Re: MS Sheela's Music Concerts
Suresh Kolichala (suresh@austin.ibm.com)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 20:43:33 -0500 (CDT)
Prasad Chodavarapu wrote:
> only a couple of days ago, dinesh (my labmate at UIUC) was asking
> me if 'brOcEvArevarurA' was a tyagaraja kRti. although i knew
> the answer was a simple 'no'(i had seen the 'SankarAbharaNam' cassette
> folder), i explained...
>
> O caturAnanAdi vandita nIku parAkElanayyA?
> nI caritamu pogaDalEni nA cinta tIrci varamulicci vEgame...
>
> except for "caturAnanAdi vandita", all the other words
> were in simple telugu. after reading 'jagadAnanda kAraka',
> one gets the feeling that tyagaraja kRtis are full of
> complex samskRutAndhra samAsAs. so, most probably it
> wasn't from tyagaraja and then, there was no 'tyagaarja
> vinuta...'.
I think, jagadaananda kaarakaa is a very untypical tyAgarAja kRti.
Barring a handful of sanskrit kRtis, tyAgarAja mostly wrote in
simple telugu. Expressing the intimate personal feelings in a
conversational language, IMHO, is the speciality of tyAgarAja.
It is said that among the songs of the trinity of carnatic music,
tyAgarAja kRtis are the easiest to understand. The usual comparison
is that deekshitaar is naarikELa, tyAgarAja kadaLee...
Music cognoscente can correct me !
Regards,
Suresh.