Category: Concert/Album Experience

  • Sumathi Krishnan @ Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall, Chennai

    Venue: Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall Date: 17th Sep 2006 Organizer: Saraswati Vaggeyakara Trust Theme: Compositions of post trinity composers Vocal: Smt Sumathi Krishnan Violin: Smt Neela Mridangam: Sri Jayakumar List of songs: 1) varnam – shanmugapriya – tisra dhruvam – mudikondAn venkatrAma iyer 2) chenta dIrchi – hamsadhwani –…

  • TM Krishna @ Nadopasana, PS High School, Chennai

    Venue: PS High School, Mylapore Organizer: Nadopasana, Chennai Date: 16th Sep 2006 Vocal: Sri T.M.Krishna Violin: Sri S. Varadarajan Mridangam: Sri K. Arun Prakash Khanjira: Sri Anirudh Athreya List of songs: 1) jananI ninnuvinA – rItigOwla – misra chApu – subbarAya sAstri (S) 2) nenaruncharA – simhavAhini – Adi –…

  • Unnikrishnan @ Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai

    Venue: Dr. Nalli Gana Vihar, Sri Krishna Gana Sabha Date: 15th Sep 2006 Vocal: Sri P. Unnikrishnan Violin: Sri M.R.Gopinath Mridangam: Sri Guruvayoor Dorai Khanjira: Sri B.S.Purushottam List of songs: 1) sAminI tOdi (varnam) – pantuvarALi – Adi – vInA kuppaiyer (?) 2) ninnu jUchi – sOwrAshtram – Adi –…

  • Chitravina Ravikiran @ Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai

    Date of concert: 10th Sep 2006 Venue: Sri Krishna Gana Sabha Auditorium, Chennai Chitravina: N. Ravikiran Violin: Akkarai Subhalakshmi Mridangam: Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman Ghatam: T.V. Vasan Khanjira: B. Shree Sundar Kumar The concert started with a varnam which I missed as I landed late after shifting in from Bangalore to…

  • Concert Updates

    A page dedicated to list of concerts happening in Chennai (“Concerts in Chennai“) has been added (see link on the right side or on top of this page). Details of concerts to be organized in November in Bangalore by Nadasurabhi Cultural Association have also been added to the “Concerts in…

  • Face to face with Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman

    This was the name given to the close to one-and-a-half hour session with mridangam maestro Sri Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman organized for rasikas by the Bangalore Gayana Samaja on 15th Aug 2006. Rasikas had an opportunity to interact with the maestro and ask him questions about carnatic music in general and…

  • 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…