Friday 21 December 2012

Prabhata Sangeetham: Mikeless concerts in the mornings

The drawing room of an apartment owned a the lawyer couple becomes a music hall for three weeks beginning Dec. 25, every year.
The family of Venkataraman, all lovers of music, hosts an annual concert series 'Prabhata Sangeetham' at their home in Luz Avenues, Mylapore. The concerts are held from 5.30 a.m. to 6.30 a.m. No mikes are used and the concert hall is lit up only with traditional oil lamps. The singers perform solo without any accompanying instruments.

Senior vocalist O.S. Thiagarajan sings on the opening day. There is a line up of young artistes till Jan. 13.
Here is the schedule:

Dec. 26 - Amrutha Venkatesh
Dec. 27 - K.Gayatri
Dec. 28 - Ramakrishnamurthy
Dec. 29 - Aiswarya Vidya Raghunath
Dec. 30 - Delhi P Sunderajan-Arun Ramamurthy-Shiva Ramamurthy (Violin Trio) - Arvind Venkatraman
Dec. 31  - Lalitha Sahasranama Akhanda Parayana
Jan. 1, 2013Kalakkad Bothers (Laliltha Sahasranamam Recital) 3.30 am to 5.30 a.m.
Jan. 1 - Delhi V Muthukumar
Jan. 2 - Jayanthi Kumaresh (Veena) - Sriram Bhrammanandam
Jan. 3 - Kiranavali Vidyashankar
Jan. 4 - Abhishek Raghuram
Jan. 5 - J.A.Jayanth [Flute] - Mannarkoil Balaji.  Archana & Aarti (6.30 a.m. to 7.30 a.m.)
Jan. 6 - Sumithra Vasudev. S.Maalavika (6.30 a.m. to 7.30 a.m.)
Jan. 7 - R.K.Shriram Kumar [Viloin Solo] - Umayalapuram Mali
Jna. 8 - Bharathi Ramasubban
Jan. 9 - Ganesh - Bhargavi Ganesh (Chitraveena Duet)
Jan. 10 - Vishnudev Namboodiri
Jan. 11 - Amrutha Murali
Jan. 12 - Usha Rajagopal [Violin Solo]
Jan. 13 - Palghat Ramprasad. Shwetha & Ramya Chandrasekhar (6.30 a.m. to 7.30 a.m.)

The series s co-ordinated by vocalist Delhi Muthukumar.
The concerts  will be held at G/A, Saraswathi Apartments, 14/2, Luz Avenue 2nd Street, Mylapore, Chennai - 4 (Opp. Nageswara Park)

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