Rib-tickling farewell
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Visakha Humour Club organised a comedy show to usher in the New Year.
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The Visakha Humour Club bid farewell to 2005 with its show in Kalabharathi on New Year's eve.More than a dozen men and women presented a score of humorous skits, leaving everybody in the packed auditorium in splits. There was satire on day to day happenings at home and in all sorts of public places - encounters with quacks in all fields, the nuisance created by politicians, political goons, film stars, singers and music directors. sSnehalatha Orchestra and Creative Comedy Club jointly organised a recital of old cine music in the community hall of Satyam enclave. Melodies like Padimandilo Pata Padina, Amma ani pilachina, Divinundibhuviki, Salalitha Raga Sudharasasaaram and many other duets by A. Jagan stood out. Jagan who played on the keyboard as well accompanied by V. Gopalakrishna Murty, G. Ramulu, K. Bhagyalakshmi, Satyavalli and G. Appalaraju. Founder secretary of the Comedy Club, Meda Masthan Reddy, compered the programme. The week also witnessed solo recitals on veena by K. Udayalakshmi, A.U. School of Fine Arts teacher, and violin by D. Suryaprabha, retired staff artiste of Akashvani Bangalore. They were veritable treats not only of the fine attributes of melody of the respective instruments but also of some of the finest nuances of Carnatic music.
The highlights of the veena recital, well supported by Mandapaka Ravi on mridangam and morsing by G. Venkatesh, were Yedutanilichite of Tyagaraja (Sankarabharanam) and ragam tanam pallavi in Rasikapriya in Khandajathi Roopakam. The highlights of the violin concert, supported on violin by A. Ramacharan and mridangam by S. Subrahmanyam, were the scholarly elaboration of Bhajanaseyave (Kalyani) and Chakkanirajamargamu (Kharaharapriya) of Tyagaraja. While the veena recital was organised by Sangeetha Kala Samithi in the premises of Ramadoota Mandiram in Madhuranagar, the violin concert was held in Sri Sankaramatham under the aegis of Sri Vijaya Tyagaraja Sangeetha Sabha.
A.R.S
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