Saturday 8 October 2011

Sanjay Subramanian at Music Academy on 6th October 2011

Sanjay Subramanyan
Neyveli Venkatesh-Mridangam
Varadarajan-Violin
Venkatramanan-Ganjira
Gnjira vidwan, is the descendant of Chittoor family

Event:Sanjay Subrahmanyan has been chosen for the Indira Sivasailam Endowment Award this year. Vocalist Sudha Ragunathan was the the first recipient of this award, instituted by The Indira Sivasailam Endowment Fund in association with the Music Academy of Madras.

Sanjay, in his speech, lauded the support received from accompanying artists and rasikas and journalists. Good gesture.
Ms. Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman of TAFE and daughter of late Indira Sivasailam had presided over the function.
SRD Vaidynathan, Sanjay’s Guru was also present for the concert. Sanjay was moved by his presence on this Vijayadasami day and he expressed this in his speech.
The list goes like this:

Sabhapatikku- Abhogi- GKB
PollA puliyinum-and swaram in “pollA” MayamAlava Gowla- Papanasam Sivan
SahAna alApana for 7 min followed by “Vandanamu raghunandana”- Thyagarajar
Ahiri alApana for 3 min followed by “mAyammA”-Shyama Sastri
Ranjani rAgam for 5 min followed by “ranjani niranjani”-GNB- neraval in “sanchita pApamella” followed by swaram.
kAA vAA – varAli-Papanasam Sivan
Main-kAmboji followed “SubrahmanyAya namaste”-MD
“Vizhikkut tunai”-verse followed by “saravanabhavamenum”-Shanmugapriya-P.Sivan.
Chinnanjiru kiLiye-BharatiyAr-rAgamAlika
“PoothavaLe" verse from Abhirami Andhadhi in raag kAnada, Oorile kAni illai”-verse from pAsuram in Sindu bhairavi & Adum mayilAi-Thiru mayilai padhigam in behag-followed by kalpagambigai nee allavo-behag-P Sivan
VandarulvAi sundari maNi- Karnataka behag- PattAmiramaiah
Mangalam-pavamAna & vAzhiya senthamizh.

Music academy podium was decorated with Green colour set in top and back and it was sort of “Go green”. Amazing to see so much of art work was carried out for an over 4 hours function by Sivasailam Trust. The invitation card itself showed the involvement of the team. High tea was served to all the visitors and there was a big crowd, being holiday, The hall was full at 5.30 itself and the concert started at 6.30 (After a long time 6.30 !!!!, in time)
Interestingly, a week back, Arun excello, where Sanjay performed, showing video presentation of their real estate projects before the concert and the rasikas got irritated and asked them to close the screening. Sort of Cinema theatre...news reel.....story.

No gimmicks, no tu toos, no Alattur type talakkattus, no complicated rAgas leaving the rasikas to debate- Sanjay presented another memorable concert. Few Somu “pudis” were observed in Kambodhi. Brisk Abhogi followed by fast “pollA”. He, as commented in his speech, took GNB composition and proved how he keeps GNB in high esteem.
kAmbodhi was a top class and master piece of MD (who will forget the Ariyakkudi-paramacharyAl conversation on this kriti) was rendered very well. But he finished abruptly for tani without swaram or neraval.
Violin – as senior vidwan told me once- “varadu” kku ellam “varudu” . “vArAdadhu enru onrum kidaiyadhu . kAlaiyum vAra mAttAn”. (varadarajan know everything, nothing like “unknown” and he will not let others down).
He closely followed Sanjay as “shadow” and proved him as one of the best vidwans today.

Tani is another class.

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