----------------------------- By Abirami Srivatsan
It’s that time of that year and Chennai’s most important music festival has begun. On Thursday, December 5, 2024, Arkay Convention Centre set the stage for a brilliant concert by Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath.
The concert began with a varnam in ragam Gowla and transitioned to a composition in Jaganmohini, Mamava Satatam Raghunatha. Moving further, she brought out Reethigowlai amazingly well. The composition is a magnum opus composition of Saint Thyagaraja - Chera Ravademira Ramaiyya. The sub-main part of the concert was Kalyani. She took up a rare composition by Tharangampadi Panchanaada Iyer - Birana Brova Idi Manchi samayura.
A short composition of Sri Muthu Thandavar - Kanamal Vinile Kalam Kazhithome in the ragam Neelambari provided a lilting interlude before the main part of the concert.
Then came the most popular raga Thodi, which can easily be the core raga of the season. The Mel Kalam and Keezh Kalam swarams , koraippu, korvais were very intricate and rendered very well. The song , a composition of Shyama Shastri one among the Carnatic Trinity Ninnenamminanu Sada Na Vinnapamu Vini Nannu Brovumu, with an exquisite Neraval in the line 'Kamakshi Kanchadalayathakshi ' was sung very well.
The concluding part of the concert was a javali in ragam Kamas Marubari Talalenura by Dharmapuri Subbaraya Iyer. This javali is a favourite of Sri Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and Aishwarya's singing evoked nostalgia of his rendition. The concert concluded with a blissful devara nama of Sri Purandara Dasa in ragamalika - Devaki Nandana Nanda Mukunda.
The accompanists Madan Mohan, Arun Prakash and N Guruprasad supported extremely well throughout the concert.
~~~~ The writer is an aspiring Carnatic musician and a student of Carnatic music ~~~~
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