Category: Carnatic Music

  • T.M.Krishna @ Bangalore Gayana Samaja

    What a beautiful concert it was !!!!! Sri T.M.Krishna, as usual, gave yet another wonderful performance yesterday at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja. Vocal: Sri T.M.Krishna (TMK) Violin: Sri R.K.Sriramkumar Mridangam: Sri K.V. Prasad Ghatam: Sri Giridhar Udupa List of songs: 1) karuNimpa (varnam) – sahAnA – Adi – tiruvOtriyUr tyAgayyar…

  • TNS on Muthiah Bhagavathar (Part 2)

    (Continued from part 1 of this post) Notes from the session on Muthiah Bhagavathar (as spoken by TNS): “In kritis, he did new things in old songs and incorporated old usages in new songs. Example: kaligiyuntE in kIravAni is by thyAgarAja swAmi. His student pattanam subramaniya iyer created “varamulOsagi brochutanI”…

  • TNS on Muthiah Bhagavathar (Part 1)

    Harikesanallur Muthiah Bhagavathar (15 Nov 1877 – 30 Jun 1945) Sri T.N.Seshagopalan (TNS) gave a lecture demonstration on Sri Harikesanallur Muthiah Bhagavathar and his compositions on the 15th of Aug 2006 at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja auditorium as a part of the Gayana Samaja’s 38th Music Conference. Sri Ramanathapuram C.S.…

  • TN Seshagopalan @ Bangalore Gayana Samaja

    Vocal: Sri T.N.Seshagopalan (TNS) Vocal Support: Sri T.N.S. Krishna Violin: Sri H.K.Venkatram Mridangam: Sri Umayalapuram K. Sivaraman Khanjira: Sri N. Amrit List of songs: 1) vanajAkshi (varnam) – kalyAni – kanda ata – pallavi gOpAla iyer 2) angAraka – surutti – rUpakam – muthuswAmi dIkshitar 3) mANikka vInA (viruttam) –…

  • Bombay Jayashri @ Bangalore Gayana Samaja

    (Photo courtesy Gayathri, http://www.flickr.com/photos/40655946@N00/215706193/) Smt Bombay Jayashri sang yesterday at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja as a part of its ongoing 38th music conference. She was accompanied by Sri Mysore V Srikanth on the violin, Sri Poongulam Subramaniam on the mridangam and Sri Rajagopalan on the khanjira. List of songs: 1)…

  • TNS is the best !!!!

    In the field of Carnatic music, there are amateurs, there are good artistes, there are top class artists and then there is Sri Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan (TNS). I have been hooked on to his music ever since I first heard him sing a rAgam tAnam pallavi in rAgA dharmavati when I…

  • OST @ Odukkathur Mutt, Bangalore

    I simply do not have words to describe the quality concert I attended yesterday at the Odukkathur Swamigal Mutt, Bangalore. Every artist on stage was an accomplished one and each one had his own unofficial fan club, if you could term it so, in the audience. The concert was a…

  • Sreevalsan J Menon @ Odukkathur Mutt, Bangalore

    Dr. Sreevalsan J Menon, an agricultural scientist (PhD in the same field) by profession and also a good carnatic classical singer, performed at the Odukkathur Swamigal Mutt in Bangalore yesterday in the Gokulashtami Concert Series. He was accompanied on the violin by Sri S. Varadarajan, on the mridangam by Sri…

  • Sanjay rocks !!!!

    Sanjay always delivers and yesterday was no exception. Almost every concert of his has something new to offer. In a concert organized at the Odukkathur Swamigal Mutt yesterday as a part of the Gokulashtami Concert Series, Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyam was ably accompanied on the violin by Sri Nagai Muralidharan, on…

  • OS Thyagarajan @ Bangalore Gayana Samaja

    It was vintage OST at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja Auditorium yesterday. OST fans who came to the concert would have returned home real satisfied. Here are the details of the concert: Vocal: Sri O.S. Thyagarajan (OST) Violin: Sri H.K.Venkatram Mridangam: Sri V. Praveen Ghatam: Sri Giridhar Udupa List of songs:…

  • Nithyashri Mahadevan @ Odukkathur Mutt, Bangalore

    The number of people who had come to the Odukkathur Swamigal Mutt on Saturday to listen to the day’s concert far outnumbered the ones on any other day. The reason? It was Smt.Nithyashri Mahadevan‘s concert that day. Grand daughter of Smt. D.K.Pattammal (her paternal grandmother), veteran singer and one of…

  • Malladi Brothers @ Udakkathur Mutt, Bangalore

    It was yet another awesome concert that the audience at Odukkathur Swamigal Mutt in Bangalore got to witness yesterday. Malladi Brothers – Sri Sreerama Prasad and Sri Ravikumar gave a carnatic classical vocal concert accompanied by Sri Mysore Manjunath on the violin, Sri Srimushnam Raja Rao on the mridangam and…

  • Priya Sisters @ Odukkathur Mutt, Bangalore

    Priya Sisters – Smt. Haripriya and Smt. Shanmugapriya performed at the Odukkathur Mutt yesterday accompanied by Sri M.A. Krishnaswamy on the violin, Sri Neyveli Skanda Subramaniam on the mridangam and Smt. Sukanya Ramagopal on the ghatam. The main piece was Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar’s “srI krishnam bhaja mAnasa” in the rAga…

  • Violin Duet @ Odukkathur Mutt, Bangalore

    Lalgudi Sri G.J.R. Krishnan and Lalgudi Smt. Vijayalakshmi performed yesterday in the Gokulashtami concert series at Odukkathur Swamigal Mutt, Bangalore. They were accompanied by Sri Mannargudi Easwaran on the mridangam and Sri B.S. Purushottam on the Khanjira. The list of songs they played is as follows: 1) varnam – husEni…

  • T.M.Krishna rules

    Sri T.M.Krishna (TMK), one of my favorite singers, gave a brilliant concert yesterday at the Odukkathur Swamigal Mutt, Bangalore. He was accompanied by Sri H.K.Venkatram on the violin, Sri K. Arun Prakash on the mridangam and Sri M.A. Krishnamurthy on the ghatam. I must say it was one of the…