Mysuru :

‘Vandane Abhivandane,’ the audio album of Vidushi Dr. Geetha Seetharam, a renowned musician and Vaggeyakarti of Mysuru, will be released at Rani Bahaddur Auditorium, as part of ‘Swarjhankar’ on Dec.14 at 5.30 pm.

The album is a musical salutation to the gems of Karnataka Sangeetha — Vaggeyakaras / Music Composers of South India, from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. These Vaggeyakaras have contributed musical compositions with meaningful lyrics, melodious ragas, structured notations set to different talas, appealing to the listener, which have been passed on to generations, still well kept through guru-shisya parampara.

The purpose of compiling this well-researched musical documentation on the lives and works of Vaggeyakaras is to ensure that students, performers and teachers gain a better understanding while rendering the compositions or performing dance-dramas and sangeetha roopakas.

The 16 composers on whom these compositions have been rendered in the audio album are: Mysore Sadashiva Rao, Shyama Shastry, Thyagaraja, Muttuswamy Dikshitar, Purandaradasa, Maharaja Swathi Thirunal, Mysore Vasudevacharya, Bidaram Krishnappa, Muttaiah Bhagavatar, Maharaja Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar, Veene Sheshanna, T. Chowdaiah, Papanasam Sivan, Dr. M. S. Subbalakshmi, Lalgudi Jayaraman and Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna.

The compositions are in Sanskrit, Kannada and Tamil with ‘Geetha’ as ankita.

Vidushi Dr. Geetha Seetharam being the lead vocalist is supported by her student Gayathri S. Lokesh. Vidwan Dr. R.S. Nandakumar of Mysuru has rendered many of these compositions with his bountiful voice. This CD is dedicated to all those performers who bring life to these compositions by breathing creativity into their presentations. The audio album is accompanied by notation book both in English and Kannada scripts.

For copies contact Mob: 99861-24902.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News /  Saturday , December 13th, 2014