TVS, TMC, 26/Aug/2018

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TVS, Kumbakonam MRG, NeyveliSkandasubramanian, SVenkataraman khanjirA
TambaramMusicClub, in Jaigopal Garodia School

sudaroLiyE pORRi in nAttai followed by mahAgaNapatim manasA s@pallavi if mahagaNapati were here he would have become a nartanagaNapati. What a verve, what a pep and what a sowkyam..
rAmA abhirAma short s@pallavi
mOhanakalyANi bhuvanEswariyA

If one were to ask for definition for sowkyam this swaram singing it is.

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s@pallavi wove quite interesting patterns and made it look so easy
bahudAri brOva bhAramA s@pallavi de rigeur. The one Avartana swarams are like a garland of swarakkOrvai flowers

All the 3 partners lifting this to great height. Especially the khanjirA sound - awesone

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thOdi rAjuvedala jUthAmu springs a surprise! Is this MMI school staple?

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ns@kAvEri thIramunanu pAvanamagu rangapurini a master class despite not being elaborate.
kAmbhOji is kAnakkaN coming along or will he spring one more surprise?

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kANakkaN it was ns@mAnikkam vairam mudhal navaratnAbharaNamum tani. He revels in kalpanaswaram. Especially short Avartana swarams sparkle without losing their rAgam identity.

It is time to get greedy: pointers to his dhanyAsi, sAvEri, husEni, gowLai, vasanthA, lalithA, kEdAragowLai, surutti, hEmavathi welcome.

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kannada sketch followed by viruththam (mAlmarugA shanmukA on aRupadai vIdu) followed by saravaNa bhava guhanE
viruththam in kApi hamsAnandhi srInivasa thiruvEngadamudaiyAn
eppO varuvArO
HMB notes
kaRpagamEk kaN pArAi. He started mangaLam but switched to this on request of an elderly rasikA.
mangaLam

eppO aduthuk kEtkalAm endhan manam kuLira?

Fluid. That's one word that aptly fits his music. It just flows. What a sAdhakam he must have done & internalized that to make it appear so easy. That thOdi ns, one gets to listen such aesthetic things once in a blue moon; so they become precious.