Alamelu Mani, Music Club IIT Madras

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 21 Oct 2009, 12:28

Alamelu Mani, Sarayu Srinivasan - V V S Murari - B Sivaraman

Dilip Veeraraghavan Birthday Rememberance Concert.
Music Club IIT Madras.
7 Oct 09. 6:45 pm

sAmi nI kOri - kAmavardhani - Adi
sarasIruhAsanapriyE - nATTai - Adi - PDI (S)
paripAlincu - suddha sAvEri - kANDa cApu - Ramaswami (S)
srI kAmAkshI kaTAkshi - vasantA - Adi - Thiruvarur Ramaswami Pillai (R)
bantu rIti - hamsanAdham - Adi - T (RNS)
vAcAma gOcaruNDani - aTANA - Adi - Mysore Sadasiva Rao (R)
dayajUchuTakidi - gAnavArdhi - Adi - T
manasu svAdhIna - shankarAbaraNam - misra cApu - T (RNS)
tani
kuvalayAkshirO - gauLipantu - misra cApu - K
yAla padarE - bEgaDa - tisra tripuTa - K
muDDa vaddu rA - sAvEri - Adi
kAdhi mOdhi - sArangA - thiruppugazh
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi
madhyamAvati short sketch

It was a great concert. The choice of ragams and kritis was very interesting and the presentation was wonderful too. The kritis were rendered beautifully. The AlApanais of vasantA, hamsanAdam, aTANA and shankarAbaraNam were all very classical, moving and fitting the kritis that were being presented. The neraval and svarams were all measured and presented fittingly. The renditions of the padams and javali were moving. The accompanists did a very good job in accompanying.

bharath

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 21 Oct 2009, 13:03

bharath
Fairly long hibernation from you. Any more inputs (atleast her guru's name)on sarayu srinivasan,this violinist is new to me.

kuvalayAkshirO and yAla padarE , i just googled to find that K that you refer is Kshetrajna.

paripAlincu - suddha sAvEri - kANDa cApu - Ramaswami (S)

Is paripAlinchu-sudda sAveri- tiruvisainallur venkataramana bhagavathar?? one , popularized by semmangudi.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 21 Oct 2009, 14:05

rajeshnat wrote:bharath
Fairly long hibernation from you.

indeed. was down with fever, cold, cough, etc... for a couple of weeks. feeling much better presently..

rajeshnat wrote: Any more inputs (atleast her guru's name)on sarayu srinivasan,this violinist is new to me.

Smt. Alamelu Mani is a disciple of Sangeetha Kalanidhi T Brinda. Smt. Sarayu is the disciple of Smt. Alamelu who provided vocal support for the concert.

The violinst Sri VVS Murari is the son and disciple of Violin Maestro Sri VV Subramanian.

rajeshnat wrote: kuvalayAkshirO and yAla padarE , i just googled to find that K that you refer is Kshetrajna.

indeed.

rajeshnat wrote:
paripAlincu - suddha sAvEri - kANDa cApu - Ramaswami (S)
Is paripAlinchu-sudda sAveri- tiruvisainallur venkataramana bhagavathar?? one , popularized by semmangudi.

could be. When asked about the composer, Smt. Alamelu mani said 'ramaswami', but wasnt sure. I think Thirukkarugavur Sri Srinivasaraghavan, sang this kriti in his iit concert last april, and he mentioned the name of Thiruvisanallur Venkataramana Bhagavathar as the composer. I dont know the correct detail. It is probably that of bhagavathar and Smt. Alamelu was confused with the question as the next song she presented was a composition of Thiruvarur Ramaswami Pillai. Or is it a case of questionable authorship. i dont know.

semmu86 · Post by **semmu86** » 21 Oct 2009, 15:00

in that suddha sAveri krithi , i remember someone telling me that the scintillating set of chitta swarams were added/composed by semmangudi mama himself.. Any inputs on that ?

Arvind .

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 21 Oct 2009, 17:30

rbharath wrote:muDDa vaddu rA - sAvEri - Adi

muTTa vaddu rA - (yennai toDAdE dA) meaning, do not touch (muTTa vaddu rA) me!

