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Indo-American Festival of Performing Arts
Sarovar 2014
For Global Peace & Harmony
May - June 2014
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Program Details :
GLAC is partnering with Lawrence Tech University, Oakland University and Washtenaw Community
College to present the 'Indo-American Festival of Performing Arts -
Sarovar 2014'. This is a one of a kind music festival held at several
venues in SE Michigan including Oakland University & Washtenaw campus for
the sake of global peace and harmony!
The festival will be held in May & June during the weekends featuring
several concerts by top notch musicians, lecture demonstrations, fusion
music, dance-drama and music concerts. Over 1000 people are estimated to
participate in this fine arts extravaganza which includes food,
entertainment and networking.
We encourage you to become a member and support
your organization!
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for the printable PDF flyer
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Sunday Apr 27th, 2014 Violin Duet: Lalgudi Duo
Lalgudi Sri G.J.R. Krishnan
Lalgudi Smt. Vijayalakshmi
Mridangam: Sangeetha Rathnakara Trichy Sri Sankaran
Ghatam: Tripunithura Sri N. Radhakrishnan
The Lalgudi Duo is made up of sibling violinists Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishan
and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi, who debuted at the age of 13 and have been
performing together ever since.
The pair’s unique musical style emphasizes the lyrical beauty of song by
combining their individual performance and stylistic strengths to create a
harmonious symphony.
The Lalgudi Duo has performed internationally in many prestigious venues,
including the Sydney Music Festival, Lincoln Center and Smithsonian
Institution.
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Sturday, May 3rd 2014
Vocal: Sangeetha Kalanidhi Smt. Sudha Raghunathan
Violin: Sri Nagai Sriram
Mridangam: Sri Vinod Seetharaman
Ganjira: Alathur Rajaganesh
A review by a rasika..
Did Sangeeta Kalanidhi Sudha Raghunathan (SR) just sing in the
Auditorium of Lawrence Technological University, Detroit this evening?
No, she virtually lifted all her audience to an ethereal plane where it
was just bhakti spreading sweet fragrance. Such was her superior
virtuosity. The soul of the late MLV wherever she is resting would be
suffused in divine rapture seeing her best disciple rising to Olympian
heights.
The 'kutcheri' commenced on a confident note with SR choosing a Khamaas
raga varnam in Adi thala, a composition of Harikesanallur Muthaiah
Bhagavatar, "Maathe Malayadwaja Pandya Raja Thanaye". SR announced that
she chose this piece at the request of her rasikaas in Detroit to
commence the concert with a song beginning with "maathe". She couldn't
have done better. The speciality about this piece is that it is aptly
suited for bharata nrityam as well with the chitta swarams brimming with
chollu kattus. What followed was a scintillating krithi of Dikshithar in
a rarely herd raga "Kannada Bangla" addressed to Renuka Devi, consort of
Sage Jamadagni. The neraval at "Parasurama janani" was out of this
world. The piece-de-resistance was a composition of Koteeswara Iyer in
praise of Lord Muruga in the raga Rishabhapriya. What is unique about
this krithi is, as exposited by SR, the charanam is structured to carry
the names of the 'sapta swaras' in the order - shadjam, nishadam,
rishabam, gandharam, panchamam, daivatam, and madyamam. Her tonal
quality and voice dynamics brought out some exquisite kalpana swaras and
in the upper octave she reminded me of Parveen Sultana. Purandara Dasa's
" Narayana ninna namave" steeped in bhakti bhava transformed the concert
into a "sat sangam" thereafter. "Enna thavam seithanai Yasoda" in Kappi
was soaked in Krishna bhakti and the neraval at "Kannanai uralil katti
kenja vaithai" was the very pinnacle. There could have been but few
whose eyes were not moist.
Her ragam, thanam and pallavi was totally exceptional, sui generis, a
class by itself. She had made a holy ensemble of five ragas - Hamsadwani,
Sahana, Pantuvarali, Durbar and Karaharapriya. The alapana was so
structured that if the ascendant was in Hamsadwani the descending notes
were in Sahana. The pallavi was composed of the first syllable of the
krithis in each raga where the name Raghunatha (Hamsadwani),
Raghunandana (Sahana), Raghuvara (Pantuvarali), Rama (Durbar) and Rama
ni samanam evaru (Karaharapriya) occurs. What an ingenious fusion she
had crafted, so difficult to believe.
