The ease wh which Gayatri traversed the sthayis, her extensive swaras and niraval brought out the richns of the raga
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K. GAYATRI’S BHAVA-RICH VARALI
Gayatri’s petence should now evolve to clu swanubhava * k gayatri *
Gayatri belongs to this club, and her ncert for the Mic Amy showed this well. Gayatri began her le-up wh Tyagaraja’s Kovur Pancharatna kri, ‘Eevasudha ni vanti’, Sahana.
The Varali raga alapana that followed took a more bhava urse wh s characteristic karvais prented good measure by both Gayatri and vlist Vtal Rangan. Some young sgers like Gayatri seem to unt on the former. Gayatri embraced the vilamba mood well.
Then ‘Parakela nannu parapalimpa’ Kedaragowla (Syama Sastri) wh s own rakti yet brisk wh chtaswaram brought back the pep that Gayatri thriv better the Karaharapriya alapana, Gayatri’s exploratn of the lower not of madhya stayi was elegant. Both Gayatri and Vtal Rangan were facile and smooth their executn. ‘Tanami varai en swami’, a javali by gu Suguna Pushothaman is a lovely creatn Behag, and Gayatri renred her own charmg style.
K. GAYATRI BROUGHT OUT THE BT SHAS OF KAMBOJI
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Vtal Rangan is the big league now, performg effortlsly to the mands of a by-on-stage volist like Gayatri. Like Gayatri, he too will need to embrace self-enjoyment and bhava more than the rattle.
Wh a malleable voice, Gayatri too opted to don only the warrr role. Gayatri has the pacy for that evolutn. Gayatri performg for Kartik Fe Arts at Narada gana Saba i 2022.
Gayatri was full of energy. Gayatri gave special attentn to two ragas — Varali and Kamboji. Gayatri did jtice to both her own style.
K GAYATHRI
K. Gayatri, Aishwarya Shankar, Nishanth Chandran and Delhi Sairam monstrated the art of sgg Pallavi to different nadais and talas * k gayatri *
Gayatri’s niraval and swaras at ‘Nee padambujame sada’ rried well the sahya and raga bhava. Gayatri performg for Kartik Fe Arts mic ftival 2022, at Narada gana Sabha. Gayatri’s sonoro voice, which is pable of traversg the different sthayis wh ease, brought out the bt shas of this raga.
Gayatri was supported by R. Gayatri’s ncert also featured ‘Vavaro varam thavaro’ Sama (Gopalakrishna Bharati), ‘Anachala natham’ Saranga (Dikshar), ‘Kandaen kandaen thivayatrile’ Atana (by her gu Suguna Pushothaman), and ‘Apara kana sdhu bairavisam’ by vlist R.
K. Gayatri’s ncert was too brisk to nvey the joy of mic * k gayatri *
Gayatri and Aishwarya Shankar wh Nishanth Chandran on the vl and Delhi Sairam on the mridangam. Gayatri and Aishwarya Shankar along wh Nishanth Chandran on the vl and Delhi Sairam on the mridangam revealed the methods to master pallavi event was dited to one of the pallavi veterans, Suguna Pushothaman.
Gayatri remembered how hard work and practice enabled her gu to prent even the most plex talas on stage wh ease. Wh Nishanth and Sairam ually acpanyg her at ncerts, Gayatri acknowledged that prentg a pallavi is a team effort, and that their ntributn is sgers explaed that though theoretilly Pallavi is pada-laya-vyasam, is the imagative exploratn of a meangful le of sahyam, havg a poorvangam (first part) and uttarangam (the send portn) wh adi karvai (the pse between them), and the sahyam fallg precisely ‘pada garbham’ (the part precedg the adi karvai).
Varnams different nadaisGayatri discsed and monstrated how to sg varnams var nadais, such as tisram, khandam, and sankeernam, by sgg the Sahana varnam var nadais. Speakg about anga talas, Gayatri explaed sarvangam wh 72 aksharam, monstrated the tala and sang a Simhanandana pallavi ‘Narasimha nandanapriya’. Gayatri gave a glimpse of marga tala, a set of five talas that form the first of the 108 talas, and Aishwarya monstrated the pallavi ‘Panchamha panchanadheha’ Purvikalyani begng wh the tala Shatpaputrikam, followed by the other four talas, all of which have a number of beats divisible by four, to show how the same sahyam n be seamlsly adapted to different talas.