G RAVIKIRAN - Odakkathur Mutt, Bangalore - June 3rd

sappri · Post by **sappri** » 06 Jun 2007, 11:57

Vocal: G Ravikiran
Violin: M S Govindaswamy
Mridangam: C. Cheluvaraju

1. Viriboni - Bhairavi Ata Tala Varnam
2. Teliya Leru Rama - Dhenuka - Adi - Tyagaraja (S)
3. Sujana Jivana - Khamas -
4. Marubalga - Sriranjini- Tyagaraja (R)
5. Marivere - Shanmugapriya - Patnam Subramanyam Iyer (R, N, S)
6. Neerajakshi - Hindolam - Dikshithar
7. Patti Viduvararo - Manjari - Tyagaraja
8. Edukko Peddala - Shankarabaranam - Tyagaraja (R, N, S)
9. Thani
10. Irakkam Varaamal - Behag -
11. Slokam - Anandabhairavi, Varali, Hamir Kalyani, Mukhari followed by Vadasiyathi - Ashtapadi
12. Bruhi Mukundeti (Sadashiva Brahmendra)
13. Mangalam

Those of us who attended this concert were indeed fortunate - Organized by the Gurvayoorappan Samaj, G Ravikiran - who's gifted with an amazing voice, showed great maturity and poise, and reminded one of the greats of yesteryears.
One hears of his thorough knowledge of Carnatic music when presents "Colors of a Raga" and other programs on Shruthi (Worldspace) - but this 3 hour concert indeed showed his mastery in his field and winning over every 'rasika' present there.

If the Bhakti-bhava with some winning swarams in Dhenuka set the tone - a lovely sriranjini, followed by a great composition, followed. The Shanmuga-priya - rarely sung these days - was presented in all its beauty and splendour - the alapana - especially the tara-sthayi - had us spellbound. Neerajakshi Kamakshi - rendered in Ati-Vilambava kala - was something to cherish. After a briskly rendered Manjari - the "crowning glory" of the concert - Shankarabaranam - the mamis sitting next to me kept saying that they were reminded of Ariyakkudi - the neraval was brilliant - the kalpana swaram really brought to live every "ashaivu" in the peaceful ragam that Shankarabaranam is. Post the thani, was Irakkam Varamal (one has heard his Guru Shri T M Krishna sing it several times) - the Slokam that followed was beautifully crafted - to the joy of all around - following it up with the plaintive Ashtapadi - Vadashiyathi.

Kudos to this young man for a truly memorable concert!

GoodMusicLover · Post by **GoodMusicLover** » 06 Jun 2007, 15:41

Wow, looks like I had missed a wonderful concert. Keep it up, Ravikiran. Any recordings available?

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 06 Jun 2007, 16:06

Seems like a nice concert anchored by a selection of time-tested and dignified pieces. Kudos to Ravikiran.

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 06 Jun 2007, 20:14

irakkam varAmal---Gopalakrishna Bharathi

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 06 Jun 2007, 21:02

2. teliyalEru (one word) rAmA!
5. mari vEre
7. paTTi viDuva rAdu
8. enduku peddala valE

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 06 Jun 2007, 21:19

arasi wrote:5. mari vEre gati.

marivErE dikkevarayya is in shanmughapriya ( mari vEre gati is in anandabhairavi)

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 06 Jun 2007, 21:40

You are right, Rajesh. My oversight!
I will edit.

bhaktha · Post by **bhaktha** » 06 Jun 2007, 22:22

Some nice SSI hits in the list!
Btw, Shri TMK also renders nIrajAkshi in (Ati^2) vilamba kAlA:).
sappri,
What about the pakkavAdhyam? Shri. Cheluvaraju would have had the audience spell bound too, I guess...Long since I heard him.
-bhaktha

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 06 Jun 2007, 22:38

bhaktha wrote:Shri TMK also renders nIrajAkshi in (Ati^2) vilamba kAlA:).

is there a one kaLai version? thankfully, i havent heard it yet.

I personally love the piece and have been taught in viLamba kAlA only...

bhaktha · Post by **bhaktha** » 07 Jun 2007, 06:15

@rbharath
It's in 2 kalai only. In my previous post, I was talking about the speed. Incidentally, the recording I have is from one bangalore concert where Shri Cheluvaraju has accompanied Shri TMK.
-bhaktha

gravikiran · Post by **gravikiran** » 07 Jun 2007, 20:43

i too attended the concert.it was excellent no doubt. As an ordinary rasika of carnatic classical i could enjoy the concert.
kudos to ravikiran
mridangam by c.cheluvaraju was good.
violin was not upto the mark
Btw i'm not the singer ravikiran

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 07 Jun 2007, 21:19

thanks gravikiran, for that last line.
For a moment I thought I was Dreaming ..........

Mukhari · Post by **Mukhari** » 07 Jun 2007, 21:28

bhaktha · Post by **bhaktha** » 07 Jun 2007, 22:09

Is this some joke? Sorry, I didn't get the drift...coolji...some light?
-bhaktha

meena · Post by **meena** » 07 Jun 2007, 23:08

gravikiran wrote:i too attended the concert.it was excellent no doubt. As an ordinary rasika of carnatic classical i could enjoy the concert.
kudos to ravikiran
mridangam by c.cheluvaraju was good.
violin was not upto the mark
Btw i'm not the singer ravikiran

u gotta be kidding us right?

