Sydney Music Festival 2011

[mohan]

Here are some song lists from the Sydney Music Festival day 1 held on 11 June 2011.

Sikkil Gurucharan, Nagai Sriram , Tanjore K. Murugaboopathi
theme was Muruganin Marupeyar Azhagu

1. svami ni (pv), Sriranjani, Adi, Papanasam Sivan
2. va muruga, begada,rupaka, spencer venugopal (n)
3. varasiki vahana, supradeepam, adi , thyagaraja (s)
4. karugA shanmugha, kosalam, thyagaraja (a,s)
5. SaDanai sakaLam, khamas
6. Siva guru nathanai madava neshanai, mukhari, adi, kumara ettendra (a,n,s )
7. kandanul azhagil, sindhubhairavi, (grehabhedam to tilang, behag), guru surajananda / tuned by TS Kalyanaraman
8. ullamaga vetri, hamsanandi, tirupuggazh
9. tillana, desh, adi, lalgudi jayaraman

Gurucharan's mukhari was really well presented and was the outstanding item of the day. The rarely heard composition of Kumara Ettendra was chosen.

Chitravina N. Ravikiran , B. U. Ganesh Prasad, Patri Satish Kumar, K. V. Gopalakrishnan

1. ento prema, surruti (varnam), adi
2. ka va va, varali, adi, papanasam sivan (s)
3. ennapuniyam, rItigaula, chapu, oothakadu venkatasubbiar (a)
4. raghuvamsa, kadanakuthuhalam, adi, patnam subramaniam
5. RTP, kiravani, (tanam in kiravani, behag, simhavahini, nattai, gowlai, ahiri), adi
gita mumurtigalai putravom ...
6. tillana, Dwijavanti


Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Nagai Sriram, Tanjore K. Murugaboopathi, K. V. Gopalakrishnan

1. viriboni, bharavi, khandajati ata
2. samagitapriyan, gowla, ramalingaswamy (s)
3. évarikai, dévamanōhari, cāpu, thyagaraja (a)
4. janakaja samétha, asāveri, rupakam, thyagaraja (a, s)
5. aDiyEnai kAttaruL – kAmbhOji – triputa, dandapani desikar (a,n)
6. nirajakshi, hindolam, rupakam, diskhitar
7. niravatisukhada, ravichandrika, adi, thyagaraja
8. rtp chalanāttai, adi, 'jalamé séva ... "
9. payamoli, behag, adi tisra
10. virutam, mōhana, sindhubhairavi
then Vā vā vél muruga in sindhubhairavi
11. Kalilokari, kāpi
12. mangalam

I couldn't attend day 2 or 3 but heard that the highlight was Abhishek Raghuram. His main piece was Bhajare in Abheri. Other main artistes featured in the festival were Gayathri Girish, Ganesh Kumaresh, V. Sankaranarayanan, Ranjani Gayathri, Carnatica Brothers, Sowmya and Unnikrishnan.

[mahavishnu]

Mohan, thanks. Sounds like a grand affair in Sydney, getting grander every year...
If you have the time, it would be great to get a detailed review from you.

[satyabalu]

SaDanai sakaLam, khamas-Composer pl.

[arasi]

Sreeni,
Yes, and not in the tukkaDA section! To me, ODi bArayya means MLV!

Mohan,
Thanks for the list and I hope reviews are in the offing.

Gurucharan's list:
3: kA guhA ShaNmugA in kOsalam
7: kandanun azhagil?

Ravikiran:
3: enna puNNiyam
5: gIta mummUrtigaLaip pOTRuvOm

Sanjay:
5: aDiyEnaik kAttaruLvAi
8: RTP: jAlamE SeivadazhagAgumA? (from the pallavi of Mayuram Viswanatha Shastry's song in khamAs)
9: pAyum oLi --Subramania Bharati
11: kalilO hari smaraNamu-- HMB

[sreecons]

Mohan - Thanks for pointing me to this post.

Sydney Music Festival was quite an experience being my first visit (hoping for many in the future).

Concert 1: Gayathri Girish, BU Ganeshprasad, Poongulam Subramaniam - Theme: Shanmatham - She presented songs on Ganesha, Shiva, Vishnu, Devi, Karthikeya and Surya. Will post details once I find my notes
Her main was Sri Krishnam - Thodi.

Gurucharan's Kosalam - Kaa Guha - Koteeswara Iyer - rendering was equally outstanding. It set the tone for the weekend for me As Mohan commented, Mukhari was very well presented - the neraval/swarams were top class. Nagai Sriram's accompaniment was superb. It was nice to see the two of them enjoying each other's performances. At one point during Kosalam, I could see both Murugabhoopathy and Sriram pause and smile as Gurucharan was elaborating the raga.

Ravi Kiran - Hearing LIVE after many years and was satisfied. Am glad he was able to fit in a RTP though short and snappy.
Sanjay: was Sanjay! Need I say more!


My whinge: The organisers need to keep track of the timings of the local artiste performances in the morning. They started the day quite late (over 30 minutes easily) and then were struggling to get into the swing of things. It was disappointing that Ravi Kiran's performance had to be slashed down due to time. He was really going so well but had to keep watching the time.

[arasi]

Is Nagai Sriram related to Nagai Muralidharan? I have heard him play a few times and like his playing very much--though I haven't heard him play for Sanjay.

[khppriya]

@arasi: Nagai Sriram is Nagai Muralidharan's nephew. I believe he has also learnt from him. Uncle and nephew are really top notch!!

