Documentary films on musicians and dancers. Screening on Dec. 17 and 18

Kutcheribuzz.com in association with Madhuradhwani is hosting a two day documentary film fest on Dec. 17 and 18, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

On Dec. 17, documentaries on S. Rajam, a multifaceted artist and musician and another on Sanjay Subrahmanyam will be screened.

On Dec. 17, documentaries on clarinet vidwan AKC Natarajan, T. Brinda and dancer - guru Adyar Lakshman will be screened. Free event,

Sitar concert in memory of Pt. Ravi Shankar

Aarkay Convention centre has organised a sitar recital by Pt. Janardhan Mitta  along with the renowned Tabla artiste Miss.Rimpa Siva on Dec. 17, 2012 at 6.30 in their hall on Royapettah High Road, Mylapore.

This concert is dedicated to Pandit Ravishankarji and Pt.Janardhan Mitta is one of his prime disciples.

Bharathanatyam exponent V P Dhanajayan and VV Sundaram will share their fond memories on Panditji.

Presentation on Balasaraswati's style of Bharatanatyam

Aniruddha M Knight, grandson of the legendary dancer T. Balasaraswati will be presenting a lec-dem on padams and javalis in Balasaraswati style.

This event will be held on Dec. 15, 2012 from  6 pm to 8 pm at :
Old No:32, New No:26, 5th Main Road Kasturba Nagar, Adyar, Chennai, India 600020

The place can hold only a limited audience and seating is on first come first served basis. There is a token registration fee of Rs. 100.

SaMaaGaMa - cultural festival on Dec. 15 and 16, 2012

This is now season in Chennai and there is always more to music and dance.
Musician T.V. Ramprasad and his dancer wife Indira Kidambi have been organising an open-air cultural fest SaMaaGaMa since last year. The events includes workshops and performances by experts in the respective fileds.
This year also, the festival will be held in Nageswara Rao Park in Mylapore on Dec. 15 and 16, 2012.
Apart from music and dance, there are Origami workshops for children and Wellness workshops in Tai Chi, yoga and meditation for anyone who is health conscious this year.
The workshops start as early as 6 a.m. and go on till 9.30 p.m.

All Workshops are free, but prior registration is compulsory. Register online or call Ambalam at 044 - 43016555 for registration.

More details at http://www.ambalam.org/samaagamaa/

Exhibition of rare photos by Ashok Ramani

Musician Papanasam Ashok Ramani is putting up an exhibition of rare photos of yester year musicians collected by him over the years. He was sharing these pictures on his Face Book and at the request of the rasikas, he is displaying the pictures at an exhibition.

The exhibition will be in the premises of Narada Gana Sabha. It will be inaugurated on Dec. 12, 2012 at 5.30 p.m. by singers Nithyasree Mahadevan and P. Unnikrishnan.
The exhibition will be there till Dec. 31, 2012

Chennai Fine Arts - Dec. 28, 2012 to Dec. 31, 2012

Venue: Aarkay Convention Centre, Oms Lakshana, 146/3 Royapettah High Road, Mylapore, Chennai - 4
Contact Chennai Fine Arts at phone no. 8939504030
Email: chitravina@gmail.com


Dec. 28, 2012 - Thursday
6.00 p.m. - Audio Visual Presentation on Mayavaram Govindaswamy Pillai and Book Release on Centenary Musicians

Dec. 28, 2012 - Friday
7.00 p.m. - V.V. Subramaniam (Violin), T.V. Gopalakrishnan (Mridangam), Guruvayur Dorai (Mridangam), Vijay Natesan (Kanjira)

Dec. 29, 2012 - Saturday
4.00 p.m. - Komaragiri Madhu Mohan (Vocal), V.L.V. Sudarsan (Violin), Kalakad Srinivasan (Mridangam)
5.00 p.m. - Prapancham S Balachandran (Flute), V.V. Srinivasa Rao (Violin), R. Ramesh (Mridangam)
7.00 p.m. - R. Vedavalli (Vocal), R. Hemalatha (Violin), K. Arun Prakash (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)

