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Veteran vocalist honoured
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Sundari Janakiraman was presented with the title of `Sunaada Bharati'
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MUSICAL HARMONY Sundari Janakiraman with her musicians.
Noted Carnatic vocalist and well known guru Sundari Janakiraman gave a vocal recital at Indira Priyadarshini auditorium last week. She was also felicitated on the occasion by her students as a great respect for her contribution to vocal music and to their musical lives. A CD titled Ganalahari, which includes some of her select numbers was released by the president of the South Indian Cultural Association (SICA) S.Chakravarthy. The auditorium was filled with music lovers and her students. Sundari was in the company of Sivakrishna Swaroop on violin, B.S.V. Prasad on mridangam and R. Srikanth on Kanjira. Sundari opened with Saveri varnam Sarasuda Ninne and followed it with Dikshitar's Sri Ganesha in Janasammohini and Thyagaraja's Makelara vicharamu in Ravichandrika. The veteran took up Subhapantuvarali as her main essay of the evening and essayed it like a text book lesson for the youngsters to absorb. The way raga was built with enough time given to the each phase of its development in the octaves, was exemplary.
She chose GNB's composition Nee Samanamevaru to render in this. The nereval and swarakalpana too were quite evocative. The impact of the number was further accentuated by a tani avartanam executed by the percussionist duo Prasad and Srikanth.
The latter part of the concert was constituted by some popular numbers like Marugelara in Jayanthisree. But, there was an unheard number of Kamalesh Vittal in a rare raga Salagabhairavi. A pleasing Javali of Mysore Vasudevachar in Behag, Thyagaraja's Bantureethi in Hamsanadam and Krishna Nee Begane Baro in Yaman Kalyan were other interesting numbers of the repertoire. Support vocalist Uma too had a chance to reveal her own individual and promising talent.
At a brief function organised on the occasion, veteran Sundari was presented with the title of `Sunaada Bharati'. She was also presented with a citation to the accompanying Vedic chants. Considered a child prodigy, Sundari has been an active performer for over five decades now. She gave concerts all over the state and has been a graded artiste of AIR and Doordarshan. She was an important member too of the popular `Sunadamala' devotional group of vocalists.
G.S.
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