Veena Raja Rao National Award for Chitravina N Ravikiran

[cienu]

Date : 29th Nov 2013 - Kindly find below the details.

[vs_manjunath]

Thanks for the Invitation. rasikas.org has brought so many to- gether in this AWARD function.

Hearty Congratulations to Sangeet Samrat Chitravina Ravikiran !!!

[thanjavooran]

Shri Ravikiran!
Hearty congratulations and blessings!
Thanjavooran
24 11 2013

[Sreeni Rajarao]

Cienu,
Thanks for posting the invite!

I hope Bangalore based members will be able to attend the event!

I feel bad I will not be in Bangalore for this special day.

Sreeni

[rshankar]

Congratulations to vidvAn Ravi Kiran!
Best wishes to Aishwarya and her team!
Cienu...as always, clips will be welcome!!

[cacm]

CONGRAGULATIONS! VKV

[mahavishnu]

It is nice to see the award in the name of Sreeni's illustrious father presented by Cienu's illustrious mother to Sri Ravikiran. Congratulations!

Sreeni, I am sorry that you will have to miss this event. I wish I could be there also

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Srini Rajarao avarige,
very happy to know that this year Sri Ravikiran is to be honoured.
Wish I were there!
Thank you for the detailed invitation.
All the best. My regards to Vidya, Vibha and Varun.

[arasi]

Sreeni,
Your miss, and mine too. Won't be in Bengaluru by then
The rest of your family will be there, of course.

Cienu,
Do post pictures

Sreeni,
Who have been recipients of the award in the past?

[vs_manjunath]

Dr R Viswesvaran;Dr RK Srikantan;Dr Kadri Gopalnath & this year Vidvan Ravikiran.
Sreeni-Pl correct me if i am wrong.

[S.NAGESWARAN]

Congratulations to sri Ravikiran.

S.NAGESWARAN.
26.11.2013.

[chitravina ravikiran]

Thank you all. It is a rare privilege to receive this and I consider this a special blessing from Shri Veena Raja Rao himself and his esteemed family members. It is also humbling to receive this against the backdrop of the previous recipients - who have been mammoth contributors - such as Shri R K Shrikanthan, Prof Vishweshwaran etc. A further honour is that Dr Radha Vishwanathan, whom I've known and admired from my childhood, will be giving it to me and Shri Mysore Subhramanya will be presiding.

I do look forward to seeing you all!

[bagyamananthu41]

congratulations to Chitra veena Shri RaviKiran..one more feather...

[vs_manjunath]

The award function was just excellent. The children of Sri Raja Rao are doing a nobel service to promote Carnatic Music, by selecting Carnatic Musicians of fame year after year for this award. The function started with a melodious invocation "Maithrim Bhajatha" by Aishwarya.The sheer presence of Dr Radha Viswanathan on the stage brought dignity to the function. Dr Purnima D/O of Sri Raja Rao welcomed every one for the function. Dr Purnima went into details about their big family of sisters( seven) and brothers(three) who cherish this award function each year.I believe, Sri Raja Rao jokingly used to mention the seven daughters as sa-ri- ga- ma- pa-da-ni and three sons as Sa-Pa- Sa. She spoke of Vidwan Ravi Kiran who was a prodigy at the tender age of two years and who has now grown to be called Indian Mozart was the fitting vidwan chosen for this year's award.
After the brief AWARD presentation, Vidwan Ravi Kiran was asked to speak. Sri Ravi Kiran was nostalgic that he was born in Mysore. He attributed his success in music career to his illustrious father who was a strict disciplinarian and also his guru. He also spoke of his music heritage. He gave a word of advise to students. A mere 4 to 5 hrs sleep is more than sufficient and one should practice music in the remaining hours. Music practice is de-stressing than distressing!. Musicians who were Nadopasakas have led a quite a long life. He also mentioned that during his gurukula vasam at home, it was music, music music only .24x 7;every minute/second he was just submerged in music. He cherished this illustrious award presented by none other than Dr Radha Viswanathan.

Prof Subramanya, great grand son of Veena Seshanna recollected the illustrious family of Sri Raja Rao and their connection to Mysore Palace. He also spoke of young Ravi Kiran's talents which were demonstrated at a private house in Malleswaram when he was hardly two years old. He also mentioned that not all child prodiges become great, Sri Ravi Kiran by sheer hard work and practice has reached the stage in which he is giving concerts in different parts of the world. He likened this to Garuda who travels carrying Lord Narayana to different destinations, where as Ravi Kiran is propagating Carnatic Music to different parts of the world as a true " Ravi" kiran.

Sri Srinivasan(Cienu) spoke on behalf of his illustrious mother. He conveyed that their family is very happy to have got associated with Sri Raja Rao's Memorial Trust and family members. Equally happy that Dr Radha Viswanathan in spite of her health was very happy to be present and gave the award to Sri Ravi Kiran.

Sri Ravi Kiran's concert followed.
MC did a good job of compering the program by introducing all the eminent personalities on the stage by highlighting their awards and achievements.

[Sreeni Rajarao]

Manjunath,

Thank you for attending the program and writing about it! Reading your post, I feel like, I was there myself!

Sri Ravi Kiran and Sri Cienu (and Aishwarya):

We are all delighted about yesterday's program - Thank you for your support!

Sreeni Rajarao

[Sivaramakrishnan]

Congratulations, Sri Ravikiran! And the few lines of your post show how much you value tradition.

Cienu, hope you would post some clips.

[vs_manjunath]

I had to add that Sri Ravikiran did mention that he was an "Hyper Active" child and would have been in Govt Care if he was born in USA.He thanked for being born in India and he could grow in CM field.

[cienu]

Cienu,
Do post pictures

Credit for the pictures go to the Veena Raja Rao Family (Thank you Ms.Poornima ! )
Amma being welcomed by Ms.Poornima Raja Rao, Sri Mysore Subramanya and Chitravina Sri N Ravikiran

S Aishwarya sings the invocation “Maithreem Bhajatha”

A majestic backdrop behind the stage

Amma and Chitravina Sri N Ravikiran share some memories from the past

Amma presenting the Veena Raja Rao National Award to Chitravina Sri N Ravikiran

A view of the audience, Sri Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma, Sri Guru Prasanna and Vidushi Dr.Suma Sudhindra in the picture

The concert with Vidushi Akkarai Subbulakshmi - violin - Sri Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma on Mridanga - Sri Guruprasanna on Khanjari.

[thanjavooran]

Shri Cienu,
Many thanx for sharing the photos. Excellent coverage.
Thanjavooran
05 12 2013

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Thank you very much, cienu Ji.
The photos are so nice and lively.