Impressive fare
GUDIPOODI SRIHARI
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Over a hundred musicians came together for the birthday celebrations of Satguru Sivananda Murthy.
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MELODY HOUR The congregation of musicians.
Nada Bharati, a forum for young musicians, organised a memorable event last week that brought eminent vocalists and musicians from all over the state at Gurudhama on Mulugu Road in Warangal. This was timed with the birthday celebrations of spiritual personality and music lover Satguru Sivananda Murthy.
Sri Sivananda Murthy launched Andhra Music Academy five years ago, holding annual functions every year on the lines of Madras Music Academy. The recent concertwas an annual event organised on a grand scale .
Over a hundred vocalists and instrumentalists hailing from different cultural centres like Vizianagaram, Vizag, Vijayawada, Guntur and Tirupati attended the event. The highlight was the recital, as they sang in unison compositions of great saint musicians including the musical Trinity -Thyagaraja, Syama Sastry and Deekshitar. The repertoire had also included three of Thyagaraja's Pancharatna kirtanas in Nata (Jagadananda Karaka), Gowla (Dudukugala) and Sree ragam (Yendaro). These numbers punctuated the main stream of compositions. The 70 vocalists and participating instrumentalists added to the final figure of 108, an auspicious figure.
The vocalists went on to sing with the support of nadaswarams, veenas, violins and mridangams. Noted vocalist and scholar, Komanduru Seshadri led the troupe. Another veteran Puranam Purushothama Sastry also lent his voice. Seshadri was personally involved in planning the programme, including notations, as to how it should go without any faux pas .
There were also Vishnubhotla sisters of Vijayawada, a young pair in the forefront. They are grade artistes of All India Radio . For convenience and to save time they avoided rendition of creative parts like raga, nereval and swarakalpana. They compositions were set in a thematic approach, akin to performing Shodasopachaara pooja to the deity of Sri Rama. This exercise was called Nadarchanaa and the entire process was called Nadabhishekam.
This was a unique event and the success of it, made Nada Bharati to think of planning such events at different places in the state, to propagate classical music.
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