Dear Friends and Muisc Lovers.
I have news for you.
I have started uploading music to Sangeethamshare.
I thank the moderators for allotting me a folder.
My first upload was a Nadaswaram Concert of Sri Namagiripettai Krishnan.
My interest in Karnataka sangeetam is because of Nadaswaram.I still remember the decenber night when I heard a Festival concert of Nadaswaram.
Those days Hyderabad AIR also used to broadcast Madras Isai Vizha concerts.
Here are the details of the concert uploaded.
Team:
Sri Namgiripettai Krishnan - Nadaswaram
Sri Namgiripettai Murugan - Nadswaram support
Sri Arumugam and Sri Anguswamy - Thavil
List of Items:
01-Pranamamyaham-Gaula
02-Paripalayamam-Reetigaula
03-NijadasaVarada-Kalyani
04-Chalamelara-MargaHindolam
05-Hemavati-RagamPallavi-Ragamalika
06-Hemavati-Contd
Those who are not members of Sangeethapriya need not go there.
I have also uploaded the concert in mediafire.
Here is the link.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=10f3f26dc390f408ab1eab3e9fa335ca857b0b108e729c4c
I will continue to upload some interesting concerts to mediafire also.
Make it a point to visit my blog regularly for some good music.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Flu or Flew?
Everyone you talk to, complain about someone who fell a victim of Dengue fever.
My wife suffered from it last year.
Mosquitoes are there nad Malaria is there.
I heard of this new fever when in Delhi.
The scourge has spread all over India.
In this context I bring to you an article I read on the diseases.
We humans might think we're pretty clever because we invented digital watches, colour TV, poetry, and income tax. But as far as viruses and bacteria are concerned, we're just meat.
Over the last 20 years we've seen a few diseases, such as AIDS, pop up from virtually nowhere. And now we're finding more and more diseases that jump from one species to another.
Sometimes, these diseases spill over from domestic animals to wildlife populations. In Australia, a disease called Sarcoptic mange 2 has jumped from dogs to wombats.
Sometimes the disease can jump from one animal to another, and even make it extinct. This happened with the wild dogs in the Serengeti in 1991. Domestic dogs in the area had a canine distemper, which hopped across to the wild dogs, and wiped them out completely.
Sometimes, the disease can spread to many different species. In August 1999, a range of creatures in New York and nearby Long Island were struck with a very strange and unusual viral encephalitis (an inflammation of the brain).
By the time it was all over, the encephalitis had killed several thousand wild crows, nine of the 23 horses that had been infected, and seven of the 60 people who had caught the disease.
After a lot of hard scientific work, the villain was found to be the West Nile Virus. It's carried by mosquitoes. It's well known to cause encephalitis in humans and horses in the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Europe, but this was its first entry into America.
Sometimes, the disease is just a new version of an old disease. In early 1998, there was a very unusual outbreak of influenza A (H5N1) in Hong Kong. H5N1 was known, but had previously infected only birds such as poultry. This was the first time that it had attacked people.
Very quickly, six of the 18 people who were infected died.
The government officials acted with brutal efficiency, and slaughtered all of the millions of poultry birds in Hong Kong.
We'll never know for sure, but many infectious disease scientists say that this quick action stopped the spread of what could have been another killer influenza epidemic.
The last big influenza epidemic — called the Spanish Flu — occurred just after World War I, and killed over 20 million people worldwide. So H5N1 might have been a repeat offender.
But sometimes the disease comes from domesticated animals, and is previously unknown. This happened in late 1994, in the town of Hendra, in southeast Queensland.
Some horses in a stable run by a Mr Vic Rail became very ill. Fourteen of these horses had very high fevers of 41°C. They soon died of lung disease, with frothy blood coming out of their noses.
Both Vic Rail and his stablehand got this disease. The stablehand recovered, but Vic Rail died. The virus turned out to be a paramyxovirus, which had successfully jumped from horses to humans.
The area was quickly quarantined, causing severe disruption to the Queensland horse industry. But thanks to the quarantine, there was very little impact interstate, and the Melbourne Cup was able to go ahead, and stop the nation.
But there could have been a bigger cost. The very first case of this disease was in a mare that had come from Cannon Hill. There's an export meat works in the Cannon Hill area.
Luckily, the paramyxovirus, now called the Hendra virus, did not cause damage to Australia's export meat markets.
But diseases do cost money.
In New Hampshire in 1994, 665 people had to be treated because of a single kitten with rabies in a pet store. That cost $1.1 million.
