100-hour marathon concert

nivedita · Post by **nivedita** » 28 Jul 2008, 13:11

The Global Carnatic Music Association (GCMA), founded by musicians Sudha Raghunathan and K.N.Shashikiran, is organizing the first ever 100-hour concert in the history of Carnatic music, from the 31st of July to the 4th of August. This concert will be a garland of hundred 1-hour concerts, as a tribute to the doyen of Carnatic music, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, whose birth centenary fell on the 25th of July.

The GCMA was founded in 2007 with the aim of bringing together the Carnatic music fraternity across the world. It provides a common platform for musicians and artistes to share their experiences, discuss common issues and sharpen their skills.

Since its inception, the GCMA has been coming up with innovative programs, which have received overwhelming response from musicians and rasikas alike. Last year, the association organized the hugely popular â€œCoffee with Celebrityâ€

nivedita · Post by **nivedita** » 28 Jul 2008, 13:24

I wanted to add a few names to the list above, but the edit function doesn't seem to work for me. So, here goes:

Vidushi Smt.Parassala Ponnamma will also participate.

Here is the list of participating musicians, in no particular order.

1. Parassala Ponnamma
2. Prof.T.N.Krishnan & Viji Krishnan
3. B.Rajam Iyer
4. Kadri Gopalnath
5. T.K.Govinda Rao
6. Dr.N.Ramani
7. Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan
8. M.Chandrasekharan & Bharathi
9. V.V.Subramanyam
10. T.V.Gopalakrishnan
11. Guruvayur Durai
12. Nagai Muralidharan
13. Mannargudi Easwaran
14. Srimushnam Raja Rao
15. O.S.Thyagarajan
16. Bombay Sisters
17. Suguna Purushottaman
18. Suguna Varadachari
19. Aleppey Venkatesan
20. Mala Chandrasekhar
21. Madurai G.S.Mani
22. Trichur Ramachandran
23. Charumathi Ramachandran
24. Subhashree Ramachandran
25. Sudha Raghunathan
26. S.Sowmya
27. Neyveli Santhanagopalan
28. Vijay Siva
29. T.Rukmini
30. Gayathri Venkataraghavan
31. Gayathri Girish
32. Sirgazhi Sivachidambaram
33. Bhushani Kalyanaraman
34. Sriram Parasuram
35. Vijayalakshmi Subramanyam
36. Rajesh Vaidhya
37. Dr.Ganesh
38. Suryaprakash
39. Nisha Rajagopal
40. Thanjavur Murugabhoopathi
41. Padma Chandilyan
42. Kanyakumari
43. Sriram Kumar
44. V.V.S.Murari
45. M.R.Gopinath
46. V.L.Kumar
47. V.V.Ravi
48. Mullaivasal Chandramouli
49. Pakkala Ramadas
50. Dr.Hemalatha
51. S.Varadarajan
52. Parur Ananthakrishnan
53. V.Sanjeev
54. Venkatasubramaniam
55. B.Anantakrishnan
56. Usha Rajagopalan
57. Dr.Narmada
58. Padma Shankar
59. V.Subramanyam & Disciples
60. Rama Ravi
61. Nandita Ravi
62. Arun Prakash
63. K.V.Prasad
64. Sankaranarayanan
65. Manoj Siva
66. Carnatica Brothers
67. Maharajapuram Srinivasan
68. Maharajapuram Ramachandran
69. Lalgudi G.J.R.Krishnan
70. Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi
71. Anirudh Athreya
72. Ganapathy Raman
73. B.Sivaraman
74. J.Balaji
75. Kallidaikuruchi Sivakumar
76. Neyveli Narayanan
77. Poongulam Subramaniam
78. Trivandrum Vaidhyanathan
79. Thanjavur Ramadoss
80. K.R.Ganesh
81. Thanjavur Kumar
82. Geetha Raja
83. Ajay Namboodiri
84. Mohan Santhanam
85. Mahesh Vinayakram
86. Varalakshmi Anandkumar
87. Dr.Prameela Gurumoorthy
88. Students of University of Madras
89. Lakshmi Rangarajan
90. Revathy Krishna
91. K.R.Saranathan
92. P.Vasanthkumar
93. Trivandrum Krishnakumar
94. Binny Krishnakumar
95. Sangeetha Sivakumar
96. Savitha Narasimhan
97. T.N.S.Krishna
98. Prema Rangarajan
99. Athira
100. Sathyanarayana
101. Subhashini Parthasarathy
102. Subha Ganesan
103. A Vasudha
104. Delhi Muthukumar
105. Balasai
106. Vijayagopal
107. Prasanna Venkataraman
108. Jayalakshmi Sekhar
109. Vidya Kalyanaraman
110. Dharani
111. Trichur Brothers
112. Subhiksha Rangarajan
113. Manimaran
114. Mambalam Sisters
115. K.V.Ramanujam
116. Bharat Kumar
117. Charulatha Mani
118. Madhumitha
119. K.Gayathri
120. Girish
121. Sriranjani Santhanagopalan
122. Palakkad Sriram
123. Baby Sriram
124. Kalyani Menon
125. Vidya & Nithya
126. Devi
127. Raghavendra Rao
128. Sirgazhi Jayaraman
129. Bhavatharini
130. Balamuralikrishna Jr.
131. Amrutha Venkatesh
132. Amritha Murali
133. Mahathi
134. Saindhavi
135. Chinmaya Sisters
136. Mudhra Bhaskar
137. Radha Bhaskar
138. Manasi Prasad
139. Bharat Sundar
140. Durgaprasad
141. Karthika & Keerthana
142. Rithwik Raja
143. Nivedita Narayanan
144. Vibav Mouli
145. Manasa Suresh
146. Trichy Murali
147. Konneripuram Varadarajan
148. Padri Satish Kumar
149. S.V.Ramani
150. Nerkunram Shankar
151. Akkarai Swarnalatha
152. Arunachala Karthik
153. Adambakkam Shankar
154. Lakshman
155. Palani Kumar
156. J.Vaidhyanathan
157. Madipakkam Murali
158. K.P.Nandini
159. Meera Sivaramakrishnan
160. Madipakkam Suresh
161. Umayalapuram Mali
162. Vaikom Gopalakrishnan
163. E.M.Subramaniam
164. K.V.Gopalakrishnan
165. Erode Nagaraj
166. Anayampatti Venkatasubramaniam
167. Nadabrahmam Subramaniam
168. Hanumanthapuram Bhoovaraghavan
169. Guruprasad
170. Srividya & Sudha
171. Mayavaram Sisters
172. Srivaralakshmi
173. Aishwarya Raghavan
174. Sujai Krishnamoorthy
175. Sriram
176. Anirudh
177. Vigneshwar
178. Vasumathi Desikan
179. Delhi Shankar
180. Balashankar
181. Arjun Ganesh

