Performance Schedule for 2010 Great Composers Day

If you have registered to perform in this year's Great Composers Day scheduled for Saturday, October 30, 2010, the schedule has now been published and you can find your allotted time window here.  


Due to the overwhelming number of registrations this year, we have had to extend the time window by one extra hour.  Slots are allotted on a 'first come first served' basis.  What this means is that those who registered early had a better chance of getting the time window of their preference.  


Please plan to arrive 30 minutes before your time window and we hope that you will stay a while to support the other participants.  We look forward to seeing you on October 30, 2010.

Great Composers Day Celebrations

When:
October 30th, 2010.
9:00a.m to 5:00p.m
Where:
Glen Allen, Virginia

Details:
Listed below.



Fellow Rasikas,

The dates for the Great Composers Day Celebrations have been announced. We invite one and all to be a part of this years event.

Here are some ground rules:


  • Please use the list of suggested composers from the 'Composer' field in the form and  if you pick 'Other' please give details of the composer in the 'Additional Information' field.
  • For individuals, it is one song per participant. Please note that there will be no ragam, swaram or niraval presentation in this event.   The duration of the song is not to exceed 5 minutes.  
  • Group presentations (2 or more)  will be allotted a maximum of 10 minutes.  Groups are allowed to present more than one song within their 10 minutes slot.
  • Participant fee is $5.00.  For a group presentation, each participant should pay $5.00.
  • If you participate in more than one presentation, you have to pay the participant fee of $5.00 only one time.
  • A participant may not participate in more than 2 performances on the stage due to the increased number of registrations.  This does not include the opening group presentation of the day. 


We look forward to your continued support and cooperation.


Richmond Rasikas Committee.

Carnatic Vocal Concert by Malladi Brothers

Richmond Rasikas is proud to announce a Carnatic vocal concert by Malladi Brothers, as part of their Fall Concert Series. They will be accompanied by SriB.U.Ganesh Prasad on the Violin and Sri. Patri Satish Kumar on the Mridangam.


When
  Friday, Oct 1st, 2010
  7 pm (sharp)

Where
  Hermitage High School
  8301 Hungary Spring Road, Henrico VA 23228 - map

If you would like more information about artists, please visit :


Food/Snacks and beverages will be sold before and during a portion of the concert.

Richmond Rasikas

Dr. Pantula Rama concert - Sep 2010

The Richmond audience was recently treated to an evening of soulful music, which was well pitched for both the casual and intellectual listener.  

Sri Murthy and Sri Murugabhoopathy provided excellent support, weaving excellent supporting patterns all through the concert. We would recommend that carnatic fans all around the USA get to the nearest performance of Dr. Rama and her accompanists.

01. Sarasuda - Varnam - Saveri -  Adi
02. Endaro Mahanubhavulu - Sri - Thyagaraja - Adi 
03. Gajavadana Mashraye- Kedaram -  Sri N.C.H. Krishnamacharyulu - Adi
04. Anuragamule - Saraswati - Thyagaraja - Rupakam
05. Nanoru Vilayaattu Bommaiya - Navarasa kanada - Papanasam Sivan - Adi
06. Hasti Vadanaya - Navaroj - Muthuswamy Dikshitar - Misra Chapu
07. Ninnada nela - Kannada - Thyagaraja - Adi
08. Sudha Mayi Suda Nidi -  Amrutavarshini - Muthaiya  Bhagavatar -  Rupakam 
09. Bhajare re - Karnataka Devagandharam - Mysore Vasudevachar - Adi 
10. RTP - Begada - Chatusra Triputa Kanda Gathi
11. Tamboori meetidava - Sindhubhairavi - Purandara Dasa - Adi (Tisra Gathi)
12. Muddu gare Yasodha - Kurinji - Annamacharya - Adi
13. Tillana - Khamas
14. Mangalam

We request rasikas who attended this concert to leave your comments here.

Carnatic Vocal Concert by Dr. Pantula Rama

Richmond Rasikas is proud to announce a Carnatic vocal concert by Dr. Pantula Rama, as part of their Fall Concert Series. She will be accompanied by SriM.S.N. Murthy on the Violin and Sri. Tanjore K. Murugaboopathy on the Mridangam.


