In this period I had the opportunity to listen to both 'Performers' who sing to an audience and 'Artists' who sing to fulfil a creative impulse that also reaches out to an audience. Of course, you also have a Sanjay who is both a performer and an artist!
A few of the concerts touched me deeply where the artist and the music was one – the artist was the music. Visveshwar – a young flautist still in class 12 was such an artist. His concert in the noon slot at Mylapore Fine Arts on 27th December showed me how brightly a star can shine even at noon - even when surrounded by the greatest of current luminaries.
His immersion was so complete that his body appeared to be dancing to the music flowing out of his flute. He and the music appeared to be so intimately and completely connected that one could truly say he and the music were one.
He was accompanied by Shiva Ramamurthi on the violin and Sai Prasad - a young boy studying in class 8 - on the mridangam (student of Shri.Neyveli Narayanan).
The violinist and flautist blended together near perfectly and were well supported by the mridangist.
Concerts such as this appear not so much as human effort producing beautiful music as music using the conduit of humanity to display itself in all its splendour.This concert is one that will stay etched in the rasika’s mind for a long time.
Rather than delving into the details of every piece in the concert, I list below the various krithi’s played by him:
Navaragamalika varnam
Thatvam Ariya tharam Reethigowla
Aaduvar Poorvikalyani
Meevalla gunadosham emi kaapi
Ennai nee maravadhe amrithavarshini
Kapali Mohanam
Karpagame kan parai madhyamavathi
A very good selection indeed.
Music connoisseur.
Ahiri