In Australia, there was a recent infection of pilchards, which left us with dead fish scattered across our southern coasts. That cost the Australian fishing industry $12 million over three years.
Back in the USA, the cost of introduced diseases to the health of crops and livestock, and to humans, is about $41 billion every year.
Sometimes the cost of these viruses or bacteria moving into previously unexposed populations is not measured in dollars, but in human grief.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Spanish Conquistadors bought smallpox, typhus and measles into South America, and 50 million native South Americans died.
Diseases have been with us for millions of years, and there is no easy solution.
There are a few things we can do about it. Domesticated dogs that live near the Serengeti National Park are now vaccinated against rabies. This seems to be stopping rabies in wild dogs.
In a similar way, mountain gorillas in Africa are being vaccinated against measles, while chimpanzees are being vaccinated against polio virus.
But we'll need to look harder at known viruses and bacteria, and look even harder for unknown ones in the environment.
We need to involve many different types of scientists and medical specialists from different fields to work out what is making these diseases spread, so that we can stamp them out.
Because if we don't, the Doomsday Bug might stamp on us.
My wife suffered from it last year.
Mosquitoes are there nad Malaria is there.
I heard of this new fever when in Delhi.
The scourge has spread all over India.
In this context I bring to you an article I read on the diseases.
We humans might think we're pretty clever because we invented digital watches, colour TV, poetry, and income tax. But as far as viruses and bacteria are concerned, we're just meat.
Over the last 20 years we've seen a few diseases, such as AIDS, pop up from virtually nowhere. And now we're finding more and more diseases that jump from one species to another.
Sometimes, these diseases spill over from domestic animals to wildlife populations. In Australia, a disease called Sarcoptic mange 2 has jumped from dogs to wombats.
Sometimes the disease can jump from one animal to another, and even make it extinct. This happened with the wild dogs in the Serengeti in 1991. Domestic dogs in the area had a canine distemper, which hopped across to the wild dogs, and wiped them out completely.
Sometimes, the disease can spread to many different species. In August 1999, a range of creatures in New York and nearby Long Island were struck with a very strange and unusual viral encephalitis (an inflammation of the brain).
By the time it was all over, the encephalitis had killed several thousand wild crows, nine of the 23 horses that had been infected, and seven of the 60 people who had caught the disease.
After a lot of hard scientific work, the villain was found to be the West Nile Virus. It's carried by mosquitoes. It's well known to cause encephalitis in humans and horses in the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Europe, but this was its first entry into America.
Sometimes, the disease is just a new version of an old disease. In early 1998, there was a very unusual outbreak of influenza A (H5N1) in Hong Kong. H5N1 was known, but had previously infected only birds such as poultry. This was the first time that it had attacked people.
Very quickly, six of the 18 people who were infected died.
The government officials acted with brutal efficiency, and slaughtered all of the millions of poultry birds in Hong Kong.
We'll never know for sure, but many infectious disease scientists say that this quick action stopped the spread of what could have been another killer influenza epidemic.
But sometimes the disease comes from domesticated animals, and is previously unknown. This happened in late 1994, in the town of Hendra, in southeast Queensland.
Some horses in a stable run by a Mr Vic Rail became very ill. Fourteen of these horses had very high fevers of 41°C. They soon died of lung disease, with frothy blood coming out of their noses.
Both Vic Rail and his stablehand got this disease. The stablehand recovered, but Vic Rail died. The virus turned out to be a paramyxovirus, which had successfully jumped from horses to humans.
The area was quickly quarantined, causing severe disruption to the Queensland horse industry. But thanks to the quarantine, there was very little impact interstate, and the Melbourne Cup was able to go ahead, and stop the nation.
But there could have been a bigger cost. The very first case of this disease was in a mare that had come from Cannon Hill. There's an export meat works in the Cannon Hill area.
Luckily, the paramyxovirus, now called the Hendra virus, did not cause damage to Australia's export meat markets.
But diseases do cost money.
In New Hampshire in 1994, 665 people had to be treated because of a single kitten with rabies in a pet store. That cost $1.1 million.
In Australia, there was a recent infection of pilchards, which left us with dead fish scattered across our southern coasts. That cost the Australian fishing industry $12 million over three years.
Back in the USA, the cost of introduced diseases to the health of crops and livestock, and to humans, is about $41 billion every year.
Sometimes the cost of these viruses or bacteria moving into previously unexposed populations is not measured in dollars, but in human grief.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Spanish Conquistadors bought smallpox, typhus and measles into South America, and 50 million native South Americans died.
