Concert of high standard
Ananya conducted the Annual Music Festival with vocal, flute and veena recitals.
Neela Ramgopal, Dr Sreekantham Nagendra Sastry, Manasi Prasad, Madhu Kashyap, Mathur Srinidhi and Ranjani Venkatesh - received the Ananya awards.
Neela Ramgopal, who presented the inaugural concert of the festival on Wednesday, is a veteran vocalist and an able teacher. She is the recipient of "Sangeetha Kalarathna" (Bangalore Gayana Samaja) and "Sangeetha Kala Acharya" (Music Academy) titles and many young performers of today are her disciples.
Royal composer Maharaja Swati Tirunal (813-1846) is considered as one of the prolific composer of Karnatic music and he has composed a variety of compositions like navaratnamalika, navarathri kritis, ghana raga, padmanabha krithies, on kshetras, swarajathi, varna sringara pada, mani pravala, pada, javali, thillana, etc. They are in both well known and less known ragas, apart from ragamalika and different languages. Vidushi Neela Ramagopal, in the current concert, chose a number of compositions from the treasure chest of Swati Tirunal and presented in a lively form.
The opening "Suma Sayaka" was in itself a revelation of her good repertoire and hard practice. "Palaya Sada Mamava," was rendered with brief swara. Bhavapriya, which is not a very familiar raga, is the 44th mela and a full fledged heptatonic scale and the raga became popular through the composition "Srikanta Niyeda" of Tyagaraja. Neela Ramgopal revelled in the alap of Bhavapriya and more so in the expansive presentation of "Mamavasrita Nirjara" of Swathi Tirunal.
The Kuntalavarali raga for the composition "Bhogindra Shayinam" was brief but full of ragabhava. Nilambari was rendered with lilting melody followed by "Anandavalli Kuru Mudama." She crowned the concert with the majestic raga Bhairavi, followed by "Janani Mamava." In this composition, the composer prays - "Oh mother! The spouse of Brahma, kindly protect me, you are infinite." It was a highly matured concert and an aesthetic experience and was heard with more respect, than excitement. Charulatha Ramanujam on violin, B C Manjunath on mridanga and Sukanya Ramgopal on ghata, fulfilled the needs of the occasion.
A touch of class
O S Tyagarajan, senior vocalist, sang at Sree Seshadripuram Ramaseva Samithi, in the concluding week of the Sri Ramanavami Music Festival.
Vittala Ramamurthy on violin, Alathur Raja Ganesh on mridanga and Srishyla on ghata - supported well. O S T sang "Teliyalaru Rama" with a good feeling and "Narada Gana Lola" attracted with good ragabhava.
"Hecharikaga Rara" is one of the popular and evocative composition of Saint Tyagaraja. He sang this composition highlighting the ragabhava (Yadukula Kambodhi). For a welcome change he also presented two infrequent keertanas of Saint Tyagaraja - Palintuvo (Kanthamani) and Lekaya Ninnu (Asaveri). But it was in the unfolding of Kaapi that O S T came into his own, displaying his caliber and the krithi "Intha Soukhyamani" with lively swara. There was a touch of class in everything Tyagarajan sang.
Ananya conducted the Annual Music Festival with vocal, flute and veena recitals.
Neela Ramgopal, Dr Sreekantham Nagendra Sastry, Manasi Prasad, Madhu Kashyap, Mathur Srinidhi and Ranjani Venkatesh - received the Ananya awards.
Neela Ramgopal, who presented the inaugural concert of the festival on Wednesday, is a veteran vocalist and an able teacher. She is the recipient of "Sangeetha Kalarathna" (Bangalore Gayana Samaja) and "Sangeetha Kala Acharya" (Music Academy) titles and many young performers of today are her disciples.
Royal composer Maharaja Swati Tirunal (813-1846) is considered as one of the prolific composer of Karnatic music and he has composed a variety of compositions like navaratnamalika, navarathri kritis, ghana raga, padmanabha krithies, on kshetras, swarajathi, varna sringara pada, mani pravala, pada, javali, thillana, etc. They are in both well known and less known ragas, apart from ragamalika and different languages. Vidushi Neela Ramagopal, in the current concert, chose a number of compositions from the treasure chest of Swati Tirunal and presented in a lively form.
The opening "Suma Sayaka" was in itself a revelation of her good repertoire and hard practice. "Palaya Sada Mamava," was rendered with brief swara. Bhavapriya, which is not a very familiar raga, is the 44th mela and a full fledged heptatonic scale and the raga became popular through the composition "Srikanta Niyeda" of Tyagaraja. Neela Ramgopal revelled in the alap of Bhavapriya and more so in the expansive presentation of "Mamavasrita Nirjara" of Swathi Tirunal.
The Kuntalavarali raga for the composition "Bhogindra Shayinam" was brief but full of ragabhava. Nilambari was rendered with lilting melody followed by "Anandavalli Kuru Mudama." She crowned the concert with the majestic raga Bhairavi, followed by "Janani Mamava." In this composition, the composer prays - "Oh mother! The spouse of Brahma, kindly protect me, you are infinite." It was a highly matured concert and an aesthetic experience and was heard with more respect, than excitement. Charulatha Ramanujam on violin, B C Manjunath on mridanga and Sukanya Ramgopal on ghata, fulfilled the needs of the occasion.
A touch of class
O S Tyagarajan, senior vocalist, sang at Sree Seshadripuram Ramaseva Samithi, in the concluding week of the Sri Ramanavami Music Festival.
Vittala Ramamurthy on violin, Alathur Raja Ganesh on mridanga and Srishyla on ghata - supported well. O S T sang "Teliyalaru Rama" with a good feeling and "Narada Gana Lola" attracted with good ragabhava.
"Hecharikaga Rara" is one of the popular and evocative composition of Saint Tyagaraja. He sang this composition highlighting the ragabhava (Yadukula Kambodhi). For a welcome change he also presented two infrequent keertanas of Saint Tyagaraja - Palintuvo (Kanthamani) and Lekaya Ninnu (Asaveri). But it was in the unfolding of Kaapi that O S T came into his own, displaying his caliber and the krithi "Intha Soukhyamani" with lively swara. There was a touch of class in everything Tyagarajan sang.