Dec. 30, 2012 - Sunday
4.00 p.m. - Ranjani Sivakumar (Vocal), S.P. Anantha Padmanabha (Violin), R. Ramkumar (Mridangam)
5.00 p.m. - B. Sivakumar (Veena), Mannarkoil J. Balaji (Mridangam), Trichy Krishnaswamy (Ghatam)
7.00 p.m. - Suguna Varadachari (Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), Melakaveri K. Balaji (Mridangam)
Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 31, 2012 - Monday
4.00 p.m. - Vasudha Ravi (Vocal), K.J. Dileep (Violin), Sai Raghavan (Mridangam)
5.00 p.m. - S. Srinivasan (Veena), Neyveli R. Narayanan (Mridangam), G. Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
7.00 p.m. - V.V. Subramaniam  and V.V.S. Murari (Violin Duet), T.V. Gopalakrishnan (Mridangam), Tirupunithura N. Radhakrishnan (Ghatam)

Prabhata Sangeetham - Dec. 25, 2012 to Jan. 4, 2013

Venue: G/A. Saraswathi Apartments, 14/2, Luz Avenue 2nd Street, Mylapore, Chennai - 4
The concerts are mikeless and are in the traditional oil lamp settings.

Dec. 25, 2012 - Tuesday
5.30 a.m. - O.S. Thiagarajan - Vocal

Dec. 26, 2012 - Wednesday
5.30 a.m. - Amrutha Venkatesh - Vocal

Dec. 27, 2012 - Thursday
5.30 a.m. - K. Gayathri - Vocal

Dec. 28, 2012 - Friday
5.30 a.m. - Ramakrishnan Murthy - Vocal

Dec. 29, 2012 - Saturday
5.30 a.m. - Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath - Vocal

Dec. 30, 2012 - Sunday
5.30 a.m. - Delhi P. Sunderrajan, Arun Ramamurthy, Shiva Ramamurthy - Violin

Jan. 1, 2013 - Tuesday
5.30 a.m. - Delhi V. Muthukumar - Vocal

Jan. 2, 2013 - Wednesday
5.30 a.m. - Jayanthi Kumaresh - Veena

Jan. 3, 2013 - Thursday
5.30 a.m. - Kiranavali Vidyasankar - Vocal

Jan. 4, 2013 - Friday
5.30 a.m. - Archana & Aarathi - Vocal

Global Music Fest - Dec. 11, 2012 to Dec. 24, 2012

Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha, in association with Carnatica presents a Global Music Fest this year.

Venue:
R.K. Swamy Auditorium ( Sir Sivaswamy Kalalaya S.S. School ) Sundareswarar Street, Mylapore, Chennai – 4.

Dec. 11, 2012 - Tuesday
5.30 p.m: Akshay Padmanabhan – B. Ananthakrishnan – K.H. Vineeth
7.00 p.m: Prasanna Venkatraman - Charumathy Raghuraman - R. Sankaranarayanan

Dec. 12, 2012 - Wednesday
5.30 p.m: Mandolin Sisters (Sreeusha & Sireesha) -  Delhi Sairam -  B. Subbarao
7.00 p.m: Subha Ganesan - Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan - Karaikudi Ganesan - E.M. Subramaniam

Dec. 13, 2012 - Thursday
5.30 p.m: K. Dharini - R. Raghul  - S.R. Ethirajan
7.00 p.m: Shyamala Ramakrishnan -  Srilakshmi Venkatramani – Calcutta Karthick

Dec. 14, 2012 - Friday
5.30 p.m: Shankar Ramani – K.J. Dileep – Swamimalai Girish
7.00 p.m: Radha Bhaskar - Kalyani Shankar - P.B.V. Krishnamachari - Nanganallur Swaminathan

Dec.15, 2012 - Saturday
4.00 p.m: Keerthana Vaidyanathan -  M. Vijay - R. Akshay Ram
5.30 p.m: Jayalakshmi Sekhar (Veena) – N.C. Bharadwaj  -  S. Sunilkumar
7.00 p.m: Prema Rangarajan - Ranjani Ramakrishnan - Kallidaikurichi Shivakumar

Dec. 16, 2012 - Sunday
4.00 p.m: Vivek Sadasivam  -  Shradha Ravindran - Tiruvellore S. Sreyas
5.30 p.m: R. Nithya & R. Vidya  -  Vilivakkam Raghuraman – Madurai B. Sundar
7.00 p.m:  R. Raghavendra  - Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan – Tanjavur Praveen Kumar

Dec. 17, 2012 - Monday
5.30 p.m: Lalitha Ravi  - Shradha Ravindran - Raghunath Rajaram
7.00 p.m: Hemmige S. Prashanth  - B.K. Raghu – A. Radhesh

