janaki kantha- Nattai- Kanda Chapu- Purandaradasa
gajavadanA sammOdhita - tODi - Adi - ? (RS)
Thani
Marulukonnadira- Khamas- Padam?
Hamsanaadam- RTP- Pallavi- Nannu Brova Raadha Sree Rama -Tisra Triputa tisra nadai- (It was announced that this was popularised by Hyd Bros.)
Hanumane Anudinam ninai maname- Ragamalikai- Khanda Chapu
Thillana of Maharajapuram Santhanam in Basant Bahar
Mangalam

Sri Arjun Kumar accompanied beautifully. Would've been nice if Sri Guruprasanna had participated more actively.
Instead of Arjun Kumar it was BC Manjunath who played mridangam. Very enthusiastic young lad.

I just filled in a few gaps. It was definitely a good concert. He sings with ease (anaayaasam) and so there is listening sowkyam.

[srikant1987]

Instead of Arjun Kumar it was BC Manjunath who played mridangam.

No wonder he accompanied so beautifully then!

Probably my short sight's just worsened a bit! Or my memory has!

Actually while I'd written down the list, I lost it and had to write this down from memory.

Hamsanaadam pallavi ... so I mainly missed the tODi swarams and the tani. Then again, I find that tanis are best listened to sitting closer to the percussionists.

[mohan]

Arjun Kumar is a left handed mrudangam player and hence sits on the musicians' right (from the audience perspective) while Manjunath is right handed!

[srikant1987]

I have seen BCM recently. If I've seen Arjun Kumar, I don't remember it.