Vijay Siva, Music Club IIT Madras

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 11 Aug 2006, 15:05

Vijay Siva - R K Shriram Kumar - Manoj Siva

Music Club IIT Madras
10th August 2006 6:45 pm

sadA pAla rUpapi - slOkam - kIravANi
bAla sarasa muraLI - kIravANi - Adi - OVK
sObillu - jagan mOhini - rUpakam - T (NS)
karuNajUDavammA - pantuvarALi - Adi(2) - SS (RN)
murugA muzhumadi pazikkum ArumugA - sAvEri - Adi - PS (RS)
soundara rAjam - brindAvana sArangA - tisra Ekam - MD
teliyalEru rAmA - dhEnukA - Adi - T
R T P - sankarAbaraNam - tisra jhampai (tisra naDai 2 kaLAi) sama eDuppu. tALam reduced to 1 kaLai.
'samAnamA sabhApatE sadAsivA sakala ulagamE unakku sari'
rAgamAlika svarams and korappu in hindOLam, hamIrkalyANi, kuntaLa varALi
tani Avarththanam in tisra jhampai (tisra naDai 2 kaLAi)
ini yenna pEchirukkudu - sahAnA - Adi - Subbarama Iyer
thammaiyE pugazhnthicchai - senjuruTTi - cApu - sundarar tEvAram
IyenRu nAn oruvariDam - viruttam in punnAga varALi, yamuna kalyANi, sindhu bhairavi
kAnthamAm kathirkAmam thanil - sindhu bhairavi- Eka tALam - Mayuram Viswanatha Sastri
ANDavan darisanamE - jOnpuri - Adi
iyal isaiyil - husEni tiruppugazh - vishama tALam - Arunagiri Nathar
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTRam - Adi - T
svasti prajA - saurAshTRam

The concert started with a beautiful slokam and the beautiful kIravANi piece. The jaganmOhini kriti was rendered with neraval at 'dhara rksAmAdulalO...' and svarams at 'saptaswara'. The pantuvarALi AlApanai was done well showing the rAga lakshaNams and the rare grand kriti taken up was really well rendered with neraval at 'maragatAngi panchanadIshu rANi'. A couple of kalpana svarams in this kriti would have been more fulfilling.

The sAvEri was elaborated well and the svarams that followed the kriti which had a starting two aksharams before the tALam started were good and had some nice patterns rendered. The slow rendition of the brindAvana sArangA kriti, a version away from the popular version we hear, had a definite impact followed by the dhEnukA.

The main course, sankarAbaraNam was elaborated to the fullest and was very fulfilling. The tanam was also beautiful. The pallavi was rendered well without a hitch with anulOma, pratilOma and the korappU to madhyamam was done in all the four ragams in a cycle. each ragam coming for an avartanam and then half and so on. It was well rendered. The tani in such a not-so-common taLam was good also, displaying some intricate patterns.

The post tani session had all the pieces rendered very enjoyably and unusual ease. The concert was on the whole very fulfilling and some of the pieces still ring in one's mind.

The violinst was in his usual best all thro' the concert and so was the mrudangist. The enjoyment one derived from the concert was understandably from the combined effort of all the three men on stage.

bharath

Vocalist · Post by **Vocalist** » 11 Aug 2006, 15:44

WOW WOW WOW!! Now that's an example of a list I wouldn't expect and would cherish (granted it was all sung at a reasonably high standard). If this concert was recorded, I'd buy it like a shot (well...I'd try to). A list with a variety of rAgAs, tAlAs, composers & pieces!! What a treat!!

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 11 Aug 2006, 22:09

ANDavan darishanamE is by Muttiah Bhagavatar.

bala747 · Post by **bala747** » 12 Aug 2006, 07:47

Sounds like a good, solid list. Nice to see such a great emphasis on tamil songs. As vocalist said, a concert worth having. Any chance of purchasing it? Or is only the December season concert series released commercially?

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 12 Aug 2006, 08:13

Bala,
These IITM Music club concerts seem notorioisly difficult to get a hold of. Now, to me, a bunch of highly qualified engineers there should be able to record these concerts on high fidelity equipment and make them available for members and other interested parties...but there seems to be no joy!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 12 Aug 2006, 08:47

Rbharath,
Thank you for the review. What a song list! As others have said, a concert of this kind is worth attending. I am also happy to see so many tamizh songs on the list. My request to Vijay Siva and other vocalists is to consider singing a Bharathi song in every concert. Looking through the collection of his poems, they would be surprised to find that from a major piece to a tukkada, they can find numerous songs other than tIrAda viLaiyAttuppiLLAi and chinnanjiRu kiLIyE. Sowmya's all Bharathi songs in last year's mArgazhi mahOtsavam (mahA utsavam?) on Jaya tv is an example. An added bonus: Bharathi's songs appeal to the whole spectrum of listeners.
V.Siva is on the right track. He does take his art seriously.

mnsriram · Post by **mnsriram** » 12 Aug 2006, 09:24

Is the slOkam not "sadA bAla rUpApi", the starting slOka of subramaNya bhujangam?

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 12 Aug 2006, 14:49

vocalist, all the pieces were rendered very well.

bala and shankar, Music Club IIT Madras usually doesnt record the concerts. They are recorded only if the artists ask for a recording. The club doesnt retain a copy of any recordings.

mnsriram, i guess so.

Vocalist · Post by **Vocalist** » 12 Aug 2006, 15:32

Strangely, I don't hear enough of Theeradha Vilayattu Pillai from the DKP/DKJ school (Nithyasree's voice isn't suitable and I didn't enjoy the MLV school version).

I can't forget N.Ramani and his students played that piece brilliantly in one concert - during the Jaya TV Margazhi Maha Utsavam in '04 (but that's another story...

(Btw arasi, Sowmya didn't sing the all-Bharathiyar songs concert last year, it was the year before i.e. 2004. I think you responded to my reviews (actually, reflections and recollections) when I'd wrote them on the BBoard towards the beginning of the year. )