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Recitals by young talent marked the 599th Annamayya Jayanthi.
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MIXED REPERTOIRE The concert featured a blend of popular and newly composed `kirtanas'.
Sujanaranajani, academy to promote classical music, completed its six years of service and held more than a hundred programmes so far serving the southern part of Hyderabad, functioning from Sanathnagar temple complex.
Marking the 599th Jayanthi of Annamayya, Sujanaranjani organised a two day festival at its venue, Hanuman Devasthanam, in the complex. The festival featured young and talented vocalist Duddu Radhika, in an exclusive vocal recital on the first day. The second day was allotted to young talent, numbering around 20 artistes, but formed into three groups for a chorus rendition of the chosen songs of great Padaakavita Pitamaha.
Duddu Radhika appeared to have prepared herself well for the event and tried her best to select compositions of Annamacharya that accommodate classical element of rendition too. In fact Annamacharya compositions are more sahitya-oriented and suitable music is to be chosen to present it meaningfully, as a vehicle to convey.
Radhika chose devotional numbers for display of her classical strength in raga delineation and swaraprasthara, to make her listeners to also enjoy that classical flavour too. Her repertoire was a mix of popular an
d freshly composed kirtanas and had a full fledged orchestral support that classical concert requires of two percussion instruments and of course violin accompaniment- S.V. Ramana murthy on violin, Kapa Srinivasa Rao on mridangam and J
anardan on ghatam respectively. Most of the numbers she sang have been set to music by Nedunuri Krishna Murthy. She made Poorvikalyani as her main raga effort and rendered it with comfort. She also used the number Ghummani Shruti, for the presentation of Swaraprasthara.
Radhika did not lose the sight of the rich sahitya bhava of kritis of Annamayya. The opening number was a salutation to Lord Venkateswara -Purushothamudaveevu in Revagupti. Cheri Yasoda in Mohana, Ramachandrudithadu in Dwijavanthi, Adideva Paramatma in Sindhu Bhairavi, Joachyutananda, a popular lullaby, in Kapi , Bhavayami Gopalabalam in Yaman Kalyan were the most enjoyable numbers from her.
On the second day young artistes of a music institutes formed into groups and rendered a good number of compositions of Annamacharya. They were accompanied by Kiran on keyboard and Janardan on mridangam.
G.S.
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