Smt. Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam - RK Mission mylapore

[Sundarnrao]

“It requires a complete spiritual submissiveness to spellbound characteristic generosity of any raga and that’s how illustrious aesthetics are structured expansively” is a passing remark I recall smt.VS highlighting in one of her video-interviews a few years ago and it was yet another exceptional & extraordinary expedition of musical luxury from this erudite musician.

The sublime atmosphere at the swarming RK Mission auditorium with students, rasikas & sants ; The aural pleasure of tanpura whines flowed fantabulous setting and the concert commenced with Abhogi varnam that built on the semantic & emotional momentum aptly. Known for casting beautiful meends, Smt. VS vibrantly captivated rasikas with her mellifluous voice right from the first note, The versatile proponent of Late.Shri.S.Rajam lineage then alluringly accentuated with the second recital varavallaba set to hamsadhwani that resonated an consummate gayaki of smt.VS. Her impeccable interpretations and ingenious improvisations (a mukda before the start of the song, sargams ) armored an absolute ardor for the fine-art.

Smt.VS’s intense musical expressions were further embellished in her third presentation sarasi ruha nayane in amrithavarshini where the manodharma pigments (alaap, bol-vistaar, badhat, sargams, taans) were perpendicularly festooned with a arresting gush of enchanting innovation. Manifold multiplicities of harkats were inordinately displayed with ‘ P M G M P N’ – ( S, SGS, SGSSN, SGNSN, SGNGS)’ during the mukdas.

Held at the higher pedestal, Smt. VS was able to gash further top in her fourth performance Maamavasadha Janani (kanada) where she painted a panoramic view of improvisations (alaap, bol-baant, sargams, meend-maands, behlawas, andolans and zamzamas) traversing deeply & fully across the vast-horizon of raga lattice. Accompanists ( Shri. Tanjore Ramdoss on mridangam; Shri. Mysore Srikanth on violin; Shri Trichy murali on Ghatam) were also on blissful horizontal to swell stout rooters with Smt. VS. A group of students paraded into the auditorium with a draped Lord Hanuman deity seated in palanquin when smt. VS was adorning “Sa” (top) with utmost human precision with tanpura. Settled at the cerebral area (contiguous to intriguing nine-stairs kolu hotchpotches), I’m sure Lord. Hanuman also had his share of illuminations immersed through smt. VS’s transcended performance today.

Fifth recitation Shri. Rama saraswathi (nashikabhushani) throbbed a touching consecration for rasikas and unbolted a dumbfounding lectern for smt.VS to explore extraordinarily inventive vistas very effervescently. Her gliding superfluities and filigree of interlaced sargams was a sacred guise that every rasika reveled. Smt. VS engendered immaculate sacrosanct in her sixth presentation sobhincha (not sure I got bandish name right; it started with Naagi).

Coaxed by dexterous cohorts, Smt. VS transported a devotion personified seventh performance Mahalakshmi (bilawal) with disposed virtuosity and complex variants on her manodharma avowals ( alaap, bol-baant, bol-taans, taans, sargams etc) . The cascading energy through her dominant voice and compulsive proficiency internalized intensively in the eighth performance jaya jagadeeswari (sohini; preluded with saraswathi namasthubhyam in the same raga) where smt.VS convolutedly channeled an unending succession of improvisations.

Ninth presentation was a brisk vrindhavani-sarang based tarana pacing up the gradient afar the maximum for a peerless parade of sensations and visualization of smt.VS’s stimulated scenery of the raga-bound-expositions. On that high note, Smt. VS finally signed off with a riveting lash on mangalam.

PS: Demonstration format today was discretely premeditated to placate both rasikas and RK-mission students (who turned out in vast volume and protracted their earnest cheers/applauses with extreme gusto & irresistible glee).

[sirsub11]

Never come across such an extraordinary review ever. Just look at these samplers - "able to gash further top", "were also on blissful horizontal to swell stout rooters", "where the manodharma pigments were perpendicularly festooned", "contiguous to intriguing nine-stairs kolu hotchptches". Not to miss the "multipliciplities of harkats", "meend maands", "behlawas" and "zamzamas" !

Why have you been hiding your light under a bushel, Sundarnrao ? Are you a Hindusthani music reviewer, accidentally strayed into a Carnatic concert ? Anyway, take a bow. You are developing a fan base. And do send us an English translation, while you're about it.

[arasi]

sirsub 11,

I was stunned by the writing too, this shAyari of a prose. I'm also very fond of VS's singing, by the way.

Fans will be fans

Better to be fans than those who fan embers of criticism to a blazing inferno!

[kalyani_ragam]

OH MY MY
WHAT LANGUAGE IS THIS. CANT UNDERSTAND HEAD OR TAIL. ANY ONE CAN TRANSLATE IN ENGLISH PLS.

[doyoucare]

kalyani_ragam: My supposition / hunch is the reviewer is rather enchanted / bewitched / entranced by Smt.VS' music...or simply put, avarukku anda paatu romba pucchirkku...dhoola padranga avunga

sirsub11 - I just thought it was me