2016 Nov 20 SanjaySubrahmanyan SVaradarajan NevyveliVenkatesh AlalthurRajganesh @ MANMF

[badari]

Vocal: Vid. SanjaySubrahmanyan
Violin: Vid. SVaradarajan
Mridanga: Vid. NevyveliVenkatesh
Khanjari: Vid. AlalthurRajganesh

Organiser: M A Narasimhachar Music Foundation
Venue: Our School, Bangalore

01 chAla ninne kEdAra k.aTa Tiger VaradachAry [ updated based on inputs from R Lakshman]

02 tuLasIdaLa mAyAmALavagauLa rUpaka tyAgarAja (S)
Swara @ sarasIruha punnAga

03 srI kumAra nagarAlaya ATANa Adi swati thirunAL (A)

04 abhimAna mennadu galgu bEgaDe Adi patNam subramhaNya iyer(A S)
Swara @ abhimAnam

05 onde manadali bhajisi chArukEshi Adi p.dAsa (A)

06 parama pAvana rAma pUrvikalyANi Adhi rAmnAd shrInivAsa iyengAr

07 narasimhuDu kamalAmanOhari Adi mysOre sadAshiva rAo

08 rAga tAna pallavi nAgavalli m.cApu
22 kharaharapriyA janya
Aa: S R2 M1 D2 N2 S / Av: S N2 D2 M1 R2 S
Pallavi line muruga tirumAl magizhum maruga Shiva kumAra [updated based on inputs from rshankar]
RagamAlika : shrIranjani .. hindOLa .. malayamAruta ... HamsAnandi

09 tumbam nErkayil dEsh bhAratidAsan

10 virtuttum / azhwar pasuram (rAgamAlika kAMbOdhi, kApi, sindhubhairavi)

11 virpperu vizhavum kanjanum mallum sindhubhairavi Adi Tirumangai Azhvar

12 kANa vENDAmO iru kaN shrIranjani rUpakA pApanAsam shivan

13 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi thyAgarAja


A fantabulous concert.. a review to follow

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[Lakshman]

The varNa is by Tiger Varadachariar.

[rshankar]

The pallavi doesn't sound right. Any other opinions on the pallavi sAhitya?
tirumAl magizhum maruga perhaps?

[badari]

The pallavi doesn't sound right. Any other opinions on the pallavi sAhitya?
tirumAl magizhum maruga perhaps?

You may be right. This was from quick notes during concert. I may have missed to listen to a syllable

[kvchellappa]

It was only thirumal maruga, makizhum was not there, but I am sure he would have been pleased. What a concert it was!

[arasi]

So, there was magizhchi (happiness) all around whether the word was there or not in the pallavi line

[kvchellappa]

The concert started at 5.50 PM ten minutes in advance. There was no fuss. The start had a military precision.
Kedaram varnam (Sanjay seems to be on a tiger mission – how sadly we miss the tiger!) and MMG set the tone of kutcheri paddhathi which SS follows infusing new life into it. The neraval also was at the traditional saraseeruha punnaaga.
Atana was sung with his characteristic pidis. Just before the charanam, he let Venkatesh do some thoppi jaalam and he enjoyed it.
Begada, a forte of SS, came next in its varied colours.
Charukesi that followed was a beauty. SS did to it what he did to Shanmukhapriys in Nadasurabhi. He stayed in the top octave in a sustained manner and played with his rich imagination. His gestures brought out the parts not sung! I like his exuberance and there is a thrill seeing him sing, which I miss while listening on the web. In one stroke, he let go an arrow from his Gandibha, but Varadu had a suitable samanastra! When Varadu returned the alapana, I remembered Rama Varma saying that honey drips from his violin.
One would have expected neraval, swaras and thani to follow. But, it is Sanjay. They were reserved for the next krithi in Purvikalyani that followed straight after Charukesi. Parmapavana – that was the krithi and that was how one felt about the rendering. In neraval he landed on ‘ra’ differently each time revealing the raga in that one syllable. The swaraprasthara had the characteristic Sanjay weavings, delectable turns, unimaginable breath control. At one point he mimicked MDR and if one was not seeing, one woud have thought it was MDR performance.
Narasimhudu was for the organisers. It was a tongue-twister. Sanjay sang it in one breath as it were, with aplomb.
Then came the alapana for RTP and a neighbour said Sriranjani. Sanjay broke the suspense after a minute, ‘This raga is Nagavalli.’ How does he find new songs and new ragas? How does he master them? Though I cannot comment on the technical aspects, I get a feeling that he brings out as much uzhaippu in such new pieces/ragas as in time tested uruppadis.
He dwelt at some length on Hamsanandi bringing to mind his treatment of darbhari kanada in nadasurabhi.
I left after this and looked wistfully at the list given by Badari, esp. thunbam nerkaiyil.
It was a small hall and people were all over. Several youngsters occupied the dais in response to the call of the organizer. There was a sprinkling of youngsters (younger than Badari). Some must be students. They were keeping the beat even right in front of the artists on the stage. There were two or three ten-year olds. One was standing and listening. Two rows in front of mine, one rasika was shaking and nodding his head and gyrating his body short of flailing his hands, that one might have mistaken him for the singer, suspecting that some ventriloquism was on!
One missed Neela mami and Amrutha Venkatesh.
H N Bhagawan was also there from this group.

[hnbhagavan]

Charukesi was dealt in detail for Raga sketch and was rendered in all its glory followed by equally good return by S Vardu on the Violin.Sanjay unexpectedly took up Purandaradasa Krithi ONDE MANADALI BHAJISI VAGDEVIYA.But he did not elaborate by singing Neraval and swaras normally expected after a raga elaboration.Perhaps this may be due to sanjay hesitating to be in this Kannada Kriti.I may be wrong.
The next one in Poorvi Kalyani was the main item which did have Raga alapana.But the song PARAMA PAVANA RAMA was dealt in great detail with Neraval and swaras.Then Thani followed.
Generally Sanjay used to stick to proportion- the main item having Raga elaboration and the song having Nraval and Swara Prastara.
Any way I am not an expert and these comments are purely as a result of attending many sanjay concerts.

[kvchellappa]

Interestingly, there was no thodi, bhairavi, kharaharapriya, kambodhi, sankarabharanam or kalyani in this absorbing concert.

[arvenky]

That Kedaram varnam is a earworm to me as I heard it live in Coimbatore last September

[sureshvv]

He sang it at the Bharat Sangeet Utsav in chennai too. Kedaram afforded a pretty smooth taxiing before take off

[badari]

Review updated