A.Sadasivam @ IIT Madras, Chennai

Venue: IIT Madras

Date: 13th Nov 2006

Organizer: Music Club, IIT Madras

Vocal: Sri A. Sadasivam

Violin: Sri S. Varadarajan

Mridangam: Sri Trichur Narendran

List of songs:

1) uchishTa gaNapatau – kAshirAmakriyA (pantuvarALi) – Adi – muthuswAmi dIkshitar (S)

2) sandyA dEvIm sAvitrIm – dEvakriyA (sudha sAvEri) – Adi – muthuswAmi dIkshitar (S)

3) guruguha bhavatarangiNIm – chaturAngiNi (chitrAmbarI) – misra chApu – muthuswAmi dIkshitar (AS)

4) sidhIshwarAya namastE – nIlAmbarI – misra chApu – muthuswAmi dIkshitar (O)

5) shrI satyanArAyaNam upAsmahE – shivapantuvarALi (shubapantuvarALi) – rUpakam – muthuswAmi dIkshitar (ANST)

6) praNatArti harAya – sAmantA – Adi – muthuswAmi dIkshitar

7) rAgam tAnam pallavi – nATTakurinji – kanDa triputa (4 kaLai)

pallavi wordings: “ten param giri vaLar muruga guhanE, deivAnaiKKaruL saravaNa bava guhanE”

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I had to leave when Sri Sadasivam was singing ragamalika swarams for the RTP. A decent concert overall with a lot of effort put in from the singer’s side I must say. He sang some not so commonly heard Dikshitar compositions. Sri Sadasivam sang detailed alapana, neraval and kalpana swarams for the main song of the day “shrI satyanArAyaNam”. While singing the neraval, he suddenly took rishabam as shaDjam and tried the R-G-M-D-N-R usage for neraval to give a feel of madhyamavati raga. During his next turn at neraval after that, he took the gAndhAram as shaDjam and tried the G-M-D-N-R-G usage for neraval to give a feel of hindoLam raga.

After “shrI satyanArAyaNam”, he sang a 4 kaLai rAgam tAnam pallavi in nATTakurinji which started 5 aksharas away from the samam. He sang it in trikAlam and did anulOma vilOma also.