APRIL 2007 CONCERT - 14TH APRIL - 6 PM

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 31 Mar 2007, 13:29

We are Pleased to announce the concert for April 2007

Vocal : R.Suryaprakash(http://www.rsuryaprakash.com/profile.php)
Violin : MA Sundaresan
Mridangam: Shankarnarayanan (disciple of Raja Rao)

Date : April 14
Time 6.00 PM

Venue : The residence of Manakkal Rangarajan,
NEW NO 70
OLD NO 40
28TH CROSS STREET
INDIRANAGAR, ADYAR
CHENNAI - 600 020

Rasikas are personally invited by the Manakkal family to be present early so that we could spend time with the Maestro and interact with him.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 01 Apr 2007, 05:03

Kji,
Please convey 'anantakOTi namaskAram' to the artists and the family of Sri Manakkal Rangarajan for their generosity from all of us at the forum! (dorakunA iTuvanTi sEvA?)

coimbatorerasigan · Post by **coimbatorerasigan** » 01 Apr 2007, 07:20

Amazing. Can i request for a Mohanakalyani..."Sangeetha Samrajya.." sung by Suryaprakash. This raga is his specialty... My best wishes for the occasion.

meena · Post by **meena** » 01 Apr 2007, 07:24

AIR conc. of R Suryaprakash @
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arasi · Post by **arasi** » 01 Apr 2007, 08:51

So gracious of Sri. Manakkal to offer his home as a venue for the
concert.

Suryaprakash,
Wish I were in India now!

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 01 Apr 2007, 12:21

I saw a clipping of a programme to be telecast tonight sunday 9.30pm in PODHIGAI TV by name thullAda manamum thullum on old film songs, where I saw SuryprakAsh singing GNB's virutham in kambodhi from the movie sakunthalai. I adore GNB's rendition (what a manly voice does GNB have) for that viruththam. The program is to be repeated on Monday morning too. IIRC , I have heard a story that a nAdaswara vidwan saw the movie many many times to learn the kambOdhi sangathi.

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 01 Apr 2007, 15:39

Looking forward to it again!

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 01 Apr 2007, 18:19

Another date to look forward to.

However lazy I may be about getting out of the house for the rest of the month, these dates are musts!

How nice that we shall be experiencing this program in the house of a musician, Sri Manakkal Rangarajan --- and, having had some conversation with him at the last program, I'm glad we will be meeting again so soon.

rajumds · Post by **rajumds** » 12 Apr 2007, 12:25

I request all chennai based rasika.orgites to attend this program. The program will be a double bonanza. In addition to the concert we have a rare oppurtunity to interact with a legend. Sriram has posted a personal invitation in another thread.

Active participation from forum members is the only incentive for coolkarni to take such efforts to organise these monthly programs. Please do attend .

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 13 Apr 2007, 00:19

What a wonderful way to welcome the tamizh puttAnDu and vishu.....

sankirnam · Post by **sankirnam** » 13 Apr 2007, 04:38

Will this concert be video recorded as well? I am a big fan of Sankaranarayanan's mrudangam playing, even though he is only a few years older than I am

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 13 Apr 2007, 05:52

yes.We plan to video record each and every concert.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 13 Apr 2007, 10:26

i am hoping to be able to come. and My dad being a fan of suryaprakash, might join me.

sagars · Post by **sagars** » 13 Apr 2007, 18:42

Would love to be in Chennai during these times. thinking of asking my sister to attend, though she is not a rasika.orgite. Hope there isno problms.

Wishing the function all success.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 13 Apr 2007, 19:00

all are welcome.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 15 Apr 2007, 18:00

It was a Cracker of a Concert.
Our Heartfelt Thanks to Manakkal Rangarajan and Family for being such wonderful hosts.
Thanks ,to everyone, who attended and others who could not attend, but supported the event.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 15 Apr 2007, 18:48

Great!
Getting ready to taste the cyber victuals!

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 15 Apr 2007, 20:46

I can sum up the concert with the words total satisfaction --- a fine feast.

The Manakkal family certainly made us most welcome, even making me tea as I can't drink coffee. Their beautiful house in a beautiful street was a great concert venue. I don't know how full the main part of the room was, (I found myself a corner where I could stretch my legs out without pointing my feet at anyone and was most comfortable) but it seemed very accommodating.

It was the amazing team work of carnatic music that was one of its early charms for me, and the concert seemed to me to be a prime example --- no, a really top example --- of this. The sympathy between the three artist was so superb that I really felt that whenever we applauded, even if it was for some 'solo' element, that we were applauding all three artists.

Shankarnarayanan's ability to fortell exactly what would come next meant that he was almost always following the other artists' calculations in kalpana swara, and when he played sarva laghu It was for balance.

Even after the 'main piece' I could have gone home with no complaints whatsoever, and the concert length would have been typical if he had just sung one or two short pieces after that.

But there was yet a Ragam Tanam Pallavi to come! Furthermore, it was an RTP with an extended and beautiful T.

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 15 Apr 2007, 23:42

Congrats to all on achieving another feather in the cap.

ninjathegreat · Post by **ninjathegreat** » 16 Apr 2007, 01:08

Anyone with the song list? Am waiting for the July 14th concert - something I can attend

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 16 Apr 2007, 01:27

Ninja
See here

http://rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2561

humdinger · Post by **humdinger** » 16 Apr 2007, 10:30

Congratulations! another feather in the cap...

