Carnatica & Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's II Interactive Listeners' Choice Concert |
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Buoyed by the tremendous response to the
first-of-its-kind Interactive
Listeners' Choice Concert held last month, Carnatica presented the
second edition last week in association with Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, at
the BVB Hall in Mylapore, Chennai. Featuring young and upcoming artistes
along with established stars, the surprise element in this edition was the
appearance of the star guest, acclaimed vocalist Vijay Siva. The
complete star cast included S. Sowmya, Carnatica Brothers (Shashikiran
& Ganesh) and Nisha Rajagopal. Also featured were talented
upcoming artistes V. Ranjani (disciple of Sowmya), Pradeepkumar,
Saketharaman, Delhi Muthukumar and Keyboard Star Sathyanarayanan.
Accompanying artistes were Nagai Sriram (Violin) and B.
Sivaraman (Mridangam), disciple of the legendary T. K. Moorthy.
Following the procedure implemented in the first
edition, members of the audience were invited to write in their requests
for songs/ragas. An added feature this time was the inclusion of general
and technical questions related to music. The artistes' panel went through
the requests and picked out a set of ragams and krithis that could be
moulded into a concert format. The concert started off with the popular
Kalyani varnam, "Vanajakshi", sung
in chorus ( Next was a lively Q&A session, peppered with
enthusiastic queries from the audience on a variety of topics, ranging
from Tamil Music to concert presentation to technical aspects of various
ragas. The star guest of the evening, Vijay Siva was an
active participant. In addition to answering various questions, his
extensive repertoire of Tamil kritis was highlighted, with a chaste Kambhoji
rendition of "Adum Deivam" ( An interesting request from the audience was for
Khamaas with Kaishiki Nishadam. Star vocalist Sowmya responded with
a fine rendition of the popular Javali,
"Modijese" ( A North Indian member of the audience made a
surprising request for the Nadanamakriya
padam, "Payyada Paimeeda" (
-- Editor (with inputs from the Carnatica Team) Sept. 29th, 2003. |
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