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If there is one festival in the world other
than the December Music season to which music lovers across the globe throng, it is the Cleveland Tyagaraja Aradhana. Having started as a small
community affair 26 years ago, this festival has grown to such gigantic
proportions today that people consider it a privilege to be a part of it.
Last year's Silver jubilee
witnessed a 10-day affair, and this trend will be continued this year. While
87-year old veteran vocalist T Mukta was one of the huge draws of last
year's festival along with octogenarian doyen R K Srikantan, this year's
special includes a concert featuring the legendary Lalgudi Jayaraman. But
Srikantan fans, don't despair. He will perform on the opening day itself!
The other highlights of this year's festival are:
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There will be a total of 38 events during the 10 days.
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The number of artistes to be featured is a staggering 108! Of these 70
are being flown in from India while 38 are residents of North America.
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The feminists cannot complain either! The events featuring
men and women are equally divided!
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Veteran accompanists T K Murthy, Trichy Sankaran and M S Anantaraman
are also participating in this year's festival.
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The festival features 5 generations of artistes.
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For the second consecutive year, there will be lecture demonstration
sessions in the mornings
by leading artistes on weekdays.
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The birth centenary of
Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar and the Diamond Jubilee of Kalki magazine will
be celebrated.
As has been the practice for
sometime, the Aradhana Committee recognizes outstanding contributions to the
field of performing arts through a series of awards. The awardees of this
year are R K Srikantan (Sangeeta Ratnakara), R Rhadha (Nritya
Ratnakara), Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetty (Seva Ratna), S Rajaram (Nritya
Seva Ratna) and Bhargavi Sundararajan (Kala Seva Mani). A special
award will also be given to a teacher, based on nominations received from
all over the continent.
The organisers are offering several interesting
packages for music
lovers. You could get more info about them through an email to
Toronto Venkataraman or
Karthik Venkataraman. Here is the schedule for this year.
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Saturday April 19, 2003 (Waetjen
Auditorium, CSU, 2001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 44115)
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7:00am |
Prayer and Worship |
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7:30am |
Bhajans
by children |
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8:45am |
Pancharatna Krithis
- Group singing of St. Thyagaraja's five greatest compositions |
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10:00am - 3:30pm |
Individual Singing |
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4:00pm |
Violin Trio Lalgudi Sri G.
Jayaraman, Sri G. J. R. Krishnan, and Smt. J. Vijayalakshmi
accompanied by Tiruvarur Sri Bhaktavatsalam (Mridangam)
and Tirupunithura Sri Radhakrishnan (Ghatam) |
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7:00pm |
Awards Ceremony |
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7:30pm |
Sangeeta Ratnakara Sri R. K.
Srikantan (Vocal) accompanied by Sri R K. Ramakanth (Vocal support), Sri M.S. Anantharaman (Violin), Sri T. K.
Murthy (Mridangam), and Sri B. Sivaraman (Mridangam) |
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Sunday April 20, 2003 (Waetjen
Auditorium, CSU, 2001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 44115)
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8:30am |
Smt. Sudha Raghunathan (Vocal)
accompanied by Sri R.K. Shriramkumar (Violin), Neyveli Sri
Skandasubramanian (Mridangam),
and Sri R. Raman (morsing) |
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12:00 Noon |
Sri Raju Soundararajan (Vocal)
accompanied by Smt. Sandhya Srinath (Violin), Sri Srinath
Balasubramaniam (Mridangam), and Sri Venkat (Kanjira) |
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1:00pm |
Prize Distribution |
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University Center Auditorium (CSU)
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2:00pm |
Sri. R. Balasubramaniam, Smt.
Sunitha Grandhee, Kum. Ajanthie Mathanakaran, Sri. Thayaparan
Mathanakaran, Sri Nikhil Narayan, Sri. Ajit K. Ranganathan,
Sri. Gopi Sundaram, Sri. Mukund Vijayaraghavan (Group Flute) accompanied
by Delhi Sri Sunderrajan (Violin), Sri Rohan Krishnamurthy
(Mridangam), Cleveland Sri R. Balu (Kanjira) and Sri Ravi
Balasubramanian (Ghatam)
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3:30pm |
Smt. M.S. Sheela (Vocal) accompanied
by Smt. Charulatha Ramanujam (Violin), Anoor Sri Ananthakrishna
Sharma (Mridangam) and Sri Arun Kumar (Morsing) |
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Waetjen Auditorium (CSU)
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7:00pm |
Special Dance Recital – Padma Sri.
