Venue: J.G. Hindu Vidyalaya, Mambalam, Chennai
Date: 30 Dec 2006
Organizer: Rasika Fine Arts
Vocal: Sri Maharajapuram Srinivasan
Vocal Support: Sri Maharajapuram Ganesh Viswanathan
Violin: Sri Nagai Muralidharan
Mridangam: Sri Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
Khanjira: Sri B. Sree Sundar Kumar
I reached the concert about 25 min after the scheduled start time thanks to the notorious T.Nagar traffic. Here is the partial list of songs:
* paripAlaya – pantuvarALi – Adi – swAti tiruNAL (?S)
* srI venkatEsham – kalyANavasantam – rUpakam – muthuswAmi dIkshitar (A)
* ranganAtuDE – sowrAshtram – rUpakam – ponniAh piLLai
* En paLLi – mOhanam – Adi – aruNAchalakavi (A)
* shri krishnam – tODi – Adi – muthuswAmi dIkshitar (ANST)
* nIraja daLa nayanA – mAnD – Adi – mannArguDi sAmbasiva bhAgavatar
* gOvindA ninna – janasammOdini – Adi – purandaradAsa
* rAgathil siranda – rAgamAlikA – Adi – kaDalUr subramaNiam
* rAmam bhajE – durgA – Adi – dayAnanda saraswati
* adi nIpai (jAvaLi) – yamunAkalyANi – Adi – dharmapuri subbarAyar
* thillAnA – brindAvani – Adi – lalguDi g. jayaraman
* pavamAna (mangaLam) – sOwrAshTram – Adi – thyAgarAja
shubha mangaLam – madyamAvati
(Key: O=raga outline, A=raga alapana, N=neraval, S=kalpana swaram, T=taniavartanam)
Hello Ram,
I guess you will be attending one of the special Kutcheris this season – by Shri Lalgudi Jayaraman(to my knowledge,he has performed only once in this entire season and very rarely this year) at MFAC on Jan.1,2007.
PS:Your earlier observation about TMK was correct-the watch-removing ritual at the end of the first composition.Must be a good charm!
Sathej
I would certainly not want to miss seeing Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman in action !!!!