Monday, May 18, 2009

Concert for CMA, Charlotte - May 17, 2009



It was a great ambiance which helped the team of Sathya, EmbarKannan & PoongulamSubramanian to present a pleasant concert for the well attended concert for Classical Music Association of Charlotte on the May 17th, 2009. Starting off with a Natakurinji Varnam it was great going all the way. The team was satisfied to the greatest extent as for the monitors and the PA out and enjoyed their performance thoroughly. Reethigowla & Poorvikalyani was excellent and so was the KamalaManohari & KaapiNarayani krtihis. The thani was excellent as always with Poongulam Subramanian at his best.

RTP on Chandrakowns was a crown for the concert. Embar Kannan's idea of presenting a Raagamalika swaram dealing four ragas namely Sallabam, Varamu, SunadhaVinodhini & Hindolam with basic notes of SA, GA, MA, Dha, and Ni with variation in individual notes, which was indeed superb. Both Varamu and Sunadhavinodhini were new for Sathya and after his turn Embar Kannan appreciated Sathya on the stage for doing a great presentation just being taken up for the first time. Embar Kannan appreciated Sathya for the smooth presentation of rendering all the four with Chandrakowns on the reverse with ease and it is indeed a great milestone for Sathya.

The team invloved the crowd while presenting the krithis Brahmamokate, Katrinile varumgeetham and BaghyadhaLakshmi Baramma where in the audience started singing and clapping to the rhythm throughout the krithis. a great attentive & knowledgeable audience, an ambiance and with Ms Pam on audio support, the concert was a real success in all perspectives. The krithis rendered were as follows:

01. Varnam - Natakurinji - Adi
02. Gajavadhanaveduve - Hamsadwani - Adi (S)
03. Kanjadhalayajakshi - KamalaManohari - Adi
04. Paripalayamam - Reethigowla - Rupakam (R & S)
05. Sarasasamadhana - KaapiNarayani - Adi
06. MeenakshiMemudham - Poorvikalyani - Adi (R, N, S & T)
07. RTP - Chandrakowns - KandajathiThriputa (R,Thanam, N & KS) with pallavi lines
(Shanmugane Murugane Guhane Ninai Karunai Mazhai pohiyum Pazhani)
08. Brahmamokate - Bowli - Adi Tisranadai
09. Katrinile Varum Geetham - A rasikas - MS amma favourate.
10. Baghyadhalakshmi Baramma - Madhyamavathi - Adi
(R- aalapana, S- Kalpanaswaram, N- Niraval, T - Thaniavarthanam, RS ragamalikaswaram)

2 comments:

Rasika said...

Good Job Satya. Looking forward to hearing you in Chicago. The hall will be jampacked for this annual event and you will have a lot of little fans surrounding you after the event. Keep up the good work and God bless you. Someone wrote about oscar award, yes, you will make it there one day. I am sure!!
Bless you

KeyboardSathya said...

thanks so much and looking forward to, with the blessings of Almighty, presenting a good concert as a team.