Madras music season

The season started with a bang on 2 of november  at b v b

The main concert was bombay jayashree

But before that there was an inaugural ceremony with chief justice of high court as the chief guest and c v k and some more dignitaries were present

Before that there was mangala isai for one hour 

And it was very nice nadaswaram 

Friday and month of karthigai and evening five to six  it was divine to listen

I reached the sabha at five and was able to get good seat
and the main thing was honouring the artists with life time achievement award 

Veena e gayathri and jayashree were the chosen artistes
and they were presented with the award by the chief justice

The award was a citation and ponnadai plus rs one lakh each
and a nice memento
all the vip people were also given ponnadais and momentoes
and the main concert started a little late at 7 30 p m

She started the cutcheri with a varnam in nalinakanti  a lalgudi composition 

Lalgudi jayaraman was her guru
and the next was anandamruta in amrutha varshini ragam
a dikshitar kriti

Naxt one was a raga alapanai in kalyana vasantam and nadaloludai of thyagaraja 

After that sakalagriha inatana a purandaradasar kriti 

And after that the main ragam was mohanam and it was very nice

The song was nannupaalimpa another thyagaraja gem of a song

By that time it was 8 30 pm and came home 

Shree and kumar were waiting for me and reached home at 8 45 p m

It was very crowded and many people were standing
and they had provided a t v out side the hall
and a few chairs for the rasikas who were left out 

And when i came out saw lot of people listening

All in all it was a very good beginning of the season