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Artistes work throughout the year for bringing out special dance productions and thematic and innovative concerts during the 'December season'. This section will feature brief curtain-raisers to these new productions!


 Hindustani concert
 T. V. Ramprasadh special concerts
 Celebrating mirdangam vidwan Vellore Ramabhadran
 Jaya TV's live shows are open to all

Hindustani concert


Catch a grand Hindustani music recital by Kalaapani Komakali (daughter and disciple of pandit Kumar Gandharv ) on Dec.31, 7 p.m.

On Jan.1, 2010, after the sadas when thavil vidwan Valayapatti AR Subramaniam will be honoured with the Sangita Kalanidhi title, the all woman percussion ensemble led by Sukanya Ramgopal will present a concert.

The group is called Sthree Thaal Tharang.

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T. V. Ramprasadh special concerts


Vocalist T. V. Ramprasadh presents two special concerts next week. You may want to mark them in your diary. Here is a note he mailed to KutcheriBuzz. Morning Raagas - 30th Dec,10 a.m., Shastri Hall. If one were to provide a general description of the mood of a morning, perhaps it would be one of serenity and depth, holy, while simultaneously tinged with emotions ranging from great disturbance to supreme calmness

The concept of Pranic energy in Hindu thought, or Qi in Chinese philosophy, is central to understanding the various associations that exist, between human emotions on one side, and sound, colour, and the time of day on the other.

A musical note has its own distinct psychological effect or emotion, and is also related specifically to a colour, mood, chakra, and time of day. All Sanskrit treatises on music have to some extent or other discussed this network of relationships.

Morning Raagas concert which is being presented for Kapali Fine arts is an attempt to showcase these raagas and share the experiences with the rasikas.

Thyagaraja Raamayanam - 30th Dec, 7.00 p.m., Shastri Hall.

A special audio-visual concert scripted by the late Sangita Kalacharya T.S. Parthasarathy. This concert contains some of the most unique gems of Thyagaraja, carefully strung together by TSP, covering the various Khaandams of Ramayanam from Baala Khaandam to Sri Raama Pattabhishekham, as visualised by Thyagaraja.

The format will be that of a regular kutcheri, the highlight being beautiful images specially handpicked from various episodes to increase the overall experience of rasikas.

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Celebrating mirdangam vidwan Vellore Ramabhadran


A function to celebrate and honour mirdangam vidwan Vellore Ramabhadran will be held on December 26 evening. It starts at 6:30 p.m. at Vivekananda Hall in P. S. High School on Dec 26th to celebrate eighty years of the

artiste. N.Ramani will talk about the maestro and present him with a plaque.

Other speakers include Venugopal and V.V.Sundaram.

The one-hour talk session will be followed by a violin concert by Aishu Venkataraman accompanied by Vellore.Ramabhadran (mridangam) and Dr.Vinod Venkataraman (on the kanjira).

The event is sponsored by the Global Forum of Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana and his admirers, Open to all.


Jaya TV's live shows are open to all


Chennai-based TV channels have seen some value in getting their cameras on to kutcheris.

Jaya TV has been putting out specials during the season.

This time around, producer Subhashree Thanikachalam is packaging a series of concerts from Dec.1 to 15 at the Chettinad Vidyashram School hall in R A Puram, featuring two concerts a day.

These will be canned and telecast from Dec.15 onwards.

The live concerts, at 5 p.m. and at 6.30 pm. are free and open to the public. All the top names like Aruna Sairam, Sudha Ragunathan, T M Krishna and Sanjay Subrahmanyam are featured. All of them with present thematic concerts.

On Dec.6, S Sowmya presents a special on 'Nandanar Charitram' and on Dec.13, Gowri Ramnarayan has scripted a presentation on MS and features singers Gayatri Venkatraghavan, Lakshmi Rangarajan and Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam. ( both shows begin at 4.15 p.m.)


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