Dec. 18, 2012 - Tuesday
5.30 p.m: Brindha Manickavasakan - M. Vijay - Thalaignayiru S. Harish Kumar
7.00 p.m: S. Srinivasan (Veena)  - Shertalai R. Ananthakrishnan – Trichy Murali

Dec. 19, 2012 - Wednesday
5.30 p.m: Malathi Vasudevan  - Villivakkam Raghuraman -  Vignesh Venkatraman
7.00 p.m: Vasudha Ravi - Kamal Kiran - Erode Nagaraj

Dec. 20, 2012 - Thursday
5.15 p.m: Saralaya Sisters : Kavitha & Triveni - A.G. Venkatasubramaniam –  Anur  Ananthakrishnan
7.15 p.m: Bharatanatyam by Meera Srinivasan

Dec. 21, 2012 - Friday
5.15 p.m: Vasumathi Badrinathan – H.M. Smitha -  Palladam Ravi – D.V. Venkatasubramaniam
7.15 p.m: Bharatanatyam by Shivani Krishnamurthy

Dec. 22, 2012 - Saturday
4.00 p.m: Karur Sisters – Amirtharaj -  T. Manigandan
5.30 p.m: Harsha Nagarajan  – S.V. Sudarsan  - Trivandrum Hariharan
7.00 p.m: Mohan Santhanam – Trivandrum N. Sampath – Delhi S. Sairam – Madipakkam Murali

Dec. 23, 2012 - Sunday
4.00 p.m: Vidhya Raghavan – Srividya R.S. Iyer – R. Ramkumar
5.30 p.m: Vaaragi Vijayaraj   - Aporva Krishna -  Sridhar Chari
7.00 p.m: Bhajans & Abhang Namasankeerthanam By Pushpa Anand and Party

Dec. 24, 2012 - Monday
5.30 p.m: Sriranjani Darbha  - K.P. Nandini - Master Varun
7.00 p.m:  Palghat R. Ramprasad – Nagai Sriram – R. Sankaranarayanan – Guruprasanna

Global Heritage Music Festival - Dec. 14 to 23, 2012

Venue : Hare Krishna temple, 1st Seaward Road, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai - 41
Organised by Carnatica and Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha

Contact: 94440 18269, 4302 4024
Email: carnaticamusic@gmail.com

Dec. 14, 2012 - Friday
3.30 p.m. - Inaugural concert - K. Mahathi
4.45 p.m. - Inauguration - by E. Gaayathri. Chief Guest Umayalpuram Sivaraman
5.00 p.m. - Carnatica Brothers - Sashikiran and Ganesh - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - R. Vedavalli - Vocal

Dec. 15, 2012 - Saturday
3.30 p.m. - V. Deepika - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - R. Suryaprakash - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - Sriram Parasuram and Anoorada Sriram - Jugalbandhi

Dec. 16, 2012 - Sunday
3.30 p.m. - Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - V.K. Manimaran - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - Rajhesh Vaidhya - Veena

Dec. 17, 2012 - Monday
3.30 p.m. - Jayashri Jayaramakrishnan - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Trichur Brothers - Ramkumar Mohan and Srikrishna Mohan - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - N. Ramani - Flute

Dec. 18, 2012 - Tuesday
3.30 p.m. - Trivandrum N.J. Nandini - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Hyderabad Brothers - Seshachari and Raghavachari
7.00 p.m. - T.V. Sankaranarayanan - Vocal

Dec. 19, 2012 - Wednesday
3.30 p.m. - Amrutha Sankaranarayanan - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Nirmala Rajashekar - Veena
7.00 p.m. - Pantula Rama - Vocal

Dec. 20, 2012 - Thursday
3.30 p.m. - Archana and Aarathi - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Pattabhirama Pandit - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - Prof. T.N. Krishnan, Viji Krishnan, Sriram Krishnan - Violin

Dec. 21, 2012 - Friday
3.30 p.m. - J.B. Sruthi Sagar and J.B. Keerthana - Flute & Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Udayalur Kalyanarama Bhagavathar - Namasankeerthanam
7.00 p.m. - Gopika Varma - Mohiniattam

Dec. 22, 2012 - Saturday
3.30 p.m. - Bangalore Brothers - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - R.K. Sriramkumar - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - Rama Ravi and Nandita Ravi - Vocal