We look forward to your participation in this event!

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 28 Jul 2008, 13:26

appu · Post by **appu** » 28 Jul 2008, 19:26

Of course rasikas will be there for the famous names at prime time slot, the not so famous, youngsters, and NRI's will have to scramble to invite their family and friends to come listen.

All the best in setting the record.

kamalesh · Post by **kamalesh** » 28 Jul 2008, 20:47

Well. Publicity for the Organisers. And the satisfaction of participation to many . What else? Perhaps the same songs will be sung again and again.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 28 Jul 2008, 21:25

If someone has the time, it sounds like a great time will be had, a weekend full of music. May be one will get completely saturated at the end. One does not need to attend the majority of the 100 hours. It is like a buffet, you get to sample some and settle down for the ones you like. It is sort of like Lollapalooza in the U.S. where It is over three days, morning till night on multiple simultaneous stages ( they do take a break for the night ). Definitely, this format is not for everybody.

Best wishes to the organizers, artists and the rasikas.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 28 Jul 2008, 21:35

You are right.

I am getting too grumpy in my old age, and will delete my previous post!

If people enjoy, then that is surely enough.

sramaswamy · Post by **sramaswamy** » 28 Jul 2008, 21:38

For one thing, we have to worry about start time (IST) to the very beginning of the 100 hour concert alone

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 28 Jul 2008, 22:15

Good Luck and Best Wishes to the Organizers!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 29 Jul 2008, 01:21

I think it is a great idea. YagnAs used to (and still do) go on for days on end. Gandhi had his spinning yagnAs when spinning yarn on the wheel went on all day--many taking part in it. The locals will drift in and out and it gave them an idea about khadi (hand spun, hand woven cloth which meant self-sufficiency in the villages).
It is a bit like the season too. The non-ticketed programs in the mornings bring in a cross-section of chennaites who are interested in music. Those who come early leave after some time, but there are others who drift in. It is a good way to propogate CM, I think.
It is really an opportunity for the rasikAs too. It is the organizers who have a long haul!
As VK pointed out, rasikAs get to sample the music of up-coming artistes (and can do it for an hour instead of sitting through a whole concert of of theirs). It is the same with established singers. We tend to miss out on listening to some, for some reason or other, and this again is an opportunity to catch up with them.
This event also has the momentum and atmosphere of a season (an abridged one).
Waiting for reviews...

