NARADA GANA SABHA
Strikingly different in content
GARIMELLA SUBRAMANIAM
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Akkarai Subhasree did not play it safe by singing familiar compositions.
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Akkarai Subhasree.
Akkarai Subhasree sounded strikingly different in the middle and high octaves in her performance at the Narada Gana Sabha mini hall. In the madhya stayi, she conveyed maturity and emotion, but there was a somewhat girlish touch in the tara stayi.
The youngster obviously has a healthy attitude to a public performance as the selection of compositions for the morning made it amply clear that she was not one to play it safe with familiar numbers even though she was singing at a major city sabha.
Thus, the opening kriti, a composition of Mysore Vasudevacharya, is perhaps not among the known kritis, either in ragam Hamsadhwani or on Lord Ganapati. But any advantage Subhasree may have derived by featuring it was lost when she mangled the opening line, `Vande Anisam Aham Varanavadanam.' Patnam Subramanya Iyer's `Korinavaram,' in Ramapriya and Tyagaraja's `Karunajoodavamma Mayamma,' in Hanumatodi, the two major items of the performance, were sung with a lot more sensitivity.
Thooran's `Thaye Tripurasundari,' and the lilting Oothukkadu Venkata Subbiar piece, `Nadamuraligana Vilola,' in ragam Hamirkalyani sung in different `gati' were equally melodious.
Akkarai Murugan on the violin probably has to do a good deal of catching-up with his daughter and lead artiste. In the tani avartanam, K.Parthasarathi, disciple of veteran Guruvayur Dorai, on the mridangam, displayed a keenness to try something different even as he lived up to the role that was expected of him.
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