Dec. 23, 2012 - Sunday
3.30 p.m. - Kiranavali Vidyasankar - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - R.K. Srikantan & N. Ravikiran - Vocal and Chitravina
7.00 p.m. - S. Sowmya - Vocal

Mudhra Fine Arts Festival - Dec. 7, 2012 to Jan. 6, 2013

Venue: At Infosys Hall, Ramakrishna Mission School Campus, 31, Krishna Street, T.Nagar, Chennai – 600 017 (opp. to Joyalukkas and adjacent to Shah showroom)

Contact Mudhra at New No.26, Rama Street, Nungambakkam, Chennai – 600034. Ph:28264493 Mob: 9840072821
Email : mudhrasabha@gmail.com, Website: www.mudhra.org
Live webcast : www.mudhra.org/tv

Dec. 7, 2012 - Friday
4.00 p.m. - Mangala Isai by Adyar D. Balasubramaniam - Nadaswaram, P.V.Dakshinamurthy & D.Senthil Kumar - Tavil
5.30 p.m. - Inauguration
7.00 p.m. - Flute- Mandolin Concert by B.V.Balasai - Flute and U.P.Raju - Mandolin, Trichy B.Harikumar- Mridangam, Udupi Sridhar - Ghatam

Dec. 8, 2012 - Saturday
6.15 p.m. - Palghat Dr.Ramprasad - Vocal, R.K.Shriram Kumar - Violin, Tanjore Murugaboopathy - Mridangam, Trichy Krishnaswami - Ghatam

Dec. 9, 2012 - Sunday
6.15 p.m. - S.Mahathi - Vocal, Usha Rajagopal - Violin, M.S.Varadan - Mridangam, Adambakkam Shankar - Ghatam

Dec. 10, 2012 - Monday
6.15 p.m. - S.Saketharaman –Vocal, Akkarai Subbulakshmi – Violin, Neyveli Venkatesh – Mridangam, Trichy Murali - Ghatam

Dec. 11,  2012 - Tuesday
6.15 p.m. - A.Kanyakumari & Embar Kannan –Violin Duet, Bangalore Praveen – Mridangam, Giridhar Udupa - Ghatam

Dec. 12, 2012 - Wednesday
6.15 p.m. - Kadalur Gopi Bhagavathar’s Thyagara Charitram

Dec. 13, 2012 - Thursday
6.15 p.m. - Violin-Venu-Veena by H.K.Venkatram (Violin), G.Ravikiran (Venu), Ashwin Anand (Veena), H.S.Sudhindra – Mridangam, Trivandram Rajagopal - Kanjira

Dec. 14, 2012 - Friday
6.15 p.m. - Ghatam Karthick’s Heart Beat Ensemble: Dr. S. Karthick – Ghatam, Konnakol & Vocal, U.P. Raju - Mandolin, H.N. Bhaskar – Violin, Prapancham Ravindran – Mridangam, Papanasam Sethuraman – Kanjira, R. Raman – Morsing, N. Sundar - Tabla, Sarvesh Karthick - Djembe, V.Rajagopalan - Percussion effects

Dec. 15, 2012 - Saturday
6.15 p.m. - Jairaj & Jayashree – Veena Duet, Mudhra Bhaskar – Mridangam, Madipakkam Murali - Ghatam

Dec. 16, 2012 - Sunday
6.15 p.m. - SAPTHA RATHNANGAL - A Thematic presentation by Dr. Radha Bhaskar with Vasuda Ravi, K.P.Nandini, Aishwarya Shankar & Dikshitha -Vocal,
Anayampatti Venkatasubramaniam - Violin, Nellai Balaji - Mridangam, S.Krishna - Ghatam

Dec. 17, 2012 - Monday
6.15 p.m. - Papanasam Ashok Ramani - Vocal, M.R.Gopinath - Violin, Tiruvarur Vaidhyanathan - Mridangam, N.Guruprasad - Ghatam

Dec. 18, 2012 - Tuesday
6.15 p.m. - Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna - Vocal, B.U.Ganesh Prasad - Violin, Neyveli Narayanan - Mridangam, Dr.S.Karthick - Ghatam

Dec. 19, 2012 - Wednesday
6.15 p.m. - Srikrishna & Ramkumar (Trichur Brothers) - Vocal, V.V.Ravi - Violin, Trichur Mohan - Mridangam, S.V.Ramani – Ghatam

