T Balasaraswati & Party | 1961 December Season at the Music Academy, Madras

Описание: Next in our series titled 'Nadopasana' is a concert by T Balasaraswati & Party for the 1961 Annual music conference at the Music Academy, Madras.

Balasaraswati's grandson Aniruddha Knight recollects:
"Viswa Thatha (T Viswanathan) was telling me how Balamma (T Balasaraswati) danced the kapi varnam - Sarasalanu for the first time in 1961. They put it together for the Music Academy concert. They were working on the kapi varnam for 6 months - not the dance but the music alone took them that long. Even for a single day in those 6 months, Balamma never danced that varnam. It was only on the day of the concert that she danced it."

This tells us how crucial music was for Balasaraswati. Unfortunately the video recording of this performance is not available, however the musicality is in itself an experience that cannot be put to words. This concert was performed on the evening of 27th December 1961 at the Music Academy New Building, Mylapore. The programme details are as follows:

T Balasaraswati - Gejjal/Vocal Support
CP Gnanasundaram & S Narasimhalu - Vocal
Ganesa Pillai - Nattuvangam
N Radhakrishnan Naidu - Clarinet
T Kuppuswami - Mridangam
T Viswanathan - Flute/Vocal
T Jayammal - Vocal
Mythili Nageswaran - Vocal Support

00:00:00 - Jatiswaram - Hemavati - Tisra Triputa - Thanjavur Ponniah Pillai
00:14:29 - Shabdam - Ragamalika - Kambhoji, Purvikalyani, Nattaikurinji, Kalyani - Misra Chapu - Tanjore Quartet
00:33:42 - Sarasa Nannu Ipudu (Varnam) - Kapi - Rupakam - Thanjavur Ponnaiah Pillai
01:15:45 - Tamarasaksha - Yadukula Kambhoji - Tisra Triputa - Muvallur Sabapathy Ayya
01:33:48 - Chedikulle Olindalum - Surutti - Rupakam - Subbarama Iyer
01:40:35 - Enneramum Undan - Devagandhari - Adi - Gopalakrishna Bharathi
01:46:41 - Ososi - Mukhari - Misra Chapu - Muddu Natesa
01:56:48 - Ithanai Thulambaramai - Dhanyasi - Adi (Thisra Nadai) - Muthuthandavar
02:03:12 - Paingottu Malar - Punnagavarali - Rupakam - Thirugnanasambandar
02:11:42 - Krishna Nee Begane - Yamuna Kalyani - Misra Chapu - Vyasaraya
02:30:25 - Thillana - Mandari - Adi - Thanjavur Ponniah Pillai
02:38:08 - Nee Nama Rupamulaku (Mangalam) - Sourastram - Adi - Thyagaraja

Note: The photograph used in this video is not from the same concert. It was taken in 1962 during Bala's performance at Jacob's Pillow. Photo by John Van Lund.

Through this initiative we aim to archive concerts by various artists and bring to our viewers the experience of listening to complete concerts. These concerts are carefully chosen from Vaak's archives and cleaned up for the best listening experience.

The purpose of this upload is to assist the students and the lifelong learners of India in their pursuit of an education so that they may better their status and their opportunities and to secure for themselves and for others justice, social, economic and political. This has been posted for non-commercial purposes and facilitates fair dealing usage of academic and research materials for private use including research, for criticism and review of the work or of other works and reproduction by teachers and students in the course of instruction. Many of these materials are either unavailable or inaccessible in libraries in India, especially in some of the poorer states and this collection seeks to fill a major gap that exists in access to knowledge.

More on the series 'Nadopasana':
Through this initiative we aim to archive concerts by various artists and bring to our viewers the experience of listening to complete concerts. These concerts are carefully chosen from Vaak's archives and cleaned up for the best listening experience.


Instagram:   / vaak_me  
YouTube:    / vaak_me  
Facebook:   / vaak.me  
Twitter:   / vaak_me  
Vaak magazine: https://issuu.com/carnaticmusic