Sri Tyagaraja Gana Sabha Trust is conducting music programmes every month punctually from last 44 years. It also conducts Shankara Jayanthi, Tyagaraja Aradhana, Ekaraga Sabha – every year and provide ample opportunities for young artistes too.
In the annual music festival the Trust will elect a senior musician as the festival president and confer the title ‘Kala Bhushana’. This year during the 5-day festival gamaka, veena, flute and nagaswara recitals, apart from vocal were held. Besides, the birth centenary of Chintalapalli Ramachandra Rao was celebrated and the festival was dedicated to C M Madhuranath, senior flautist. D Balakrishna, senior vainika received the title ‘Kalabhushana’ in the sadas, last week.
The Reetigowla varna proved an effective opening gambit and helped spread a fine musical atmosphere in the auditorium. The Purvi Kalyani composition of Pattanam Subramanya Iyer was pleasing. The rendition of Bilahari by Srinivasa Prasanna, the coplayer, was brief but pleasant with the ‘Raga Bhava’ coming off in soft hues. The Dikshitar composition in Hindola, in which the “Kaala Pramana” brought depth of its own and the “Vilamba Kaala” highlighting the raga flavour. The colourfulness of Balakrishna’s outline of Kambodi and the wholesomeness of his compact description of Pallavi revealed the richness of his experience as an insightful Veena player. Thana in the ‘raga Panchaka’ (Naata, Gowla, Arabhi, Varali and Sri ragas) made the Pallavi interesting and colourful one. Appealing tonal quality, alignment of expressions on the sruthi, artistic modulation of their flow and the artiste’s delicately demonstrated dedication to the disciplines of “Mysore Baani” – earned appreciation of audience. V S Rajagopal, T N Ramesh and Bhagyalakshmi Krishna gave good support on mridanga, ghata and morching respectively.