Dec. 20, 2012 - Thursday
6.15 p.m. - Madurai T.N.S.Krishna - Vocal , S.Varadarajan - Violin, R.Ramesh - Mridangam, H.Sivaramakrishnan – Ghatam

Dec. 21, 2012 - Friday
6.15 p.m. - K.N.Shashikiran & Ganesh (Carnatica Brothers) - Vocal, M.A. Sunderasan - Violin, Srimushanam Raja Rao - Mridangam, K.V.Gopalakrishnan - Kanjira

Dec. 22, 2012 - Saturday
6.15 p.m. - Namasankeerthanam by Udayalur Kalyanaraman

23.12.2012 - FROM 9 A.M. TO 4.30 P.M.- TALENT PROMOTION CONCERTS

Dec. 23, 2012 - Sunday
9 .00 a.m.
Theme: Compositions of Mysore Vasudevachar
Aparna Kumar – Shraddha Ravindran – K.Parthasarathy

10.15 a.m.
Theme : Compositions of Papanasam Sivan
Nishant Thiagarajan(SIFAS) – Melakkaveri Thiagarajan– Thirucheri Kaushik Rajagopal

11.30 a.m.
Theme : Compositions on Lord Vishnu
Manasa Suresh - M.P.Aditya –Uzhavoor P.K.Babu

12.45 p.m.
Theme: Sri Gurubhyo Namah
R.P.Shravan –Srividhya R.S.Iyer –N.C.Bharadwaj

2.00 p.m.
Theme : Compositions on Lord Krishna
 N.S.Aruna– Sriram Sridhar – R.Kishore

3.15 p.m.
Theme : Compostions of Swathi Thirunal
K.S.Harishankar – H.M.Smitha– Kumbakonam Swaminathan

6.15 p.m.- Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan – Vocal, M.Chandrasekaran - Violin, Trichur Narendran - Mridangam, Vazhappallay R.Krishnakumar - Ghatam

Dec. 24, 2012 - Monday
6.15 p.m. - S. Sashank - Flute, Jyothsana Srikanth- Violin, Sai Giridhar - Mridangam, Thirupunithura Radhakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 25, 2012 - Tuesday
6.15 p.m. - O.S.Arun - Bhajan, M.R.Gopinath - Violin , J.Vaidyanathan - Mridangam, Srikrishnan - Harmonium , Ganapathi & Kiran - Tabla, Selvam - Talam

Dec. 26, 2012 - Wednesday
6.15 p.m. - Dr.Kadri Gopalnath - Saxaphone , A.Kanyakumari - Violin, Patri Satish Kumar - Mridangam, Gurumurthi Vaidhya - Tabla, Bangalore Rajasekar - Moharsing

Dec. 27, 2012 - Thursday
6.15 p.m. - Neyveli Santhanagopalan – Vocal, M.A.Sundaresan – Violin, B.Ganapathiraman – Mridangam, Vaikom Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 28, 2012 - Friday
6.15 p.m. - O.S.Thiagarajan - Vocal , Nagai R.Muralidharan - Violin, Dr.Trichy Sankaran – Mridangam, V.Suresh – Ghatam

29.12.2012 - TALENT PROMOTION CONCERTS FROM 9 A.M. TO 4.30 P.M.
Dec. 29, 2012 - Saturday
9 .00 a.m.
Theme: Thiruvaiyaru Skhetra Kritis
Lakshmi Abhishek – S.Sayee Rakshith– J.Arvind

10.15 a.m.
Theme : Compositions of Lord Muruga Sunil R.Gargyan – Thirumarugal Dinesh Kumar – PBV Krishnamachari

11.30 a.m.
Theme: Devi Kritis
Priyanka C.Prakash - K.J.Dilip - Akshayram

12.45 p.m.
Theme: Compositions of Margadarsi Sesha Iyengar
Iyer Sisters(Srividhya & Sudha) (Vocal) – Adhiti
Krishnaprakash – Guru Raghavendra

2.00 p.m.
Theme : Ragam Tanam Pallavi
N.J.Nandini – Nagarkoil Anand – K.H.Vineeth

3.15 p.m.
Theme : Thyagaraja Kritis other than Rama
Harish Nagarajan – Kovai Chandran – Thirucheri Kaushik

