AndyMusicBlog-thodi

Conferring of Awards by Percussive Arts Centre (founded by Sangeetha Kalarathna Bangalore K. Venkatram) , Organizers of the 5 Day music festival. 1.) Palani Subramanya Pillai Memorial Centenary Award to Smt. D.K.PattamAl 2.) Palghat Maini Iyer Memorial Award to mridangam maestro Sri Madurai T.Srinivasan 3.) Bangalore K. Venkataram Memorial Award to Dr. R. Sathyanarayana 4.) H. Puttachar Memorial Award to Sri N. Vasudev 5.) PAC - CMANA Endowment Prize to Sri B.S. ArunKumar (Courtesy: Carnatic Music Association of North America) This was followed by laya VinyAsa a TAla VAdya Kucheri by Vrushti (Percussion Ensemble Of Percussive Arts Centre) directed by Anoor Anathakrishna Sharma, B.Krishna (mridangam - shadja), G.Guruprasanna (khanjira), B.S.Arun Kumar (drums), Anoor Anathakrishna Sharma (dolu /thavil), Udayraj Karpur (tabla), B.C.Manjunath (konakkol & mridangam - panchama) with M.K.Pranesh (flute) The composition was a raga malika in Kalyani, ShankarAbharanam and Shanmukhap...

Vijay Siva - vocal Charulatha Ramanujam - Violin Arjun Kumar - Mridangam Guru Prasanna - Kanjiri B.S.Arun Kumar - Morsing This concert was part of the 5 day festival organized by Percussive Arts Center Foundation. We reached the venue a bit late and came to know from a mAmi sitting beside us that we had missed the first couple of songs which were : 1. nAda tanumanisham - Chittaranjani - Adi - Saint ThyAgarAja 2. innum parAmukham eno - begadA 3. karuna judavamma in Ragam PantuvarAli (Adi 2 kalai ) by Shyama Shastri was in progress as we entered the Venue. He sang Neraval & swarams @ marakatAngi panchanadisu rani. 4. Vijay Siva sang a nice Alapanai in Yadukula Kamboji. Since it was a Saturday, I assumed he would sing Dikshithar Navagraha Kriti. He did just that. After a befitting reply to his AlApanai by Charulatha, he sang "niLAnjana-samAbhAsam ravi-putram yamAgrajam chAya-mArtaAnda-sambhutam tam namAmi shanaishcharam" a Shloka dedicated to Lord Shani from the Navagraha...