Parvathi felicitating Maestro M. BalamuraliKrishna 1971
Soon after starting the Ramanavami festival in the 60s, Mr. K. Srikantiah made a concerted effort to attract the best of musicians and felicitated them. Thus it was that in 1971, Vid. M. Balamuralikrishna was handsomely felicitated in the presence of several connoisseurs and musicians.
We are sharing this concert recording from 1971 as our blog's penultimate tribute to Sri.K.Srikatiah's memory among rasikas and musicians world over for his immense service to the cause of art and Mysore rasikas.
Keenly aware of the occasion then, BMK also performed a stellar concert in the company of the best of artistes, viz. Vid. M. Chandrasekharan, Vid. Umalaypuram Sivaraman and Vid. Vikku Vinayakram. His Chandrika raga alapana, followed by his own composition, was received with many appreciative murmurs. His treatment of Devadi Deva had established his stardom already in Mysore, being applauded by the composer himself! Here, he rendered it with the same gusto. "Chandru" followed the mood and method assiduously. Kharaharapriya was a favourite of Sri. K. Srikantiah and the raga and song would have surely thrilled him. All in all, this concert has the stamp of BMK, full of melody and inventiveness.
Vid. Umayalpuram Sivaraman, recipient of Padma Vibhushan and Sangeeta Kalanidhi among several titles, celebrated completing 80 years of performing in concerts very recently, by playing in the Kalahasteeshvara Temple, Kumbhakonam, where he had his arangetram in 1935! Our felicitations to the doyen of percussion art.
M.Balamuralikrishna --------------- Vocal
M. Chandrasekharan---------------- Violin
Umayalpuram Sivaraman --------- Mridangam
T.H. Vinayakram ---------------------- Ghatam
Date: 7th April 1971 - held at the Parvathi Ramanavami Pandal
- Endaro Mahanubhavulu - Sriraga - Thyagaraja
- Enta Muddo - Bindumalini - Thyagaraja
- Nee Sati Neeve Ranga - Chandrika - Balamuralikrishna
- Peridi Ninnu - Kharaharapriya - Thyagaraja
- Paramapavanamu - Kedaragaula - Balamuralikrishna
- Devadi Deva - Sunada Vinodini - Mysore Vasudevacharya
- Tani
- Jagodaddharana - Kapi - Purandaradasa
- Naapaali Sreerama - Shankarabharanam - Thyagaraja
- Ya Ramita - Patdeep - Jayadeva
- Sita Kalyana - Kurinji - Thyagaraja
- Thillana - Kadanakuthuhalam - Balamuralikrishna
- Mangalam - Madhyamavathi -Balamuralikrishna
