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Music Season
NARADA GANA SABHA
Chosen numbers showcased
S.SIVAKUMAR
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The Mambalam Sisters’ accent was on their rich repertoire.
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Pacy: Mambalam Sisters.
Mambalam Sisters showed that they possess a rich and varied repertoire and were shrewd enough to make special announcements whenever they sang chosen numbers. The raga alapanas for Shubapantuvarli (‘Velane Vere Gathi’- Koteeswara Iyer) and Kharaharapriya (‘Chakkani Raja Maargamu’ - Tyagaraja) reflected innate strength and the swara handshakes were pacy — a quality that has come to stay in duets. B.V. Raman (their guru) was respectfully rememb
ered and an ashtapadi of Jayadeva (‘Mamiyam Chalita’ - Bagyashree) tuned by him was sung. The sisters also rendered a song tuned by Swami Haridas Giri that meshed well with the concert hall. The other songs were ‘Sri Mathru Bhootham’ (Kannada - Dikshitar) and ‘Mohana Krishna’ (GNB- Kathana Kuthoohalam). The sisters experienced noticeable difficulty, as they reached and exploited their voices at the upper registers and consequently sruti alignment became a miss-and-try exercise on occasions. Hemalatha (violin), though probably of the same mould accompanied with her individualistic style.
The layam complement of Kudandhai Saravanan (mridangam), Sri Rangachari (kanjira) and Chidambaram Rajendran (morsing) tended to be noise-prone and the thani as they combined together went beyond listenable levels.
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