June 05, 2012 concert at Maha Periyava's Padhugai Temple

A concert Sathya would probably remember for ever! Yes Sathya loves to perform here and this has become a concert he will never forget!

 

Sathya attempts to present newly learnt krithis here and this day happened to be a different order! Sathya started the concert with Varanamukava in Hamsadwani and as started the raga alapana for Manasa Sriramunidhaya, originaly in Mararanjani ragam. As he travelled through the raga he touched on the swara Ga 1 instead of Ga 2, Gandharam of Jangaradhwani instead of Mararanjani. Karaikal Venkatasubramanian also followed Sathya and completed the alapana in the same way during his turn. 

When Sathya started the krithi, Venkat realized this and was trying to tell Sathya but Sathya with confidence was playing the krithi with  Ga1 (Komala Gandharam or popularly known as Chinna Ga) prayogam instead of Ga 2 (Dheevra Gandharam or periya Ga)! After the song was performed Adyar D. Balasubramnai, a Nadaswara Vidwan and our faculty in KBS Inculcation, praised Sathya presenting Jangaradhwani ragam and on ly then Sathya realized the mistake committed! 

Purely with the blessings of Maha Periyava he had at the least struck to a frame work of scale and it also happened to be scale of this Melakartha Ragam.  He also attempted to perform krithis in Rishabapriya - MhimatakkincikO, Pesum Deivam Murugan in Nagavalli and Subbraya Sastri's  Sri Kamakshi in Vasantha for the first time and all these did not have any issues! This  was actually the combination we tried when we performed here first and we would sincerely call it a Miracle and thank Periyava for the great blessings as this will be in our minds for ever! 

Special mention on Kumbakonam Swaminathan's Thani Avarthanam which was excellent and we are happy to share on this day June 15, 2012 that he is now Grade A artiste of AIR! Congrats! 

"Hara hara Sankara Jaya jaya Sankara"

The song list presented is as follows:

01. Varanamukava - Hamsadwani - Rupakam - Koteeswara Iyer (S)
02. Manasa Sriramunidhya - Jangaradhwani - Adi - Tyagaraja (R)
03. Sambo Mahadeva - Panthuvarali - Rupakam - Tyagaraja (OR)
04. Mahimatakkinciko - Rishabapriya - Adi - Tyagaraja (R)
05. Pesum Deivam Murugan - Nagavalli - Rupakam - Suradanandar (OR, S)
06. Sri Kamakshi - Vasantha - Adi - Subbraya Sastri (R,S, T)
07. Vanamali Radha Ramana - Bhajan
08. Innudhaya Bharathe - Kalayana Vasantham - Kandachappu - Purandaradasa
09. Chandrasekara - Sindhubhairavi - Ekam - Anai Vaidhyanadha Iyer

Note: R- Raga Alapana OR - Outline of ragam S- Kalpanaswaram, T - Thani avarthanam