Pleasing vocal recital
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Vijaya Tyagaraja Sangeetha Sabha celebrated its diamond jubilee.
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Peddada Suryakumari.
Sri Vijaya Tyagaraja Sangeetha Sabha, recently celebrated its Diamond Jubilee on a grand scale. The event featured a vocal recital by Peddada Suryakumari of Kakinada in the premises of Sri Sankara Matham.
Musical journey
Suryakumari, who started learning music with penchant as a little child of five, later had the privilege of honing her skill under the expert tutelage of eminent artistes like B.V Raman and Lakshman at Chennai, T.R. Subrahmanyam at Delhi and rendered Purandharadasa's compositions in particular from Kollegal R. Subrahmanyam, Hyderabad. A graded artiste of AIR and Doordarshan, she is endowed with a melodious and resonant voice, and has performed in sabhas all over the country and abroad.
Winner of many a laurel, including titles, she founded a school of music, Sadguru Sangeetha Vidyalayam at Kakinada in 1983 and won the Best Music Teacher Award of the Ghantasala Kalaapeetham in 2003.
Very well supported by the local artistes KVS Prasad on violin and G. Venkata Rao on mridangam, Suryakumari started her recital briskly with the varnam in Vasantha and sustained the tempo singing Vinayaka (Hamsadhwani), Nanugannathalli (Sindhukannada) and Sriramapadama (Amrithavaahini) evocatively before she exquisitely elaborated Bantureethi Koluveeyavayya Rama (Hamsanaadam). Her aalapana, neravu and swaram in the two speeds were sensibly structured, invigorating the emotions ecstatically embedded in the lyrical content.
Then, after entrancingly rendering a composition each of Utukkad Venkata Subbayyar (Kanada) and Annamayya (Hindolam), she sang Needucharanapankajamule (Kalyani) with knowledgeable prefix of alapana and suffix of scintillating, neravu and swarakalpana.
Prasad, especially in his turns on violin and Venkata Rao in particular in his thani were epitomes of excellence. Secretary of the Sabha D. Bhaskara Murthy proposed a vote of thanks.
A.RS
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