Date : 25/12/2008.
Venue : Mylapore Fine Arts Club.
Time : 3.00 PM
On the dais: Nisha Rajagopal - Gnanasundaram - Sivakumar

The concert began with neeve nannu - an impressive kamboji varnam of kuppuswamy iyer and continued with karpaga manohara - malayamaarutham paalimpa raava - aarabi elaborate husseni, kanjadhalaaya dhakshi(kamalamanohari) Ninne (Simhendra madhyamam)and ended with jayathi jayathi in kamaas.

All the songs were impressive and enjoyable. Well done Nisha & Co - keep it up.

The soundmax syndrome

Mostly all the young musicians sing with high pitch on top of their voice and the sabhas have a soundmax syndrome for the day concerts as compared to the evening concerts. MFAC is no exception for the soundmax syndrome - and the damage the syndrome has done to the1.30 pm troup (sangeetha vasudevan - badrinarayanan - mohanakrishnan) was very much felt. Soundmax + Sangeetha vasudevan's top pitch was disastrous.

A request to Sangeetha madam : Mohana raagam (kapali) is a simple raaga and why make it complicated? The derailments were conspicuous in many places. If you had kept all the presentations simple - it could have yielded very good results. All the 3 on the dais started running in ifferent directions during every presentation - and i didnot follow all 3 at the same time. The only consolation in the concert was thani aavardhan by mohanakrishnan.

So, the success formula for you is : Keep it simple and straight - deliver at normal pitch - do not complicate simple raagas unnecessarily. Best of luck!

K G Gouthaman
Dec 26^th 2008

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