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A Carnatic musical evening

22 March 2004, 18:00 PM
LIFESTYLE
By Amrita Sharoshi
22 March 2004, 18:00 PM
Vazuvur Ravi playing the morsing
Musical evenings at Bishwa Shahitya Kendra are not rare, but the one held on March 17th had a special spark to it. Sarva Sree Carnatic Music Center in its endeavour to popularise South Indian classical music presented an instrumental performance of the violin,mridangam, kanjiraandmorsingwith two artistes from South India. The artistes had come all the way from South India with the purpose of organising a workshop, to train the students and teachers of the music center..

The concert , held at the Bishwa Shahitya Kendra, started off with a brief lecture demonstration by the founder/director of Sarva Sree, Meghna Ameen, in which she explained the basic ideas and formations of the 72 Janaka or Melakarta ragas (father ragas) and their janyas. The two musicians, Kannapam Ramprasad (violin) and Vazuvur Ravi (mridangam and morsing) began the musical performance with a rhythmic swarajathi in Raga Bilahari. Following that they performed ten-twelve kritanams of different composers and a few folk songs.

Two of Sarva Sree's instrumentalists, Debashish Roy and Jan E Alam, also joined in the part of the 'tani avartam' (pure rhythmic improvisation with different percussion instruments). The program was wrapped up with Professor Abdul Abu Sayeed's eloquent speech which turned the entire program into a complete success.

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The author is a student of Sarva Sree Carnatic Music Center