Venue: Balamandir German Hall, T.Nagar, Chennai

Date: 24 Dec 2006

Organizer: The Indian Fine Arts Society

Vocal: Malladi Brothers

Violin: Sri Mysore N. Nagaraj

Mridangam: Sri Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman

Ghatam: Sri T.V. Vasan

List of songs:

1) bhajana sEyu mArgamu – nArAyaNi – Adi – thyAgarAja (O)

2) inta parAkA – mAyAmALavagOwLa – rUpakam – Anai ayyA (NS) 

3) kalayAmi raghurAmam – bEgaDa – misra chApu – swAti tiruNAL (ANS)

4) mAkElarA – ravichandrikA – Adi – thyAgarAja

5) EmA ninnE – mukhAri – Adi – subbarAya sAstri (ANST)

6) nahi rE nahi shankA – ?? – Adi – sadAsiva brahmEndra (O)

7) chandrashEkarA IshA – sindhubhairavi – Adi – Anai vaidyanAta iyer

(Key: O=raga outline, A=raga alapana, N=neraval, S=kalpana swaram, T=taniavartanam)

A well planned and well executed concert. Sri Mysore Nagaraj was simply brilliant and so was Sri Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman. I had so many good things about this concert to write about but nothing is coming to mind now after listening to Sri T.N. Seshagopalan’s (TNS) brilliant concert at Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha. All that I can remember now is just TNS, TNS and TNS.