Ranjani and Gayatri will probably be performing a novel live performance, ‘RaajabyRaga’, on June 5 at The Music Academy to rejoice the maestro’s eightieth birthday
Ranjani and Gayatri will probably be performing a novel live performance, ‘RaajabyRaga’, on June 5 at The Music Academy to rejoice the maestro’s eightieth birthday
When Carnatic singers Ranjani and Gayatri carry out a novel live performance RaajabyRaGa, on June 5, to rejoice the legendary music director Ilaiyaraaja’s 80 th birthday, they are going to be fulfilling the said or unspoken need of many musicians, together with flautist T. Viswanathan.
While receiving the Sangita Kalanidhi award of The Music Academy, the late Viswanathan known as upon conventional musicians to take step one in the direction of a mutual understanding between conventional artwork music and movie music.
“Ilaiyaraaja has effortlessly created a bridge between classical and film music. We are going to celebrate his classicism in film music by interpreting his compositions in Carnatic style,” stated sisters Ranjani and Gayatri, who’ve chosen to render a few of Ilaiyaraaja’s movie compositions within the June 5 live performance at The Music Academy.
They have deliberate it as a two-and-a-half or three-hour programme with all the weather of a Carnatic live performance, together with ragam, tanam, pallavi and Ragamaalika renderings.
“We are not going to reproduce his compositions. The orchestrations have been done with laser-like precision. We will sing to the accompaniment of violin, mridangam and ghatam. It is a tribute in Carnatic idiom to his music,” stated the sisters who first collaborated with Ilaiyaraaja in mission Maayone.
They stated each bit would discover a specific thought of Ilaiyaraaja’s music and his trademark Carnatic adaptation. They have chosen Chinna Kannan Azhaikkiran set to Reetigowla for ragam-tanam-pallavi.
One track will discover the concept of folks versus classical music; one other will search to elucidate the rhythmic patterns; one more merchandise will delineate how a Carnatic composition set to a specific raga travels along with a movie composition in the identical raga.
“We will sing one classical composition and switch over to a film song to prove how he has adhered to the grammar of Carnatic ragas. His songs have inspired us so much that we unconsciously pick up phrases from composition even while performing songs in Carnatic concerts,” they stated.
Asked in regards to the response of Ilaiyaraaja after they proposed their thought to him, they stated he not solely inspired them however introduced a want record which included Mari Mari Ninne, a keerthana of saint-composer Tyagaraja set to Kambodhi raga, however modified to Saramati for the movie Sindhu Bhairavi. It triggered an issue with many Carnatic musicians saying nobody had the fitting to change the compositions of Tyagaraja.
Ilaiyaraaja had informed them that it was not his “ego” that performed a task in altering the tune. “I composed a tune in Saramati. When I turned the pages of the volume of Tyagaraja’s compositions published by The Music Academy, the first song I spotted was Mari Mari Ninne and it perfectly suited the tune,” they recalled Ilaiyaraaja as narrating the incident.
Like a Ragamalika singing session, they’ve ready a listing of Ilaiyaraaja’s songs in varied ragas. “Normally, we do not go for rehearsals before regular concerts. But we have done a couple of rehearsals for this programme,” the duo stated.
Source: www.thehindu.com
