Concerts in Mumbai

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 11 Mar 2009, 13:16

Prshant wrote:
4. mAm ava satatam raghunAtham - jaganmOhini - adi [2] [R, N at 'shrImad InAnvaya sAgara CandrA', S, T]
It should be 'raghunAtha' and not 'raghunAtham'.

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 12 Mar 2009, 07:36

Sorry, that's a typo on my side - thanks for spotting it, Punarvasu! For the record, I did sing it as 'raghunAtha'

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 12 Mar 2009, 11:37

Prashant, I knew it was a typo; you, being very particular about sahityam, will not make such a mistake.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 12 Mar 2009, 20:47

Thank heavens for those who are particular about sAhityam. Hope there are more Prashants out there and in the making too...

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 15 Mar 2009, 15:56

Here's the list of items our team presented this morning over 2 hours & 15 minutes, at Mulund Fine Arts, Mumbai. Thanks to our members rajeevsid, jeyaar and Niranjan Damle for attending.

Sri Shivkumar Anantharaman - Vioin / Sri Rajesh Sreenivasan - Mrudangam / Sri N. Y. Ishwar - Khanjira / Smt. Lalita Ramachandran - Tambura

1. viruttam - 'pAlum teLittEnum' - hamsadhvani - avvayyAr

2. nAda sudhArasambilanu - Arabhi - rUpaka - tyAgarAjA [S at pallavi]

3. nImadi tsallaga - Anandabhairavi - adi - kavi mAtrubhUtayyA [N at 'talli taNDri guru daivamu nIvani']

4. innum parAmukham EnO - bEgaDA - rUpaka - duraisvAmi kavi [R, N at 'vanna tOgai mayil mEl varum vayyApuri vEl murugayyA', S]

5. paralOka bhayamulEka - mandAri - adi - tyAgarAja

6. mAyUra nAtham anisham - dhanyAsi - misra CApu - dikshitar [R]

7. kumaran tAL paNindE tudi - yadukulakAmbhOji - adi - pApanAsam sivan

8. jayatu gOkula vAsA - kIravANi - adi [2] - purandara dAsA - [R, N at 'jayatu shri bhUlOlA bhakta jana paripAlA' S, T]

9. slOkam 'kOdaNDa dIkshA gurum aparamEyam' - aThANA, sAvEri, bilahari, kApi + rAma pAhi mEgha shyAma - kApi - misra CApu - tyAgarAjA

10. patiki hArati rE - suraTi - adi - tyAgarAjA + slOkams 'mangALam kOsalEndrAya' & 'svasti prajAbhya'

Niranjan Damle · Post by **Niranjan Damle** » 15 Mar 2009, 15:57

hi, i managed to attend today's concert of prashant. if i have to explain it in a word (though it's rather difficult)...... i can say it was 'CRISP'!! being a working day for me, after the concert i had to rush back to office without meeting other members who might have been present today.

i entered the concert when prashant was rendering 'nadasudha' in arabhi. the tempo for anandabhairavi composition was on the spot!! it was really appreciable of prashant having chosen purandara dasa's krithi as the main rendition. prashant, ur swara prasthara was marvellous and was truly innovative. though thani was a very scholarly exhibition of percussion ensemble, i personally thought there was slight acceleration. overall, a superb start to a sunday! kudos prashant...

rajeevsid · Post by **rajeevsid** » 15 Mar 2009, 18:40

Great concert Prashant. I especially liked the dhanyasi MD peice. Wonderfully rendered !!!

Overall I felt the concert was like a DK Pattamal concert, with nothing being overdone, everything being done grammatically right, and no liberties being taken in raga alapanas.. balanced and crisp..

Well done!!!

Niranjan Damle · Post by **Niranjan Damle** » 17 Mar 2009, 11:08

Hi all, I have got an opportunity to render a flute concert in the the month of June'09 at one of Mumbai's reknowned sabhas. Will inform all of you about the details in a few days. However, being new to the mumbai concert scernario, i need help on arranging accompaniments. To be specific, i am looking for artists playing violin, mrudanga and ghata. It'll be very nice if anyone can help me out with some contact numbers or emails.

Also, prashant, if you don't mind, can you please email me your contact number? would like to talk to you more on my upcoming concert. My email id is [email protected]

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 18 Mar 2009, 12:48

Congrats Niranjan. Looking forward to your concert. I have emailed you.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 18 Mar 2009, 17:22

Niranjan, Best Wishes to you and your team!!

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 20 Mar 2009, 23:03

Prashant, waiting for the upload!

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 23 Mar 2009, 10:21

Looking forward to your concert, Niranjan!!!

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 23 Mar 2009, 11:54

Niranjan all the best! Hope to make it...

