Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Cleveland Tyagaraja Aradhana- 10/4/12

Venue: Waetjen Auditorium, Cleveland State University














This year's Aradhana was very special because it was the centenary celebrations of three great stalwarts - Palghat Sri.Mani Iyer, Smt.T.Brinda and Madurai Sri.Mani Iyer.



Accompanists for my concert :

Ranjani Ramakrishnan - Violin
Trivandrum Balaji - Mridangam
K.V.Gopalakrishnan - Kanjira
Kumari Sahana Samraj - Tambura
Kumari Ananya Ashok - Tambura





The theme that I took up was "Tamizh Kritis popularized by Madurai Mani Iyer".
















Song List:(R-Raga Alapana,N-Neraval,S-Kalpanaswaram,T-Tani Avarthanam)

1. tatvamariya - reetigowLa - Adi - pApanAsam sivan
2. tAyE yashOdA - tOdi - Adi - UthukAdu vEnkatasubbier (N,S)
3. pAmAlaikkiNai uNdO- harikAmbhOji - Adi - pApanasam sivan
4. gAnAmuda pAnam - jyOtiswarUpiNi - misra cApu - kOteeshwara iyer (R,S)
5. tAye EzhaippAl- bhairavi - Adi - pApanAsam sivan
6. tookiya tiruvadi - shankarAbharaNam - Adi - suddAnanda bhArati (R,N,S,T)
7. virutham (tirunAvukkarasar's tirutAndagam verses) followed by
irakkam varAmal - bEhAg - rUpakam - gOpAlakrishna bhArati
8. tiruppugazh- chandrakouns




Accompanists gave wonderful support :-)

1 comment:

nagraj said...

Oh appadiya! You were performing at Cleveland. Thought, you were busy preparing for the exams(Vishruti, Viswesh)

Cleveland goes lucky.