Thursday, October 18, 2007

17 Oct ' 07- A concert that gave Sathya the title "VidwanMani"





It was a feeling of having to perform another good concert which turned out to be a title awarding concert. Thanks to the team of M Rajeev - Violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan - Mrudhangam, Hariharasharma - Kanjeera and Chandrasekara Sharma - Ghatam who along with Sathya presented a wonderful concert.

This concert was performed on the 17th Oct'07 for the 14th Year Navarathri festival conducted by Guruji SrilaSri Kamatchi Swamigal for Sri Kamakshi Kaingarya Trust & Sri Swarna Kameswari Seva Sangam - Nanganallur. Guruji was present throughout the concert and blessed the artists after the main krithi 'Devi Neeyethunai' on keeravani. Impressed by the performance of Sathya Guruji also decided to confer the title "VidwanMani" for his talents and it was indeed a pleasant shock for all of us. While getting titles itself is a great achievement, getting it during a performance for the first time in the forum is indeed a greater blessing. Guruji praised each and every artist highlighting all the positive points.

Starting with Kanada Ata Thala Varnam (being first attempt Sathya performed only one kalam) Sathya perform following krithis and impressed one and all. Rajeev was brilliant as usual and showed his class both in raga alapanas and kalpanaswarams. The percussion team indeed was remarkable through out the concert and excelled very much in the short but sweat thani. While every krithi was appreciated Keeravani & bhajans namely Chandrasekara and Kamatkshi (a Maestro Illayaraja's composition) received special applause from the audience.

Krithis performed:

01 Varnam - Kaanada - Ata thalam
02 Vathapi Ganapathim - Hamsadwani - Adi (R, N & S)
03 Budhamsra - Natakurinji - Misra Jampa thalam
04 Thayethipurasundari - SuddhaSaveri - Kandachapu (R)
05 Jagajanani - Rathipathipriya - Adi
06 Pakalaneelapadi - Karaharapriya - Misrachappu
07 Devineeye Thunai - Keeravani - Adi (R & S with Thani)
08 Srichankradhara - Ragamalika - Adi
09 Chandrasekara - Bhajan
10 Kamakshi - Bhajan - Maestro (Illayaraja's composition)
11 Karpagame - Madhyamavathi - Adi
12 Mangalam

R - Ragam, N - Niraval & S - Kalpanaswaram

Here is the audio link of the award presentation & few tracks of the concert