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 29 Jul 2008, 03:03

Will this event figure in Guinness world records?

gn.sn42 · Post by **gn.sn42** » 29 Jul 2008, 04:06

nivedita wrote:Sangeetha Kalanidhi T.N.Seshagopalan will perform on three days â€“ veena, vocal and swararaga pradarshini (keyboard), one on each day!

I hope this will be recorded and released by Carnatica, and that someone will review these concerts on the forum. Are there any previous records available of TNS at the keyboard?

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 29 Jul 2008, 04:59

Would have loved to attend this programme-atleast some parts of it.Looks like a novel idea and there will be lot of good music to listen to.Waiting for feed-back.Best wsihes to the organisers.

tkb · Post by **tkb** » 29 Jul 2008, 09:14

Dear gn.sn42,

Sri T.N. Seshagopalan has been performing many concerts on keyboard and to my knowledge has released a cd titled "Carnatic Keyboard" by Nadha Kalanidhi Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan, produced by Lahari Recording Co. vide product num. LRCD 5039. priced at MRP Rs 42/- Incl. All TAxes. Artists include Sri Mysore V. Srikanth on Violin, Sri. H.S. Sudhindra on Mrudhangam and Sri Giridhar Udupa on Ghatam.

It contains ust four tracks namely 1. Viriboni varnam 2. Abba Rama Bakthi 3. Inta Sowkya and 4. VenkatachalaNilayam.

I am looking forward to his keyboard concert during this marathon series.

TKB

blackadder · Post by **blackadder** » 29 Jul 2008, 11:59

I had the misfortune of listening to the CD that tkb mentions; I did not get past the varnam. My fault perhaps. I will try and attend his live concert. Maybe the recording was bad.

gn.sn42 · Post by **gn.sn42** » 29 Jul 2008, 20:07

Thanks, tkb.

nivedita · Post by **nivedita** » 30 Jul 2008, 00:15

Thanks to everyone for the support!

I've updated the list of participating musicians.

nivedita · Post by **nivedita** » 31 Jul 2008, 00:11

Have made further updates to the list of participating musicians above.

The concert begins at 4:00 pm today, the 31st of July.

From 4:00 pm today, until 7:00 am tomorrow, the following musicians will perform, in this order:

Selaiyur Brothers - Nadaswaram
Dr. B. Rajam Iyer
Neyveli Santhanagopalan
Dr. N. Ramani
Prof .T.N. Krishnan & Viji Krishnan
Bombay Sisters
O.S. Tyagarajan
Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan - Vina
Jayalakshmi Sekar
Shreyas Narayanan
Chitravina Ganesh
Delhi Muthukumar
Aniruth (USA)
CS Sanjeev
Vidya Kalayanaraman
Karthika & Kirthana
Manasa Suresh (USA)
Vidya and Nithya

They will be accompanied by Nagai Murlidharan, V.V. Ravi, Usha Rajagopal, VL Kumar, VVS Murari and Anayampatti Venkatasubramanian on the violin and Mannargudi Eashwaran, Guruvayur Durai, Srimushnam V.Rajarao, Thanjavur Murugabhoopathi, Erode Nagaraj, KR Ganesh, J. Balaji, Ethirajan, KV Gopalakrishnan and Nerkundram Shankar on percussion.

7:00 am, 1st Aug - 2:00 pm, 1st Aug
Master Vigneshwar
Padmini Ravi
Radha Bhaskar
Chitra Lakshmanan
Vasumathi Desikan

2:00 pm, 1st Aug - 1:00 am, 2nd Aug

Vijay Siva
Subhashree Ramachandran
T.Rukmini & Amritha Murali
Suguna Purushottaman
A.Kanyakumari & Embar Kannan
Dr.R.Ganesh
Gayathri Girish
Allam Durgaprasad
Mohan Santhanam
Vinayakram
Dharini

1:00 am, 2nd Aug - 6:00 am, 2nd Aug

Mangala Isai - Nadaswaram

sriviram · Post by **sriviram** » 02 Aug 2008, 02:02

This is awesome..What a great effort! Kudos to Shashikiran and Sudha Raghunathan for this effort! Do you update this thread, every few hours or after every concert?