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 16 Apr 2007, 15:10

Unfortunately, i couldnt come that evening. got held-up else where. hope i wouldnt miss these meets in the future.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 16 Apr 2007, 15:52

we missed you ram, kaumaram and bharath.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 16 Apr 2007, 18:20

Great!
Getting ready to taste the cyber victuals!

cml
We will have to wait till friday until I return from my trip to Bangalore

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 16 Apr 2007, 19:40

No problem at all! A good feast should be eaten slowly!
In the meantime it will be nice to hear from the attendees their experience and enjoyment. It was nice to hear from Nick who is graduating fast. If I may say so, we are having another Higgins in the making!

CM has to be enjoyed in company. Do share the joy of that company with us cyberfolks (as Jayaram would say the chitchats and even the 'catcalls'

that was part of the evening! We are all ears!

coimbatorerasigan · Post by **coimbatorerasigan** » 26 Apr 2007, 20:26

K-ji,

Would appreciate if we could start savoring this concert. Been waiting for it, and waiting makes me older than I am...

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 26 Apr 2007, 20:38

videos just arrived. I tried converting to .flv format to save on time.but one look at the .flv video and was convinced that it was not worth depriving you all ,of the best experience possible.
So here we go , at my turtle speed.with the mpeg format.
Will start the uploads tonight and finish by saturday.

meena · Post by **meena** » 27 Apr 2007, 07:49

kji thanku !

Did anyone have luck d/l: files u/l on badongo and file #4 on mediafire ?

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 27 Apr 2007, 09:01

No luck with Mediafire File #4 ( Brovabarama ) for me as well. Badongo files are OK...

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 27 Apr 2007, 09:01

any problem with badongo ?
should I switch to sendspace ?

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 27 Apr 2007, 09:09

Kji, I got the files OK from badongo. Meena, on my first try I got only the partial files but upon second try I got the full 63 Meg each. If badongo continues to be a problem for these two files, I can upload them to sendspace, so Kji can work on files 3 and beyond.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 27 Apr 2007, 09:32

meena! could you re u/l audio 04 since mediafire is backfiring!

meena · Post by **meena** » 27 Apr 2007, 09:33

kji
pl. switch to sendspace.

VK
Tried again badongo, no luck. Shall try tom, maybe the sever is busy.

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 27 Apr 2007, 09:33

#4 is the problem file. Everything else is fine
Thanks Coolkarni

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 27 Apr 2007, 09:34

vk
file 3 is already up.
I will be adding on the original post itself.
The audio bunch may not be a full since we ran short of tapes.Did not expect Suryaprakash to sing for more than three hours.

meena · Post by **meena** » 27 Apr 2007, 09:35

cml

i had no luck with file #4 (mediafire).

Files 1, 2 and 3 i had no prob, anyone want this to be reu/l , let me know.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 27 Apr 2007, 10:24

Kji: I am uploading video tracks 1, 2 and 3 to sendspace and I will update your post with the sendspace alternate URL.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 27 Apr 2007, 12:35

Videography
We have been working with one person -Phillip- who is slowly getting hooked in by the atmosphere of these concerts - and has resolved to find better and better ways of capturing the intricate moments in the performance.
In case you all find the audio - as heard in the video clips - OK , then we can cut down on the activity of recording the concerts on tape and on mp3.And save some Money.
We have been following a practice of gifting the master copies of the cds as well as the video tapes to the main artist , as a gift.
I will be maintaining the master copies and members who visit Chennai are free to ask me for copies.

For the next concert , is there a member in Chennai with faster upload facilities , who can share the burden of uploading these bigger video files.I can reach out the copies to the designated person , next time.

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 27 Apr 2007, 12:59

Coolkarni
Please continue to record audio. I for one prefer audio alone. I do not download the video tracks. And I know some others who too do the same.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 27 Apr 2007, 13:04

DRS
Ok.Done.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 27 Apr 2007, 18:56

DRS
Please see post no 30
Audio track of Cd no 1 is up.

jayaram · Post by **jayaram** » 27 Apr 2007, 21:49

kji
pl. switch to sendspace.

Hmm, this from someone who chided me for requesting a member to use a site different from rapdishare...
Times sure are changing...

meena · Post by **meena** » 27 Apr 2007, 22:26

VK

thanks for reu/l, BTW next time around make it rapidshare

jayaram · Post by **jayaram** » 27 Apr 2007, 22:44

Now y'all (esp Cool-ji) will agree with my earlier proposal to have meta-moderator. These mods need to be kept under control...

meena · Post by **meena** » 27 Apr 2007, 22:54

We mods are under control, lets not start another long thread on this.... PLEASE

coimbatorerasigan · Post by **coimbatorerasigan** » 27 Apr 2007, 22:54

Remember this?

Rapidshare can be tiresome to use for free users like myself.

jayaram

Most of us here, including moi, do no have a premium account, we just patiently wait and d/l. (meantime u can listen /enjoy the clips that u have downloaded)
If u are not aware u/l a file takes longer time, then one to d/l.
So one must appreciate and be thankful that the uploader is taking their time to share the gems with us.

Lets NOT complain!

~mod

What is ok for the goose aint ok for the gander!

We need a meta-moderator, atleast for those mods who's names dont start with a "k" or a "c"....

meena · Post by **meena** » 27 Apr 2007, 22:57

mahesh welcome back!

meena · Post by **meena** » 27 Apr 2007, 23:09

Kji, I got the files OK from badongo. Meena, on my first try I got only the partial files but upon second try I got the full 63 Meg each. If badongo continues to be a problem for these two files, I can upload them to sendspace, so Kji can work on files 3 and beyond.

since VK mentioned the prob. he faced, only then did i ask kji to swtich.

AND i did mention the sever-badongo must be busy, shall try next day!!!

coimbatorerasigan · Post by **coimbatorerasigan** » 27 Apr 2007, 23:17

Meena, close enough call. But, I am Mahesh's cousin, and a much, much older person at that