Venue: Sivagami Pettachi Auditorium, Luz Church Road, Mylapore, Chennai Date: 21 Dec 2006 Organizer: Brahma Gana Sabha Vocal: Sri Maharajapuram Srinivasan Vocal Support: Sri Maharajapuram S. Ganesh Viswanathan Violin: Sri M.A. Sundareswaran Mridangam: Sri Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman Morsing: Sri Srirangam Kannan List of songs: 1) sarasUDa (varnam) - sAvEri - Adi - kothavAsal venkaTrAma iyer 2) pAhi pAhi bAla gaNapatE - mazhavAi chidambara bhArati (S) 3) sEnApatE namOstutE - gOwLa - Adi - UthukkADu venkaTa subbaiyer (S) 4) paripAlaya - pantuvarALi - Adi - swAti tiruNAL (S) 5) nAdalOluDai - kalyANavasantam - rUpakam - thyAgarAja (AS) 6) purahara nandana - hamIr kalyANi - Adi - muthuswAmi dIkshitar (A) 7) praNaumI satatam - jaganmOhini - misra chApu - v.v.srIvatsA 8 ) dAsharatE - tODi - Adi - thyAgarAja (ANST) 9) nIraja daLa nayanA - mAnD - Adi - mannArguDi sAmbasiva bhAgavatar 10) rAgathil siranda - rAgamAlikA - Adi - kaDalUr subramaNiam 11) suTTum vizhi chuDar - rAgamAlikA - Adi - subramaNya bhArati 12) namah pAravatI patayE - rEvati bhO shambhO - rEvati - Adi - dayAnanda saraswati 13) viLayADa idu nEramA - shanmukhapriyA - Adi - t.r. bAlu (?) 14) pavamAna (mangaLam) - sOwrAshTram - Adi - thyAgarAja shubha mangaLam - madyamAvati (Key: O=raga outline, A=raga alapana, N=neraval, S=kalpana swaram, T=taniavartanam) A decent concert, the good points being step-by-step development of sangatis for many songs in Sri Maharajapuram Santhanam style, a very good violin accompaniment by Sri M.A. Sundareswaran and of course the excellent mridangam accompaniment by Sri Umayalpuram Sivaraman. Sri Srirangam Kannan on the morsing played like Sri Sivaraman's shadow assisting him well and enhancing the quality of the percussion support. The auditorium was close to empty thanks to the so many good concerts happening in the Mylapore area itself, one of them being Sri Sanjay Subramaniam's concert at Raga Sudha Hall nearby which my brother tells me was simply superb.