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Press Release
12/31/2014
The KHMC concert held on Dec 6th at the grand and beautiful residence of Smt. Chaya Rangaraj and Sri Srinivas Bagepalli at Marlboro, MA was a fantastic offering of varieties of Karnatic and Hindustani musical saga presented by the very well known senior artists as well as talented junior artists in New England area.
The concert opened with a pleasant Sitar recital in Hindustani Classical segment , by the students of Learnquest Academy of Music, who are seeking support and guidance from prominent New England Sitarist Shri Jawad Noor. Jawwad Noor began his study of sitar under Ustad M. Alam Khan in 1991 and also studied with vocalists Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan and Ustad Nazir Ahmed. Since 2007, as a ganda-band shagird, he has been receiving consistent rigorous training from Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan, the leading sitarist in the world from the Etawa gharana who is also a faculty member at the LearnQuest Academy of Music. The trio Saroj, Meena Gordon played Raag yaman in teental followed by Raag Des in Ektaal recited by Paras , all accompanied by Pranav Gathraju, a well know young tabla artist in New England area.It marked a beautiful ambience and gripped the audiences attention to the fullest, following an amazing senior segment by Shri Jawad Noor himself on Sitar who was again accompanied by Pranav Ghatraju on Tabla. Jawad Noor initiated with an elaborated alap in Raag Charukeshi that set a perfect mood for audience to experience it’s essence followed by bandishes in Madhyalaya Jhaptal and Drut Ektaal. Jawad Noor also shared some interesting facts about how his Guru, Ustad Shahid Parvez restructured the composition in Raag Cahrukeshi, which is originally a Carnatic Raag, to transform it into Hindustani style. This indeed left curious audience spellbound as its very rare to come across such a uniqueness applied to a Sitar composition. The perfectly matched Thihais and Taal variations on Tabla by Pranav Gathraj were flawlessly interweaved transitioning into the final piece of an energetic Jhala.Jhala a sitar specific techniques usually played to demonstrate a fast paced alternation of main melody leading to interesting permutations of both Raag and Taal simultaneously in Dhrut Gati . Jawad Noor then took audience into another dimension by treating them with a Bandish in Raag Des in Addha Taal that added a slight flare of Thumri to the composition as Addha is popularly associated with Thumris. It was again a pleasant recitation that awed the audience to flow in the beauty of streaming Sitar that concluded the Hindusatani segment leaving behind an astonishing impact of one of the most beautiful instruments.
After an energetic Hindustani segment and lavishing festive dinner hosted by generous hosts of KHMC concert, the evening was all set to get charged with Carnatic Junior segment that was presented by the vocal students of Sandhya Sridhar of Aradhna Center in Nashua, NH. Accompanied by Vidya Raman on Violin and Shivi Vytheswaran who is student of Mahalingam Santhanakrishnan, also known Shri Mali, on the mridangam, the junior students Abygail, Kavya, Saadhvi, Saisha, Spoorthi and Megha very enthusiastically presented the compositions of composers like Mysore Vasudevachar, Adi. Brahmendra, Jayade, T.S.Shankar Iyer, Sadashiva and Thyagaraja. They rendered “Maal Marugan Muruganâ€, in Ragam Hindolam in Adi Talam, “Maha Ganapathim†in Nattai in Chaturashra Eka Talam and “Bhajare Yadunatham†in Pilu. The Senior students Puja Prasad, Sneha Prasath, Ananya Venkatesh and Ashwin Ganesh rendered “Viribhoniâ€,a Varnam in Bhairavi with Ata Talam, “Shree Chamundeshwari†in Bilahari with Adi Talam and “Ehi Murare†, a Pahadi in Chaturashra Ekam. Students flawlessly demonstrated the Varnams with Raga Alapana and Kalpana Swarams in Charanams of respective Raagams.
The concluding segment was marked by the Veena recital by Smt. Revathi Ramaswamy , an accomplished musician who is the disciple of her mother Vainika Gayaka Vidhushi late Smt. Ranganayak Sundararajan of Mysore. Smt Revathi Ramaswamy who is also a practicing Anesthesiologist has received rave reviews for her soulful traditional style of music, raga and tana malikas, and has been able to bring out in clear relief the rhythmic aspects in the kritis without in any way sacrificing their melodic content. She was accompanied by a distinguished New England Mrudangist Shri Mali. She filled the evening resonating with Veena Swarams for the audience who were absorbed in a deep tranquility arising out of divine compositions of the great composers like Sri. Mutthayya Bhagavathar, Sri Vasudevachar, Thyagaraja, Ramamoorthy, Dikshithar, Swathi thirunal, Annamachari. and Bharathiyar. As she took on one after another Ragaam the audience were but only could stayed mesmerised by listening to the stellar performance. A few of Adi Thalam composition included “Mathe malayadwaja†in Raagam Kahamas , “Sangeetha samrajya†in Mohamkayani, “Kanjadalaya†in Kamala Manohari, “Sri Venkata gireesham†in Suruti, “Etthanai koti “ in Chakravakam, “Bhavayami gopala “ in Yamankalyani and “Harivarasanam†in Madhymavathi while another composition in Roopakam Thalam was “Ninnuvina†in Thodi , all rendered in their pure elements flawlessly on Veena. It was truly a musically blessed day where audiences dived deep in the musical ocean.
KHMC is a non profit organisation dedicated to promote the Carnatic and Hindustani Music in New England area and it organizes the yearly series of concert to promote the classical music of India for all the music lovers . The concert organized in the residential informal setting is one of its kind of tradition that brings together all the performers and audiences under one roof to witness a great quality and variety of music. For more information visit facebook page. For membership, send an email to khmc.group@gmail.com.
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