Cleveland Festival 2011

[cmlover]

Thanks Sumram
Though some are quite obvious, a few captions will help for some of the not-so-obvious...

[arasi]

sumram,
Wonderful pictures! Many close ups full of expression. Thanks for sharing...

[sumram_99]

Thanks cmlover and arasi! Wish I could have stayed in CLE for a longer period of time!

@ cmlover: Will put up captions soon.

[Suji Ram]

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/arti ... epage=true

in The Hindu...

[arasi]

Very nice!
Another 'twist' which struck me was the way the young and the established were grouped together--Seasoned performers playing for the young ones was something to experience! This would not have happened in Chennai This was just one of the many surprises we found in the festival.
A boost for the future performers and a gracious egalitarian (?) gesture the veterans were encouraged to (asked to) contribute.
Suji, I know you loved this too! More power to Cleveland!

[mohan]

Would you consider the Sidney Festival Telecast globally perhaps with some improvements?

CML I am not involved with the Sydney Music Festival. If it was streamed I'd subscribe too since its hard for my wife and I to attend the concerts (12 main concerts spread over three days)!

[Ashwin]

Mohan, Sriranjani Darbar won. She is a student of Suguna Varadachari and is based out of Texas. Also learns from Vittal Ramurthy's sister (i forgot her name), who is local in texas area.

Here is a video of Sriranjani Darbha's performance in the competition. Such a fantastic, genuine talent. I doubt whether she herself is aware of it, much to the credit of this young girl, her parents, and her teachers. I hope those who engage in political talks about the Cleveland Aradhana can put their inflammatory remarks aside - if only for a moment - to appreciate this young girl's hard work and dedication. Let's be grateful that it is being recognized on such a large scale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSPZNYNg2io

Ashwin

[VK RAMAN]

What a composure and confidence ! I could not believe this young girl could, without any intimidation, handle the judges interruption and questioning. Good job Sriranjani. Keep it up.

[arasi]

She's a delight! Thanks Ashwin for bringing this clip. I did not register her name when I watched her sing in the festival. Kept refering to her as the super 'little girl' !

[vasanthakokilam]

Yes, she is such a delight. Quite a confident contestant. The instruction by the judge to sing Thodi from Shankarabaranam R was quite confusing. What was the purpose of that, to see if she can keep the two RIs apart? Or use the R as the new S? I am amazed that she understood what was asked and out came a nice Todi. Audience reaction was awesome as well.

[krishnan_subramaniam]

Dear Rasikas,

iCarnatic.org will be webcasting 3 concerts/lec-dem of the 2011 Sarovar (GLAC) music festival. The webcast starts today. Please check http://www.icarnatic.org/concerts.aspx for details.

This is a free program for all. Patrons who supported us with a paid subscription of the Cleveland Aradhana Festival can use their ticket number to watch the program in full screen (yes, you will see some advertisement from our streaming provider ) .

Please join us online and enjoy the webcast.

Regards

iCarnatic Team.

[cienu]

Excellent Sriranjani. Congratulations !

[Sreeni Rajarao]

Congratulations and best wishes to Sriranjani!!

Ashwin,
Thanks for uploading Sriranjini Darbha's clip!

[mohan]

Here is a video of Sriranjani Darbha's performance in the competition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSPZNYNg2io

Ashwin - the clip seems to be from 2010 (last year). Is anything available from 2011?

[ramanathan]

Cleveland Aradhana 2011 pics:
CLICK HERE

[cmlover]

Dazzling Ramanathan!
These are collector's item showing our star CM performers!
Some captions will help...

[arasi]

Simply gorgeous, ace photographer!
I had given up hopes, and then you bring them to us!
Thanks...

[rajeshnat]

May I know who is seated in between Shri RS ramakanth and Papanasam Ashok Ramani
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... 697&type=1

[ramanathan]

Trichy Ramesh.

And thanks for the kind feedback, folks!

[narayan]

Here is a video of Sriranjani Darbha's performance in the competition. Such a fantastic, genuine talent. I doubt whether she herself is aware of it, much to the credit of this young girl, her parents, and her teachers. I hope those who engage in political talks about the Cleveland Aradhana can put their inflammatory remarks aside - if only for a moment - to appreciate this young girl's hard work and dedication. Let's be grateful that it is being recognized on such a large scale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSPZNYNg2io

Ashwin

Amazing indeed. I would be totally disoriented if asked to do what she was asked to do. The resilience of youth, I guess. The talent is unquestionable.

