Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer: Best Moments on Stage | 115 Birth Anniversary Tribute | Listening Session

Vaak offers a humble tribute to the maestro Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer on his 115th birth anniversary today with a compilation of songs created in July 2023 for Vaak’s Listening club.
The tracks that have been used in #SSI115 have been chosen from our archives in order to exhibit a variety of compositions along with different kinds of Manodharma rendered by Semmangudi. This playlist was curated by Shrikhar Giridharan ‪@shrikhar‬ & Krishnan Narayanan ‪@krisn90‬. The details of the songs are:
1) 00:00:00 - Jaganmohini - Alapana
1963 with VV Subramaniam
2) 00:01:21 - Manjari - Patti Viduva Radu - Adi - Tyagaraja
Audio: 1958 with Papa KS Venkataramiah & Pazhani Subramania Pillai
Video: 1988 with TN Krishnan & Trichy Sankaran
3) 00:04:21 - Purvikalyani - Moyyar Tadam - Misra Chapu - Manickavasagar (Tuned by Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer)
1960 with TN Krishnan & CS Murugabhoopathi
4) 00:08:21 - Kambhoji - O Rangasayee - Adi - Tyagaraja
1970s with MS Subbulakshmi
5) 00:10:08 - Neelambari - Kalpana Swaras for Amba Neelayatakshi
1956 with TN Krishnan, Vellore Ramabhadran & TS Vilvadri Iyer
6) 00:13:32 - Sama - Kalpana Swaras for Shantamu Leka
1961 with MS Gopalakrishnan, Palghat TS Mani Iyer & Pudukkottai Swaminatha Pillai
7) 00:15:20 - Kharaharapriya - Neraval for Rama Nee Samanamevaru
Unidentified concert - 1960s with Chalakkudi Narayanaswamy and Mavelikkara Krishnankutti Nair
8) 00:20:31 - Vagadheeshwari - Paramatmudu - Adi - Tyagaraja
1970s with Lalgudi G Jayaraman & Palghat Raghu
9) 00:25:51 - Shankarabharanam - Ragam
1958 with TN Krishnan
10) 00:30:20 - Excerpts from a documentary - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer speaks about Thanam
11) 00:31:33 - Ghanaragamalika - Nattai, Gowlai, Arabhi, Varali, Sri - Tanam
1965 with Lalgudi G Jayaraman
12) 00:40:24 - Kambhoji - Pallavi - Era Na Sami Pagavari - Tisra Triputa
1960s with Lalgudi G Jayaraman & TK Murthy
13) 00:42:25 - Thodi - Pallavi - Ganalola Karuna - Adi
1958 with TN Krishnan & Pazhani Subramania Pillai
14) 00:44:52 - Bhairavi - Pallavi - Dasharatha Bala - Adi
1960s with TN Krishnan & Umayalpuram K Sivaraman
15) 00:52:43 - Khamas - Idadhu Padam - Adi - Papanasam Sivan
1950s with TN Krishnan & Umayalpuram K Sivaraman
16) 00:56:02 - Punnagavarali - Ninnu Juchi - Tisra Triputa - Kshetrayya
1958 with Mysore T Chowdiah & Palghat TS Mani Iyer
17) 00:57:25 - Anandabhairavi - Vanitaro Ee - Rupakam - Dasu Sriramulu
1960s with Lalgudi G Jayaraman & TK Murthy
18) Manodharma in Behag
00:59:37 - Behag Alapana - 1958 with TN Krishnan
01:00:56 - Behag Sloka - 1960s with Chalakkudi Narayanaswamy
19) 01:01:52 - Remarks by Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer on stage
20) 01:05:44 - Bilahari - Sloka
1960s with Lalgudi G Jayaraman
21) 01:10:10 - Kanada - Sloka
1964 with TN Krishnan
22) 01:12:47 - Kharaharapriya - Sloka
1961 with MS Gopalakrishnan
23) 01:14:12 - Yamuna Kalyani - Sloka
1967 with Lalgudi G Jayaraman
24) 01:16:24 - Senchurutti - Sloka
1988 with TN Krishnan
The purpose of this upload is to assist the students and the lifelong learners of India in their pursuit of an education so that they may better their status and their opportunities and to secure for themselves and for others justice, social, economic and political. This has been posted for non-commercial purposes and facilitates fair dealing usage of academic and research materials for private use including research, for criticism and review of the work or of other works and reproduction by teachers and students in the course of instruction. Many of these materials are either unavailable or inaccessible in libraries in India, especially in some of the poorer states and this collection seeks to fill a major gap that exists in access to knowledge.
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[@surendranc3160]