Niranjan Damle · Post by **Niranjan Damle** » 24 Mar 2009, 12:50

Thank you all for the wishes! in fact being my first concert in mumbai, it'll be great if all of our mumbai members can make it to the concert.

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 24 Mar 2009, 21:08

Best of luck, Niranjan! If you could oblige with a recording afterwards it would be great.

Niranjan Damle · Post by **Niranjan Damle** » 25 Mar 2009, 13:03

hello bilahari, will be my pleasure to post a recording..... my parents would be in U.S at the time of the concert, so would be missing them. They've demanded a video of the concert........ so trying to get it done!

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 26 Mar 2009, 04:45

Video's even better, Niranjan!

Niranjan Damle · Post by **Niranjan Damle** » 30 Mar 2009, 18:30

Hey, i have a photo of Prashant's concert of 15th March to be posted. Any idea how to do it??

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 30 Mar 2009, 22:31

Niranjan: One way is to upload it to a site like http://www.tinypic.com/ and post the resulting link here. If you surround the link with IMG tags, it will show up inline.

vaidehi48 · Post by **vaidehi48** » 31 Mar 2009, 16:52

Shanmukhananda

Shri T.M.Krishna's Kutcheri at 6 p.m. on April 5th.

shankarabharanam · Post by **shankarabharanam** » 01 Apr 2009, 11:17

Vaidehi are you sure about this..Since I haven't received their schedule and its also not up in TM Krishna's site...Can someone pls confirm it...

anandabhairavi · Post by **anandabhairavi** » 01 Apr 2009, 15:09

yes it is.I received shanmukhanandas 1 year schedule.Which is really amazing and has to be aprreciated for listing programmes till march 2010.kudos!

most glaring names missing are Sudha Ragunathan ,arunasairam,Sheshagopalan and Vijay shiva.

Interesting to find young guy like Gurucharan gettin to open the festival in October with Sanjay subramaniam following him.

shankarabharanam · Post by **shankarabharanam** » 01 Apr 2009, 18:29

I guess Sudha, Aruna and Vijay haven't performed at SFAS for quite sometime..To my knowledge its been more than three years, which is surprising..Surprisingly TMK again..He came in Feb during the Guru-Shishya series..I guess they could have called some instrumentalist like KSG or may be E Gayatri on the veena...

anandabhairavi · Post by **anandabhairavi** » 02 Apr 2009, 08:53

Another name missing is Bombay Jayashree too!.
But good to see Sanjay ( oct) ,Sowmya (sept), ranjani gayatri (july) Priya sisters ( aug)
Nityashree (feb).

vaidehi48 · Post by **vaidehi48** » 02 Apr 2009, 16:00

It's very interesting to receive the entire one year programme in advance including their annual festival peogrammes .A very good planning indeed!

vaidehi48 · Post by **vaidehi48** » 02 Apr 2009, 16:02

Niranjan Damle also performing in Talent promotion.All the best to u.

Niranjan Damle · Post by **Niranjan Damle** » 03 Apr 2009, 16:10

thank you vaidehi.

here's the picasa link to the photo of prashant's concert at Mulund fine arts society on 15th March.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?u ... =SLIDESHOW

anandabhairavi · Post by **anandabhairavi** » 03 Apr 2009, 16:38

Sorry Ranjani Gayatri is in May and not July as I mentioned earlier.

rajeevsid · Post by **rajeevsid** » 07 Apr 2009, 08:13

hello,
Can someone who has the full schedule of Shanmukhananda for this year,please post it online. Will be useful for non-members like us.. thanks..

shankarabharanam · Post by **shankarabharanam** » 07 Apr 2009, 10:06

I guess it would be better to post it every month..Also scanning will be a problem..Next week its Prasanna Venkatraman and Subashree Ramachandran on Sat and Sunday respectively at Bharatiya...

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 07 Apr 2009, 11:15

When are these concerts Shankarabharanam?

gmohan · Post by **gmohan** » 07 Apr 2009, 11:25

11th April Prasanna Venkatraman 6.30 PM
12th April Subashri ramachandran and party 6.00 PM
18th April Amritha Murali 6.30 Pm
19th April Gayatri girish 6.00 PM
10th May ranjani&Gayatri 6.00 Pm
17th May Parasala Ponnamma 6.00 PM

rajeevsid · Post by **rajeevsid** » 07 Apr 2009, 19:25

thanks gmohan sir and sankarabharanam sir..
Just that it helps to put these dates on my organiser as reminders...
waiting for Smt Parasalla Ponnamal ...
tc

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 08 Apr 2009, 09:57

Thanks Mohan - unfortunately not going to be in town this weekend but do hope to make it for Amrutha Murali and GG!

varunapriya · Post by **varunapriya** » 11 Apr 2009, 06:47

Hi

I stepped into mumbai few months back. Can you post some kutcheri's in and around mumbai. Would really appreciate!!

