Sikkil Gurucharan at Asthika Samaja on 10.12.11

Sikkil Gurucharan
Mysore Manjunath - Violin
Sri.Kamalakar Rao - Mridangam
B.S.Purushottaman - Kanjira

Venue- Asthika samajam, Alwarpet

Event- Sruthi Laya Kendra -founded by Sri.Karaikkudi Mani. This sabha presented Guru Surajananda Award to
Guruvayur Dorai and Gowri Manohari Award to Rajkumar Bharathi.

Despite the award function, the concert started at 6.35 PM !!!!.

Chalamela - nAttakurinji-Adi tAla varNam.

padhavini- sALaka bhairavi-Thyagaraja -swaram in "padhavini"

KalyAni- followed by kandEn kali teerndhen, karuNaik kadalai-nAn -Gopalakrishna Bharathi. Neraval in
"ninrEn sannidhi arugil"

mAkelara-jayanthasri- Thyagarajar-swaram in mAkelara

Main-mukhari- followed by kArubAru- Thyagarajar -swaram in "nelaku mudu"

Tani

avatAru raghupati -kamAs- annamAcharya

ChEndanai kandhanai- verse from Kandar alankAram- in Tilang, BehAg, sindhu bairavi followed by
"kandanin azhagil bhaktar mayakkam" in Sindhu bhairavi- composed by SurajAnandA and tuned by
Sri. T.S.KalyAnanarAman - Did swara bedham in Tilang-Behag.

pavamAna.

In a two hour concert, SK did full justice by giving a crisp kalyAni and detailed mukhAri. Mysore's return
in mukhAri is very good even clapped by SK.

Sri.KR's tani with BSP mertis mention. The verteran with Purushottaman gave 20 minutes quality-packed tani.

Other Info -

kARthik Fine arts - Bhavan's Mini Hall - Musicians living abroad (MLA) concert- I went through the schedule.
There was a concert where the Ghatam is by Sri. kuno Takaski from Japan. Anyone who knows this person's
background/guru can enlighten me. More importantly, I liked the "Sri" before his name in the pamphlet.