Venue: Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall Date: 17th Sep 2006 Organizer: Saraswati Vaggeyakara Trust Theme: Compositions of post trinity composers Vocal: Smt Sumathi Krishnan Violin: Smt Neela Mridangam: Sri Jayakumar List of songs: 1) varnam - shanmugapriya - tisra dhruvam - mudikondAn venkatrAma iyer 2) chenta dIrchi - hamsadhwani - Adi - tiruvOtriyUr thyAgaiyyer 3) vElaiyA - sAvEri - Adi - kOtIswara iyer 4) kOrinavara - rAmapriyA - rUpakam - pattanam subramaniya iyer 5) venkatasaila - hamIrkalyANi - Adi - subbarAma dIkshitar 6) karuNinchutaku - sindu mandAri - Adi - pattanam subramaniya iyer 7) mugathai kAtti - bhairavi - misra chApu - pApavinAsa mudaliAr 8) vA vA vA - sindhubhairavi - kanda Eka - ambujam krishnA 9) thillAnA - vasanthA - Adi - kandasAmi pillai On a day which had concerts by famous artists at other places, I had gone to this concert because of the theme and because I thought I will get to hear some rare compositions not in vogue these days and I must say that I wasn't dissapointed. Smt Sumathi Krishnan rendered the songs well. But the sad part was that even the tiny Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall was noticeably empty with only about 15 people present in all, who I guess were either organizers or were in some way or other, known to the artist.