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74th SREE RAMAVNAVAMI CELEBRATIONS Fort High School Ground 1st April 2012 to 06th May 2012 Note : all concerts are ticketed. Tichet Rates and availability is not know to me. Will update as soon as I have some details. 01.Apr   Sun  6:00pm  Inauguration 6:45pm   Kadri Gopalnath( Saxaphone) / Kanyakumari / B Harikumar/ Rajendra Nakod / B Rajasekhar 02.Apr   mon 5:15pm    Arjun Srivatsan& R Narayanan(keyboard) & Party 6:30pm   M S Sheela/Dr Jyothsna Srikanth/ S Ashok / Sukanya Ramgopal 03 Apr Tue 5:15 pm   Abhishek N S & Party 6:30pm  Hyderabad Brothers/ Delhi sundararajan / Trivandrum Balaji / B N Chandramouli 04 Apr Wed 6:30 pm  K J Yesudas/ Mahadeva Sarma/ Tiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam/ Tripunithura Radhakrishnan 05 Apr Thu 5:15 pm   H S Bhavya (Veena) & Party 6:30 pm  Sudha Raghunathan & Party 06 Apr Fri 5:15 pm  Vandana B...

I saw this mail on the sangeetha priya forum : "Dear rasikas, I have uploaded the concert of Sri TNS held yesterday at Sree Ramaseva Mandali, Bangalore. Date: May 7th 2008 Vocal - T N Seshagopalan Violin - H K Venkataram Mridangam - Guruvayur Dorai Ghatam - M A Krishnamurthy 01 ata tala varnam - kalyAni 02 bhuvinidAsuDanE - srIranjani 03 muddumOmu - sUryakAntam - 04 endukku dayarAdurA - thODi 05 slOkam - rAgamAlikA and shObhane - pantuvarALi 06 nagumOmu galavAni - madhyamAvathi 07 virutham and rAma manthrava - jOnpuri 08 vadana sukhaja - mAnd 09 mangaLam Location: http://sangeethamshare.org /krishna/TNS-Ramaseva-Mandali/" Adding my reply to this mail: Download this concert at your own risk or if if you want to have a hearty laugh.TNS was in worst form and we were forced to walk out of the venue in less than an hour (as did many others in the audience.) I might sound sarcastic but I guess he was trying to set a Guiness Record for maximum times somebody goes off key in a live p...

This year's RamaNavami festival at Fort High School commenced with a recital by KJY. Dr KJ Yesudas - Vocal Mahadeva Sarma - Violin Tiruvarur Bakthavatsalam - Mridangam Radha Krishnan - Ghatam 1. Valachi vacchi - Navaraga malika Varnam 2. Vatapi ganapathim - Hamsadhwani - MD - Aadi (Neraval and Swarams @ pranava swarupa) - nowhere close to his old recording where he has sung Vathapi for an hour and one doesn't get bored for a single minute. 3. Guruvina gulama - Hamsanandi - Purandara Dasa - Adi - This was preceded by a big lecture on Guru Bhakti. 4. Entaveduko - Saraswathi Manohari - St. Thyagaraja - Adi 5.Enanittu mecchisuveno - Dharmati - PD - Aadi (A, S @ Enaniku mechisuveno) 6. Balakanaka - Atana - St. Thyagaraja - Adi 7. Ennalu urake - Subhapantuvarali - St. Thyagaraja - Adi. Very boring and lack lusture interpretation of this pensive ragam in contrast to a vintage MS recording from AIR where she has rendered this kriti beautifully. 8. Sriramam Ravikula - Narayana Gowla -...

Vijay Siva - Vocal Vidushi Charulatha Ramanujam-Violin Vid Neyveli Narayanan - Mridangam Vid Amrit - Kanjira 17 Apr 2008, Rama Seva Mandali, Fort High school, Bangalore Song list 1. Chalamela - Darbar Varnam - Adi - Tiruvotriyur thyagayya 2. Sugunamule - Chakravakam - Roopakam - St. Thyagaraja Neraval @ shrI nAyaka kSimiyincumu and Swarams @ Sundara raghurama (part of pallavi line!) 3. Venkata saila vihara - Hamir Kalyani - Adi - Subbaraya Sastri (Ragam, swara @ pallavi line) Reminded me of his guru DKJ's rendition of the same. 4. Iko Namma swami - Manirangu - Aadi - Purandara Dasa (had listened to DKPattamal's rendition of this song on Amritavarshini, Bangalore's FM Channel for Classical music a couple of days before.) Vijay Shiva stuck to the DKJ/ DKP school's style of rendition. 5. Dakshinamurthe - Shankarabharanam - Misra Jhampa- Muthuswamy Dikshithar(Ragam, Neraval & Swaram at "akshaya suvarNa vaDa vruksha moola sthi- tE") followed by a good tan...

Vocal : Jayashri Ramnath Violin : Embar Kannan Mridangam : Poongulam Subrahmanyam Ghatam : S. Karthik Venue : Ramanavami celebrations, Sree Rama Seva Mandali, Chamarajpet, Bangalore. 26-04-2008. 1. Deva deva Jagadeeshwara – Poorvikalyani – Adi -Swati Tirunal 2. Raghuveera ranadheera – Huseni – Rupakam – St. Thyagaraja 3. Nannu vidachi – Reetigowla – Mishrachapu – St. Thyagaraja. Soulful rendition of Ritigowlai. 4. Teliyaleru raama – Dhenuka – Adi – Thyagaraja [N, S at ‘Vegalechi neetimunigi bhooti poosi’. ] Racy rendition packed with swarams in a fashion similar to Semmangudi. 5. Shankaraachaaryam – Shankarabharanam – Adi – Subbarama Dikshitar [R,N,S,T] Didn't like her Alapana much as she strayed into Kalyani mutiple times but the kriti was rendered well. 6. Smarane Onde saalade – Malayamaruta – Adi – Purandara Dasa 7. RTP – Brindavani Saranga - left the venue after listening to the Alapana for a while as it was pretty late by then. Good concert but I liked her...

Sunday Morning , 13th April, 2008 - Vocal - Smt Parassala Ponnammal Violin - Dr Jyotsna Srikanth Mridangam - Sri Ravishankar Sharma Ghatam - Sri Dayananda Mohite My first impression on seeing Smt. Parassala Ponnammal was of a grandma with a sweet smiling face. She is one of Semmagudi SrinivasIyer's senior disciples and blessed with a rich, deep and sweet voice which belies her age. (She is almost 85) I am of the opinion that vocalists like T.N.Sheshagopalan, whose was the most dismal perfomance at the RamaNavami festival this year(more on that later), ought to listen to veterans like her to know what Shruti Sudhdham is all about. My grandma was an avid fan of her music and used to listen to her performances on AIR regularly. There were hardly 10-15 people in the audience and I was saddened at the like warm support provided by Bangalore audiences to such a senior artiste. It was their loss anyways as they missed one of the best concerts at the Ramavanami festival. 01 Varnam - ...