Saturday, December 29, 2007

Concert for Valayapatti Nadhalaya Trust - 29th December 2007


This is first oppurtunity for Sathya to perform in this forum and it was indeed a good oppurtunity as he had new set of audience apart from the regular rasikas. He also teamed up with Arunachala Karthick on violin - after a long time, Kumbakonam Swaminathan on Mrudhangam and HariharaSharma on the Kanjeera.

Sathya started the concert with Navaragamalika varnam and the violin volume for this for pretty low. From the second krithi - Gum Ganapathim it was all set and Arunachal Karthick was impressive, as he used to be always, during his round of alapanas and kalpanaswras. Swaminathan was very alert and followed Sathya's patterns along with HariharaSharma who was his usual good today. Sri Malarvannan suggested Sathya to also take up Violin as he felt there was shortage of good violin artists in the making. Well we will have to wait and see and the time only will have to answer this!

The details of the krithis performed are as follows:

01. Varnam - Navaragamalika - Adhi
02. Gumganapathim - Hamsadwani - Adhi [Thisra Nadai]
03. Devadeva - Mayamalavagowla - Rupakam
04. Nadhathanumanusam - Chitharanjani - Adi
05. Kanathandni - Kathanakudhugalam - Adi
06. Saravanabhava - Shanmugapriya - Adi
07. Vanathumedhu - Vallalar Pasuram
08. Pramamudhitha - Bhajan