Vocal Concert by Vidwan TM Krishna, with Vid. Akkarai Subhalakshmi and Vid. Jayachandra Rao KU

Vocal Concert by Vidwan TM Krishna, with Vidushi Akkarai Subhalakshmi (Violin)and Vidwan Jayachandra Rao KU (Mridangam) on the occasion of BV Kakkilaya Centenary at Mangaluru on Aug 11, 2019. The two-day programme on Aug 10 and 11, 2019 was organised to commemorate the birth centenary of late Sri B V Kakkilaya (1919-2012), a renowned freedom fighter, stalwart of the Karnataka reunification movement, and former member of the Rajya Sabha and Karnataka legislative assembly, at the Bishop Jathanna Auditorium, Sahodaya, Balmatta, Mangaluru, under the aeges of Samadarshi Vedike, Mangaluru, Hosathu Monthly, Bengaluru, MS Krishnan Memorial Trust, Bengaluru and Navakarnataka Publications Private limited, Bengaluru.
All the songs that Sri TM Krishna had chosen for the occasion furthered the values like secularism, democracy, equality, multi-culturalism and diversity, for which Com. BV Kakkilaya had devoted his life as well. The opening shloka sung by Sri TM Krishna was on Jesus, which in fact had been composed by a Hindu, whose son, now living in the US, had sent it to Sri TM Krishna. In that verse the attributes of Christ were “One who heals all illness, relieves his devotees of all pains, he is ‘Lokahitakari,’ ‘one who is the personification of peace.’ Sri TM Krishna connected that verse to the composition of Sri Muttuswamy Dixitar's “Sri Dakshinamoorthe” in Shankarabharana ragam, where similar attributes are used to describe Shiva. Shiva is ‘Shantamurthy,’ considered the ameliorator of the sufferings of his devotees. Next, he chose the composition of Kananda poet Kanakadasa, “Kulakulavennutiharu” which makes fun of the concept of purity and pollution, inferior and superior using the paradoxes like the lotus which is offered to god having blossomed in mud. Then came the Tamil Sufi song Allavai in Behag raga, which is sung in the Nagur Darga in Tamilnadu, which has a message of love and brotherhood. It was followed by the Vachana of Basavanna, 12th century philosopher and social; reformer of Karnataka, ‘Ullavaru Shivalayava Maduvaru’ in Kedaragowla raga, which subtly tells that by building temples one will destroy ‘Shiva,’ who cannot be static and enshrined in a temple, but is dynamic, a ‘Jangama,’ living in the hearts of people and not in the temples which are ‘sthavara and stationed in a place, indicating that stationary things are impermanent while those which are dynamic are permanent. The next was a Meera bhajan, ‘Pada Gunghuru nache’, wherein Meera defied the pressure of political power and social sanctions for realizing the values, which she cherished, the value of becoming a citizen in god’s city. He concluded the concert with a beautiful composition by Rabindranath Tagore ‘Aaguner Parashmoni Chhoao Praane,’ which speaks of purifying the life akin to gold which passes the test of fire and dispels all the darkness bringing the light shining.

[@kalavathyranganathan4678]

Fantastic AlApanA in the rAg DEvaghAndhAri.!!!!!!👌🎻

[@muraleedharannairvs3710]

Wonderful singing,wonderful selection including Tamil Sufi song and meera bhajan

[@bharatis7608]

TMK is not just singing brilliantly. He is also singing to the Hindu community, exhorting them to shed their "religious orthodoxy" and embrace the godheads of other religions, too, along with their 33 crore deities. Great message. For, that is what Hinduism, Sanatana Dharma, is all about: to be Hindu means to intuitively know that all is One, and that the many paths lead to the same Source. Could he also be thus kind enough to sing to the Christian and Muslim communities likewise, (which religions maintain that salvation is possible only through their paths), exhorting them to accommodate Hindu godheads into their religious sensibility along with their own and evolve an eclectic religious repertoire? That is, if he honestly believes that there is religion and narrowmindedness even in art, and is committed to unifying cutural articulations? It would then be a great act of social service. My suggestion to him is that one shouldn't see religion in everything; maturity lies in distinguishing between culture and religion. Music dissolves artificial compartmentalisations. Let us not politically intellectualise music!

[@vanajaviswanathan9014]

While I appreciate your so called broad heartness of advising the Hindus to know about God's of other religions and so should be tolerate, he can very well advise TMK and people of other religions to be tolerant towards hindu people and Hindu religion. Instead of advising Hindus, he can better concentrate on the people of other religions and give sermons like this.

[@kalavathyranganathan4678]

Fentastic ShankarAbharanam!!!!

[@kalavathyranganathan4678]

Fentastic Alapana!! !!!

[@kalavathyranganathan4678]

KEdhAragoula fentastic!!! ¡

[@madhuritubahaar4thMarch1996]

00:36:31-00:57:14..."Allavai Naam Thozhuthaal" This song always reminds me of my favourite Tagore Song-''Antare Jaagichho Antarojaami, Tobu Shada Doore Bhromitechhi Aami ''...

