T.M. Krishna at BSV Trust's Dikshitar Akhandam

Venue: Dakshinamurthy Auditorium, PS High School, RK Mutt Road, Mylapore, Chennai Organizer: Bharatiya Sangeetha Vaibhavam Theme: Dikshitar Akhandam Vocal: T.M. Krishna Violin: R.K. Shriramkumar Mrudangam: K. Arunprakash List of songs: 1) mangaLadEvatE - mArgadEshi (A) 2) sAmi ninnE kOri (varNam) – shrIranjani (AN) 3) shrI valmIkalingam – kAmbOji (AN) 4) bAlagOpAla – bhairavi (A) 5) shrI guruguha mUrtE – udayaravicandrikA (O) 6) shrI vEnkaTagirIsham – suraTi (OS) 7) varadarAja pAhi (nOTTusvaram) – shankarAbharaNam (Key: O=raga outline, A=raga alapana, t=tAnam, N=neraval, S=kalpana swaram, T=taniavartanam) Song no. 2 (varnam) in the above list is composed by Ramaswami Dikshitar. T.M. Krishna said the speciality of this varnam is that in the charanam, the first swaram is composed by Ramaswami Dikshitar while the next three are composed by Shyama Shastri, Chinnaswami Dikshitar and Muthuswami Dikshitar respectively.