Alarmel Valli with a live orchestra (Ticketed program)
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Monday April 21, 2003 (University
Center Auditorium, CSU) |
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8:30am |
Lalgudi's Lavanyam - Lecture
Demonstration and workshop on dance and musical aspects of Lalgudi
Sri Jayaraman's compositions. Led by Smt. Raadha |
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10:30am |
Smt. Saraswathi Rajagopalan (Veena)
accompanied by Sri S. Ramakrishnan (Violin), Palani Sri Kumar
(Mridangam), and Sri Sriram Suryanarayan (Kanjira). |
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12:30pm |
Sri. Anil Narasimha (Vocal)
accompanied by Sri. Ajay Narasimha (Violin), Sri Ravishankar
Subramaniam (Mridangam), and Sri Venkat (Kanjira) |
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1:45pm |
Kum. Subhasree Ramachandran (Vocal)
accompanied by Mysore Sri Srikanth Venkataraman (Violin), and Sri
P. K. Swaminathan (Mridangam) |
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3:30pm |
Sri R. Ganesh & Sri R. Kumaresh
(Violin duet) accompanied by Neyveli Sri Venkatesh (Mridangam)
and Sri Giridhar Uduppa (Ghatam) |
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6:30pm |
Sangeeta Ratnakara Dr. N. Ramani
(Flute) accompanied by Sri S. Varadarajan (Violin), Srimushnam Sri
V. Raja Rao (Mridangam),
Sri Karthik Venkataraman (Kanjira), and Sri Ravi
Balasubramaniam (Ghatam) |
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Tuesday April 22, 2003 (University
Center Auditorium, CSU) |
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9:00am |
Lecture Demonstration and workshop led by Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
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Shiva-Vishnu Temple of Greater Cleveland
(7733 Ridge Rd, Parma OH 44129) |
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12:30pm |
Sri Harish Ganapathy (Vocal) accompanied by Delhi Sri
P.Sunderrajan (Violin), Toronto Sri Ganapathy (Mridangam), and Sri
Sriram Suryanarayan (Kanjira). |
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1:45pm |
Smt. Sangita Swaminathan (Vocal) accompanied by Smt. Sandhya
Srinath (Violin), Neyveli Sri Venkatesh (Mridangam), and Sri
Karthik Venkataraman (Kanjira) |
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3:45pm |
Sri B.Balasubramaniam (Vocal) accompanied by Sri S.Varadarajan
(Violin), Srimushnan Sri V. Raja Rao (Mridangam), and
Sri Ravi Balasubramaniam (Ghatam) |
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6:45pm |
Sri. P.S. Narayanaswamy (Vocal) accompanied by Smt. Kalpana Venkat
(Violin), Sri K.Arun Prakash (Mridangam), and Cleveland Sri Balu (Kanjira)
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Wednesday April 23, 2003
(University Center Auditorium, CSU) |
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8:30am |
Lecture-demonstration and workshop on Compositions of Oothukaadu Venkata
Kavi, led by Sri N. Ravikiran
accompanied by Sri Delhi Sundararajan (Violin), and Sri Rohan
Krishnamoorthy (Mridangam).
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10:30am |
Sri Manimaran (Vocal) accompanied by Sri S.Ramakrishnan (Violin),
Delhi Sri R.Srinivasan (Mridangam), and Sri Sriram
Suryanarayan (Kanjira) |
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12:30pm |
Smt. Preetha Manmohan Katapadi (Vocal) accompanied by Smt. Kalpana
Venkat (Violin), Sri Venkat (Mridangam), and Cleveland Sri Balu (Kanjira)
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1:45pm |
Smt.Rajeswari Satish (Vocal) accompanied by Sri Balu Raghuraman
(Violin), Sri Vijayaganesh (Mridangam), and
Sri Ravi Balasubramaniam (Ghatam) |
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3:45pm |
Smt. Geetha Rajasekhar (Vocal) accompanied by Mullaivasal Sri
Chandramouli (Violin), Toronto Sri Gowrishankar (Mridangam), and
Sri Karthik Venkataraman (Kanjira) |
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6:30pm |
Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Vocal) accompanied by Sri S. Varadarajan
(Violin), and Sri K. Arun Prakash (Mridangam)
and Neyveli Sri Venkatesh (Kanjira) |
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Thursday April 24, 2003
(University Center Auditorium, CSU) |
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9:00am |
Musical Discourse -
Kathakalakshepam by Smt. Jaya
Srinivasan |
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10:30pm |
Sri Raghavan (Vocal) accompanied by Sri S. Ramakrishnan (Violin),
Sri Sriram Suryanarayan (Mridangam), and Sri Ravi Balasubramaniam
(Ghatam) |
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12:30pm |
Smt. Kalpana Venkat (Vocal) accompanied by Mullaivasal Sri
Chandramouli (Violin), Sri Vijayaganesh (Mridangam), and Cleveland
Sri Balu (Kanjira) |
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1:45pm |
Bangalore Smt. M.A. Ramamani (Vocal) accompanied by Smt.