manakkalsriram · Post by **manakkalsriram** » 02 Aug 2008, 07:20

I participated in the Global Music Association for the past couple of days and already about forty hours of continous concerts has been accomplished successfully. The artists are able to sing in a relaxed state to the rasikas heart content and everybody is in a state of joy. Quality food including breakfast, lunch has been arranged for everyone. Even there is a rest room where anybody feels tired can take rest anytime. There are lot of variety of songs and rasikas are able to listen according to their tastes. It is truly a herculean task and Shashikiran stays there continuously day and night for all the concerts. What Shashikiran needs is more and more rasikas to attend in large numbers for all the pains and efforts he is taking. There is no ego and it is very homely and like a family function. Shashi also gave a prize of cash Rs. 1000 for a rasika who had continuously stayed for 24 hours listening to the concerts. It is a rare opportunity for all carnatic music lovers who wish to listen to carnatic music continuously. The atmosphere at Thyagaraja Vidwat Samajam is also divine.

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 02 Aug 2008, 07:48

Getting paid to listen 24 hours continuously?

nivedita · Post by **nivedita** » 02 Aug 2008, 09:16

Here's the shedule for today and part of tomorrow.

Today, 2nd Aug, 7 am to 2 pm

Master Abilash
Saindhavi
Sriranjani
Kalyani Menon
TK Govinda Rao
Rama Ravi
K.Gayathri
Manasi Prasad
Keyboard Sathya
Girish

2 pm, Aug 2nd - 1 am, Aug 3rd

Trichur Brothers
Suguna Varadachari
Prema Rangarajan
Revathy Krishna
Bhushany Kalyanaraman
Charumathi Ramachandran
Lakshmi Rangarajan
Master Balamuralikrishna
B.Vijayagopal
Baby Sriram
KV Ramanujam
Rithvik Raja
Madurai Rajaram

Aug 3rd, 1 am - 6 am

Mangala Isai - Nadaswaram

6 am, Aug 3rd

KR Saranathan
Nivedita Narayanan

The concert has gone on successfully for about 40 hours now. The response from rasikas and artistes has been overwhelming. Everyday Vid. Shashikiran will give away 3 prizes (Rs. 1000, 500 and 250) to rasikas who stay for the maximum time. Yesterday, the winner was Mr.Amar Singh who stayed for about 25 hours! He also donated Rs. 1000 to the Shyama Shastri Family Benevolent Fund. The 2nd prize winner was Mr. Srikanth. In addition, on the final day, a cash prize of Rs. 2500 will be given to the rasika who stays for the maximum time, over the 100 hours. Accompanists who perform for the maximum duration will also be honoured.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 02 Aug 2008, 10:09

Just as expected, the event has appealed to many rasikAs. Nice to hear from them. Shashikiran is an energetic, hard-working organizer.

Nivedita, would like to listen to you and to others as samples of this marathon, if possible.
Good luck with your singing!

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 02 Aug 2008, 18:41

VK RAMAN wrote:Getting paid to listen 24 hours continuously?

There's good music

and refreshment

to look forward to. And of course, there are these prizes.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 02 Aug 2008, 20:34

'karumbu tinna kUliyA' enRu kETpArgaL. IdO, ingE, karumubccArEkoDuttu, kuDikka kUliym koDukkirArgaL. koDuttu vaittavargaL.AnandamAy anubavikkaTTum.
There is a saying in Tamil,
'does one get paid for eating sugar cane'? Here, one gets paid,not for eating sugarcane,but for drinking the nectar.Lucky people;let them enjoy the bliss.
We are visualising the scene mentally and enjoying.
Thyagaraja vidwat samajam is a nice venue; have attended a part of 'AKHANDAM' -Thyagaraja ARADHANA, led by Shri.B.Rajam Iyer. Brings back nostalgic memories.

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 02 Aug 2008, 23:42

Majority of the rasikas are not fortunate to be present at the 100 hr program, but will feel blessed if the musicians and the organizers will share some of the selected songs for their listening too.

nivedita · Post by **nivedita** » 03 Aug 2008, 09:15

Here's the schedule for today:

Aug 3rd, 7 am to 2 pm

Srivaralakshmi
Srividya & Sudha
Mayavaram Sisters
Aishwarya Raghavan
Geetha Raja
P.Vasanth Kumar
Allepey Venkatesan
Athira
Nisha Rajagopal

Aug 3rd, 2 pm to Aug 4th, 1 am

Amrita Venkatesh
Mambalam Sisters
Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam
TNS Krishna
Krishnakumar & Binny Krishnakumar
Prof. TV Gopalakrishnan
M Chandrasekharan & Bharathi
Prof VV Subramaniam
Rajesh Vaidhya
A.Kanyakumari & Embar Kannan
Varalakshmi Anandkumar
Palghat Sriram
Mahati
Bharat Sundar
Vibav Mouli

Aug 4th, 1 am to 6 am

Mangala Isai - Nadaswaram

The concerts have gone on for about 65 hours now. The support from rasikas and musicians has been heart-warming. VId. Shashikiran is doing the mammoth task of organising, with great dedication. He is being assisted by Vid.Chitravina Ganesh, who is co-ordinating the concerts during the nights. Kudos to both of them!

nivedita · Post by **nivedita** » 03 Aug 2008, 09:18

arasi-ji,

Thank you very much!

