After the great Chennai Sangamam experience Sathya traveled to Hyderabad for a concert for Hyderabad Mahanagar Tamil Sangam held on the 13th Jan'08. Understand this forum conducts major shows and it was indeed a fully packed auditorium which was a great sight. Sathya started the celebrations of the forum as it had conducted many competitions, with breaking of coconut. [lighting of kuthuvillaku probably is reserved here for female artists!]He also gave away prizes to all the children who ahd won the competitions.
Sathya requested to play popular krithis and not necessarily to be in Tamizh. Sathya with the team of B. Ananthakrishnan on the violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam and Valaingaiman Hahrihara Subramaniam on Ghatam presented a concert to the liking of the audience and that was revealed by the fact that the crowd remained almost intact till the end.
The team was appreciated for the presentation of a number from "Remember Sakthi" on ragam Vakulabaranam for which Sathya exhibited his prowess on the speed control in the instrument and was supported to the best by the rhythm team. Ananthakrishnan gave great boost in terms of playing more of chords than the melody which was a good idea.
As per request of the audience Sathya took a film song "Ammaendrazhiakatha" from the film Mannan, based on Kalyani ragam and performed kalpanaswaram apart from playing a medley of old film songs. It was the jugalbandhi performance with Samajavargamana on Hindolam for which Malkowns was taken as the Hindustani raga and for this thani was also performed by the percussion team. Sathya and Ananthakrishnan switched over from Carnatic to Hindustani and the percussion team showed great anticipation and changed over to different styles to enhance the melody team and the team got special applause for this venture. Ananthakrishnan sang the pallavi of the Malkowns number for which Sathya was playing in the Harmonium mode, just to highlight the different genre of music being presented. Performing a Sai bhajan the team completed the concert with the hope to have given the audience their due. The list of songs performed are as follows:
01. Vaathapi - Hamsadwani - Adi [S]
02. Sobillu - Jayanthasri - Rupakam
03. Thayethripurasundari - Suddha Saveri - Kanda chappu [R]
04. Ammaendrazhaikadha [R & S]
05. Krishnanee begane - Yamuna Kalyani - Misra Chappu [Audience choice]
06. Medley based on old film songs
07. A piece based on Vakulabaranam
08. Jugalbandhi on Hindolam & Malkowns [R & S]
09. Sankarabaranam notes
10. Raghuvamsa Sudha
11. Ennathavam - Kaapi - Adhi
12. Sai bhajan
