23rd Dec’05 for Mylapore Fine Arts Club at Mylapore.

Sathya has gone from strength to strength in terms of crowd pulling and it was seen here at the Mylapore Fine arts with a good amount of audience turning up for his concert at 130 pm. Sathya did give them a treat with Mallari on Gambeera naatai set to Kandajathi Thiruputa thalam. It was nice tosee that Kumbakonam Swaminathan – mrudhagist, strted off with konnakol for the madyma kalam and then continued playing mrudhangam for the rest of the keezh kalam, thisra and mel kalam. Ananthakrishnan’s violin was really enchancing the piece with bass notes and parts played along.

Sri Mahaganapathim of Gowla had a sketch of the raga alapana and the keerthana was performed in the vistharam manner and the kalpana swarams with the required flavour for the raga. The star of the day was the alapana of Rasikapriya ragam and the keerthana “Arul seiya vendum aiya” followed with kalpanaswaram. While it is difficult for any one to deal this raga as a small deviation would also lead it to another raga, Sathya not only passed this acid test but also excelled. Anathakrishnan did a good job of playing second to ensure the keyboard’s flavour was more here.

Oothakukadu venkatakavi’s keerawani sapatharathna keerthana was perofmed with great care nd the influence of Sri Ravikiran seen in this presentation by Sathya. This was followed by Alaipayudhey – on audience choice.

The main krithi Mathurambike on Hemavathya was a master piece and the raga, swara expansions showed the great gnanam Sathya pocess and the crowd was left spell bound at the end. Sathya dedicated the song Enna thavam seidhanai – Kaapi, for his paternal grand mother as his birthday gift.

The strength of Sathya is being bold and a pleasing presentation on stage and this was evident when there was little power problem due to fluctuation and he handled it very professionally. His sense of timing was great and the only disappointment to Sathya that day was that he could not entertain a child request to play Chinanchiru kiliye, due to paucity of time.

Looking forward to Sathya’s fusion presentation on the 25th Dec’05 for Brahma Gana Sabha.

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