[@chitrayudhghatak]

Thik.

[@kalavathyranganathan4678]

Thamizh song beautiful!!!!!!

[@pgn4nostrum]

It feels me a.. Kvn style...😊👍👌💐

[@kalavathyranganathan4678]

SankarAbharanam fine!!

[@t.ssarma5430]

Namaste,Sri t m krishna garu. I am a big listener of ur Karnataka music. We respect u and also expect same from ur side.my feeling is when u r singing in an orthodox community,pl respect their sentiments.u may popularise ur ideas through private albums,and on demand u may sing those in cacheries. We need a great artist like u but at the same time we do not want anyone to exploit the situation.pl. forgive if I hurt u

[@kalavathyranganathan4678]

1.Sri.DhakshinAmuthim-SankarAbharanam-MisraJhampa-Sri.Muthuswamy Deekshithar.

[@venkateshkl7115]

It will be followed by a keethana.....I'm not sure which one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SrijanSomeshwar]

Divine.

[@kalavathyranganathan4678]

Meera bhajan

[@jaohnnadarajah1735]

Sir t.m, sorry for writing this, I always listening your songs and everything, I really respect you and my appreciations. Only thing you must avoid pls what is that don’t shake your body it’s like deceased people your personality is very good

[@sixthsense66able]

Pretty silly thing to say, particularly asking an artist offering divine music. You have no clue how rude and stupid it sounds. If you have a problem, lose your eyes and listen.

[@krishnaswamysampathkumar1162]

SUPER TALENTED ARTISTS SOMETIMES BECOME ECCENTRIC AND CRAZY BESIDES BECOMING HIGHLY MENTAL. I ADMIRE HIS TALENTS IN CARNATIC MUSIC BUT HIS CRAZY MENTALLY EX CENTRIC ACTIVITY IS IRRITATING CARNATIC Fraternity.

[@shrikhar]

I'm at last here before Shreyas.K 😂😂😂

[@shrikhar]

@Shreyas K...

[@kalavathyranganathan4678]

Abheri?

[@charulathabanerjee]

Can someone tell me the ragas rendered in the first shloka?

[@MECSA]

shsnkarabaranam

[@charulathabanerjee]

@@MECSA I want to hang my head in shame- not being able to recognise this. But many thanks.

[@shivT100]

Shankarabharana could have been better. Don't understand this penchant for traversing through multiple notes while enunciating only one. And why does he play with syllabic positions of the lines, like he did with the charana?

[@bhanuvaidhyanathan1268]

sankarabaranam

[@mohanbala3743]

@@shivT100 I think what you refer to(as I understood) is called a ghamaka, the oscillatory nature of a note in Carnatic, an essential identity of this music. It's what makes it unfamiliar, sometimes unpleasant to northern accoustic sensibilities. TMK explains this well in a lec dem. Check out manodharma 1 on YT

[@mgchandrakanth]

Another excellent concert by Vidwan TMK. I would like to suggest the proper interpretation ofUllavaru Shivalayava Maduvaru’. Shivalaya is one word in Kannada, and not interpreted as Shiva + laya which gives interpretation as destroying or laya. Instead it is Shiva alaya, ie temple for lord shiva. What Basavanna mentined was that I am a poor person and hence cannot afford to build a temple for you lord shiva as only the one who can afford can build shiva temple. Instead, lord shiva, you consider my body itself as temple, where my legs are the foundation pillars, the body itself is the temple and the head itself is the Kalasha, and further indicates that sthavara or temple structures may get depreciated and can be lost unless it is rebuilt, repaired, however, the jangama or god living in each one of us will always be there perhaps as genes. Therefore the interpretation made in your note that by building temples one will destroy ‘Shiva,’ is incorrect. In fact according to Dr Sri ja Cha Ni, neither sthavara nor jangama can be destroyed since energy can not be destroyed since it changes form. I can provide more justification if need be.

[@dayanandbharati6863]

Tmkji , can you please share that sloka on Muktinath (Jesus) , if possible with full translation. God bless your seva by music. Have a long life, good health and great performance.

[@aparnack]

Why did you sing Dakshinamurthe again in Mangaluru, after singing it as first kriti in Udupi last year?

[@bprassi]

@Shreyas K Well Sir, I'm sure you are being optimistic by saying "becoming almost predictable" but I feel he has become almost totally predictable post 2013 ( first with the slow/meditative pace and then with the compositions sung ). Atleast for the pace, he has said that it's an aesthetic choice he has developed over the years but for the repetition in compositions, I wonder if it's something I don't understand yet or just laziness. The last utterly refreshing concert, according to me would be the 4-hr Jan'13 Kalarasana concert at Chennai. I mean just look at First Edition Arts' uploads.. it's like a recurring movie franchise. I'm sure he misses his brisk Nenarunchinanus and Marubalkas once in a while, like we do.

[@kalavathyranganathan4678]

What a wonderful voice!!!!!