Sanjay Subrahmanyan at Music Academy in Dec 2019

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hnbhagavan
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Sanjay Subrahmanyan at Music Academy in Dec 2019

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Here is a posting by Sanjay Sir in the FB which i am reproducing:

I came across the Ragehsri tillana composed by Lalgudi Jayaraman for the first time in a recording of Nedunuri Krishnamurthy's concert. He had sung it beautifully and I totally fell in love with it. I immediately sat down and learnt the composition. Around late 1990 I even sang it in a radio concert. I heard later from a Lalgudi student that he (Lalgudi Jayaraman) had heard/heard about this and enquired as to where I had picked this up! I also learnt that the tillana was specially composed having Nedunuri Krishnamurthy in mind. Of the many stories floating around those days, the Khamas tillana of Lalgudi Jayaraman was apparently composed keeping ML Vasantakumari in mind. I had sung the Rageshri tillana a few times in the early nineties and kind of gave it up. No particular reason, these things just happen! Anyway last year at the Music Academy I decided to revisit this tillana and sang it. This recording is from that Academy concert in Dec 2019. There is a small moment when I begin the tillana because the of the ‘priceless’ expression given by violinist Varadarajan. It was a shock for him as he had never heard me sing a Lalgudi tillana! Rageshri is a beautiful ragam and this composition brings out the essence of it quite wonderfully.

https://youtu.be/IWQAN5RIW-c

Ranganayaki
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Re: Sanjay Subrahmanyan at Music Academy in Dec 2019

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Would have loved to see that “priceless” expression that produced Sanjay’s reaction of being so amused!

I wish he had said more in his post about his experience with the tillana than just his history of singing it. All he says is that it’s a beautiful raga and Lalgudi does it justice. It’s almost shocking in the paucity of information there. It’s true of every raga LGJ worked with and of every one of his compositions.

sureshvv
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Re: Sanjay Subrahmanyan at Music Academy in Dec 2019

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Ranganayaki wrote: 15 Jul 2020, 19:06 Would have loved to see that “priceless” expression that produced Sanjay’s reaction of being so amused!
Having seen Varadu on stage many times, I suspect that it would take a Sanjay to notice the reaction :D

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