[mishram]

God Bless this talented young kid!

I watched the concert competition live and felt there were a few other contestants who were also exceptional. Wonder why they chose to give only one prize this year. (Last year they announced many joint winners - right?) Recollect a stunning Shuba panthuvaraLi by a youngster, mukhari by another kid and a good bhairavi by another competitor.

[mohan]

God Bless this talented young kid!
Wonder why they chose to give only one prize this year. (Last year they announced many joint winners - right?)

This year the main prize included concert slots in Chennai and Mumbai as well $1000 towards travel costs. If they had joint winners , it would have been difficult to share the prize.

[mahavishnu]

For those wondering who won the competitions, the results are posted at http://bit.ly/CTAres

In the link above I could see Abhishek Iyer name winning the first prize in pallavi and another prize in neraval . By any chance is that our forumite from toronto who writes reviews and who is also a student of the birlliant vidushi smt raji gopalakrishnan.

Abhishek
If you are the same , 2 power 4 congrats to you.

Rajesh, I'm glad you noticed this.

Not sure if Abhishek is reading this thread or is too modest. But I can confirm that it is our fellow forumite Abhishek from Toronto that won the pallavi competition at Cleveland. Let me join Rajesh in extending my warmest congratulations to this very talented young singer. Well done, Abhishek.

[arasi]

Congratulations, Abhishek! I needed Rajesh's telescopic vision to find your identity!

[rshankar]

Congratulations, Abhishek! You must have done your guru proud.

[Abhishek]

Thank you all for your warm wishes! Yes, I'm the same Abhishek Iyer.
For the rAgam tAnam pallavi competition, I was fortunate enough to sing a pallavi composed by Raji aunty in shanmukhapriyA.

Sorry for the extremely late response, I only saw this thread today.
Once again, thanks for all your wishes; I am absolutely overwhelmed by your support and encouragement!
-Abhishek Iyer.

[mohan]

Congratulations Abhishek! What were the lyrics of the pallavi and the tala? What special features did you intergrate into your rendition?

Keep up the good work!

[arasi]

I hear they're airing Cleveland Festival on Jaya TV now. They even seem to have shown the BMK, Sudha, Ravikiran concert which was not streamed live.

[VK RAMAN]

Today was the third day of Jaya TV broadcasting Cleveland Aradhana pst 2 to 2.30 pm. Today we watched srikantan sir concert. I

[mohan]

See vkailasam's youtube channel for the Cleveland broadcasts http://www.youtube.com/user/vkailasam

[mahavishnu]

thanks, Mohan. I have been following some of those videos too.
I wish Sri Kailasam would return to the forum. It is amazing how many videos he uploads on a regular basis!

[Chunnetter]

Every composition of NSG had sukham--what else? The rAgams flowed, bhAvam being foremost. Seemingly simple, yet powerful words moved the story along. There were many songs which endeared themselves to us. That kuntalavarAli tillAnA of the vAnarAs was a tantalizing piece and I can't wait to listen to it from NSG himself, Sriranjani, Gayatri V and Nisha in concerts. I don't like to give chits in a concert. So, here is a request well in adavance to all--hope I've a chance to listen to it at least once!
It was Neyveli's hour, starting from his concert a few days ago. Then, Sriranjani's concert for which h played the khanjira, then this music for this grand production of two kANDAs which, with the finely handled dance direction from Anitha Guha was such a pleasing affair...
Looking forward to Ravikiran's finale this evening..

[sagars]

Did any body see today's Jaya TV telecast of Sowmya"s group concert. Who was the younster who sung a beautiful Saranga. I think others were Bharath Sunder,Gayatri.

[mahavishnu]

Sagars: The young talented singer you mentioned is Ramakrishnan Murthy. Here is more info on him: http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/07/04/stor ... 750200.htm Also see http://mycarnatic.org/podcastguestbiodata/?title=17)

The concert also featured Vidya Kalyanaraman in addition to the names you already mentioned. There is a short report about this concert earlier in the thread.

Due to time constraints, Jaya TV only showed a small sample of this wonderful concert.

[sagars]

Thanks Mahavishnu. Hope we get to hear more of his concerts.

[suma]

The Allied Ragas program coordinated by Sowmya was good. I heard Bharat Sundar and Ramakrishnan sing Annapoorne and Arabhi Swarams. Did not know that Ramakrishnan is a US local. Great that they found this local talent.

RK Shrikantan concert was great.