An emphatic yes. As a matter of fact, I have been listening to a
cassette full of mysore vAsudEvAcAr's compositions sung by madhura
sangeeta Seela, and was amazed at how neatly he introduces vAsudEva
in them, whether it be a kRti, varNam, tillAnA, ...
For example,
neekEla daya rAdu rAmacandra,
in kadana kutUhalam
....
neekEla daya rAdu rAmacandra,
ninne nammalEda, bhakta vatsala!
rAkEndu nibhAnana, jAnakeeSa!
sAkEta pura-eeSa, sarvESa!
nigamArdha sAra, nitya nirvikAra,
nagarAja dhara, anantAvatAra!
yOgeeSwara, Sreedhara vAsudEva,
pagalu rEyi ninne pogaDu-cunDaga!
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calamEla - varNam
in bilahari
calamEla jEsEvurA
cAla ninnE nammiti-nayya
pAlimpa samayamu-gAda
bAlagOpAla!
sannutAnga SreevAsudEva,
calamEla jEsEvurA!
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tillAnA in kAnaDa
(can't/won't write all the nAdar dheem nAdar dheem, tana dhirana dheem..)
dEvAdi dEva nuta dEvakee vara sutA
vara rUpa jita madana, vAsudEvA!
tattajhaNam tadhaNam takatarigiTa .....
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While I am at it, one more kRti. As I was typing this in yseterday, I
was moved at his feelings towards tyAgarAja. The song itself seems to be
patterned after tyAgarAja's "rAga sudhA rasa pAnamu jEsi, ranjillavE,
O manasA!".
gAnasudhA rasa pAnamu jEsE
in kharaharapriya
gAna sudhA rasa pAnamu jEsE
mAnavulE dhanyulu,
ee bhuvilO gAna sudhA rasa sudhA .....
ee nara-dEhamu sthiramani teliyaka
gAnalOluni vAsudEvuni maravaka
gAna-sudhA rasa pAnamu jEsE
yOgi varENyu-Daina nArada muni kRpatO
bhAgavat-AgrEsaru-Dani velasina
tyAgarAjuni mari mahAtmulanu dalacukoni
rAga layAdulanu bAgugA delusukoni
gAna-sudhA rasa pAnamu jEsE .....
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Thanks to prasAd for giving me a reason to post these songs, and for
Dr. Ashok Madhavan who gave me two cassettes of MSS, one of which
had all vAsudEvAcAr's compositions. I thought I was crazy to drive
to New York, and Bridgewater, NJ for a music concert. He drove from
Pittsburgh to those concerts!
People in and around Pittsburgh - MSS at SVT; May 18th. Too bad I have
a committment that keeps me at home that Saturday. Or else, ...
Ramakrishna