Fantastic. Thank you

[@mahadevanparameswaran5484]

Rich fare, spanning generations! Thank you so much. 🙏🏼

[@prasadthevarkat4146]

Great

[@r.rajindhirar5545]

நன்றி நற்பவி

[@tejasjumbo6495]

beautiful . I am so proud to be in his guru shishya lineage . om sri gurubhyo nammah

[@balakrishnank.r.7188]

Magnificent collection and no words to express my sincere appreciation for your great service to music lovers. Thanks again and again.

[@pbharatan]

Thanks such a nicely curated upload with clear sound. Great effort team vak.excellent repository

[@ranganathms7331]

What a great musian that he was!

[@shankarprasad5767]

This is extraordinary work Vaak! Thank you for putting this together🤍

[@sivasaras12]

Leave alone his expertise in music, he looks very handsome.

[@srisubramaniam1868]

Absolutely stunning Bhairavi which I have never heard before - truly the master and unsurpassed singing

[@chandrasekaranvaidyanathan1215]

What a out ShankarAbharaNam... amazing...

[@j.balagirish]

Such a succinct and thoughtful presentation of all that the great doyen was, as a great musician and personality ❤ Thank you team Vaak ❤

[@cuddaloresubramaniam8092]

Wonderful concert Special appreciation To VAAK. Kindly do share ay recordings of my grandfather kalaimamani Sri Cuddalore M Subramaniam. Regards Ramesh

[@krishnamanian]

“Semmangudi Sri Srinivasa Iyer oru ‘Karnatic SangeethaththiRku mahaaraajavE aawaar. Avar saamraajyam….engellam Karnatic sangeetha priyarGaL uLLanarO anGellaam ivar paadal prasiththmE. Enjoy his music. Athu theiveegamaanathu enRu uRuthiyaagach cholluvEn. Bharath Rathna Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi, Smt. M.L.Vasanthakumari plus pala sishyarGaLaiyum, sishyagaLaiyum uruvaakkiyavar aawar. Avarukku S cholluvathil anaivarukkum peru maghizhchchiyE . Carnatic Sangeetha priyarGaLO engellam uLLanarO angellam avarudaiya paadalGaL oliththuk konDE irukkum. Avar oru Sangeetha MaharaajavE aawar. aawaar; AvarGaL paadalGaLai eppOthum kEttuk konDE irukkalaam allavaa? KEtpOm,, maghizhvOm. Karnatic Sangeethamaanathu EnRumE vaRRaatha Maha nathi allavaa? Antha Maha nathi yip kuLippOm, maghizhvOm, mana niRaivu adaivOm. - “ M.K.Subramanian.”

[@RaghuVishnubhotla]

What a wonderfully curated list. Can you please share a link to the o rangashaayee concert with MS ?

[@TheBenevolent]

OH DAMN THIS A WHOLE BUFFET 😭

[@dhananjaynaniwadekar3048]

For my part, I am looking for the full recordings of two Semmangudi alapana-s, from the listening session held exactly 5 years ago, on his 110-th birth anniversary. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6XYiKaEat6KfZI At 17:20, kalyani. And 21:08 Kambhoji? What depth, thought, even sweetness.

[@abcdxyzw8382]

Thank you so much... Request to please consider uploading the full kambhoji with ssi and ms..is there more from that concert?

