Ravikiran, Music Club IIT Madras

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 10 Aug 2006, 17:43

N Ravikiran - Chitraveena
Akkarai Subhalakshmi - Fiddle
K V Prasad - Mrudangam
S Karthick - Ghatam

Music Club IIT Madras
9th August 2006 6:45 pm

mAyatIta svarUpiNi - mAyAmALavagauLa - rUpakam - Tanjore Quartet (S)
tanamIda nE - bhUshAvaLi - Adi - T (RS)
kalAvatI - kalAvatI (the 31st asampUrNa mELam) - Adi - MD (short sketch)
brOcEvArevarurA - kamAch - Adi - MV (RS)
tani Avarththanam
RTP - dhEnukA - Adi (2 kaLai) sama eDuppu
'sa ri ga ma pa da ni rajamulu bhajimpavE manasA'
tAru mAru - nATTaikuranji jAvaLi - Adi - Pattabhiramayya
tuLLumada vETkai - hamsAnandi tiruppugazh - Adi - Aruna Giri Nathar
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTRam - Adi - T (short sketch)
madhyamAvati (short sketch)

The concert began with a nice rendition of the mAyAmALavagauLa kriti with good svarams. The bhUshAVaLi AlApanai was well handled and gave a good flavour of the ragam. The kriti was beautifully rendered with svarams. The short sketch of kalAvati (the 31st asampUrNa mELam, the equivalent of yAgapriyA) was good and the kriti had some nice phrases.

KhamAs AlApanai was followed by the kriti and some good swarams, leading to the tani. The starting phrase of dhEnukA was very catchy and established the rAga lakshaNam right there. It was a very inspiring elaboration of dhEnukA and the tAnam was well played also. The pallavi, played on request, was quite well set and had a lot of svarAksharams. It was well rendered and some of his usages of svarAksharams were liberally borrowed from stalwarts of yesteryears. The rare nATTaikuranji jAvaLi was rendered well. Sri Ravikiran gave a good concert.

Kum. Subhalakshmi ably supported the main artist and gave fitting replies to the main artists.

Sri Prasad was good thro' the concert and played for the compositions. he was accompanying the main artists with very good anticipation. He was ably supported by Sri Karthick. The tani they played had some interesting patterns and the korappu was very well done.

bharath

venkatpv · Post by **venkatpv** » 10 Aug 2006, 19:19

bharath,
i didnt expect YOU (who stress that gamakakriya and purvikalyani are not the same ragam!

) to say "kalavati also called yagapriya"!!

Prof SRJ in his lecdem very clearly enunciates kalavati as SRGMPDNDPS and yagapriya is the straightforward sampurna scale.

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 10 Aug 2006, 21:00

So true

I'd say kalavati <-> yAgapriya distance is more than pUrvi kalyAni<-> gamakakriya distance.

kalAvati has gAndhAra varjya/vakra prayOgas in avaraOhaNa as well - m r s / m r g m r s etc, which is
plainly visible in kalAvatI kamlAsana yuvatI. In fact thse prayogas reduce the vivAditva seen in yAgapriya.
(eg: Dr MBK's yAsOdEyam vaMdE)

-Ramakriya

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 11 Aug 2006, 09:46

i hadn't heard either yAgapriyA or kalAvati before this concert. I have to accept my ignorance in this issue. thanks for correcting. kindly edit the review accordingly before reading.