Guruguhaamrta report at the New Indian Express - November 25th, 2009

Concert at Ananya - 15th November

Ananya (www.ananyaculture.org) celebrated a festival called Kalotsav where several young musicians participated.
This year, the theme was "Composers of Karnataka".
The hall was jam packed and the audience was fabulous.
Vidushi Charulatha Ramanujam was on the violin, Tumkur B Ravishankar played the mridangam while G Omkar was on the ghatam.

Here is the list:

1. vanajaksha (varnam) - mandari - adi - musore vasudevacharya
2. vandisuvudaadiyali - nata - khanda chapu - purandara dasa (S)
3. vaachamagocharundani - athana - adi - mysore sadasiva rao (R,S)
4. shloka "kaaveri viraja seyam" followed by ille vaikunta - varali - khanda chapu - purandara dasa (R,N,S)
5. sudhamayi - amrita varshini - rupaka - muthiah bhagavathar
6. brochevarevarura - khamas - adi - mysore vasudevacharya (R,N,S) at "seethapathe"
7. shloka "ayi murali" in ragamalika (anandabhairavi, hameer kalyani, mukhari)
8. thoredu jeevisa bahude - mukhari - khanda chapu - kanaka dasa
9. tirupati venkataramana - sindhu bhairavi - adi - purandara dasa
10. mangalam
    

Youtube upload of Trichur Concert

Hi Folks,

Here is a complete three-hour concert of mine performed Live at Trichur.

The video is courtesy of Grihavinika – the lovely chamber music sabha at Trichur.

You can also click here to see the video at the youtube site.

Hope you enjoy it!!!!

Ravi.

Concert at Udupi

Just back from Udupi where I performed for the Kanakadasa Festival.
Even though the road to Udupi from Bengaluru is awful, the concert itself went off smoothly.
Sang 'pancha maathanga mukha' for the first time in a concert and also included a few compositions of kanaka dasa as well.
The list:

1. vanajakshi - kalyani - ata tala (S)
2. pancha mathanga - malahari - rupaka - dikshitar (S) at 'virinchi hari rudra...'
3. thoredu jeevisa bahude - mukhari - khanda chapu - kanaka dasa (R,N,S) at 'praana naayakanaadha aadi kesava raaya'
4. parvati ninnu ne - kalgada - adi tisra - shyama shastry
   
5. sarasa saama daana - kapi narayani - adi - thyagaraja
6. naa moraalagimpa vemo - devagandhari - rupaka - thyagaraja (R)
7. mohana rama - mohana - adi - thyagaraja (R,S)
8. yaake neenilli - desh - adi - kanaka dasa
9. nee maaye olago - kambhoji - khanda chapu  kanaka dasa
10. mangalam

The Desh keerthana of Kanaka Dasa was tuned by one of my first Gurus - Vidushi Vasanta Ramanujam - a musician with a phenomenal voice!!!

Vidushi Charulatha Ramanujam was on the violin while Vidwan C Cheluvaraju accompanied me on the mridangam.