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From Kanyakumari to her guru at the Shanmukhananda Sabha, Mumbai.
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DELIGHTFUL: Kanyakumari and Embar Kannan.
Sri Shanmukhananda Fine Arts and Sangeeta Sabha, Mumbai, recently featured violin exponent A. Kanyakumari in its Golden Greats series.
The recital, held at the sabha’s Chandrashekarendra Saraswati auditorium, was dedicated to the memory of M.L.Vasanthakumari, Kanyakumari’s guru. The violinist, the first to perform at Shanmukhananda Sabha, was MLV’s accompanist for several years. That evening she was accompanied on the violin by her disciple Embar Kannan.
Soulful alapana
The Nattakurinji varnam ‘Chalamela’ was followed by a Hamsadhwani alapana for ‘Mooladhara Moorti’ and a crisp kalpanaswara exchange, including a number of single avartana swaras, between guru and sishya.
A soulful Kannadagowla alapana proved a nice foil for this brisk start, with ‘Sogasujooda Tarama’ being the choice of kriti. Thodi shone with all its nuances in her next elaboration, followed by Syama Sastri’s swarajati ‘Raave Himagiri.’ This, however, seemed to be very different from the usually heard patantharam. One could almost hear MLV in Kanyakumari’s Andolika alapana and ‘Raaga Sudha Rasa.’
The chaturdasa ragamalika of Dikshitar ‘Shree Vishwanatham,’ popularised by MLV, was rendered next, with an interesting aside from Kanyakumari that MLV had first rendered this composition at the erstwhile Bharatiya Music and Fine Arts Society in Mumbai. Naasikabhooshani alapana for the kriti ‘Maaravairi Ramani’ and a racy ‘Vara Ragalaya’ in Chenchu Khambodi was followed by a competent dwi-raaga (Kharaharapriya and Mohanam) pallavi in 2-kalai Adi taalam.
The alapana had Kanyakumari and Kannan playing Kharaharapriya and Mohanam in turn, each ending their his turn with a delightful cue in the other raga, for the other to pick up.
K.V.Prasad on the mridangam and B.S. Purushothaman on the ganjira provided a lively thani. Kanyakumari allocated a good forty-five minutes for the light classical compositions such as ‘Ellam Inbamayam,’ ‘Muralidhara Gopala’ and ‘Aarumo Aaval’ and Devarnamas like ‘Yaadavaraaya,’ ‘Venkatachala Nilayam’ and ‘Krishna Nee Begane’ popularised by MLV.
Be it the quality of music, choice of items, or style of raga alapana, it was, to sum up, a very befitting tribute to a great artist.
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