"Kurai onrum illai marai murthi kanna' was rendered a la MSS. There was
not only no "kurai' there was an abundance of 'nirai'.
The mridangam support was given by a local artiste as well as Kanjira.
Both were marvelous in the thani. Violin was by Nagai Sriram. He was an
excellent foil for SR producing note by note swaram by swaram her
renditions. Superb performance.
What a grand 'kutcheri'!
A.R |
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FREE DAY
Saturday May 10th, 2014
Annamacharya Aradhana Utsavam
606th Birth Anniversary of Annamacharya
Saturday, May 10th, 2014
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Main Prayer Hall, Bharathiya Temple
6850 N. Adams Road, Troy, MI
Prasadam will be served after the event
Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya (05-09-1408 to 02-23- 1503) is an ardent
devotee of Lord Venkateswara (Balaji) of Tirupati. He has composed 32,000
krithis in the Carnatic music tradition. He has offered these Krithis as
flowers to Lord Venkateswara. Annamayya is a great vaggeyakara, and known as
pada kavitha pitamaha. He has composed keerthans in various genres like
lullabies, marriage , devotional, social and philosophy.
On this event we are encouraging only Sri
Annamayya Keerthanalu on Lord Venkateswara. Kids are welcome and we
encourage them.
There is no entry fee either to list or to participate.
Click here to register.
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FREE DAY
Saturday May 17th, 2014
27th Annual Michigan Thyagaraja Aradhana
The Paschimakasi Sri Viswanatha Temple
Auditorium
Paschima Kasi Sri Viswanatha Temple, Flint, MI
8.30AM Pooja and Bhajans
9.00AM Group singing of the ‘Pancharathna
Krithis’
10.30AM Individual Singing
12.30PM Mangala Arathi
12.35 Free Lunch
1.30 Individual
Singing (contd)
Click here to register for individual/group
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FREE DAY
Saturday May 17th, 2014 @ 3:30PM Flute: Sri S. Shashank
Violin: Mysore Sri V. Srikanth
Mridangam: Patri Sri Satish Kumar
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Friday May 30th, 2014
Vocal: Trichur Brothers
Sri Srikrishna Mohan
Sri Ramkumar Mohan
Mridangam: Trichur Sri R. Mohan
Violin: BK Raghu$20 for non members
Trichur Brothers, Srikrishna and Ramkumar were trained under Shrimathi
Balamani Eswar, Professor Neyyattinkara Mohanachandran and Padma Bhushan
Shri PS Narayanaswami. The brothers have also acquired lessons from various
vidwans like Shri TM Thyagarajan, Shri Govindan Namboothiri. Without a doubt
their foundation in layam is imbibed from their father Trichur Mohan.
Trichur Brothers are noted for their strict adherence to Patanthara and
uncompromising attitude towards Bhavam. They also adopt a unique style for
alapana, where both exchange phrase after phrase, long and short, and
participate equally in exploring a raga. Many well-known critics have
pointed that this is a unique and effective manner of raga delineation and
that it is hitherto never attempted by any duo singers.
They are accompanied by their father Trichur Mohan on mridangam and B.K.
Raghu on violin.
Trichur Mohan had his initial training under Shri Koduvayur Radhakrishnan
and subsequently his advanced training was under Mridangam Maestro Shri
Palakkad Mani Iyer, Shri Umayalpuram SivaRaman and Guru Karaikkudi R Mani.
B. K Raghu, an All India Radio graded artist, started learning violin at a
tender age of 8 years under Gurus such as Neela Ramgopal, Suryaprabha,
Sushma Rao and B. U. Ganesh Prasad. He has performed at various prestigious
concert halls all over India and abroad.
