Music Festival – Tamil Isai Sangam
Mr. M.S.Viswanathan (MSV, as he is popularly and affectionately known as), the legendary music composer of Tamil films, whose songs composed for films released in the late fifties, sixties and seventies are still the favorite for being telecast in several Tamil television channels today, was conferred the ‘Isaip Perarignar’ award, by Tamil Isai Sangam, several years ago. For the past 8 years, MSV’s film music concert has become one of the regular events during the annual music festival of Tamil Isai Sangam.
This year, MSV’s program was on the evening of the Christmas day. It is no exaggeration to say that the energetic octogenarian was at his best, as he always is. The most astonishing feature of the concert was MSV’s active involvement from the beginning to the end. He can never be passive, sitting and quietly watching the music to flow from his impeccable orchestral players. As Mr. Lakshmanan Chettiyar, who as a senior member of Tamil Isai Sangam presided over and compeered the program, observed, MSV could make his orchestra perform perfectly by a simple batting of his eyelids. But this committed composer could not help involving himself in the performance, getting up from his seat every often and directing the orchestra with the energetic and enthusiastic waving of his hands, despite the fact that his able assistant Ananthanarayanan (Ananthu) was doing an admirable job conducting the music, in addition to singing a number of songs. The second impressive feature of the event is that even with minimal orchestral instruments, the team was able to recreate the songs as close to the originals as a team with a much larger orchestra could, meticulously capturing the innumerable nuances, which form the unique feature of MSV’s music.
Mr. Lakshmanan Chettiyar pointed out at the outset that film music is not to be considered trivial and that MSV’s light music is a form of Tamil Isai. The songs selected for the day had the theme ‘Akkarai Pachai’ (The other side is always green). The concert appropriately started with the song Akkarai Pachai from the film of the same title, after the conventional prayer song extolling Ganapathy, a Bharathidasan’s poem on Tamil and the inevitable ‘Pullanguzhal koduththa moongilgale’ of Kannadasan, a song which the late lyricist and soul mate of MSV had ordained to be played by MSV in all his concerts! With Mr. Lakshmanan Chettiyar developing the theme in the form of a story, the concert evolved with one beautiful number following the other. Some of the songs like ‘Aarodum mannil,’ ‘Sondham Eppodhum thodarkadhaitjhaan,’ ‘Rukkumaniye,’ ‘Ennai eduththu,’ ‘Chellakkiliye mellap pesu, ‘Vandha naal mudhal, ‘Partha gnabakam illaiyo,’ ‘Silar sirippaar’ are very rare to be presented in music programs on the stage. The audience was electrified and went into raptures with most of these songs, with Annamalai Mandram Auditorium reverberating with their loud and spontaneous ovation.
While some non-film songs like a Tiruvachakam hymn and a Kannadasan number on Kanchi Kamakshi were included in the menu in keeping with the Tamizh Isai
ch changam's commitment to propagate Tamil literary compositions, 'ullam rendum ondru' from 'Pudhumaippiththan' composed by the late G.Ramanathan and 'avala sonnal, irukkaadhu' from 'Selvam' composed by the late K.V. Mahadevan were included to show MSV's respect for his senior composers. Thyagaraja bhagavahar, whose centenary falls this year was honored by the rendering of his popular number 'Satva guna bhodhan' by Ananthu. The other singers were the well known Kovai Murali and Jayashri, with the young girl Deepashika also making a mark for herself. The percusion artist Ganesh lent his voice to 'pirakkumpothum azhukindra' originally sung by he legendary Chandrababu.
mr. Lakshmanan Chettiar was profuse in his appreciation for MSV by citing a few incidents involving MGR and some composers of Hindi films. He described MSV as a peerless composer who could enthrall people belonging to various generations by pointing out that the audience consisted of a wide range of age groups from 13 years to 80 years.
the concert had an apt ending with three songs signifying the occasion: 'naalai namadhe,' a song of hope to herald the new year, 'vaanaththilirundhu,' a hymn on Jesus Christ penned by Mr. Kamakotiyaan, as an apt presentation on the Christmas day and Bharathiyar's 'vaazhiya thamizh mozhi,' a song paying tribute to Mother Tamil and Mother India.
Review of 2010 Program
While some non-film songs like a Tiruvachakam hymn and a Kannadasan number on Kanchi Kamakshi were included in the menu in keeping with the Tamizh Isai
ch changam's commitment to propagate Tamil literary compositions, 'ullam rendum ondru' from 'Pudhumaippiththan' composed by the late G.Ramanathan and 'avala sonnal, irukkaadhu' from 'Selvam' composed by the late K.V. Mahadevan were included to show MSV's respect for his senior composers. Thyagaraja bhagavahar, whose centenary falls this year was honored by the rendering of his popular number 'Satva guna bhodhan' by Ananthu. The other singers were the well known Kovai Murali and Jayashri, with the young girl Deepashika also making a mark for herself. The percusion artist Ganesh lent his voice to 'pirakkumpothum azhukindra' originally sung by he legendary Chandrababu.
mr. Lakshmanan Chettiar was profuse in his appreciation for MSV by citing a few incidents involving MGR and some composers of Hindi films. He described MSV as a peerless composer who could enthrall people belonging to various generations by pointing out that the audience consisted of a wide range of age groups from 13 years to 80 years.
the concert had an apt ending with three songs signifying the occasion: 'naalai namadhe,' a song of hope to herald the new year, 'vaanaththilirundhu,' a hymn on Jesus Christ penned by Mr. Kamakotiyaan, as an apt presentation on the Christmas day and Bharathiyar's 'vaazhiya thamizh mozhi,' a song paying tribute to Mother Tamil and Mother India.
Review of 2010 Program
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