Diseases have been with us for millions of years, and there is no easy solution.
There are a few things we can do about it. Domesticated dogs that live near the Serengeti National Park are now vaccinated against rabies. This seems to be stopping rabies in wild dogs.
In a similar way, mountain gorillas in Africa are being vaccinated against measles, while chimpanzees are being vaccinated against polio virus.
But we'll need to look harder at known viruses and bacteria, and look even harder for unknown ones in the environment.
We need to involve many different types of scientists and medical specialists from different fields to work out what is making these diseases spread, so that we can stamp them out.
Because if we don't, the Doomsday Bug might stamp on us.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Rudali - Stories by Mahasweta Devi
Believe me I bought this book in a second hand book shop.
Why do such books end up in wayside stalls and second hand book stalls?
Mahasweta Devi is a celebrated author.
The title story Rudali is made into a motion picture also.
I really do not know how the film is!
The story is moving!
There are five stories and an article on Rudali in this book.
Telugu readers were exposed to lot Bengali literature thanks to Chnadamama groups Chakrapani and afew other publishers like Desi Grandhamala..
Chandamama groups monthly magazine Yuva used to print a lot of translated novels.
How many people know the name of Panchakadi Dev.
Detective novels from Bengali are very different.
After a long time when I saw this translation published by Hyderabad Book Trust I was excited.
The book is worth reading.
To comment on the author and her works will be like showing a candle to the Sun.
I leave it to you.
Get the book from HBT.
Read it!
A women who never cries when she is supposed to takes to crying as a business. Rudali means one who cries. The other stories are equally compelling. Go on and read the stories. May be you will cry, at least within.
Why do such books end up in wayside stalls and second hand book stalls?
The title story Rudali is made into a motion picture also.
I really do not know how the film is!
The story is moving!
There are five stories and an article on Rudali in this book.
Telugu readers were exposed to lot Bengali literature thanks to Chnadamama groups Chakrapani and afew other publishers like Desi Grandhamala..
Chandamama groups monthly magazine Yuva used to print a lot of translated novels.
How many people know the name of Panchakadi Dev.
Detective novels from Bengali are very different.
After a long time when I saw this translation published by Hyderabad Book Trust I was excited.
The book is worth reading.
To comment on the author and her works will be like showing a candle to the Sun.
I leave it to you.
Get the book from HBT.
Read it!
Here is some information that will tell you why you should read the book.
This is what the writers says about why she wrote the stories.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Paintings and Autographs.
I am bringing two more paintings from the Souvenir of The First World Telugu Conference held in 1975.
There are paintings and there are autographs.
Usually if it is an autograph on a painting, it would be of the painter.
These paintings are a little different in this aspect.
The autographs are of the celebrities who attended the conference.
Thus the paintings have an added value.
The painting speaks about his personality.
Majesty, detail and things like that.
The autugraph is of a personality who is well known to all Telugu people.
I was his students for a few days.
Though there were enough chances I have never gone very near to him.
In one of those meetings where we shared the dias, he approvingly nodded at a critical point I made.
That is enough for me.
Do you know Sri, Dr, Prof. Cingireddy Narayana Reddy?
Yes. Cinare for short!
That is how he siged on the painting!
More paintings from many other collections in the pipeline!!
$$$$$$$$$
There are paintings and there are autographs.
Usually if it is an autograph on a painting, it would be of the painter.
These paintings are a little different in this aspect.
The autographs are of the celebrities who attended the conference.
Thus the paintings have an added value.
(Click on the paintings to see them in bigger size)
This painting is by Sri Varada Venkataratnam.Not many people know his name.
Not many of his paintings are there in circulation.
I know one thing about him for sure.
He taught painting to my good frined Sri Seela Veerraju.
Sri Veerraju is a great man.
His Guru is greater than him!
The autograph is of a tall man.
Sri Bezawada Goplala Reddy was a tall man in many respects.
He need no introduction either!
The second painting is by Janardhan.
I really no nothing about him.The painting speaks about his personality.
Majesty, detail and things like that.
The autugraph is of a personality who is well known to all Telugu people.
I was his students for a few days.
Though there were enough chances I have never gone very near to him.
In one of those meetings where we shared the dias, he approvingly nodded at a critical point I made.
That is enough for me.
Do you know Sri, Dr, Prof. Cingireddy Narayana Reddy?
Yes. Cinare for short!
That is how he siged on the painting!
More paintings from many other collections in the pipeline!!
$$$$$$$$$
Saturday, December 5, 2009
T V Shankaranarayanan Concert
T V Shankaranarayanan was a great friend.