[arasi]

khppriya,
Thanks. I vaguely remembered their being related but wasn't sure.
Look forward to listening to Nagai Sriram this season. Haven't heard him in a while. I imagine his chalanATa replies would have been very good, knowing whose disciple and nephew he is!

[mahavishnu]

Mods, could we perhaps move the posts related to the Sydney festival to a different thread? Thanks.

( Mod note: Done )

[ramanathan]

Photos from the Sydney Fest:
CLICK HERE

[sreecons]

Day 1: Concert 1:
Gayathri Girish - BU Ganeshprasad - Poongulam Subramaniam
Theme: Shanmatham

1. Sri Mahaganapathim - Gowlai - Dikshithar - S (Ganapathyam - Ganesha)
2. Dinamani Vamsa - Harikhambhoji - Tyagaraja (Vaishnavam - Vishnu)
3. Eevasudha (Kovur Pancharatnam) - Sahana - Tyagaraja(Saivam - Siva)
4, Ksheerasagarasayee - PoorviKalyani - Papanasam Sivan - R,N(arul indri), S
5. Brova vamma - Manji - Syama Sastri (Shakthim - Devi)
6. Saravanabhava - Pasupathipriya - HMB (Kowmaram - Karthikeya)
7. Sri Krishnam - Thodi - Dikshithar - R, N(shangu chakra), S
8. Vaanam engum - Desh - Bharathiyar (Sowram - Surya)
9. Viruttam - Saveri, Sindhubhairavi followed by Karunai Deivame
10. Shiva Panchaksharam - Adi Shankara

[sreecons]

@ramanathan - Nice pictures. . thanks for sharing.

[arasi]

Ramanathan,
Seeing your pictures is almost like being there! You have the gift for capturing the musical moments in such a way which brings poignancy to the experience of music, even if we don't happen to be there. As always, thanks!
Patri would have won over many listeners--he's the most colorful looking one too! Gayatri Girish's namaskAram was pleasing to behold. Was glad to see you in one of the photographs, and all other performers too, of course.

[khppriya]

@Ram: Super photos, as always! KVG and you seem to be competing in this regard.

Patri Satishji continues to wow me every time I hear him... There is a Youtube video where he accompanies Ganesh and Kumaresh at the Durbar Festival in 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzv-z8M3pqE

His anticipation of the swarams is particularly superb in this one.

[arasi]

Gayatri Girish's list is always impressive. Haven't heard that pUrvi kalyANi song of Sivan's.
Would love to hear that bhArati song during the season. Hope Gayatri will oblige. Sowram is a new rAgam to me!

[rshankar]

Arasi - the song on the sun god was in dES...sauryam is the worship of the sun...the shaNmathas established by Sri Adi Sankara are gANapatyam (worship of gaNapati), Saivam (worship of Siva), vaishNavam (worship of vishNu), SAktam (worship of Sakti), kaumAram (worship of muruga), and saur(y)am (worship of the Sun god).

[arasi]

Ah, so, Ravi! Thanks for being the surya (not the rAgam but you, Ravi) in dispelling my ignorance in thinking that there's a rAgam in that name!

[mahavishnu]

Arasi: Though there isn't a ragam named souryam, sUryA is hindolam with a G3.

[arasi]

mahavishnu,
Surya I'm familiar with. TVSankaranarayanan sang a lovely pallavi in that rAgam many years ago: sURyA sudhAkara lOchanA, sundara rAmA.

[priyaram78]

Nice photos. thanks for sharing. Happy to see Gayathri Girish's photos. Would love to listen to her rendition of saravana bhava during a live concert of hers.

[mohan]

Some reviews of the concerts
http://sydhwaney.com/swaralaya-festival ... 11-part-1/
and
http://sydhwaney.com/generation-next-at ... ya-part-2/

[rshankar]

Mohan, didn't Sri Unnikrishnan learn from Dr. S. Ramanathan?

[arasi]

Ravi,
Yes, he did.

[mahavishnu]

Mohan: Maybe you have seen this already...
On his blog today, Sanjay made a comment on your quote from the Sydhwaney review. http://sanjaysub.blogspot.com/

It seems all roads of innovation in CM lead to TNS...

[rahm221]

Is anything available on Youtube (from Sydney music festival 2011 of course!)

[mohan]

Mohan: Maybe you have seen this already...
On his blog today, Sanjay made a comment on your quote from the Sydhwaney review. http://sanjaysub.blogspot.com/

Actually the whole quote commencing from 'Instead of' is from me as the review writer is a close friend and wanted some comments on the technical aspects of the concert.

It seems all roads of innovation in CM lead to TNS...

Or GNB !

[Rasika911]

Is anything available on Youtube (from Sydney music festival 2011 of course!)

Jaya TV has broadcasted clippings from the previous years some of which can be found on youtube. 2011 if being done is likely to come after the cleveland clips which are being broadcasted at the moment.

[mohan]

No Jaya TV weren't in Sydney this year

[shashikiran]

Dear Rasikas
Just wanted to clarify the RTP was not a composition of Chitravina Ravikiran, it was an RTP in Shivasakti in Khanda jati triputa tala in Khanda nadai , as the theme was shakthi mahima and the ragamilaka had ragams like Dhanyasi Asaveri etc in tanam on request from audience n Durga and other ragams with devi names ..for ragamalika swarams.
We presented Ravikiran's pancha raga pancha tala tillana. We had Nagai Sriram and Tanjavur Murugaboopathi as part of our team.

[Rasika911]

Will there be any recordings/video telecast of the festival at all?