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[thanjavooran]

Maestro Shri GNB's Varnams and rare Kritis
Lecture Demo by The Trichur Family
Shri. Trichur V. Ramachandran
Smt. Charumathi Ramachandran
Smt. Subhashree Ramachandran
Shri. Ravindra Bharathi - Mridangam
Sunday, April 23, 2017 - 2:00 p.m.

Venue: Santa Clara Convention Center

Giving below my grand daughter's remarks as viewed by her, after attending this program.

In this GNB lecdem by Trisoor Ramachandran family,
Tirusoor was sitting in the audience with us.... his daughter doing all the singing
singer charumathi doing some occasional random talking... no relation to the commentary and the song being rendered!
Bantureeti "kolu", was also rendered... not sure why Thyagaraja's composition suddenly got annexed.: More of a subhashree promotion program, rather than a GNB lecdem

Overall, a poorly planned rendition.. looks like 3 different sub-programs: Lady Subhashree sang for 1 hour- it was like a T20/20 - 10 songs were expressly rendered in 1 hour with a listen to 9, get 1 free (bandu reethi) offer!
Then her mom charumathi took stage - she just sang.
2 hrs passed by and we were wondering if we could even get a glimpse of Shri Ramachandran.

Finally, he took stage - narrated a few stories, coughed up 2-3 GNB krithis and the program came to an end... Vidwan unable to hold a tune...may be due to old age.

More detailed review from any our forumites who attended this Lec Dem

Thanjavooran
24 04 2017

[rshankar]

Your granddaughter is very kind! I like her 'vAzhaipazhattil Usi' comment on Sri TVR's Sruti issues!