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Tribute to the Lord of Seven Hills
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The nine-day Brahmotsavams was aimed at propagating Hindu dharma through cultural programmes
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Musicians and dancers paid obeisance to the Lord of Seven Hills by praising His glory for nine full days during the annual Salakatla Brahmotsavams that concluded last week. The schedule had a wide range of programmes including spiritual discourses, t
raditional music concerts, divine messages by savants and seers, ‘Purana Pravachanams’, ‘Harikatha’ etc., besides special cultural programmes by leading musicians and dancers. A prime time slot was allotted for the rare devotional numbers of Tallapaka Annamacharya and saint-poetess Tarigonda Vengamamba composed on Lord Venkateswara. Another attraction, understandably targeted at visitors from north India, was the discourses in Hindi by Govind Guruji of Haridwar Rajasthani Yatri Sangh.The special performance by film playback singer Chitra, veena recital by Geetha Krishnamurthy (Chennai), vocal by Dwaram Lakshmi (Tirupati), Nookala China Satyanarayana (Hyderabad), ‘special dolu’ concert by percussionist A.R.Valayapatti Subramanyam of Kottayam and ‘Jugalbandi’ by Sriram Parasuram and Anuradha Sriram added gloss to the show.
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Similarly, at Mahati auditoriumartistes like K. Ramachary (Hyderabad), S. Seetha Rajan (Chennai), M.Sudha Rani (Vizag) among others gave a scintillating vocal performance, while the instrumental sessions included A. Ramaswamy (Vijayawada) and Ashok Gujarala on violin, A.K.C.Natarajan (Tiruchi) on clarinet and Lakshminarayana Raju (Vijayawada) on mridangam.
In the dance section, Raagamayi Balasubrahmanyam’s performance turned out to be a crowd-puller, with items like Simhasana Sthithe, Jayadeva ashtapadi-dheerasameere and a concluding thillana. Leading dancers like Shoba Naidu, Anupama Kailash, P.Alekhya, Deepika Reddy and Pasumarthi Ramalinga Sastry too had a role in keeping the audience enthralled.
Unfortunately, the concerts organised at ‘Shilparamam’ were met with poor public response due to its distance from the city, but the lively performance on the theme ‘Srinivasa Kalyanam’ by students of TTD’s SV College of Music and Dance was a hit. The religious and cultural programmes were conducted under the aegis of the TTD’s Dharma Prachara Parishat .
A. D. RANGARAJAN
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