Explore the art of iconic Carnatic musicians l Madurai Mani Iyer l Let’s talk Carnatic l MOPA

[@ramanivenkata3161]

Excellent. What an Elaborate reading!!! Admire the music knowledge these Two have. Ganakaladharar impressed young and old alike with his Mesmerizing music. Salute the maha Vidwan.

[@aparnack]

Takeaways not in the order presented necessarily: I think students have a lot to benefit from this. 1. Kalapramanam being in a smaller range 2. Shruti shuddham and hold on layam 3. Using variety of syllables 4. Using a pitch where musician has to exert just a bit of struggle and not much 5. Introducing very rare kritis like saarasa mukhi 6. Singing some limited scope ragas like Jayanthasena for a long time 7. Starting concert differently like from O jagadamba 8. Ragamalika swarams in RTP 9. Landing the swaras in an unexpected and unpredictable manner irrespective of where the line starts in talam, the eduppu. 10. Very informal way of concert 11. Some of his own phrases and stressing on it, like sa ri ga ma ga ri sa in bilahari 12. Long concerts like 3.5 hours and still maintaining audience interests. 13. Demonstration at around 1 hour into this video, how he, TNK sir and Vellore worked as a team. 14. Many more demos which can be understood by listening to this video alone. 15. Exceptions that he took for neraval in a few kritis like tukiya tiruvadi and thaye yashoda. 16. Some constant patterns which audience would wait for and audience roaring. 17. Demonstration of ending with different swarams for chintadeerchu in Saraswati manohari kriti entavendukondu 18. Swaram singing is not just swaram singing, he doesn’t restrict. He looks at it as raga expansion also. 19. Not many examples of viruttams, but from those which are available, his way of singing is very beautiful. 20. In all recordings if we search, hard to find even one or two instances of lapse or hesitation

[@ramaduraikrishnamurthi2090]

Enjoyed.the presentation very much. Interesting.insight in to the music of the Maha vidwan..

[@aparnack]

What a humble comment by these Vidwans that what they presented is not comprehensive!! They have certainly made us aware of what to look for while listening to music. Point to note is, as we listen and practice more, our ability to perceive nuances of any music improves.

[@abrahamkurien6747]

If the impious hyperbole could be forgiven, what came to my mind instantly on listening to the scholarly and highly enlightening discourse on Madurai Mani Iyer's magnificent legacy is the poem " On first looking at Chapman's Homer" by Keats who recorded his overwhelming sense of discovery and delight and compared it to the astonishment and awe felt by ' " stout Cortez " and his Spanish crew on catching the first glimpse of the enthralling expanse ot the Pacific across the Darian peak! The brilliant analysis of the nuances of style, particularly the neravel, and the splendid tribute paid to the accompanying artists, great masters themselves, brought before the mind's eye a vast ocean of pure shruti, laya and tala which lay undiscovered in terms of its true magnitude and, it's power of creativity.

[@natrita]

If you summarise each segment, everything about MMI is the ragam. Thanam is ragam. Neraval is ragam. Swaram is ragam. Alapanai and so on. He immersed himself in the ragam to such an extent that even the silences sounded part of the ragam! That was his genius and the reason why once you delve into the depth of his music, you remain addicted to that nectarine outpouring forever

[@ravishanker6925]

I don't remember hearing another harikamboji singing by him apart from pamalai which is so different from every other harikamboji!

[@raghunathan8625]

Thanks for sharing this wonderful concert of great stalwart madurai mani iyer

[@ganesann9636]

How many of his concerts I have heard in Mylapore koils functions during 50s and 60s Super star in music Ganesan Tirukodikaval

[@rameshsrinivas7862]

This is an absolutely brilliant series! Thank you so much for giving us a musicians view of these legends. A request - could you also cover the music of MDR in this series? I would love to hear your analysis of his music.

[@sugunakapali1]

Thanks for an excellent in depth analysis and appreciation of MMI ‘s music along with audio clippings by Rithvik Raja and Vignesh. We fully endorse their views. In fact , one can appreciate their opinions of ragamalika swarams of MMI if one listens to the mind blowing swarams of Ranjani, Hamsanandi, Saranga and Sama in certain recordings of MMI now available. I hope in due course Rithvik Raja and Vignesh will get access to those recordings ! Also there is a recording of MMI’s Niravathi Sukha with Lalgudi in a classic Mysore concert where all the aspects of Ravichandrika raga brought by RithvikRaja and Vignesh can be heard!

[@rajagopalaniyengar3463]

Myself once heard of Suriti Ragam with full time Swaram. I heard it in KZbin. It is very wonderful music. 44:34

[@yagna06]

What detailed exploration! Hats off to dive into this level of a stalwart will only set you both up for a great future ! Wish you two Godspeed and best wishes

[@vikasmaitreya1562]

Thank you so much 🙏🏻😇 Was eagerly waiting for this!!

[@varadharajanranganathan3761]

You are discussing a nAda yOgi, who sang with total surrender 🙏🙏

[@aparnack]

Aha what a kedaragowla viruttam at around 1:39:30

[@krishnakumarts123]

MMI is emperor of innovation….

[@MsRangasri]

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[@narayananpurayannur1090]

Then people like me from outside Tamil Nadu would not have been able to understand