Unnikrishnan concert - 25.07.07

Going to a concert , is something which gives me immense pleasure and excitement. so when i look into the entertainment column , i only look at the concerts , listings , so far i have attended more than 200 concerts ,mostly i go with my father ,december is our favourite month where we schedule our listening session by the first week of december itself!!!I have many favourites , infact i cannot hate any musician as i see God in our music. But i definetly have my favourites i like one factor in each of my favourites. To list a few ,
UnniKrishnan - (my father's top favourite too...) - bhavam , voice and his commitment to a audience
Vijay Siva - Bhani , repotoire
Sowmya - voice , style of singing
Sanjay subramanium- creativity personified
T.M.Krishna - singing style , swarams
the list goes on...............................

Yesterday was one such very pleasant evening when we went to unnikrishnan's concert , at shastri hall . we sat dowm with a bag of expcetations , as a started off with a thodi varnam , which was rendered more to slower paces , we could see that his melifluous voice was a little strained, then he went on to intha para in mayamalavagowla ,where he gained a little grip over the voice and the kalpana swaram in this was short and crisp . next was a kriti in purnachandrika , which was free flowing and small chitta swarams decorated it . this was followed by an alapana of purvikalyani , which was good , and very well continued by shri R.K.Shriramkumar sir , the kriti was satre vilagirum pillai , he renered it very slowly and beautifully filling the rendition with bhavam. this was followed by a wonderful bahudari , very lilting and fresh, song choice was again for the popular brova baramma , the audience sang with him !!!! This was definetly a wonderful piece followed by the crown of the concert - Bhairavi , every second of the raga alapana was as though a juice of bhairavi was given out from a fruit , and the violin was simply brilliant . He sang upacharamu , with neraval at kapata nataka sundari-both neraval and kalpana swaram were soothing , and captivating. The concert was in memory of a mrindaga vidwan the tani was a perfect tribute to him , only this can be said for the thani we heard sterday . though the tukkadas section was short , it was very sweet , a new song vittala raho was a beautiful melody , a padam in dhijavanthi took us to another world , ending pieces were a kavadi chindu and a thillana in hamsanandhi , which give a beuatiful unni signature finish to this lovely concert . a very happy and an enjoyable evening !!!!!!!!!!

Going to concerts !!!!!!!!

For me going to a carnatic concert gives me eternal happiness and joy , i have already written a post on growing as a rasika , where i am in a stage where every concert i go , iam able to feel the art of enjoying music grow in me . Basically I love listening to Unnikrishnan , Vijay Siva , Sanjay Subramanium , T.V.Sankaranarayanan , Sowmya , O.S.Thyagarajan , and in instruments T.N.Krishnan and ofcourse the divine voice of Smt M.S.Subbulakshmi . I havent been fortunate enough to attend a live concert of M.S amma . I always got o concerts with my father who is also a great music lover , infact iam so blessed that he takes me to all the concerts , picks me up and we really enjoy a concert better when we go together .According to me every concert is a prayer for me and I see God in the voices or music of all my favourite musicians . I love the thrill of identifying ragams , which sometimes may be wrong too!!!!! , but still , it is a joy when we hear the begining of a kriti and we get to know the ragams . We make it a pont to stay thro the concert and at the end give the performer a standing ovation ,I look forward for music season , when if my father is in town , i attend concerts right thro the month make a note of songs , thodis , bhairavis and khambhojis just stay deep rooted in our soul along with some intresting tiffin from the delicious canteen!I will keep writing on my experinces with different concerts.

Profession -my asset

Profession , generally is career for which we study for so many years sometimes focussing on a particular career , but for many career comes in as a forced choice , luckily i chose to do my studies in a pure science subject , and today iam a lecturer in a very reputed college in chennai .Iam extremly happy and proud of my profession , in teaching u r constantly learning and u r in touch with the subject , at the same time , u always feel young when ur amidst students . I have always loved teaching , and being with students , I teach chemistry to my students . I always believe that we need to make the subject very interesting and interactive with practical examples , which makes the students get involved with us and with our subject. Genarally when they like a teacher they automatically like the subject too .I hope my students will agree to this!!!,In teaching another very important thing is that the student should take u as a friend must feel the closeness with u , which will also make her get involved in the subject , this is the brief intro about myself being a lecturer !!!!!!