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 03 Aug 2008, 09:24

When did TVS perform? Did I miss it already?

greatkrishna · Post by **greatkrishna** » 04 Aug 2008, 04:47

are sanjay, TMK, Sudha, Aruna....etc performing??

tkb · Post by **tkb** » 04 Aug 2008, 10:03

I understand from the list on dispaly that Sowmya & Sudha are perfoming

tkb · Post by **tkb** » 04 Aug 2008, 10:07

It has been one of the best week ends i have ever had in my life as i was attending the 100 hr Marathon concert effort of GCMA. Even though i would have spent just around 10 - 14 hrs in all from the 31st Jul till now, I have had the oppurtunity to listen to some quality music with artists singing / performing with great interest. The concept of Music Therapy does work, i understand from few rasikas who has been there for over 60 - 65 hours till now. The highlight to me of them all was the son of Sri Palghat Sriram who sang for may be 20 mts but stole the hearts of every one present. A real prodigy in all terms and the interesting thing is apart from that 20 mts minutes on stage, just Childish as he should be, he was playing around the venue not giving even a clue that he is a child with such a great talent!

The attendance yesterday and day before was good and as Mr. Sashikiran mentioned this effort of the musicians and the rasikas probably touched the heart of rain god who was kind to shower his blessings with real good rain from the evening of yesterday. It was indeed a great treat to the rasikas yesterday evening to listen to Sri TVG, Sri M Chandrasekaran, Sri VV Subramaniam & Kum Kanyakumari. Speacial mention to be made the for the quality of audio system provided by Kannan Audios with their staff present all through out, making it a pleasant experience for the rasikas to listen to the wonderful music. In my opinion this is indeed a success for GCMA in bringing together so many artists to perform for a cause so willingly. I am sure its volunteers who have been working non-stop, the sponsors, and most the rasikas who have been there for long hours are to be appreciated for their efforts and look forward to more such concepts.

I have given the link for Sathya's performance in the Kutcheri eviews & recording section of this forum.

TKB

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 04 Aug 2008, 10:13

tkb,
thanks for giving the update on the 100 hours marathon concert. We canonly vissualise the scene and can imagine the festival look at the venue.It is a great effort by the organisers. As you saaid, we also wish for more such programmes

sangeetham_srinivasan · Post by **sangeetham_srinivasan** » 04 Aug 2008, 11:44

Hello,

It was awesome experience for learner's(Carnatica Student) like me, similar to Thiyagaraja Aradhanai event.

Eagerly, awaiting for today's(4th July 2008) Classical Climax concerts from S.Sowmya , Sudha Ragunathan and Carnatica Brothers..

Thanks to my Guru Chitravina P. Ganesh sir and K.N ShashiKiran sir for making it such a big event.

Srini.

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 04 Aug 2008, 12:42

Sri Srumushanam Raja Rao gave a really nice concert last night. Was not aware he could sing so well. One could easily have concluded that he is a senior vocal vidwan, except it was past midnight

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 04 Aug 2008, 23:03

The valedictory function was short and sweet. Shri. N.Murali, and Kovai Krishna Sweets Murali and Directore Mr.Vasanth spoke highly about the herculean task in organising such an event of great magnitude. Sudha Raghunathan compered the function and K.N.Sashikiran proposed vote of thanks in a very sincere and honest manner not leaving out anyone.

Before that Sudhaji gave an excellent performance with Shobillu, Nagumomu and Shanthi Nilava Vendum to the accompaniment of RKS, Murugaboopathy and Guruprasad.

After this many artistes like Sowmya, Shashikiran etc joined sudha in finishing off with Geetartamu in Surati for which Mannargudi Eswaran sir also joined.

It was really a great effort by Shashi and Co.,

Mannarkoil J Balaji

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 04 Aug 2008, 23:12

A grand finale to a grand effort .Blessed are those ho could attend. Our sincere appreciations to the whole team and to all those who made it possible. May their tribe increase.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 05 Aug 2008, 07:16

Sounds like it was a grand effort crowned with well deserved success! Congratulations to the organizers, and the participants.