<p>Melodious violin recital<br /><br /></p>.<p>Tyagaraja Ganasabha Trust conducts a music festival every year, in connection with Shankara Jayanthi. This year, senior vocalist R A Ramamani presided over the festival and received the title "Kalabhushana". Nalina Mohan gave a solo violin recital in the festival last week. Nalina Mohan, a gold medalist in Music, is a "A-grade" artiste of AIR and a recipient of "Ganakalashree" title, apart from several prizes from reputed music organisations. She has performed in many prestigious sabhas and sammelans, both in and outside the country and is a sought after accompanist of the State. Though she is a familiar accompanist, her solo violin recitals are not frequently heard. Thus music lovers were eager to hear her recital in the Tyagaraja Gana Sabha festival. Naina Mohan's solo violin concert was packed with few familiar and few less known melodies, to make it an interesting one. <br /><br />Shanmukhapriya is one of the commonly heard raga in any "Kacheri". Hence it is not easy to make an instant appeal. But when a seasoned musician like Nalina renders it, the raga attains a flavour of its own. With her measured and pleasing touches and command over the instrument the Pallavi was marked for its melodic vision. Sri Kailasanathena and Sri Parvathi Parameshwari - both of Dikshitar, brought a graceful impact while "Sri Mahabalagiri" is a good addition to the concert repertoire and the "Bho Shambho" is a popular composition. Nalina concluded her concert with a infrequent Tillana of T Chowdaiah in the raga Kaapi. A team of experienced percussionist gave her good support -Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma on mridanga, S N Narayana Murthy on Ghata, Vyasa Vittala on Khanjari and M Gururaj on Morching.<br /><br />Promising veena artiste<br /><br />Narasimha Jayanthi was celebrated by the Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple with music (Saxophone, Violin duet, Veena and Vocal), Harikatha and Dance recitals, apart from religious rituals, and with good public response.<br />Young veena player B Divya, who performed a veena recital here on Friday, is a BE graduate and a disciple of Dr Suma Sudhindra, internationally acclaimed Veena player. <br />She has also passed proficiency examination with distinction (first rank) and has won prizes from several organisations, including Gayana Samaja and has performed in many Sangeetha Sabhas, in both India and a few foreign countries. She saluted to invocatary God through the "Vathapi". <br />It acquired a special delight with the Swara prasthara. She was successful in highlighting the emotional overtones in the evocative Keertane "Manasa Etulo". <br />The 'Manavyalara' and 'Raghuvamsha' both were rendered with popular appeal. However she chose "Yethavunara" for a detailed elaboration, which was proof of her good training and practice. No doubt with some more experience Divya will be able to reach great heights. <br />C N Chandrashekar, C Cheluvaraj and S N Narayana Murthy - gave able support on violin, mridanga and ghata, respectively.<br /><br />Inspiring songs<br /><br />Sri Raghavendra Swamy Brindavana Sannidhi, is a popular religious and cultural centre of Prakashnagar (Bangalore North).<br />A 50 days long programme is slated to commemorate the occasion, which will continue till June 7. Puttur Narasimha Nayak, popular Sugama Sangeeth artiste, is also known as a crowd puller, wherever he performs. He sang a number of devotionals of different Haridasas and pleased the gathering. A few compositions on Saint Raghavendra Swamy (Rathavanerida Raghavendra and Tunga Theeradi Nintha) suited the occasion and gave a head start. 'Hanuma Ene' - attracted with simple tune and 'Ivanaro Yeno' was refreshing. Ugabhogas as a preamble to few devaranamas enriched with good meaning. With his rich - melodious voice Nayak sang with good feeling and left an indelible impression on the listeners.<br /></p>
<p>Melodious violin recital<br /><br /></p>.<p>Tyagaraja Ganasabha Trust conducts a music festival every year, in connection with Shankara Jayanthi. This year, senior vocalist R A Ramamani presided over the festival and received the title "Kalabhushana". Nalina Mohan gave a solo violin recital in the festival last week. Nalina Mohan, a gold medalist in Music, is a "A-grade" artiste of AIR and a recipient of "Ganakalashree" title, apart from several prizes from reputed music organisations. She has performed in many prestigious sabhas and sammelans, both in and outside the country and is a sought after accompanist of the State. Though she is a familiar accompanist, her solo violin recitals are not frequently heard. Thus music lovers were eager to hear her recital in the Tyagaraja Gana Sabha festival. Naina Mohan's solo violin concert was packed with few familiar and few less known melodies, to make it an interesting one. <br /><br />Shanmukhapriya is one of the commonly heard raga in any "Kacheri". Hence it is not easy to make an instant appeal. But when a seasoned musician like Nalina renders it, the raga attains a flavour of its own. With her measured and pleasing touches and command over the instrument the Pallavi was marked for its melodic vision. Sri Kailasanathena and Sri Parvathi Parameshwari - both of Dikshitar, brought a graceful impact while "Sri Mahabalagiri" is a good addition to the concert repertoire and the "Bho Shambho" is a popular composition. Nalina concluded her concert with a infrequent Tillana of T Chowdaiah in the raga Kaapi. A team of experienced percussionist gave her good support -Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma on mridanga, S N Narayana Murthy on Ghata, Vyasa Vittala on Khanjari and M Gururaj on Morching.<br /><br />Promising veena artiste<br /><br />Narasimha Jayanthi was celebrated by the Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple with music (Saxophone, Violin duet, Veena and Vocal), Harikatha and Dance recitals, apart from religious rituals, and with good public response.<br />Young veena player B Divya, who performed a veena recital here on Friday, is a BE graduate and a disciple of Dr Suma Sudhindra, internationally acclaimed Veena player. <br />She has also passed proficiency examination with distinction (first rank) and has won prizes from several organisations, including Gayana Samaja and has performed in many Sangeetha Sabhas, in both India and a few foreign countries. She saluted to invocatary God through the "Vathapi". <br />It acquired a special delight with the Swara prasthara. She was successful in highlighting the emotional overtones in the evocative Keertane "Manasa Etulo". <br />The 'Manavyalara' and 'Raghuvamsha' both were rendered with popular appeal. However she chose "Yethavunara" for a detailed elaboration, which was proof of her good training and practice. No doubt with some more experience Divya will be able to reach great heights. <br />C N Chandrashekar, C Cheluvaraj and S N Narayana Murthy - gave able support on violin, mridanga and ghata, respectively.<br /><br />Inspiring songs<br /><br />Sri Raghavendra Swamy Brindavana Sannidhi, is a popular religious and cultural centre of Prakashnagar (Bangalore North).<br />A 50 days long programme is slated to commemorate the occasion, which will continue till June 7. Puttur Narasimha Nayak, popular Sugama Sangeeth artiste, is also known as a crowd puller, wherever he performs. He sang a number of devotionals of different Haridasas and pleased the gathering. A few compositions on Saint Raghavendra Swamy (Rathavanerida Raghavendra and Tunga Theeradi Nintha) suited the occasion and gave a head start. 'Hanuma Ene' - attracted with simple tune and 'Ivanaro Yeno' was refreshing. Ugabhogas as a preamble to few devaranamas enriched with good meaning. With his rich - melodious voice Nayak sang with good feeling and left an indelible impression on the listeners.<br /></p>
