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Artiste with balanced perception
WITH HER rich and powerful voice and comfortable high-pitch that does not cause ear fatigue Amritha Murali can invite audience attention and sustain it through out. This, together with her own efforts at honing her skills, was evidenced in her 90-minute recital at the 12th Annual Festival of Hamsadhavani.
Purity of notes and adherance to the ethos of the composition (`Svarasuddha' and `raga' and `krti' lakshana') as well as precision in diction (`sahitya suddha') are waters of training in a serious sishyaa under a meticulous guru. Maturity showed in the `alapana', `krti', `niraval' and kalpanasvara.
Where the artiste has such wide options, striking the right combination, in terms of items and allotment of time, calls for a balanced perception. The alapana in puriakalyani which prefaced Ponniah Pillai's `Gaatti memi guruguha moorti mine' in Kandachapu, in the earlier phase of the concert, and later, Keeravani the main piece at the end, bore testimony to this.
Each one a carefully planned sketch, developed in the deliberately leisurely style which the raga can lend itself to and the `kriti' merits. While the former was at a medium space, leading to a brief `niraval' and `kalpanasvara' exchange between voice and violin, `kalikiyundegada' strode in with the majesty of an elephantive gait.
A vilamba piece commands immediate attention and willing approval, but demands mastery in `kaala-pramaana' and melodic perfection in every vibration.
Sri Lakshmi Venkataramani's violin was pleasant and proper in its accompanying fuction in meeting the singer's style and design. In her solo delineation of the raga it was apparent that Sri Lakshmi belonged to the school that places musical value above music skill.
The listener is made to sink gently into a plane of profundity instead of being shot abruptly into one of bewilderment at the intricacy of technique.
Sharan Sivakumar, literally and figuratively a budding artiste, displayed total confidence, imperturbed by the wide generation gap between him and the audience and gave a creditable account of himself.
P. S. KRISHNAMURTHI
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