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Breathtaking concert
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Whistle artiste Siva Prasad launches ‘Bharata Bharati’.
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Whistle wizard Siva Prasad with his troupe.
Whistle wizard’, Siva Prasad gave a concert at Ravindra Bharati to launch ‘Bharata Bharati’ a cultural organisation a brain child of his uncle late Kona Prabhakara Rao, the former Governor of Maharashtra.
Siva Prasad was also a child prodigy especially in the art of whistling the songs and has given a number of concerts across the country and the world. On this occasion, Bharata Bharati felicitated veteran journalist and art critic Chaganti Kalpaleswara Rao by presenting him with a Swarna Kankanam, a shawl and a garland.
On the occasion many celebrities among musicians and dancers were also felicitated. Siva Prasad designed this concert in a different way. He made raga Mohana as the main vehicle and chose some popular compositions in it and presented them with utmost care.
Some of them are Vilambakala kirtanas that suit his style of presentation. And yet he ventured in Swarakalpana and the last piece in Ragam Tanam and Pallavi, to go for higher speed presentation. One aspect that marked his whistling was the perfect sound, sans any hiss that generally accompanies a whistle sound.
He also arranged for himself a good orchestral support with leading names taking part as accompanists. They included violinists Peri Sriramamurthy and Ramanamurthy, mridangam artiste D.S.R. Murthy, Ramanamurthy on ghatam and Kapa Srinivasa Rao on morsing. Harjeet Singh on tabla who joined even in the final tani avartanam giving a refreshing touch. Guruprasad was also there on his key board, enriching the orchestral appeal as the repertoire included Annamayya kirtanas and songs with Hindustani touch. Among the Carnatic compositions Siva Prasad chose were Rama Ninne Namminavaramu, Nanupalimpa Nadachivachitivo, Bhavanutha and also an exercising ragam-tanam-pallavi. On the occasion, Chairman of state Cultural Council, Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam also announced that they were bestowing upon Eelapata Sivaprasad a new title –‘Swaasa Vinyaasa Chakravarthi’, in addition to what Balamuralikrishna called Sivaprasad once as ‘Gala Murali’. Poet Jonnavithula rendered three verses in praise of the musical effort of Siva Prasad. Santa Biotech’s K.I. Varaprasada Reddy, Sivaprasad.
G.S.
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