Friday, March 11, 2011

January 22, 2011 Concert at Kakinada

This was indeed one of the special concerts with local state artists in AP after a long time with M. Sathyanarayanansarma on Violin, Mandapakkam Ravi on Mrudangama and Hanumantha Rao on Ghatam



The concert went very well with large audience presence and appreciation coming to the team in a big way. Here is a clipping probably for the first time taken in the side view as the camera was positioned on the stage! Sathya presented a mix of different composers and the ragas & krithis selected along with the way presented by him was very much appreciated by the enhancement artists. The greatness of the Mrudhangam vidwan was that he also informed many of is friends, dear & near to see the link in youtube! 

The interesting thing in this concert was that as we reached Kakinada  and was met by a volunteer of teh sabha, he asked Sathya to perform Sriranjani as main and also wanted a krithi in Sivaranjani. To our surprise we could not recollect any krtihi Sathya was familiar with and an idea came to me! I asked Sathya if he could play the bhajan Krishna Bajo Krishna Bajo set to a different raga in Sivaranjani and he immediately accepted it as a good idea and executed it on stage with no real hesitation! The person who asked for it was thrilled on hearing this bhajan and praised him so much! The secret of winning the heart of rasikas is very important and  will help artists like Sathya a long way!!
The list of krithis rendered are as follows:

01. Varnam - Valaji - Adi- Lalgudi Jayaraman
02. Raghunayaka - Hamsadwani - Adi- Tyagaraja (S)
03. Ramachandram Bhavayami - Vasantha - Rupakam-Dikshidar(R)
04. Karunajudu - Sri - Adi - Shyama
05. Marivere-Lathangi-Kandachapu-Patnam Subramanya Iyer(S)
06. Brahmakatigina - Mukari - Adi - Annamaya
07. Kavave Kanyakumari - Sahana - Misrachapu - Dr. BMK
      (audience choice of Raga) (R)
08. Marubalka - Sriranjani - Adi - Tyagaraja (R, S, TH)
09. BajareGopalam - Hindolam - Adi - SadhasivaBrahmendrar
10. Ramachandra ra ra-Shankarabaranam-Tisranadai-Annamaya
11. Bhajan - Sivaranjani - Ekam
12. Thillana - Madhuvanthi - Adi - Lalgudi
R - Raga Aalapana, S- Kalpanaswaram, TH- Thaniavarthanam

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