VivRti 2011: Fall Festival
Gary Soren Smith Center, Ohlone College Fremont (Map/ Directions)Essay: "Listening to and Analizing Carnatic Music: Basic Elements" by Ajay and Anil Narasimha
Events and Artists
co-presented with South India Fine Arts
- Friday: History and Evolution of Melakartas
- Saturday: Compositional Forms and Patantharam with Smt Sangeetha Sivakumar, Melakaveri Balaji (Mridangam) and L Ramakrishnan (Violin)
- Sunday : Ragam Tanam Pallavi with accompanists (In Honor of Sri Chengalpet Ranganathan) with Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam) and Nishanth Chandran (Violin)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Vikrum Aiyer
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FELICITATION
Sri Guruvayur Dorai has developed a style (bani) of Mridangam playing, that is unmistakably unique. The Guruvayur bani is most pleasing to the ear and very tough to master. In this style, the silky motion of the left hand creates water-like gumikis and the delicate stroking of the drum with the right hand causes the mridangam to simply sing where one can hear melody through the mridangam, and accompany not the singer, but the song-- to perfection.
Pallavita is proud to honor this veteran mridangist on the occasion of his 75th birth-year.
Speaking on the occasion of Sri Guruvayur Dorai's felicitation:
Narayan Natarajan
Arun Aiyer
BAY AREA ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS: LEC-DEMS AND MORE
Lec-Dem: Sense of Proportion in Concerts by Sri Hemmmige and Smt Subhapriya Srivatsan
accompanied by
Violin: Ajay Narasimha
Mridangam: Vignesh Venkatraman
Upanyasam: Srimad Bagavatham - Krishna's Childhood by Sri Pat Krishnan
Lec-Dem: Gandharvaveda in Ramayanam by Dr. Rajalakshmi Srinivasan
ENSEMBLES
US-based disciples of leading Carnatic music vidwans, come together in ensemble presentations.
- Tala Vadya:
Disciples of Sri Guruvayur Dorai: Mahesh Subramanian, Naveen Basavanhally, Kiran Vangipuram, Sanjay Subramanian, Niranjan Balachander.
Violin Ensemble: Disciples of Kum Kanyakumari: Nishanth Chandran, L Ramakrishnan, Srikanth Mallajosyula, Pavani Srikanth, Sandeep Bharadwaj, Kamalakiran Vinjamuri.
Reputed Bay Area Music schools present young students in group performances
Vocal Ensemble: Disciples of Smt Latha Sriram
Vocal Ensemble: Disciples of Smt Asha Ramesh
Violin Ensemble: Disciples of Sri Susheela Narasimhan- Vocal Ensemble: Disciples of Smt Anu Suresh
BHARATANATYAM SOLOS
accompanied by Aniruddhan Vasudevan (Nattuvangam), Sidharth Sriram (Vocal) , Ravindra Barathi Sridaran (Mridangam), Nishanth Chandran (Violin)
Rasika Kumar
Vidya Sundaram
Vinidhra Mani
MASTERS OF CEREMONY:
Vasanthi Venkatraman
Vidhya Subramanian
Praveena Varadharajan
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