When
  Friday, Sep 10th, 2010
  7 pm (sharp)

Where
  Hermitage High School
  8301 Hungary Spring Road, Henrico VA 23228 - map

If you would like more information about the artists, please visit :

A Wikipedia article on Dr.Pantula Rama, Sri.M.S.N.Murthy
A youtube video sample

Food/Snacks and beverages will be sold before and during a portion of the concert.

Richmond Rasikas

Please note that a concert by Malladi Brothers has been scheduled at 7pm on October 1 at the same venue.

Prince Rama Varma-May2010




Shri. Prince Rama Varma and his accompanying artists, treated the Richmond area rasikas to a bhavam laden, soul filling vocal carnatic concert. His frequent and apt usage of the swaraksharams provided an aural treat to the audience. The prince was very engaging with the audience, providing them with nice anecdotes from his experiences with his Guru Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna. He also extolled the virtues of the lyrics to many of the songs he presented, that helped the audience in appreciating the bhavam of his rendition.

Shri S. Varadarajan provided impeccable support with his soft and crisp handling of the violin and complimenting the vocalist with his deft strokes. Shri Patri Satish Kumar's playing needs special mention here. Apart from his brilliant touches through out the concert, he brought down the house with his thani avarthanam. To quote Prince Rama Varma "We went to see the Niagara falls yesterday. It looked impressive, but it didn't sound as impressive as he did", referring to the thani avarthanam.

The absence of a neraval or ragamalika swaram, viruththam, shlokam etc, was a small void.

The following pieces were presented.

01. ninnu kori - Mohanam Varnam - Ramnad Srinivasa Iyengar
02. siddhi vinayakam -chamaram - Muthuswami Dikshitar
03. manavyala kinchara - Nalinakanthi - Thyagaraja
04. Pavana thanaya - Rasikapriya - Dr. Balamuralikrishna
05. Janani ninnuvina - Reethigowla - Subbaraya Shastri
06. Parama purusham - Lalitha Panchamam - Swathi Thirunal
07. gAngeya vasanadhara - hamir kalyani - Swathi Thirunal (T)
08. yemira rama navalla- Undefined/folk - Badrachala Ramadas
09. naaneke badevanu - Behag - Purandara Dasar.
10. Jalaja bandhuvum - Surutti - Swathi Thirunal
11. Thillana - Kunthalavarali - Dr. Balamuralikrishna
12. bhujaga sayanam - Yadhukulakambodhi - Mangalam

Rasikas in attendance are kindly requested to leave your comments and feedback about this concert. Please click here for the form.

Carnatic vocal concert by Prince Rama Varma and party



When:
May 08th, 2010.
7:00p.m (sharp)
Where:
Deep Run High School
4801 Twin Hickory Road
Glen Allen, VA 23059

Details:
Click here to view/print the flyer.

Richmond Rasikas is proud to announce the Carnatic vocal concert of Prince Rama Varma, as part of their Spring Concert Series. He will be accompanied by S. Varadarajan on the Violin and Patri Sathish Kumar on the Mridangam.

If you would like more information about Prince Rama Varma, please visit :

Food/Snacks and beverages will be sold before and during a portion of the concert.

Richmond Rasikas

2010 Thyagaraja Aradhana report




We, at Richmond Rasikas, wish to thank the many participants, both children and adults, who made our Thyagaraja Aradhana (8th annual celebrations) such a dashing success on May 1st, 2010. This years event was well supported by performers in and around town as well as from neighboring townships. Some of our performing guests came from D.C metro area, Charlottesville and Raleigh.

This year’s Thyagaraja Aradhana started off, as planned, with a group rendition of the Pancharatna Krithis followed by the Utsava Sampradhaya Krithis. This was followed by a day-long session of individual and group renditions of many more beautiful compositions. The day was devoted mostly to Thyagaraja kritis. A whole crew of percussionists supported the event, on the mridangam, ghatam and kanjira.

With around 80 plus participants pouring in with family and friends, including parents of a few visiting from India, the Twin Hickory community hall reminded many of a small Indian wedding in progress.

It was heartwarming to see so many young children from our own communities taking their first steps in the long and culture-rich journey of learning Carnatic music. We wish to convey a very special ‘thank you’ to all these children for coming forward to showcase their talents at our Aradhana. Also worth mentioning, was the increasing trend in adult participation for performance and the number of first time performers who took to the stage with comfort.

