Tuesday, October 23, 2007

A dream come true concert at Koothannoor Sarawathi Temple - 21st Oct'07





It was just a dream come true concert for Sathya as we never thought this will happen so soon! Thanks to Sri Jayaram of Koothanoor who had confirmed this concert way back in April'07 during a wedding reception concert, then we just thought it as another positive sign.

Playing infornt of Goddess Sarawathi - Veena Vahini - that too on the Vijayadhasami Day (630 - 845pm) was indeed a greatest blessing for Sathya and should be one of the best positive signs as it is a kind of blessing / recognition the instrument has got from the Goddess herself.

It was for the first time Sathya performed an elaborate raga alapana on ragam Saraswathi, a ragamalika alapana on ragam Aberi, Kalyani & Shanmugapriya for Nagumomu as requested by the audience followed by kalpanaswaras in ragamalika during the kurapu and aruthi. The team of Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Ravishankar - Mrudhangam and Sowrirajan - Kanjeera & Morsing appreciated Sathya for this great presentation and the audience were spell bound. The nadaswaram and Thavil vidwans of the temple were all praise for the effort of Sathya and appreciated the team's concert.

While Ananthakrishnan was his usual best through out the concert both Ravi shankar and Sowrirajan were performing together as if they were doing it on a every day basis with great understanding. The thani was very much appreciated.

The details of the songs performed are:

01. Vathapi Ganapathim - Hamsadwani - Adi (R, N & S)
02. Suryamoorthey - Sourastram - Druva Thalam
03. Saraswathy Namosthuthe - Saraswathi - Rupakam (R & S)
04. Kamakshi - Bhajan - Adi
05. Sadhimchane - Arabi - Adi (Audience request)
06. Janani - Bhairavi - M'chappu (R)
07. Bhuvaneswariye - Mohanakalyani - Adi
08. Jagajanani - Rathipathipriya - Adi
09. Nagumomu - Aberi - Adi (Ragamalika & S - audience choice)
10. Chandrasekara - Bhajan
11. Kurai onrum illai - Ragamalika - Adi
12. Thillana - Desh - Adi
Link for hearing the tracks recorded live http://tinyurl.com/2382cm