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Music Season
INDIAN FINE ARTS SOCIETY
Neatly presented
M. RAMESH
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Gayatri Sankaran emphasised aesthetics rather than musical acrobatics.
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Photo: S.R.Raghunathan
Gayathri Sankaran
Gayatri Sankaran’s Kharaharapriya (‘Pakkala Nilabadi’) in her concert for Indian Fine Arts was one that would be recorded as presented very neatly, with emphasis on aesthetics rather than musical acrobatics.
Gayatri has a sharp voice — female version of M.K.Tyagaraja Bhagavathar’s. Such a voice does take away some bass effect that is so required for Carnatic music, but the artiste makes up for it with her grip over technicals, obviously, an effect of her intense training under Lalgudi Jayaraman.
It was a fine Kharaharapriya, from start to finish, with niraval and swaras at ‘manasina.’ Unfortunately, because of paucity of time, the vocalist had to rush through niraval and swaras.
‘Karpuram Narumo’ from Andal’s Nachiyar Thirumozhi in Khamas was neatly rendered, but Gayatri’s Hamsanandi vruttam (Maddalam Kotta, again of Andal) followed by Papanasam Sivan’s ‘Srinivasa Thiruvenkatamudayai’ was a delight to listen to. In fact, the Hamsanandi turned out to be the best piece of the concert which also included Muthuswamy Dikshitar’s ‘Nagagandhari Raga Nute’ (Nagagandhari) and Tyagaraja’s ‘Ninne Nera’ (Panthuvarali).
Karaikkal Venkatasubramanyan on the violin and K.V.Gopalakrishnan on the mridangam gave adequate support for the short concert.
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