Sangeetha Swaminathan's Mother's Day Concert in Detroit

[sampoorna]

Vocal: Smt. Sangeetha Swaminathan
Violin: Kum. Keerthana Shankar
Mrudangam: Sri Vinod Seetharaman

This concert was part of the Sarovar Music festival held by the Great Lakes Aaradhana Committee of Detroit on Sunday May 8th. After a good Harikatha by Sri T. N. Seshagopalan in the morning, we had a nice mother's day buffet and immediately went to attend Smt. Sangeetha Swaminathan's concert. Here is the list of songs she sang.

Pagavari bodhana (varnam) - Hamsadhwani - Adi - Patanam
Ninnu juchi - Sowrashtram - Adi - Patanam (K)
Dwaithamu sukhama - Reetigowla - Adi - Thyagaraja
Sujana manasa - Hamsanandi - Adi - GNB (A,K)
Sashivadana bhaktajanavana - Chandrajyoti - Adi - Thyagaraja
Brovu brovumani vedithe - Keeravani - Mishra chapu - Shyama Sastry (A, N @ Shyama Krishna sahodari, K, T)
Amma kripa thandai - ? - ? - Mazhavai Chidambara Bharati
Darshan darshan - ?
Thillana - ?

A - alapana; N - neraval; K - kalpanaswarams; T - tani

I enjoyed this concert very much. I was not familiar with most of the songs and my child helped me with recognizing some of the ragas. I enjoyed the keeravani piece a lot (I started enjoying keeravani after repeatedly listening to Sri Neyveli's keeravani) and it was a treat to listen to this on Mother's Day. She was deep into the concert by then and was coaxing the talli (mother) Sri Lalithe.

I was impressed by the the violinist who is brought up in US. How talented kids are now a days. As the lady who gave the vote of thanks mentioned - we have to appreciate the mother who did so much to nurture the child. It takes so much to bring up good well-rounded children! Of course Sri Vinod Seetharaman did a great job supporting the artists.

I wish I can learn much more of the technical details so that I can write about them in the future. For now I hope this writeup will be ok for a first-timer. I enjoyed the concert thoroughly and am enjoying writing this up.

Narayana,
Sampoorna

[rajeshnat]

Violin: Kum. Keerthana Shankar

Sampoorna
Certainly lot of new numbers , and a great start from you.
Is keerthana , the same girl who pairs with kamya and gives vocal concert (Last year there was a review of their concert)

[mri_fan]

Yup. Learns vocal from Sri Maudrai Sundar, and violin from Delhi Sundararajan. She's boss.

[sampoorna]

Sri Rajeshnat,

Thankyou. Yes. Keerthana and Kamya are sisters and both of them are just as talented. Sri mri_fan is correct and they learned violin from Sri Jayshankar Balan as well.

Narayana,
Sampoorna.

[Jigyaasa]

Sujana manasa - Hamsanandi - Adi - Thyagaraja (A,K)

This is a composition of G.N.Balasubramaniam, not Thyagaraja.

[sankark]

shyama has a keervani? why is that it is kaligiyunte and vaananai are oft heard ones?

[Lakshman]

ammA krpai tandu is by Mazhavai Chidambara Bharati.

[sampoorna]

Thankyou Sri Jigyaasa and Sri Lakshman. I have updated the post to reflect your inputs.

Narayana,

Sampoorna