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 08 Jun 2007, 06:41

I started reading that post and did not realise that there could be two gravikirans..So the "I too attended the concert" for his own concert , confused me.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 08 Jun 2007, 07:07

Are there two G Ravikirans who are the shishyas of TMK?
will one of the ravikirans kindly answer?

mri_fan · Post by **mri_fan** » 08 Jun 2007, 07:47

It seems that there is one who is the student of TMK and RKS, and then the other, who is a member of this forum.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 08 Jun 2007, 07:51

No! The member of this Forum has the website
http://www.gravikiran.com/
which speaks for itself.
We don't like playing games here!

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 08 Jun 2007, 08:05

The location of gravikiran (post #11) is Bangalore per his profile at this forum.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 08 Jun 2007, 08:20

Ravikiran who gave the concert might clarify if someone came and talked to him after the concert saying, 'I enjoyed the concert. By the way, my name is Ravikiran too--G. Ravikiran'! I mean, it is possible...

bhaktha · Post by **bhaktha** » 08 Jun 2007, 08:32

Post deleted in light of further developments
-bhaktha

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 08 Jun 2007, 09:04

Wait! I still feel it can't be the singer. First of all, a professional (both on and off stage) wouldn't call himself 'excellent' and then speak of his accompanist as not 'so good'.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 08 Jun 2007, 09:25

Hmm some detective work we are engaged in

Only thing that makes sense is, someone who is known to the singer G. Ravikiran has posted using his id.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 08 Jun 2007, 10:23

gravikiran (id),
In the post http://rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1394 (post #6),I see you have mentioned giving tambura support .

gravikiran wrote:the shloka/viruttam is from the "shiva maanasa pooje" of adi shankara. it is the concluding stanza and MSS popularised it as a prelude to "shiva shiva bho" (nadanamakriya).btw yours truly was on the tambura support for his guru.

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 08 Jun 2007, 10:28

Hmmm...nothing to stop you from inserting a link to someone else's website on your profile. So I guess it could be just about anyone....

bhaktha · Post by **bhaktha** » 08 Jun 2007, 10:35

But, 2 members with the same login name?

-bhaktha

meena · Post by **meena** » 08 Jun 2007, 11:04

Only thing that makes sense is, someone who is known to the singer G. Ravikiran has posted using his id.

OH not that line AGAIN :rolleyes:

and BOY! we sure have house full of Holmes

srinidhi · Post by **srinidhi** » 08 Jun 2007, 11:46

Wow,
How can TWO members have the same login name - gravikiran? Srkris, Is it possible? And what about all the previous posts under the id 'gravikiran' - were they by the singer or by the rasika of the same name?

BTW, G Ravikiran (the singer, that is), that was a beautiful concert.

gravikiran · Post by **gravikiran** » 08 Jun 2007, 12:42

wow...i have no idea what is happening.
for the record, this is the said singer g ravi kiran whose concert was listed by a rasika.
curiously my login id is gravikiran too!!!
i am a member of this forum but i have no clue how someone else with the same login id could have posted. out of the 4 computers that i use at work, home and elsewhere one of them is shared and it is possible that i have logged in with "remember password" there.
i apologise for the confusion caused though i have no idea how it happened.
thanks for all the kind words from fellow rasiksa.

Karnaticfan · Post by **Karnaticfan** » 08 Jun 2007, 13:25

Any way singer GRK is getting the much needed publicity.

kf

jayaram · Post by **jayaram** » 08 Jun 2007, 14:41

This 'comedy of errors' reminds me of the following 'classic' joke:
"It has been confirmed that the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey was not Homer, but another Greek with the same name."

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 08 Jun 2007, 17:09

Good that we can put the matter to rest now....a lesson for all of us to be a little more careful about leaving our comps unattended for others to play with! I can now appreciate why my bank makes me re-enter my passoword every 5 minutes!!

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 08 Jun 2007, 19:46

Apparently the moral is not to leave your computer unattended after loging on to the Forum to prevent practical jokes! Though this 'comedy of errors' was done with 'good intentions' , it may not be so all the time. Mods at the Forum are very watchfyl, alert and astute and will be forced to take action if there is a suspicion of foul play. You may needlessly lose the previlege of participation at the Forum for none of your fault.

We thank Vid|| G Ravikaran for clearing the mystery and wish him well in his CM career but ask him to be careful with his valuable 'uruppadis' (including this portal to his glory) safely guarded!

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 08 Jun 2007, 23:04

Assuming the computer of gravikiran (singer) was available for somebody to tamper with and that the thread was open at that time, somebody who is known to gravikiran in his office must have played a prank --either innocent or with a "varmam". Either way gravikiran should investigate it further lest his bank account is cleaned out next time around.

gravikiran · Post by **gravikiran** » 09 Jun 2007, 00:17

as you folks have rightly guessed, it was indeed a practical joke played by a well-meaning friend [:(].
apologies again for the confusion.

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 09 Jun 2007, 02:13

with friends like that one.........

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 12 Jun 2007, 12:07

Oh!! Great concert... I missed it even though i live in Bangalore. Can someone share the recording of this great concert??? Vadasi Yadi in this concert too?? I am getting crazy about this Astapathi since last two days

-hari