Ratnagireeswar Temple, Besant Nagar, Chennai
Date- 15th February 2012
It is part of Sivarathri celebrations. There are always concerts by eminent vidwans before
Sivarathri which falls on coming Monday.
I could not go to Sanjay, Gurucharan but yesterday, I made to AR.
Abhishek Raguram (AR)
Anantha R Krishnan-Mridangam
Vittal Ramamurthy- Violin
Shri G S Mani, Shri.PSN and Shri O S Sundar and few known sabha secretaries gathered for this
programme and GSM echoed our views in the concluding speech.
"AR has imbibed tremendous manodharma in his pAdandhram. While his right brain excels in
manOdharma, his left controls the Thalam and by God's grace, both get synchronised at the
right time and place and the result is ecstacy to rasikas.
As God created rAmanujam for Maths, He has created AR for present Carnatic Music and if
we want to reciprocate "thanks for your wonderful music", please pray everyday monring that
God should give long life and impeccable vocal power to this youngster (AR)"
As Shri PSN felicitated AR and other artists, the programme ended happily with the blessings
of the deity of the temple. Ratnagireeswarar...
This is the FIRST time, Iam listening AR live. I have read many of his reviews in this forum,
other forum and newspapers and listened couple of cassettes. Expectedly, all kritis of Siva.
Lyrics go like this.
1)ThyagarAjAya namastE- Begada- Dikshitar- rupakam
2)Bahudari- a short sketch of rAgam- sadAnandha Tandavam-Adi- Achuda Dasar- swaram in
"muttarum siddharum" -
3) Bairavi-five minutes rAgam followed by "Chintaya mAkandhamoola kandham" - another beautiful
kriti of Dikshitar- Interestingly, he did neraval in "mangalakara mandhahAsa vadhanam, mAnikya
maya kAnchi sadhanam" and swaram in "uttungamanEya vrushaturangam".
4) idadhu padam tooKi- kamas - pApanAsam sivan
5) rAgam-Shanmugapriya followed by pArvathi nAyakane- PapanaAsam sivan-adi & swaram
in "sArvabowmane shankarane"
7) Tani
8) Idu dano tillai stalam-GKB- BehAg.
9) Kumdakriya - rAga for 4 minutes followed by "ardha nAreeshwaram" -Dikshitar.
10) nava sidhi peRRAlum- Neelkanta sivan- karaharapriya
11) chandra chooda- Darbari kAnada - Purandaradasar
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