Charulatha Ramanujam (Violin), Anoor Sri Ananthakrishna Sharma
(Mridangam) and Sri Arun Kumar (Morsing) |
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3:45pm |
Mysore Sri Manjunath & Mysore Sri Nagaraj (Violin duet)
accompanied by Srimushnam Sri V. Raja Rao (Mridangam),
and Neyveli Sri Venkatesh (Kanjira) |
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6:30pm |
Smt. S. Sowmya (Vocal) accompanied by Sri Balu Raghuraman
(Violin), Sri Vinod Seetharaman (Mridangam), and Sri Karthik
Venkataraman (Kanjira) |
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Friday April 25, 2003
(University Center Auditorium, CSU) |
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9:00am |
Lecture-demonstration and workshop on Compositions of Mysore Vasudevachar, led by Sri V. Rajaram accompanied by
Sri S. Ramakrishnan (Violin), Sri Venkat (Mridangam) |
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10:30am |
Lecture Demonstration on 72 Melakarta Talams and VCD
presentation led by Sri T K Murthy. |
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Shiva-Vishnu Temple of Greater Cleveland (7733 Ridge Rd, Parma OH
44129) |
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12:30pm |
Smt. Saroja Raman (Vocal) accompanied by Smt. Kalpana Venkat
(Violin), Delhi Sri R Srinivasan (Mridangam), and Sri Venkat (Kanjira) |
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1:45pm |
Kum. Nisha Rajagopal (Vocal) accompanied by Mullaivasal Sri
Chandramouli (Violin), Sri Vinod Seetharaman (Mridangam), and Sri
Karthik Venkataraman (Kanjira) |
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3:45pm |
Smt. R. Jayanthi (Vina)
accompanied by Sri Jayshankar Balan (Violin), Neyveli Sri
Narayanan (Mridangam)
and Sri Giridhar Uduppa (Ghatam) |
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6:30pm |
Smt. B. Ranjani & Kum. B. Gayatri (Vocal) accompanied by Sri H. N.
Bhaskar (Violin), and Sri Manoj Siva (Mridangam),
Sri Sriram Suryanarayan (Kanjira) |
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Saturday April 26, 2003
(University Center Auditorium, CSU) |
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9:00am |
Sri. T. K. Govinda Rao (Vocal) accompanied by Sri Srikant
Venkataraman (Violin), Sri Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam), and
Cleveland Sri Balu (Kanjira) |
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12:30pm |
Smt.Suguna Purushothaman (Vocal) accompanied by Smt. Kalpana Venkat
(Violin), Sri Vinod Seetharaman (Mridangam), and
Sri Venkat (Kanjira) |
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3:30pm |
Sri K N Shashikiran & Sri P. Ganesh (Vocal duet) accompanied by Sri
M S Anantharaman (Violin), Sri T K Murthy (Mridangam), and Sri B.
Sivaraman (Mridangam) |
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6:30pm |
Smt. Bombay Jayashri Ramnath (Vocal) accompanied by Sri Balu
Raghuraman (Violin), Palani Sri Kumar (Mridangam), and Sri Karthik
Venkataraman (Kanjira) |
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Sunday April 27, 2003
(University Center Auditorium, CSU) |
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9:00am |
Sri N. Ravikiran (Special
Pallavi Vocal concert) accompanied by
Sri Delhi Sundararajan (Violin), Sri Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam),
and Sri Ravi Balasubramaniam (Ghatam) |
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12:30pm |
Smt. Asha Ramesh (Vocal) accompanied by Sri Balu Raghuraman
(Violin) , Palani Sri Kumar (Mridangam), and Sri Sriram
Suryanarayan (Kanjira) |
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2:30pm |
Sri T. M. Krishna (Vocal) accompanied by Mullaivasal Sri
Chandramouli (Violin), Sri T K Murthy (Mridangam) and Sri
B. Sivaraman (Mridangam) |
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5:30pm |
Sri Ganapathy Tukaram (Vocal) – Special Abhang program (Varakari Sampradaya Abhang Bhajan Harikatha)
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Anjaneya Utsavam |
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