INDIAN FINE ARTS SOCIETY
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G. SWAMINATHAN
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With maturity and timing B. Lalitha offered a wholesome concert.
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PROFESSIONAL: B.Lalitha.
What exactly draws the crowds to a concert, apart from the musician's name and fame? Should merit go unnoticed for lack of publicity? These thoughts crossed one's mind while listening to B. Lalitha. Endowed with a rich voice, she has been practising music for more than a decade. Her delivery is perfect and professional. But there were few listeners at her recital for the Indian Fine Arts Society.
Lalitha offered a well-planned complete programme with Sankarabharanam and Shanmukhapriya sharing the main. The alapana of these ragas received the special touch they needed with Lalitha's trained mind and vocal articulation.
The well-balanced approach to the raga vinyasa and niraval swaras showed maturity and time sense.
The composition chosen in Sankarabaranam was `Bhakti Miyyave' and `Marivera Dikkevarayya Rama' in Shanmukhapriya. Lalitha had done full justice in the niraval and swaras at `Sannuthanga Sri Venkatesa' with properly connected swara swirls.
`Munduvenga' in Darbar with a slightly off Darbar sangati and `Chamundeeswari Pahimam' in a raga resembling Hindolam but not quite were also in her list. H.V.Raghuraman on the violin and Akshay Anandapadmanabhan on the mridangam provided adequate support to Lalitha.
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