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 21 Oct 2009, 17:31

rbharath - Good to know that you are feeling better!

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 21 Oct 2009, 19:25

Bharat,

Glad to know this was a Dilip Veeraraghavan Birthday Rememberance Concert.

raj-123 · Post by **raj-123** » 22 Oct 2009, 01:18

rbharath, are the music club performances open to general public also or only current students/teachers? is there a membership for the club..

thanks

bhaktha · Post by **bhaktha** » 22 Oct 2009, 02:41

rbharath wrote:

could be. When asked about the composer, Smt. Alamelu mani said 'ramaswami', but wasnt sure. I think Thirukkarugavur Sri Srinivasaraghavan, sang this kriti in his iit concert last april, and he mentioned the name of Thiruvisanallur Venkataramana Bhagavathar as the composer. I dont know the correct detail. It is probably that of bhagavathar and Smt. Alamelu was confused with the question as the next song she presented was a composition of Thiruvarur Ramaswami Pillai. Or is it a case of questionable authorship. i dont know.

Paripalinchu is a composition of Thiruvusanallur Venkataramana Iyer

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 22 Oct 2009, 17:23

Bharath,
I was wondering if it was exams which kept you busy. Sorry to hear you were not well. Good to have you back.
The concert was in honor of a young professor who was a great rasikA, if I'm not mistaken.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 22 Oct 2009, 18:17

yes. Dr. D Veeraraghavan (fondly known as Dilip to many) was a faculty in the Humanities Dept and was an ardent rasika of classical music. He was also instrumental in getting many of us students of IIT (including yours truly) to get kindled by the right kind of music. He left us in February, fighting cancer. It was a homage to him on his birthday.

and thanks to all for the corrections

and for the concern about me. was down with some viral infection for a couple of weeks. i m almost back to normal now

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 22 Oct 2009, 18:19

raj-123 wrote:rbharath, are the music club performances open to general public also or only current students/teachers? is there a membership for the club..

thanks

the club performances are open to anybody to attend. the membership details of the club for campus residents/outsiders is available on the club's website, http://musicclub.iitm.ac.in. please see it for more details. you could also mail [email protected] for details.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 22 Oct 2009, 18:54

rbharath wrote:
raj-123 wrote:rbharath, are the music club performances open to general public also or only current students/teachers? is there a membership for the club..

thanks
the club performances are open to anybody to attend. the membership details of the club for campus residents/outsiders is available on the club's website, http://musicclub.iitm.ac.in. please see it for more details. you could also mail [email protected] for details.

I urge each of you to attend music concerts in IIT-M . Neat blue chairs , right AC, pin drop silence and above all Sound 'SOUND ENGINEERS'.

bharath/srikanth1981/sathej & all other folks,
Even though you keep it open the end time of the concert, I always see the concerts generally wrap in 2 hours +, it would be nice if it is 3 hours with a mandatory RTP

.Atleast I will be occupied for 3 hours =) and have a satisfaction , instead of writing a clueless IIT-JEE entrance examination paper :rolleyes:

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 23 Oct 2009, 03:21

Yet another 'Dileep Veerararaghavan Memorial Concert ' by Smt Alamelu Mani, in a different venue.

Date:23/10/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/200 ... 180200.htm

malavi · Post by **malavi** » 24 Oct 2009, 22:47

Smt.Alamelu Mani s first guru was her late husband Sri.Mani who was known as Chellamani Sir in Mumbai in those days.I think she got the presidents award in the AIR competition long back. She is ,as we all know the mother of playback singer Hariharan.She is ofcourse a student of Smt.Brinda also.Sri.chellamani sir had trained many students who are famous musicians today ,one of them being the Bombay Sisters.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 30 Oct 2009, 11:31

rajeshnat wrote:
bharath/srikanth1981/sathej & all other folks,
Even though you keep it open the end time of the concert, I always see the concerts generally wrap in 2 hours +, it would be nice if it is 3 hours with a mandatory RTP .Atleast I will be occupied for 3 hours =) and have a satisfaction , instead of writing a clueless IIT-JEE entrance examination paper :rolleyes:

rajesh, this is something i cant really decide or reply to u right away. lets see if the club's organising committee likes this suggestion..