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Dr Pu ThiNa Trust organised a vocal concert to commemorate the 110th birth anniversary of the poet.
P T Narasimhachar is known for his operas which also contain beautiful songs. In most of the cases the poet himself has composed music and more than that there is inherent music in his lyrics. While some of them are pure classicals, few of them suite group music and some others are of folk style. Thus, it is always a pleasure to sing Narasimhachar’s lyrics, of course it also requires a good knowledge of music.
Seasoned singer Vani Satish presented a number of songs, chosen from different operas of Narasimhachar. Vani opened her programme with the Nandi Padya ‘Gokula Nirgama’, followed by the “Aaduba Mudaveeda Ba” in the raga Natakuranji. “Baruthihane Node Vaarija Lochana” (Kaanada) “Vasanthi Madhavi” (Vasanthi), Thugiri Raghu Ramana (Kaapi) etc were sung neatly.
Narasimhachar has coined few new ragas like Vaasanthi, Sanjeevini, Harini etc. One such raga Yaman Behag was selected by Vani for the song “Bellaga Nammee Deevige” (from “Deepa Lakshmi”).
Apart from this Pu Thi Na brought a new flavour to few ragas like Kedara Gowla, Thodi. For instance in “Daasharathi Mahaneeya” (Sri Rama Pattabhisheka) we can savour Kedaragowla raga with a refreshingly new flavour. Vani song ragalapana and swara briefly, for few (Kaanada, Mukhari) of them. Without over doing anything raga and swara were complementary to the lyrics.
With her melodious voice Vani’s presentation was impactful and earned the appreciation of the connoisseurs. Vittal Rangan on violin and Tumkur Ravishankar on bridanga suited the needs of the occasion.
The Trust must conduct such programmes all over the state at least in the district headquarters, as a first step.
Beautiful Bhavayami
The Natyaniketan presented a dance drama “Bhavayami Raghu-Ramam” under the “Friday Cultural Evening programme”.
The Natya Niketan is training youngsters from last 4 decades in Bharatantya, under the direction of Revathi Narasimhan. She is a veteran artiste, teacher and choreographer, who has more than 50 Ranga praveshas to her credit. Her choreographed “Bhavayami Raghuramam” is a popular dance drama, which has seen 95 shows, so far. The composition of Swathi Thirunal in ragamalike, also has got well knit chitte swara, The story of Ramayana unfolded itself with several well known events, like Sita Kalyana, Kaike, Paduka, Shurpanaki, Mareecha, Seethapaharana and ultimately, the Rama Pattabisheka (coronation). The dancers portrayed more than one character, changing the roles in quick succession.
Senior students performed with stylised movements and good expressions. Revathi has fielded a well- trained team, who performed gracefully without letting the tempo. Bhanupriya, Shreya Balaji, Swathi Srinivasan, Tejashri S, Devika Paramesh, Srilatha Y G and Tejaswini HY performed gracefully and the “Bhavayami” Keertana blossomed into a beautiful dance drama.
From the wings, Balasubramanya Sharma (vocal), Revathi Narasimhan (Natuvanga), Gurumurthy (mridanga), Prasanna Kumar (rhythm pad), Jayaram (flute) and Dayakar (violin) – gave inspiring support.