Sikkil Gurucharan - Concert at Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan 2015

Gurucharan-Vocal

Patri  Satishkumar – Mridangam

V Sanjeev-Violin

27^th Nov 2015,

Bharatiya Vidhya bhavan Annual Music Festival, Mylapore.

Part 1- Patri Satish kumar-“musical  musings”

·         When I saw Patri in the mridhangam list, I thought of not going to the venue as I was confident that that I could hear the concert sitting at home.

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      When Patri played at BVB, KaRpagAmbAl along with kapAli moved to KailAsam from Mylapore for 3 hours to escape from the sound.  kapAli felt that patri’s mridhangam sound is louder than His “damaru”.

·         ThillAna mohanambal- 1968 –Movie-  a dialogue.

Manorama asks Shivaji Ganesan, who is the nadhaswara vidhwan whether the ‘sunAdham” comes only from his Nadaswaram or from any other nAdaswaram.  Shivaji Ganesan repies -  “it is not like you think. This comes from our inner “nAbi kamalam” along with God’s blessings. ”

Present day- 2015

Manorama asks Patri -  Whether the blasting sound comes only from your mridhangam or from any other mridhangam,

Patri replies- No, if you tune your mridhangam with “dOlki” type instrument with silver rods fitted around mridhangam’s  tOppi, even you can create this sound while playing.

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f     For Patri, there should be another upa-pakka vAdhyam like ghatam or khanjira so that our ears are at peace (in one piece) when the other vidwan is playing.

Part II-Concert

Sikkil Gurucharan gave another “soulful” concert with sadAnanda tAndavam and ekkAlathilum in pUrvi kalyAni.

tuLasi dhalamulacE-  Neraval in “sarasIruha punAga”  followed by Swram- Thyagarajar

Kamala charanE- GNB- Amritha BehAg.

Submain-bahudArai- Achutha dAsar’s “sadAnanda dAndavam”  (S)

husEni- rAma, ninE nambi nAnu, -Thyagarajar

main-pUrvi kalyAni-ekkAlathilum unai maRavamalE – Tiruvarur Ramaswamy pillai-  Neraval in ….”Ishwari unai allal igathil uNDO vEdham”.. (S)

TanjavUr ponniah pillai’s “Ashta rAga mAligai” in Darbar, kAnada, atAna, amIr kalyani, kamAs, paras, behAg and surutti.

Oru pozudhu- behAg-Tiruppugazh-Arunagirnathar

Srirama chandranukku- surutti-Mangalam

In bahudAri, his swaram ending in tAndavam, Ananda tAndavam, sadAnanda tAndavam was very nice.

Ponnaiah pillai’s rAga mAliga kriti was new and very nice.  Each and every rAga was included in the lyrics except behAg.

His rAga alApana always stands out to be full of bhAvam. He never hurries it up.  pUrvi kalyAni was beautifully exhibited and like “jackfruit chocked in honey”

Another good concert.

Sanjeev, as usual, is at his best.