Iyer Brothers @ Mumbai on Jan 1st 2012

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tyagarajadasa
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Iyer Brothers @ Mumbai on Jan 1st 2012

Post by tyagarajadasa »

Iyer Brothers (Shri Ramnath and Shri Gopinath) performed at Mumbai on 1st Jan. The early evening concert, with a pleasant breeze and an almost full moon reminded one of the tEvAram "mAsil vInaiyum..." of Appar. It was like listening to Shri KSN and Trivandrum Venkatraman live. The selection of kritis, the presentation and the discipline shown by the brothers made the concert highly aesthetic and pleasing and made my New Year memorable!

Here is the list:
1. inta mODi - sArangA varnam
2. mEru samAna - mAyA mALava gowLa (R,N,S @ gaLamuna)
3. rAma pAhi - dEvagandhari - Rupakam- Swathi Thirunal (R)
4. bhajarE rE citta - kalyANi - RNS @ nijarUpa
5. giripai
6. shobhillu
7. tanayuni brOva - bhairavi - R, Tanam and S @ vatsamu followed by tani
8. srinivAsa tiruvenkaTa - hamsanandi
9. vaishnava janatO
10. adi nI pai - yamuna kalyani - Adi - Dharmapuri Subbarayar
11. bhAgyAda lakshmi
12. mangaLam

Both the extensive Alapanas in Kalyani and Bhairavi were extremely aesthetic and were no-frill affairs. Kriti renditions were just perfect. The devagandhari kriti was new to me but what a delight it was! I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of the concert. Rohit Prasad on the Mridangam was a very sensitive accompanist cum admirer. The tani was aptly sarvalaghu in nature and placed great importance to sowkhyam and appropriate nAdam.
Hope to hear more concerts of the Iyer Brothers in future!

P.S. During this concert, for the first time I was privileged to sit near a committee member who kept putting wrong tAlam (he was banging and clapping as if it was some bhajan program) :lol: He even tried to copy what I was doing but was unfortunately unsuccessful and kept on banging, oblivious to my stares! It was soo funny! :grin: Hopefully the artists were not distracted by this person, especially as he was sitting right in front of them.

--Gokul

srikant1987
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Re: Iyer Brothers @ Mumbai on Jan 1st 2012

Post by srikant1987 »

Thank you, Gokul. Your reviews are so pleasant to read. :)
It was like listening to Shri KSN and Trivandrum Venkatraman live.
Have you listened to KSN live? Wow! mEru samAna, bhajarE rE citta, tanayuni brOva are all TRV favourites. The tAnam was entirely in bhairavi?

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