I am saying 'was' because we lost contact for a long time.
I remember the long discussions I had with him on muisc.
He is not just a great musician but a refined gentleman.
After a concert in Muisc Academy when I went on to the stage, he got excited and introduced me to the team saying "look at him! He came all the way from Hyderabad to listen to our performances".
Great man he is!
I cannot forget the gesture he made at me starting a Kanada when he sang in the Vinjamuri Memorial Concert decades back. That morning I told him that I like Kanada!
This is what Hindu wrote about him when he was conferred Padmavibhuashan award.
A lawyer turned musician, he is one of the few classical exponents of an art form that he has carefully nurtured and preserved in all its pristine beauty. His concerts, meticulously planned and modelled on the debonair style of his illustrious uncle and guru, Madurai Mani Iyer, have mesmerised audiences with their rhythm, grace and melody. It could be a raga alapana, neraval or swaraprastharam - they all have the special TVS stamp. An unaffected technique he has honed to perfection. After one such inspired concert, he was heard to remark: "How I enjoyed singing Kapi today." Maybe, there lies the secret of his success. He becomes so totally involved in his music that he forgets himself and his surroundings. It could be an open-air theatre; a 3,000-seat auditorium; or, a cosy hall with the audience spilling over onto his mat. He sings with the same zest and verve. Once, during a concert in this city, when the rain drove away many in the audience, he continued to sing for a handful of listeners without diluting the quality or cutting down the length of the concert. This again a lesson learnt from his guru who used to tell him: "When you sing, don't compete with others. Listen and judge your own music. And sing even if there are only ten listeners." These were lessons in humility that the young disciple learnt at the feet of his mentor.
Thanks to Sri Srinivasan, Mumbai, I bring to you an excellent concert of TVS with eminent accompanists.
Team:
Sri T V Shankaranarayanan - Vocal
Sri M S Gopalakrishnan - Violin
Sri Vellore Ramabhadran - Mridangam
List of items:
01 Rara Ma Intindaka - Asaveri
02 Venkata Ramana - Latangi
03 Paramapurusha - Vasanta
04 Rama Ika Nannu - Shahana
05 Kamalamba - Ananda Bhairavi
06 Kambhoji Ragam
07 Lambodaram Bhavaye - Kambhoji
08 Tani
09 RTP - Kalyana Vasantam
10 Eppo Varuvaro - Jaunpuri
11 Note
Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=10f3f26dc390f408ab1eab3e9fa335ca491dc450e2074889
Heavenly music! Enjoy!!
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I am saying 'was' because we lost contact for a long time.
I remember the long discussions I had with him on muisc.
He is not just a great musician but a refined gentleman.
After a concert in Muisc Academy when I went on to the stage, he got excited and introduced me to the team saying "look at him! He came all the way from Hyderabad to listen to our performances".
Great man he is!
I cannot forget the gesture he made at me starting a Kanada when he sang in the Vinjamuri Memorial Concert decades back. That morning I told him that I like Kanada!
This is what Hindu wrote about him when he was conferred Padmavibhuashan award.
Thanks to Sri Srinivasan, Mumbai, I bring to you an excellent concert of TVS with eminent accompanists.
Team:
Sri T V Shankaranarayanan - Vocal
Sri M S Gopalakrishnan - Violin
Sri Vellore Ramabhadran - Mridangam
List of items:
01 Rara Ma Intindaka - Asaveri
02 Venkata Ramana - Latangi
03 Paramapurusha - Vasanta
04 Rama Ika Nannu - Shahana
05 Kamalamba - Ananda Bhairavi
06 Kambhoji Ragam
07 Lambodaram Bhavaye - Kambhoji
08 Tani
09 RTP - Kalyana Vasantam
10 Eppo Varuvaro - Jaunpuri
11 Note
Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=10f3f26dc390f408ab1eab3e9fa335ca491dc450e2074889
Heavenly music! Enjoy!!
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Smt M L Vasanta Kumari - Old Discs
Continuing our tributes to Great GNB, here is a collection of items by Smt. M L Vasanta Kumari, his principle disciple.
MLV needs no introduction for the music loving Rasikas.
Here is an excerpt from a write up from Hindu, published on the occassion of MLV's 75th birth anniversary.
Madras Lalithangi Vasanthakumari — this was how a Sabha announced her name for her `solo' concert in Bangalore in 1941. The 13-year-old was substituting for her mother who had taken ill. But the `substitute' was far from a compromise.