[@abcdxyzw8382]

Which concert was this ? Any option we can get to hear it in full ?

[@ravishanker6925]

>Audio: 1958 with Papa KS Venkataramiah & Pazhani Subramania Pillai Video: 1988 with TN Krishnan & Trichy Sankaran< this was brillinat! Papa and TNK had similarity in their style which is mostly inbibed from their long association with Ariyakudi and that musical sensibilities. then TS is prime disciple of Pazhani! surprisingly the lip synch was so perfect

[@shreeraam_22]

TN Krishnan was Papa’s student

[@chandranmv3590]

One of the most hastily and shabbily cobbled up patch work, which an Organisation of Vaak's repute and standing calls as a Homage to a Maestro's 115th Birth Anniversary. Good, best wishes to you!!!

[@dpashokk]

Reasonable enough considering they can only publish what they have the rights for. Music isn't really free.

[@chandrasekaranvaidyanathan1215]

This is the most unkind and unfair comment... this is an exquisite collection... put together to show his greatness as a musician... I think you may be looking for recording quality than content

[@chandranmv3590]

@@chandrasekaranvaidyanathan1215 No Sir, I meant the content only, that too for pretty valid reasons.

[@dhananjaynaniwadekar3048]

@@chandranmv3590 Please list a few of the reasons, Shri Chandran. I just checked your youtube channel, and it has a long list of Semmangudi links in a playlist. Obviously you have heard a lot of Semmangudi. What did you dislike about this collection? I find the collection by R K Shriramkumar for Semmangudi's 110th birth anniversary marked by PSN Foundation quite outstanding, but others are entitled to their choice of favourites. Generally speaking, I do not like Semmangudi's (or anybody else's) shloka singing, in what is called 'tarannum style' in North India and is more like a musical reading of prose rather than proper singing. But the 2-3 minute cut by Shriramkumar of शृङ्गारं क्षितिनन्दिनी-विहरणे is brilliant. That full rendition gets boring later. These pieces should be short and crisp. Carnatic singers sometimes go on and on with them. In the Hindusthani domain, bhajans by Basavraj Rajguru and Kumar Gandharva sound divine in their shorter 4-5 minute forms. The same bhajans, when sung over 15-20 minutes by them, sound boring to me, though many others seem to like the longer versions as well.

[@wilburjacobi]

🎶 Promo-SM

[@mahadevanramesh3906]

He may be a great singer but also a great politician who indulged in cheap politics ta destabilise many a great singers progress.

[@ramanvidhyashankar9898]

Dear sir, in a public forum please don't write like this I know him personally, such a great Human with kind heart. He allowed people to comment himself and not took it very serious. No one can stop anyone progress if they have talent. Will give a small example for this, even this Great Mahavidwan came as a vocalist by his full efforts. All those days Mahavidwan discourage him, he cannot come as a vocalist let him learn some instrument. But his strong practice he came up and ofcourse with his gurus blessings. The professional rivals will be there in all fields. But the fate is this Great human is always targeted. Of course all has their rights to say their views. How much shishyas he has brought up. He saw to that all his shishyas are placed in very good job. A great musician with very good heart . God blessed him with good health and blessed him to sing till his breath.

[@cuddaloresubramaniam8092]

Our music is Fully dedicated to Divinity. It should keep purity and self discipline. If there is no Such self discipline everything is waste and there is no GREATNESS. I agree with you. There are several musicians unable to come to lime light Thosedays. they too belong to poor family background. Cuddalore Ramesh

[@saisumukhakv8153]

Kindly refrain from passing such comments. Extremely disrespectful

[@chandrasekaranvaidyanathan1215]

It is best to judge him as an artiste and not in any other way... then our own yardstick of values and morality will kick in.. critical analysis of his music welcome.. not his personality.. at least when what is shared is his music..

[@krishnamurthyvenkat7846]

Not the time or the forum to make uncomplimentary references to someone who is no more.