While the weather made it feel at par with the heat of Thiruvaiyaaru (the saint's village in Tamilnadu), our food vendor matched it up with a wonderful display of traditional items in line with the theme of the event.

To sum it up, this was yet another event in North America that reinforced the wealth of the carnatic classical system of music, using the compositions of the bard saint Sri. Thyagaraja. One downside was that as the event progressed the timeline was surely and steadily slipping. We will make every effort to make improvements on this issue.

We hope to see you all again at our ‘Great Composers Day’ event this Fall when we will be celebrating, as the name suggests, all the other great composers of carnatic music. Stay tuned to this website for the announcements related to this event.

Richmond Rasikas.

2010 Thyagaraja Aradhana Schedule

Dear rasikas and registrants,

The 2010 Aradhana schedule has been published. Please click on the link provided below to make a note of your alloted time window, and those of your favorite performers.

ARADHANA TIME WINDOW ALLOCATIONS

We have made every effort to accommodate your time preference, as indicated in your registration entry. If you have any questions or concerns about your the time window alloted for you, please e-mail us. We will try our best to work with you and accomodate your request. However, there are no guarantees.

It is important to note that those who have not yet registered will be provided an opportunity to perform. The time window we allot for such entries is left to the discretion of the committee. We request you to work with us.

The time slots have been alloted on a first come first serve basis.

Looking forward to your participation and continued support.

Richmond Rasikas Committee

2010 Thyagaraja Aradhana scheduled

When:
May 01st, 2010.
8:00a.m to 8:00p.m
Where:
Twin Hickory Club House
Glen Allen, Virginia

Details:
Please stay tuned to this post, for more details about this event and the program schedule


Fellow Rasikas,

The dates for the 2010 Thyagaraja Aradhana Celebrations have been announced. We invite one and all to be a part of this years event.If you would like perform during the individual singing sessions please click here to fill out a form.

We look forward to your continued support and cooperation.

Richmond Rasikas Committee.

Mandolin Duet Concert-Apr2009

The Richmond area rasikas were treated to a scintillating mandolin duet concert by Shri U.Shrinivas and U.Rajesh. The popularity of the brothers was very evident from the attendance at this concert. By all accounts, this was probably the largest audience Richmond Rasikas has ever had. Some estimates put it well over 250 people. They put on a great performance.

The following pieces were presented.

01. vanajAkshi - Kalyani Varnam - Ramnad Srinivasa Iyengar
02. gananAyakam -pUrnashadjam - Muthuswami Dikshitar
03. nada sudha rasambilanu -Arabhi - Thyagaraja
04. Edayya gathi - chala nattai - Koteeshwara Iyer
05. Raghuvamsa sudha - kathanakuthoohalam - Patnam Subramania Iyer
06. Ragam Thanam Pallavi - Charukesi
(ragamalika swarams in kanada, sunadavinodhini, abheri, nalinakanthi)
07. nanani paduku - Revathi - Annamayya
08. krishna nee begane - Yamunakalyani - Vyasa Thirtha
09. Govinda - Mishra Ahir Bhairavi - Sai bhajan
10. Venkatachalanilayam - Sindhubhairavi - Purandaradasar
11. Thillana - Madhuvanthi - Lalgudi G. Jayaraman.
12. Mangalam

Please click here for photos from this event. Please click here for more photos from this event, courtesy of Mr. Nishant George.


Rasikas in attendance are kindly requested to leave your comments and feedback about this concert. Please click here for the form.

Carnatic Mandolin Duet by U.Shrinivas and U.Rajesh



When:
April 16th, 2009.
7:30p.m (sharp)
Where:
Hermitage High School
8301 Hungary Spring Road
Richmond, VA 23228

Details:
Click here to view/print the flyer.

Richmond Rasikas is proud to announce the Carnatic Mandolin duet of Shri U.Shrinivas and Shri U.Rajesh, as part of their Spring Concert Series. They will be accompanied by Madhirimangalam Swaminathan on the Mridangam and S.V. Ramani on the Ghatam.

If you would like more information about Shri. U.Shrinivas, please visit :

Food/Snacks and beverages will be sold before and during a portion of the concert.

Richmond Rasikas