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Music Season
NARADA GANA SABHA
With vigour and serenity
Sangita Swaminathan
Sangeetha Swaminathan seems to have embedded ‘Saraswathi’ into her musical psyche. Her raga delineation came forth with verve and vigour as if from a spring, but the next moment you would listen to a phrase as serene as the full moon. GNB’s song ‘Kavalai Ellam’ encapsulates Saraswathi in the single phrase ‘Ellam’ and Sangeetha’s presentation did GNB proud. ‘Avaniyile’ in this song translates to ‘Pa Dha Ni Dh
a Pa’ and many swara rounds were done to end at this phrase, a situation where manodharma and adequate preparation are seen positively to be together. Her other songs ‘Ennalu Thiruguthuno’ (Mandhari-Muthaiah Bhagavathar), ‘Angaraka’m (Surutti-Dikshithar), the less-heard ‘Chede Budhi Manu Ra’ (Atana-Tyagaraja) showed sincerity and commitment.
Kharaharapriya (Rama Neeyeda-Tyagarajar) had alapana, niraval and swaram as warranted by a main item. Sangeetha also did well to touch a few slokas from Lalitha Sahasranamam and then bring in ‘Sumanasa Vandhitha’ in Revathi and concluded with a Thillana of Lalgudi Jayaraman. One was left wondering whether the graha bedam attempted should become patently routine at concerts with a call-your-attention-dwell at the switch of the ragas. Couldn’t it be more subtle?
Akkarai Subbulakshmi (violin) has an extraordinary talent to always express herself musically completely without eclipsing the main artiste and one could see this during her alapana and swara answers. Nellai Balaji (mridangam) and Adambakkam Shanker (Ghatam) make a team that realises its ambitions by collaborative means and theirs was a holistic thani with an engaging final arudi. This concert was held at the Mini Hall at 10 a.m. and attracted a full house in spite of the bad-to-getting-worse weather.
S. SIVAKUMAR
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