Niranjan Damle · Post by **Niranjan Damle** » 13 May 2009, 19:00

Hi everybody, This sudden lull in our mumbai forum has prolonged quite a bit!! so decided to break it............ hope all are doing well.

As vaidehi already has broken the news, i'll be performing a Carnatic Flute recital at the talent promotion concert series at Shanmukhananda Fine arts society on Sunday 28th June'09 from 6.30pm to 9.30pm. Venue is Jasubhai convention hall. This would be my maiden appearance in the Mumbai concert scene. So would appreciate if you all could make it to the concert. Will let you know about the accompaniments in due course.

any reviews/ updates about other events??

rajeevsid · Post by **rajeevsid** » 19 May 2009, 10:38

Niranjan , you can count me in for your concert as long as I am in town then.. Mohan sir Can you please update the shanmukananda schedule for the rest of the year... Thanks

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 31 May 2009, 17:37

prashant wrote: The 5th Sri S. U. Sitaram Memorial Concert will be held at the Fine Arts Society, Chembur, on October 17, 2009 at 6:30 PM. The previous performers in this series have been Sangita Kalanidhis Sri Nedunuri Krishnamurthy and Smt. R. Vedavalli, Sri N. Vijay Siva and Smt. Bombay Jayashri. This year's programme:

Sri N. Vijay Siva & Sri T. M. Krishna - Vocal Duet
Kum. Amritha Murali - Violin
Sri N. Manoj Siva - Mrudangam
Sri B. S. Purushothaman - Khanjira

Mumbai residents, please mark your calendars for what is sure to be a memorable evening of high-quality music.

This is the maiden Mumbai performance of Sri Vijay Siva and Sri T. M. Krishna singing as a duo. Our family and the Fine Arts Society are very excited to present this rare opportunity to listen two of today's front-line vocalists performing together.

A bump up for this concert which will be held on Saturday. Hope Mumbai rasikas attend in large numbers.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 31 May 2009, 18:26

Prashant,
that is a double treat!
With RKSK, MS, and BSP we are in for a grand feast.
Thanks for arranging this and informing us.

But it is too advance an intimation; We have to really mark our calendars.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 31 May 2009, 19:50

WOW! Prashant - the eternal request for recordings are sure to dog you - so let me start!!!

And to be fair to the artists (especially since you have so much lead time), may be, you can interest people like Charubala (the 'Char' of Charsur I presume) or anyone else for that matter to bring it out as a commercial recording!

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 31 May 2009, 19:54

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 31 May 2009, 20:03

I think there is a recording of SSI - Maharajapuram Santhanam singing together, Kji? But I do not know if that is a full concert...

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 31 May 2009, 20:04

rshankar wrote:WOW! Prashant - the eternal request for recordings are sure to dog you - so let me start!!!

And to be fair to the artists (especially since you have so much lead time), may be, you can interest people like Charubala (the 'Char' of Charsur I presume) or anyone else for that matter to bring it out as a commercial recording!

Will try, Ravi! Have to speak with the artistes first and ascertain their opinion on these matters...

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 31 May 2009, 20:05

Punarvasu wrote: Thanks for arranging this and informing us.

Thanks not required, Punarvasu - it is a yearly musical evening we arrange in memory of my grandfather, and our family's mArgadarshi, Sri S. U. Sitaram.

Punarvasu wrote: But it is too advance an intimation; We have to really mark our calendars.

Will remind you again a couple times

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 31 May 2009, 20:14

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 31 May 2009, 21:22

Prashant,
A great combo, no doubt. Something to look forward to. While the date (as Punarvasu says) is months away, it is still too early for us to attend.
Hope this unique ensemble performs in Chennai and Bengaluru too, after this great premiere..

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 31 May 2009, 21:31

Wow, Prashant, what a combination! If a recording isn't made available... [insert threat of your choice].

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 31 May 2009, 22:14

Bilahari,
Did you really mean 'threat'? Perhaps with one of the stars in mind

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 31 May 2009, 22:17

Yes, Prashant, I do know that you arrange these concerts every year ; the last couple of years I have been out of India during those concerts; let me see how it goes this year. Such a wonderful ensemble!

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 31 May 2009, 22:31

Arasi,

Ravi's suggestion to invite a commercial recording is a good one. Prashant, your grandfather would've been mighty proud of this initiative to get two leading performers on the stage together, and would certainly have been proud of your singing as well!