Maharajapuram Srinivasan @ Rasika Fine Arts, Chennai

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)

2 thoughts on “Maharajapuram Srinivasan @ Rasika Fine Arts, Chennai

  1. 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

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