Hyderabad: The 10-day-long Kalasagaram’s annual festival of music, dance and drama came to a grand finale at Keyes High School on Monday with a voco-flute jugalbandi by Abhishek Raghuram and Pravin Godkhindi. Before introducing his Hindustani counterparts, Abhishek elaborated Bairavi raga for the evergreen Swarajathi of Shyama Sastry with only Sahitya. Praveen Godkhindi and Roopak Kallurkar joined him and both …
K. Bharat Sundar’s concert in the company of L. Ramakrishnan, Sumesh Narayanan and Anirudh Athreya, for Kartik Fine Arts, was a dynamic and excellent presentation by the young brigade. Bharat, this year’s ‘Isai Peroli’ awardee of Kartik Fine Arts, has had a steady and remarkable rise, because of his diligence and robust vocal prowess. There was a fairly lengthy niraval …
MadRasana set Bharat Sundar’s virtual concert in the sylvan ambience of Auroville, with Vittal Rangan on the violin, Praveen Sparsh on the mridangam, Chandrasekara Sharma on the ghatam, and Mani on the tambura. Bharat Sundar rendered ‘Rajagopalam bhajeham’ with an extensive and interesting swarakalpana on the line ‘Parijatha taru moolam’. The pallavi set to khanda eka talam went as ‘Pallum …
