Prabatha sangeetham-16th March-Kum.Aishwarya Vidya Ragunath

[ragtal]

Bhakti music to welcome the morning and soak in the spirit of music. An extempore rendition of shlokas and carnatic music (to the melody of tanpura sans accompaniment) by

Kum.Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath
(Disciple of Sangita Kalaacharya Smt Seethalakshmi Venkatesan, Padma Bhushan Sri P S Narayanaswamy and Sangeetha Kalasagaram Smt Vegavahini Vijayaraghavan)

Venue – F 206, Raheja Residency, Koramangala,
Time - March 16th, Sunday, Morning 7.30 am to 8.30 am

ALL ARE WELCOME (Those planning to come from outside please Contact - R.Vasudevan – 9741498218)

[kssr]

Kum Aishwarya Vidya raghunath- Vocal;

Violin, Mridangam, Ghatam, Khanjira, Mike- NIL

1. (as I went in) ragamalika virutham
2. Ragam- Chetasri Balakrishnam- Dwajavanthi
3. Rara maa inti- Asaveri. Fast paced - swift set of swaras
4. Sankarabharanam-Main- Ragam, Swara raaga sudha - Neraval and Swaram.
5. Ragamalika virutham followed by Siva siva siva Bo in Naadanaamakriya. (Post concert in a conversation AVR said that the virutham was selected as the theme of both virutham and kriti is "Kshama" - asking for pardon. Lot of thinking goes into these selections.)
6. Naanege Bhadavano- Behag
7. Pathiki haarathi re, sita - Suruti

It was a well constructed, well presented programme for a bit over 1 hour. Very pleasant. This young lady is without doubt highly talented and getting well versed in the subtle nuances of halting, providing gaps, staying on sruti, timely brigas and mature manodharma. In the coming years she will surely be one of the stars of carnatic music from Bangalore.

Just a small observation (not criticism). While going thro' the final second kaalam korvais in swarams, the clarity, azhuttham and precision of swara placements seem to be a bit muddled. It is possible that it happens to all artists all the time but gets covered up due to the banging of mridangam and violin at high speed. But I am sure that her illustrious gurus will tinker these in the coming years. We wish Aishwarya great success.

[mahavishnu]

Very constructive review, kssr.
Thanks for your post.

[ragtal]

Thanks Raghavan for a nice review. One more point. While singing raagam ahe uses the natural strength of voice and hence the gamakas sound complete. Also her viruthams are clear and enunciate on the right words with appropriate emotion.

[ragtal]

Thanks to artist who came and performed inspite of inconvenient health.
vasudevan

[kssr]

Missed to mention my sincere thanks to Vasudevan for arranging the excellent unique programme.

[kssr]

[Rsachi]

nAnEke baDavanO
I am quite hopeful Aishwarya would have enunciated it right
Thanks

[Purist]

Though I did not attend this particular concert, I have heard a couple of other concerts of Kum Aisharwya V R . Perfectly in traditional and classical mould, sruti shuddham and right proportion of the nuances that makes her music thoroughly enjoyable.
Leaving apart the fast paced fillers in between heavy items, overall if she can reduce the tempo/speed
slightly by one or two notches, it will have tremendous impact for saukhyam. Infact she has the capacity to take her
music to a sublime level if she can bring In a little more of devotion/bhakti into her singing. ( I am sure she will get this
over a period of time and experirence.) Otherwise what happens is things get mechanical, which could be technically correct but surely not elevating. I dont want her to miss out on this.
There is Thodi alapana on you tube (concert for Ranjani fine arts) ..great stuff

[kssr]

nAnEke baDavanO
I am quite hopeful Aishwarya would have enunciated it right
Thanks

thamiL vaaLga

[Rsachi]

Some insist it should be tamizh

[Rsachi]

PURIST
+1

[rshankar]

nAnEke baDavanO

Gold standard rendition of this is of course Smt. MSS'. I love the lines 'ASaigaLeSTO nirASegaLindeSTO, sukha dukha prEmOtsArangaLeSTO?

Lakshmanji - can you please post the lyrics for this composition?

[CRama]

Naneke badavano=-Gold standard is MS only.
Aseigaleshto is from a different song- Yaduvamsatilakana in the LP Record of ten languages.

[Rsachi]

You know, I really wish we could access these devaranamas sung by some native Kannada speaking musician like RKS. It makes a difference to those like me who follow and speak Kannada as a mother tongue. Even a perfectionist like MSS has sometimes slight issues. I am saying this after checking out her wonderful NAnEke baDavanO.

And "yaduvamshatilakana" was actually a poem written by DVG, a great 20th century Gandhian thinker and writer known for his wonderful 'mankutimmana kagga'. He wrote a book of poems called 'anthaHpurageete' inspired by the stone sculpture icons in Belur called SilAbAlikeyaru.
This is one of the Krishna icons - giridhAri- at Belur:

[kvchellappa]

Exquisite sculpture. Though I had been there, I have not particularly noticed this. It requires an eye.

[Sreeni Rajarao]

Sachi avare,

This link might be of relevance ....
http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic. ... VG#p135770

[kssr]

Exquisite sculpture. Though I had been there, I have not particularly noticed this. It requires an eye.

And a good camera. Innocent question: Why are the cows and bulls standing on top of each other?

[rshankar]

Aseigaleshto is from a different song- Yaduvamsatilakana in the LP Record of ten languages.

You are absolutely correct - My apologies for an irrelevant post...

[Rsachi]

This art style of temple murals and paintings creates an added sense of depth and panorama by arrangement of elements vertically and horizontally.. You can see this in patachitra of Orissa and traditional Mysore paintings also.