Sanjay Subrahmanyan @ 8th Cross, VVMohalla, Mysore

[badari]

Vocal: Vid. Sanjay Subrahmanyan
Violin: Vid. S Varadarajan
Mridanga: Vid. Tumkur B Ravishankar
Morsing: Vid. M Gururaj

Venue: 8th Cross, VV Mohalla, Mysore
Occasion: 53rd Ganeshotsava, SPVGMC Trust

01 vanajAkshi ninnE kOri varNa kalyANi aTa pallavi gOpAla iyer

02 vinAyakA vighna nAshakA vEgavAhini rUpakA m.dIkshitar (S)

03 nannu kanna thalli Sindhukannada Adhi ThyAgarAja

04 rAga sudhA rasa pAnamu jEsi AndhOLika dhEshAdhi thyAgarAja (A)

05 onde manadali bhajisi chArukEshi p.dAsa (A, S)

06 amba nIlAmbari nIlAmbari Adhi ponnayya piLLai

07 kAdambari priyAyai kadamba mOhana tiSra tripuTa m.dIkshitar (A, N, S, T)

08 rAga tAna pallavi simhEndramadhyama
Adi, KhanDa naDai, 2 beats after eDupu

Pallavi Line: mAyA mAmanane madhusUda nI aruLayai
rAgamAlika : bilahari, Anandabhairavi, bEgaDa, bAgEshri

09 Ninnaye Rati Enna Bageshri Adi bhAratiyAr

10 rAma krishNaru manege bandaru tillAng p.dAsa

11 akhila charAchara tirumaZhar vayyil iraivaNNin (thiruvalar maiyilaiyil) khamAs

12 nI nAma rUpamulaku sourAshtra Adhi thyAgarAja


It was a surprise for me when I saw this concert listing on the local news paper when I had travelled to my hometown to partake in the Ganesha Chaturthi celebrations. No second thoughts.. reserved the evening to once again spend with Sanjay.

Since this was the inaugural concert of the festival, was expecting a lot of VIPs to be attending the program and also delay the start. It indeed happened that way. It was raining all day long and I just prayed that it should not rain in the evening hours.

Program had a delayed start of 15 mins owing to wait for the chief guest to inaugurate. However since he did not turn up on time, it was magnanimity of the organisers to request Sanjay to start the concert.

Was expecting a full fledged Ganapathi thematic concert. However, the start with vanajAkshi varna indicated that it was not going to be that affair. Without much ado and improvisation, the composition was delivered.

Considering Sanjay's Varna and Main piece in same rAga format of cocnert, it started brewing a thought in my mind to think a Ganapathi song in KalyANi rAga.. though nothing flashed in my mind as I wanted to enjoy the moment and not brood over the future.

VinAyaka vighna nAshaka flowed in with a set of creative swara patterns. Added to that , it was an offbeat gaNEsha krithi that was presented instead of usual stuff in hamsadhwani. nannu kanna thalli in Sindhukannada was a quick filler.

AndhOlikA AlApane was pretty elaborate and was presented in leisurely fashion.. however the krithi was presented to its composed boundaries without any further elaborations into nereval / swaras.

chArukEshi Alapane set the foundation for a neat presentation of onde manadali krithi by purandara dAsa. Sanjay has been popularising this in recent times. swaras of chArukEshi was pretty refreshing.

After a very brief break for inauguration (Bangalore sabhas have to learn this... it was less than 5 mins !!) amba nilAmbari was presented in a sedate tempo.

A brief Alapane of mOhana provided sufficient clue for a possible RTP, which is usually not a standard for temple concerts. kAdambari krithi by mm.dIkshitar was a neat replica of what he presented in Unnati a couple of weeks back.
song gradually drifted into a tani that was almost treated as a part of the composition than just standing out.

