Impressive recitals
GUDIPOODI SRIHARI
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Yoga Vandana's veena concert highlighted the artiste's skill.
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Vandana and Kirtana (below) in a melodious form.
Yoga Vandana of Bangalore presented a veena recital at a concert jointly organised by Nada Sudha and Sahithi Sravanthi. A disciple of Guru Subhashini Sastri and Guru V.S. Ananta Rao, a former senior staff artiste of Hyderabad AIR, Yoga Vandana herself is an A-grade veena player of AIR and Doordarshan.
Yoga Vandana is the daughter of Prof. Veturi Anandamurthy, renowned researcher and the son of another great - Veturi Prabhakara Sastry. Vandana has presented numerous concerts in prestigious forums thereby gaining good experience. She is a diploma holder with honours in veena and has also passed the Alankar Exam, conducted by Akhil Bharathiya Gandharva Maha Vidyalaya. Natakuranji varnam opened her show. Vandeham Jagadvallabham of Annamacharya in Hamsadhwani and Ambavaani of Muthiah Bhagavathar in Keeravani were the invocatory numbers. Ganamurthe in Ganamurthi, Jalandhara Supreetha of Deekshitar in Valaji were pleasant offerings. Sankarabharanam was her major number. Her presentation of the raga, swaras and the kirtana were in vocalist style.
The recital was a continuous melody-filled raga essay, enjoyable at every sequence. . The nereval and swara exercise was laudable. Venkatachala Nilayam in Sindhu Bhairavi and a Tamil song of Rajaji (Kurai Mondrum Illai and Balamurali's tillana in Dwijavanthi gave a smooth finish. Srinivasa Gopalan accompanied her on mridangam.
Like daughter
The other concert of the evening was a vocal concert by Yoga Kirtana, very young artiste. Daughter of Vandana, the girl is in the formative stage but displayed much promise. She has excellent voice with good range and has developed the knack of throwing her voice fully, with clear sahitya expression. Though it was a brief recital, she displayed good talent and showed the potential to develop into a good artiste.
Disciple of Vidushi P. Ramaa, an eminent vocalist of Bangalore, she has already acquired the skill of expanding a raga methodically and then presenting swara kalpana with good discipline.
Kirtana started her recital with Viriboni Ata Thala Varnam in Bhairavi and followed it up with Sri Mahaganapathim in Athana. Kalyani was essayed carefully.
Pawan Singh accompanied her on the violin and Srinivasa Gopalan was on mridangam.
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