On the contrary, she created a tremendous impact on the minds of all her listeners. While many admired her, there were some proud of her too. Amongst them was G. N. Balasubramaniam. Her guru and mentor, GNB taught MLV for ten years. He advised her to absorb all the good aspects of his music but to cultivate her own style. MLV did just that and the `MLV bani' emerged that was a combination of melody, rhythm and intellect. She stunned the audience by making unfamiliar ragas familiar and lacing known ones with new contours. With great alacrity she would just shift the tonic note to another swara and out of this exercise would emerge a kaleidoscopic portrayal of a new raga, another one and yet another. Her Ragam-Tanam-Pallavis were cerebral.
The List of items:
01 Nadatanum Anisam - Chittaranjani
02 Nijadasavarada - Kalyani
03 Srijalandharam - Gambhira Nata
04 Yake Nirdayana
05 Kavava - Varali
06 Tillana - Dhanasri
07 Sudimudi Thevaram
08 Sriganapathini - Saurashtram
09 Emani Pogadudura - Veeravasantam
10 Bagayenayya - Chandrajyoti
11 Kanulutakani - Kalyana Vasantam
The link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=10f3f26dc390f408ab1eab3e9fa335ca1f5227945c969d83
Let us enjoy good music.
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MLV needs no introduction for the music loving Rasikas.
Here is an excerpt from a write up from Hindu, published on the occassion of MLV's 75th birth anniversary.
On the contrary, she created a tremendous impact on the minds of all her listeners. While many admired her, there were some proud of her too. Amongst them was G. N. Balasubramaniam. Her guru and mentor, GNB taught MLV for ten years. He advised her to absorb all the good aspects of his music but to cultivate her own style. MLV did just that and the `MLV bani' emerged that was a combination of melody, rhythm and intellect. She stunned the audience by making unfamiliar ragas familiar and lacing known ones with new contours. With great alacrity she would just shift the tonic note to another swara and out of this exercise would emerge a kaleidoscopic portrayal of a new raga, another one and yet another. Her Ragam-Tanam-Pallavis were cerebral.
The List of items:
01 Nadatanum Anisam - Chittaranjani
02 Nijadasavarada - Kalyani
03 Srijalandharam - Gambhira Nata
04 Yake Nirdayana
05 Kavava - Varali
06 Tillana - Dhanasri
07 Sudimudi Thevaram
08 Sriganapathini - Saurashtram
09 Emani Pogadudura - Veeravasantam
10 Bagayenayya - Chandrajyoti
11 Kanulutakani - Kalyana Vasantam
The link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=10f3f26dc390f408ab1eab3e9fa335ca1f5227945c969d83
Let us enjoy good music.
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
Sumati Satakam - 12
(The picture has nothing to do with the post please!)
Sumati padyam
కరణముల ననుసరించక
విరసంబున దిన్న తిండి వికటించు జుమీ
యిరుసున గందెన బెట్టక
పరమేశ్వరు బండియైన పారదు సుమతీ
Meaning of the words roughly.
కరణములను = the village account keeper
అనుసరించక = without following
విరసంబున = in confrontation
తిన్న తిండి = food that is eaten
వికటించు జుమీ = will cause distress
యిరుసున = on the axle
కందెన బెట్టక = without adding lubricant
పరమేశ్వరు బండియైన = even the cart or chariot of the supreme lord
పారదు = will not move
సుమతీ = O, the wise one!
We are all now victims of corruption in the administrative mechanism.
Perhaps this was the case even in the days of Baddena who wrote Sumati Satakam.
In this verse Baddena tells the world that people have to go by the wishes of account keepers.
They are now called the revenue officers.
He tells that food eaten against their wishes will not be digested.
Moreover, it will cause illness.
It means without satisfying the officers you cannot keep your wealth.
If you keep it, it will cause you troubles.
As an example he says that the lubricant in a vehicles axle as a necessity.
Even if the vehicle belongs to the Supreme lord, it still requires lubricant!
Bribes have several interesting names and lubricant could be one among them!
All the Bofors and the current Raja case are all a different game.
There also, since the fellows have not taken care of all the concerned people, things get to a wrong position. On the whole the poet says that enjoying wealth all by yourself is not good. That is the positive message we have to derive from the poem. This is not to glorify bribery. But to tell that you have to take care of people who take care of your affairs.
Does that mean you have to pay people for everything?
These days, employees get their wages from the Government. Not satisfied with that they look for additional appeasements. That is out and out bad.
When Baddena wrote these lines village accountants must have had a bad time with low emoluments.
Meaning of verses change with time, I feel!
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