Birth centenary
Sangeetha Vidwan Selvapillai Iyengar was a veteran vocalist and a reputed Guru, who also served Akashavani for several decades, as a staff artiste. His birth centenary was celebrated last week by his family members, in association with Sri Rama Lalithakala Mandira.
Curtains came down on the centenary celebrations with a vocal recital of Madurai T N S Krishna. He is the son and disciple of T N Seshagopalan, also a software engineer, and has performed in leading Sabha and Sammelans.
In the current concert, Krishna presented a number of songs composed by different vaggeyakaras in several languages and attractive ragas. For instance, "Seshachala Nayakam" is a dignified keerthana for which the swara was also complementary. Both "Na Ninna Dhyanadolliralu" and "Marugelara" are old-time favourites. Though his voice was not at its best, it was in the unfolding of Kalyani that Krishna came into his own, displaying his talent and good training and the choice was another well known Krithi "Kamalambam Bhajare", with exuberant swara vinyasa. C N Chandrasekhar, V Praveen and G Guruprasanna gave spirited support on violin, mridanga and khanjari respectively.
Samanvitha
The Samanvitha organisation paid homage to Dr M S Subbalakshmi, the legendary musician, on her birth centenary. Compositions popularised by MS were rendered in music and dance.
R S Nanda Kumar recalled several interesting anecdotes pertaining to MS, in his speech and few artistes were also felicitated on the occasion. There were brief recitals of Bharathanatya, Veena and vocal.
Three young members of Vivekananda Kala Kendra gave a dance recital of few selected compositions. The popular Ganesha stuti, few familiar devaranamas - Daasana Madiko Enna, Jagadoddarana and Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma - were performed by Lekha, Geetha and Kavya. Though "Bhavayami" is a sought-after composition, audience felt as if it was abruptly ended. They performed with rather casualness and less said the better on their Abhinaya and foot work. With higher training and hard homework they can improve and come out of the short comings.
R K Padmanabha who belongs to a great lineage of vainikas took off on a bright note with a familiar varna and continued with "Pranamamyaham" and "Annapurne." His alap and easy paced thanam and the krithi "Broeheva" - all were lively and tuneful. C Cheluvaraj on mridanga and Gurumurthy on ghata accompanied the Vainika.
The "Deva Deva" gave senior vocalist Kumaraswamy of "Gudibande Brothers" fame, a steady start. Sudda Dhanyasi was brief, but proof of his expertise and "Yadava Nee Ba" was also pleasing. B Raghuram and B Dhruvaraj supported on violin and mridanga.
Krishnashtami celebrations
Krishna Janmasthami was celebrated in many temples and organisations in the city. One such venue Sri Venugopala Krishnaswamy Temple, Malleswaram conducted vocal, veena, mandolin and dance recitals in the 14-day festival apart from religious programmes.
L V Mukund, who hails from the Belakavadi family and a disciple of Dr N Ramani, gave a fine flute recital, and was accompanied by J K Sridhar on violin, V S Rajagopal on mridanga and A S N Swamy on Khanjari.
Though he presented a number of compositions, he chose a well known keertana of Saint Tyagaraja for a detailed airing. While presenting the composition "Inta Soukhyamani" in the raga Kaapi, the nerval and the swara prasthara brought out the ragabhava in greater detail. In this kruthi Tyagaraja says "can I adequately describe the profound bliss the chanting of Rama Naama gives me? Who can quantify and qualify that bliss?" Earlier Mukund also presented Durmargachara and Manavyala and concluded with Thamburi Meetidava. Mukund's flute was melodious and lively, throughout.
Sangeetha Vidwan Selvapillai Iyengar was a veteran vocalist and a reputed Guru, who also served Akashavani for several decades, as a staff artiste. His birth centenary was celebrated last week by his family members, in association with Sri Rama Lalithakala Mandira.
Curtains came down on the centenary celebrations with a vocal recital of Madurai T N S Krishna. He is the son and disciple of T N Seshagopalan, also a software engineer, and has performed in leading Sabha and Sammelans.
In the current concert, Krishna presented a number of songs composed by different vaggeyakaras in several languages and attractive ragas. For instance, "Seshachala Nayakam" is a dignified keerthana for which the swara was also complementary. Both "Na Ninna Dhyanadolliralu" and "Marugelara" are old-time favourites. Though his voice was not at its best, it was in the unfolding of Kalyani that Krishna came into his own, displaying his talent and good training and the choice was another well known Krithi "Kamalambam Bhajare", with exuberant swara vinyasa. C N Chandrasekhar, V Praveen and G Guruprasanna gave spirited support on violin, mridanga and khanjari respectively.
Samanvitha
The Samanvitha organisation paid homage to Dr M S Subbalakshmi, the legendary musician, on her birth centenary. Compositions popularised by MS were rendered in music and dance.
R S Nanda Kumar recalled several interesting anecdotes pertaining to MS, in his speech and few artistes were also felicitated on the occasion. There were brief recitals of Bharathanatya, Veena and vocal.
Three young members of Vivekananda Kala Kendra gave a dance recital of few selected compositions. The popular Ganesha stuti, few familiar devaranamas - Daasana Madiko Enna, Jagadoddarana and Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma - were performed by Lekha, Geetha and Kavya. Though "Bhavayami" is a sought-after composition, audience felt as if it was abruptly ended. They performed with rather casualness and less said the better on their Abhinaya and foot work. With higher training and hard homework they can improve and come out of the short comings.
R K Padmanabha who belongs to a great lineage of vainikas took off on a bright note with a familiar varna and continued with "Pranamamyaham" and "Annapurne." His alap and easy paced thanam and the krithi "Broeheva" - all were lively and tuneful. C Cheluvaraj on mridanga and Gurumurthy on ghata accompanied the Vainika.
The "Deva Deva" gave senior vocalist Kumaraswamy of "Gudibande Brothers" fame, a steady start. Sudda Dhanyasi was brief, but proof of his expertise and "Yadava Nee Ba" was also pleasing. B Raghuram and B Dhruvaraj supported on violin and mridanga.
Krishnashtami celebrations
Krishna Janmasthami was celebrated in many temples and organisations in the city. One such venue Sri Venugopala Krishnaswamy Temple, Malleswaram conducted vocal, veena, mandolin and dance recitals in the 14-day festival apart from religious programmes.
L V Mukund, who hails from the Belakavadi family and a disciple of Dr N Ramani, gave a fine flute recital, and was accompanied by J K Sridhar on violin, V S Rajagopal on mridanga and A S N Swamy on Khanjari.
Though he presented a number of compositions, he chose a well known keertana of Saint Tyagaraja for a detailed airing. While presenting the composition "Inta Soukhyamani" in the raga Kaapi, the nerval and the swara prasthara brought out the ragabhava in greater detail. In this kruthi Tyagaraja says "can I adequately describe the profound bliss the chanting of Rama Naama gives me? Who can quantify and qualify that bliss?" Earlier Mukund also presented Durmargachara and Manavyala and concluded with Thamburi Meetidava. Mukund's flute was melodious and lively, throughout.