Below listed are some of the videos of Trichur Brothers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMVWd7dkJGw - Deekshitar and
Oothukadu Navavarana Krithis (Sanskrit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htMJMM7KIlY - Bho Sambho
(Sanskrit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXfgM0kh2_8 - Shri Chakra Raja
Simhasaneswari (Tamil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yxKMAl7Fx0 - Bhogeendra Shayinam
(Sanskrit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n8m_OSgVqk - Hamsanadam Raga
Aalapanai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj_eU3K7EWc - Bantureethi Kolu
(Telugu)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6dHee0JsVk - Bharat Sangeeth
Utsav Concert Clipping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5o8r1lLGeE - Naanati Bradhuku
(Telugu)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWhU3mz0egc - Chandrashekara
Saraswati (Tamil)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y49vgKv5KLY - Maragadha manimaya
(Sanskrit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCCdH5kusH0 - Kaa vaa vaa (Tamil)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL-T0pTiygM - Jagadhodharana
(Kannada)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbrb4z3Fs9I - Manavyala kinchara
(Telugu)
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FREE DAY
May 31st Saturday:
An afternoon of performances show casing North American youth talent from
all over the USA
Venue : Varner Hall, Oakland University
2200 N Squirrel Rd, Rochester, MI 48309 (248) 370-2100
2:00PM: SR Santaprakash (Vocal)
Jayshankar Balan (Violin)
Vinod Seetharaman (Mrdangam)
3:30PM: "Sahithya anubhava - appreciation of lyrics and prosody"Lec- Dem by
Shri Madurai R Sundar
4:30PM: Coffee break
5.00PM: Jugalbandhi by Mrs Kasturi Shivakumar and Mrs Swaradnya Limaye;
Violin Bhargavi Prabhu Mrdangam: Vinod Seetharaman; Harmonium - Mandar
Phadke;
Tabla: Hemant Babtiwale
6:30PM: Carnatic Orchestra
Professor Mark Stone and students of Oakland University
with Students of Shri Jayshankar Balan
All events webcast by our partner iCarnatic.org |
FREE DAY
June 1st Sunday
2:00PM- Group singing- Students of Mrs. Kasturi Shivakumar
3.00PM- Break
3:30PM- R Suryaprakash
(Vocal)
Keerthana Sankar (Violin)
Vinod Seetharaman (Mridangam) $20 for non members
Concert webcast
won't be available in the metro-Detroit area
All events webcast by our partner iCarnatic.org |
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FREE DAY
June 7, 2014
Papanasam Sivan festival by Sivan Fine Arts AcademySiva Punya Gana Mani Brahmashri Papanasam Sivan’s birth anniversary
is celebrated every year in September. He has composed over 2000 songs in
both carnatic music and film songs. His compositions include varnams, kritis,
operas and all types of compositions typically rendered in all concerts. To
propagate the works and compositions of Papanasam Sivan, the Sivan Fine Arts
Academy conducts annual music and dance competitions to showcase the talents
of students of Vocal, Instrumental and Dance. The application
form can be downloaded from
http://www.shivanisai.org/index.php
communication to
ashokramani10@yahoo.com and by clicking the message "Papanasam Sivan
fest by Sivan fine arts academy" |
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PAPANASAM SIVAN SONGS COMPETITION
Siva Punya Gana Mani Brahmashri Papanasam Sivan's birth anniversary is
celebrated every year in countries like Singapore, Malysia, Australia,
Germany, London, France, Norway, Denmark, Canada, Sanjose, LA, for the past
6 years. This year it will be celebrated at Houston, Detroit, Dallas,
Chicago and many parts of USA. We will be conducting competitions on songs
of Papanasam Sivan on vocal, violin, veena, mridangam and bharathanatyam
Schedule:
8:00 Vocal competition - Junior
9:00 Vocal competition - Sub-senior
10:00 Vocal competition - Group singing
11:15 Vocal competition - Senior
12:15 Vocal competition - Special
1:00 Violin/Keyboard competitions
2:00 Dance competitions
4:00 Vocal Concerts by senior artists from India/Michigan
7:00 Prize Distribution
Filled in applications to be sent by email to
ashokramani10@yahoo.com.
Voluntary donations for this festival is much appreciated.
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Thanks you for your support!
To quote the famous musician from Michigan - "Music makes the people come
together"! Our volunteers and supporters are the real heroes of Sarovar! This
festival will not be possible without your support. Join us in making
another music season in Michigan a grand one!
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