Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
Venkat Nagarajan is a student of Guru Ambujam Vedantham Mami of Trichy
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
He sings some of the same rare songs that Sanjay does (like the one in Komalangi) imparted to him by his Guru who learnt it from Sanjay!
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
Guru Ambujam Vedantham is a super senior vidushi and is treasure house of many rare compositions. Her group came and made a presentation in Narada Gana Sabha two years back. Their group had released two CDs which were sold in NGS. So she will not come to Sanjay to learn any rare composition. The reverse could have happened or both could have learned from independent sources.
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
When it is a field as vast as CM, we are all on the seashore. Some of us are ankle deep, some others are waist deep. The authentic vidwans/vidhushis are always eager to learn.
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
Folks!
First off, I heard this concert and think that Venkatnagarajan is getting better and better every year! I hear him every season.
Sankark surely knows that he isn't Sanjay's student It's just that the concert had almost all songs from Sanjay's list
Did anyone hear his Academy concert recently? He normally sings one of his guru's varNams or compositions in his concerts. I do think that he gave a 'what a Sanjay fan I am!', one of a kind concert here. He did very well too.
Over the years, I used to tell him: please don't keep your eyes closed all the time! Please smile a bit! Interact with fellow artistes! He's doing all that (last year, I wasn't in Chennai and so missed a year in listening to him).
Finishing his thesis at IIT now...
As for the learning of the kOmalAngi or any other uruppaDi, I don't think AA or SS did, from each other. AV has learnt songs from stalwarts--TRS, S.Ramanathan and others in the past.
Happy to say, AV is being honored by Karthik Fine Arts this season with a Distinguished Teacher Award...
First off, I heard this concert and think that Venkatnagarajan is getting better and better every year! I hear him every season.
Sankark surely knows that he isn't Sanjay's student It's just that the concert had almost all songs from Sanjay's list
Did anyone hear his Academy concert recently? He normally sings one of his guru's varNams or compositions in his concerts. I do think that he gave a 'what a Sanjay fan I am!', one of a kind concert here. He did very well too.
Over the years, I used to tell him: please don't keep your eyes closed all the time! Please smile a bit! Interact with fellow artistes! He's doing all that (last year, I wasn't in Chennai and so missed a year in listening to him).
Finishing his thesis at IIT now...
As for the learning of the kOmalAngi or any other uruppaDi, I don't think AA or SS did, from each other. AV has learnt songs from stalwarts--TRS, S.Ramanathan and others in the past.
Happy to say, AV is being honored by Karthik Fine Arts this season with a Distinguished Teacher Award...
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
After the fact arasi, after the fact. I just posted that message while listening to the concert with no googling. pallAndu and then subsequently pollAppuli and then that KHP AlApanai - that was reminiscent of a KHP AlApanai I heard in a SS double cassette album loong back, guess it was for jAnakipathE jaya kArunya jaladhE - gave me that thought, "another sanjay sishya/clone"?arasi wrote:Folks!
Sankark surely knows that he isn't Sanjay's student It's just that the concert had almost all songs from Sanjay's list
Did anyone hear his Academy concert recently? He normally sings one of his guru's varNams or compositions in his concerts. I do think that he gave a 'what a Sanjay fan I am!', one of a kind concert here. He did very well too.
Third V to my "like" list after Vivek Sadasivam & Vignesh Ishwar
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
Sankark,
I presumed you've heard him and have known about him, your being a regular at Raga Sudha Hall. Sorry.
I presumed you've heard him and have known about him, your being a regular at Raga Sudha Hall. Sorry.
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
Neither sishya nor clone. But inspiree I am sure. There are several, when you take a second look.sankark wrote: gave me that thought, "another sanjay sishya/clone"?
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
True.
Sankark has added another V name to his list of young hopefuls, which means he feels that way too.
Sankark has added another V name to his list of young hopefuls, which means he feels that way too.
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
He is truly good. Young and humble, still
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
Hangs out with the Youtube audience on occasion
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
And he called someone a pAtti too in the comments. Now any lapse in lakshya lakshana or even singing ennadi muniyamma on the stage could be overlooked. Can this be? Where's the outrage?
PS: that's why the Tamil language stopped at pEriLam peN, IIRC. Wise vocab.
PS: that's why the Tamil language stopped at pEriLam peN, IIRC. Wise vocab.
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Re: Venkata Nagarajan, Naada Inbam, 25/Sep/2016
Aah.. still green behind the ears... His guru hasn't instructed him of the proper chennai etiquette of calling them "yekka" yet