6.15 p.m.- Pantula Rama – Vocal, M.S.N.Murthy - Violin, Manoj Siva - Mridangam
Nerkunam Shankar - Kanjira

30.12.2012- TALENT PROMOTION CONCERTS FROM 9 A.M. TO 4.30 P.M.
Dec. 30, 2012 - Sunday
9 .00 a.m.
Theme: Compositions of Spencer Venugopal Ramya & Sahana – Sudha R.S.Iyer – Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan

10.15 a.m.
Theme : Compositions of GNB
Amrithavarshini – Shraddha Ravindran– Thalaignayiru Harishkumar

11.30 a.m.
Theme : Tillana
Apoorva & Anahita - Adhiti Krishnaprakash – B.Saisankar

12.45 p.m.
Theme: Compositions of Muthiah Bhagavathar
J.Sathya Sairam–C.N.Srinivasamurthi –V.S.Raghavan

2.00 p.m.
Theme : One Raga One Kriti
Kamala Deepthi – S.P.Ananthapadmanabha –
PBV.Krishnamachari

3.15 p.m.
Theme : Compositions of Syama Sastri
Ananya Ashok – M.Vijay– Madurai Sundar

6.45 p.m. - Drama : Lakshaya Arts presents 'POI MEI' by by C.V.Chandramohan

Dec. 31, 2012 - Monday
6.15 p.m. - Sikkil Gurucharan – Vocal, H.K.Venkatram - Violin, Mannargudi Easwaran - Mridangam, B.S.Purushotham- Kanjira

Jan. 1, 2013 - Tuesday
9.45 a.m. - Sthree Thyagaraja Pancharathnam Sruti 5 – Rendering of Pancharatha Kritis by 60 Women Artists
4.30 p.m. - V.R.Raghava Krishna –Vocal , Kalyani Shankar-Violin, Kallidaikuchi Sivakumar – Mridangam, Papanasam Sethuraman - Kanjira
6.45 p.m. - Drama : UAA’s Y.Gee Mahendra in “Idhu Nyayama Sir” by Venkat

Dec. 6, 2013 - Sunday
5 p.m. to 9 p.m. - Special Four Hour Concert by Gayathri Venkataraghavan - Vocal, M.A.Krishnaswamy - Violin , Neyveli Skandasubramaniam - Mridangam
Alathur Rajaganesh- Kanjira, A.S.Krishnan -Moharsing

DANCE FESTIVAL FROM Jan. 2 to 5, 2013 

Jan. 2, 2013
6.30 p.m. - Sheela Unnikrishnan’s Sridevi Nrithyalaya presents 'Sri Krishna Vaibhavam'

Jan. 3, 2013
6.30 p.m. - V.Balagurunathan & Gayatri’s Krishnanjali Academy presents 'Ayigiri Nandhini'

Jan. 4, 2013
6.30 p.m.- Sashirekha Rammohan’s Kanagasabai group presents 'Thennadudaiya Shivane Potri'

Dec. 5, 013
6.30 p.m. - Anita Guha’s Bharathanjali Trust presents 'Pada Kavitaa Pithamaha' (Annamacharya) by students of Bharathanjali

Tech savvy artistes make the most of their gadgets

Photo and content by L. Baba Prasad

We caught Murali Parthasarathy (Vocalist) and M.S Kannan (Violinist) using iPad during a dance rehearsal.

They use devices at the recitals and rehearsal. They find it very useful when it comes to organising all songs that they know and use during concerts.

"We have scanned the songs from our notebooks and sorted out item-wise and artiste-wise so it's very easy to access," they say. Classifying genre-wise like varnams, padams and jawalis also help them, search their repertoire effectively. Even if its dark on the Stage, we can see the song better using this iPad!
"The popular  iTanpura app for the Apple devices is a great boon us," they add saying that the quality from it is amazing!

Bhavan's houseful concerts

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, which is the first of the sabhas to launch the music season in the city is a favourite destination for many rasikas. One reason is that the location is well-connected and has other interests like the Kapaleeswarar temple, traditional shopping and food joints. The other reason is that the concerts are not ticketed.

Today's concert by Sudha Ragunathan saw a houseful show and the rasikas flowing to the corridors in front of the CCTV. The chill weather in the open did not hold back the rasikas to the halls. Even many seniors were seen glued to the concert.

 Photos by L. Baba Prasad

Aruna Sairam's concert on the other day also had similar overwhelming rasikas at this sabha.