GSM-AR-NSG-AS-VK@Sabhas on December 2013 season

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rajeshnat
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GSM-AR-NSG-AS-VK@Sabhas on December 2013 season

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GSM-AR-NSG-AS-VK@Sabhas on December 2013 season
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Few concerts I could just attend for not more than an hour.
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Madurai GS Mani@ CCA on Dec 08th,2014
Delhi Sundarrajan- KV Prasad

SariEvaramma - bhairavi with Tani
jagathjanani-rathipathipriya-ghanamkrishnaiyer
iRaiyAl Aadum BommanalAttumm maraithingu Aadum pitthalAtam- pahadi or maand???? -maduraigsmani

GS Mani's concert was one of the lows of my season.GSM is always a bit of flat note singer , when he took bhairavi ragam as the main with so many flat notes and sarievaramma just did not come out well as there was not much gamaka suddham. The plus was his own composition which was kind of self parody .The lyics was "iRaiyAl Aadum BommanalAttumm maraithingu Aadum pitthalAtam" and GSM is indeed a very modern composer . The concert was ticketed and just about 25 to 30 were there

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Re: GSM-AR-NSG-AS-VK@Sabhas on December 2013 season

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Abhishek Raghuram@CCA on Dec 10th ,2013
Mysore Shrikant - violin
Tiruvarur bhaktavatsalam - mrudangam
vaikkom gopalakrishnan - ghatam

RTP poorvikalyani madhurapuri nilayE mani valayE sadhayE
Ragamaliga swaras in poorvikalyani with sahana and behag
Yeru mayilEri - ragamAliga- thirruppugazh

A general inquisitiveness is always there for me the past 8 years or so - Whenever an artist travels from US , how does an artist give a concert when he/she returns back to pavilion. This was abhishek first concert of the season . I was interested also in knowing how Abhishek - bhaktavatsalam perform together

THe tani was brief is what i heard and got over even before i entered the hall.Poorvikalyani was lovely in taanam ,and the pallavi was bit concise . In swaras like the sahana the most the behag was good in parts - received huge applause - kind of mirroring what Rsachi put as a link a month or two back. Behag had no ,,,,, at all(I meant no spacing not as ragam kamas).The last ragamaliga thirruppugazh was medium in aesthetics, mysore shrikanth was bit lost in pallavi return .For RTP in poorvikalyani it was worth it

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Neyveli Santhanaopalan@CCA on Dec 12th ,2013
Guruavayur Durai , Dr Narmadha and H Sivaramakrishnan

BhajarE chitta - kalyani main with tani
nAdi ThEdi thazhuvAr - hinDolam - May be arunagiri thirruppugazh
kApi thillana of MDR
karpagamE -madhyamavathi - PSivan

NSG had a recalcitrant throat that day. There were few swaras in kalyani that came in short burst the undercurrent aesthetics was indeed there. The kapi thillana was the best. For most of the concert I felt he could have taken a bit more risk to express more with his voice , especially the kalyani did have a very minimal punch. I was thinking may be before I came he must have given all his best. Crowd was ticketed with around 50 in an evening concert.

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Amrutha sankaranarayanan@SKGS Mini ON jan 04th ,2014

Kjdileep-Bsivaraman-TrichyKrishnaswamy

Chakkani raja - kharaharapriya - T
vaidehi sahitam - slokham in hamsanandi and chandrakowns
IRavu pagal - chandrakowns - thirruppugazh
shurutti krithi forgot that one

This is the second concert of Amrutha sankaranarayanan that i am attending and reviewing . TVS daughter is taking the vocalisation of her appa in full and i like it immensely.As i entered she took time to settle a bit in kantiki sundara but in her second half of swaras i could see her jolly good singing like her appa and Suryaprakash- she is work in progress in getting the mmi type crescendoes in swaras. Her voice has a throw , a bit distinctness is there(kind of a hindustani ghazal singer). In the tukkadas liked the chandrakowns(TVS and Sp are great in this ragam) a lot , shurutti was bit rushed. Definitely a vidushi to watch

At the end of Amrutha's concert ,caught the second half of viji subra dharmavati pallavi with ragamaliga swaras in main hall of skgs . VS sang with a lot of emote - swaras were short with good exchange by HNBHaskar and a nice roll by TR Sundaresan

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Vidya kalyanaraman@SKGS Mini on Jan 06th, 2014
forgot the accompanist(sorry)

bala gOpAla (R N S T) - bhairavi -T
viruththam - mudisArntha mannarum - hamsanandi + sindhubhairavi
Chidambaranai dhigambaranai - sindhubhairavi - GS Mani
narahari -madhuvanti - jayadeva ashtapadi
thilana-poornachandrika-Poochi

vidya kalyanaraman is the disciple of Suguna varadachari . Her plus is her pathantaram orientation, that day she appeared to be in the ascending recovery of a bad throat . I felt a little more kalpana may have taken this concert better. Incidentally this hall kamakoti hall is fantastic hall, i was seated at the corner there . A fellow rasika gentleman who snored fully for the whole bhairavi almost was a more sing to me .He did not wakeup even in tani(he was not a foreigner and he did not have a camcorder).His snore was a bit of snoresing that had a right rhythm when neera shareera neraval was on.Tukkadas were just there with the viruththam emote in ashtapadi being the top pick. This is the my second concert of hers.

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