Without any filler, Sanjay broke into SimhEndramadhyama Alapane... It was 9.05 pm and I did not expect him to bat like a test batsman... starting off the alapane for RTP. It was developed in 2 stages before dwelling into a deep tAna. Pallavi in Adi tALa khanDa naDai was presented with utmost ease. This was indeed the surprise package for the evening.

The tail pieces included a composition in bAgEshri that was drifted directly from the last set of rAgamAlika swara of RTP. tilAng and khamAs songs filled the tail portion before mangala. The concert ended at 10.10 pm !!

Sanjay throughout the concert demonstrated a high level energy and the Air Condition (due to incessant rain) did not drain his energy levels.

It was indeed another memorable concert, the first one for me in this sabha .

It was an evening well spent in the divine ambiance.

http://arohanaavarohana.blogspot.in/

[rshankar]

Thank you for that review!
Can someone help in re-splitting the words of the pallavi?

[gardabha_gana]

Badari - for a second I thought you traveled to Mysore for Sanjay's concert Wouldn't have been surprised Thanks for the report - how was the crowd. Nice to see concerts in Mysore - center of art - being reviewed. Indeed there was Gowri (Ganesha) MaLe

[arasi]

Ravi,
The pallavi line is nammAzhvAr's pAsuram's first line: mAyA! vAmananE! madhusUtA, nIyaruLAi!

In MMU 2013, Sanjay sang this pAsuram in simhEndra madhyamam, prefacing it with a virutham by madhura kavi AzhvAr: nAvinAl naviTRi inbam eidinEn. You can see it on Youtube. It was the main in that RTP-less concert, I think.

Badari,
Thanks for the review.

ninnaiyE rati enRu of Bharathi in rAgESri?

The virutham akila charAchara is unfamiliar to me. The song which followed is thiru vaLar mayilaiyil?

[badari]

Audience: Houseful / 400+

It was viruttum followed by the song.. (sorry about that missing statement)

Organizers need a standing ovation for both the diligence in organising and listing a star studded 10 day festival

[HarishankarK]

badari very nice review
there is a Ganapathi song in Kalyani ragam - "Ganapathe Mahamathe", a composition of Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar popularised by both Sri DKJ and Sri Mpuram. Santhanam.

[arvenky]

@Badari
Thats double delight for you sure visiting your Home town and attending SS. Thanks for the detailed review. Waiting to catch him at upcoming Malleswaram Venugopala swamy Temple concert. Hope we meet up again.

[sanjaysubfan]

badari - Thanks for that wonderful review! What a fantastic song list. Sri Sanjay's concert is always worth travelling miles to listen to. Karnataka audiences always seem to get these beautiful kannada pieces from Sanjay sir.

arasi - I think the virutham preceding Thiruvalar mayilayin is just another charanam from the same song. I have heard this being done by Sanjay sir in songs like Oho kaalame (oorellaam thoonginum) and Innamum oru thalam (uppum karpooramum)

[arvenky]

@arasi Madam & @sanjaysubfan - He did that virutham preceding in SGBS Unnati last month also.

[kunthalavarali]

Here is a link for the viruttam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsgb-QdWjbs

[arasi]

Thanks, kunthalavarali.

I hear 'akila charAchara paSupathiyAgiya parApara sadASiva' on listening. I bet Pratyaksham Bala can tell us where it is from...

[kunthalavarali]

Not a PS composition?

[Pasupathy]

Not a PS composition?

yes, the "viruththam" is a PS composition. It is one of the other "kaNNi-s" ( 2-liners) in his khamAs composition.
Please see entry 1.51 for the full composition in
http://tamilnation.co/culture/music/papanasa_sivan1.htm

[Jigyaasa]

"Ganapathe Mahamathe", a composition of Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar

Ambi Dikshitar

[arasi]

Pasupathy,

Thanks for bringing to us the composition, and the mention of the juxtaposition of the verses.
Not only that. You have brought a rich reservoir of PS's compositions, and how rasikAs and students can benefit by referring to it time and again