OLI Chamber Concerts - Mysore Darbar

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Dear Friends

We are happy to invite you to the second concert for this month. We take you to the royal court of Mysore headed by the Wodeyar kings who were scholars and musicians themselves and who patronized great composers such as Mysore Sadasiva Rao, Veena Seshanna, Mysore Vasudevachar and Harikesanallur Muthaiah Bhagavatar. The compositions of these composer laureates will be showcased by

Ranjani Hebbar VOCAL
V V Srinivasa Rao VIOLIN
B Ganapathiraman MRDANGAM

on 11th Aug 2012 (6:10 pm)

at 'Sri Parvati'
28/160 Eldams Road,
Alwarpet
Chennai 18
(Landmark: Opposite State Bank of Travacore)

Looking forward to meeting you all at the concert.

Warm regards

The OLI Team

Next OLI concert: Smt Alamelu Mani (Vocal) on 7th Sept 2012 (6:10 pm)

[maduraimini]

This does look like it is going to be a Royal Darbar. Compositions of all these eminent composers of the Mysore royal court should be a feast to the ears. Lucky people who get to hear that! I am sure there will be many rasikas there.

[rajeshnat]

I wrongly assumed it is 12th and went today to parvati to find there was no OLI concert .My mistake. Thank god there was a concert in nearby tattvalOka. Hope some body reports this concert.

[varsha]

My first Oli Concert Report . At three Levels

1. As a grateful rasika who enjoyed an evening of Music .
It was a good sight to see a talented singer being offered a slot - A singer who is featured lesser times in Chennai , than her talent demands . Parvathi Hall is not ideal for an audience strength of more than 30 . Unless one is wiliing to stare at a wall in an adjoining room . Distracted by two middle aged idiots who kept singing along , trying to impress ONLY me . There is an urgent need for sabhas to hire bouncers to keep away this flock of pickwickians , who go wah , bhale , ayyo - (very often at inopportune moments ) to gain attention of the artist and fellow rasikas . I wonder if this was what the organisers meant by participative listening in their leaflet
2. The Concert Per Se .
The singer is at a stage where one can call her an accomplished artist ( No mean feat in any field of endeavour ) . In my books no one - past or present - has handled the Hindusthani idiom as well as her , in a Carnatic concert . Having followed her music for some time I am afraid that she is falling into a sterotype pattern . The concert was like a well rehearsed session - polished to a nicety . I would have loved a bit of adventurous forays - especially since neravals and swaras appeared from song no 2 itself .
3.The Mysore Darbar - Was a bit of a Cliched set . Unless one is willing to accept MS ' s hits as very representative of the songs that poured out of that Darbar. The Vachana was out of place in the scheme of things - but was beautifully sung . Especially the alapana -maru behag - , which was more elaborate than her commercial album . Otherwise the list that went --- Sri Jalandhara , Idu Bhagya , Sree Kamakotipeetasthithe , Sada Saranganayane , Prantarthihara --- meant that a valuable opportunity was lost by the artist . In my books she barely managed to climb out of the Thematic assignment .
But the singing itself was very sweet and flawless . Accoustics were great .Very tuneful and Sruthi Shuddham maintained Kudos to the organisers who keep working at the ideals of small audience concerts .

[sureshvv]

Distracted by two middle aged idiots who kept singing along , trying to impress ONLY me

Oh you poor thing! Must be hard when you attract middle aged singing idiots devoid of concert hall etiquette.

In my books she barely managed to climb out of the Thematic assignment .

I am inclined to agree! Carnatica held a concert on the same theme a couple or so years ago during the December music season
and that kriti selection made that a highly memorable concert.