CLASSICAL MUSIC {PANCHARATNA KIRTANA} ENDARO MAHANUBHAVULU..................BY DR.M.BALAMURALIKRISHNA

ENDARO MAHANUBHAVULU

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Endaro Mahanubhavulu is a popular kriti in Carnatic music in Telugu language composed by legendary Tyagaraja after meeting with the Malayali music genius Shadkala Govinda Marar. It is set in the Sri Ragam and is in Aadi Talam. It has been rendered by several famous musicians like Chembai , M . S . Subbulakshmi , M. D. Ramanathan , M.Balamuralikrishna, Jon.B.Higgins , K.J.Yesudas, Maharajapuram Santhanam,U.Srinivas, etc.

SAINT TYAGARAJA

Kakarla Tyagabrahmam (4 May 1767 – 6 January 1847), also known as Tyāgayya in Telugu, Tyāgarājar in Tamil, was one of the greatest composers of Carnatic Music or Indian classical music. He was a prolific composer and highly influential in the development of the classical music tradition. Tyagaraja composed thousands of devotional compositions, most in praise of Lord Rama, many of which remain popular today. Of special mention are five of his compositions called the Pancharatna kritis(English: "five gems"), which are often sung in programs in his honour.

Tyāgarāja was born in 1767 at Thiruvarur, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu to Kakarla Ramabrahma and Sitamma in a Telugu Brahmin family. His family belonged to the smarta tradition and Bhardvajasa gotra. He was named Tyagabrahmam/Tyagaraja after Tyagaraja, the presiding deity of the temple at Tiruvarur. Tyagaraja's paternal grandfather was Giriraja Kavi. Giriraja Kavi was a poet and musician. Giriraja was born in Kakarla village, cumbum taluk in Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh. He is believed to belong to Mulakanadu Telugu sect. Tyagaraja's maternal grand father was Kalahastayya/Veena kalahastayya. He was a Veena player. Tyagaraja learned playing Veena in his childhood from Kalahastayya. After Kalahastayya's death Tyagaraja found "Naradeeyam", a book related to music. Tyagaraja was the third son of his parents, and Panchanada brahmam and Panchapakesha brahmam are his older brothers. Tyagaraja himself has acknowledged the great "Purandara dasa " as his guru in his magnum opus "Prahlada Charita " .Purandara dasa served as an inspiration to him.

CLASSICAL MUSIC {KEERTHANAM}BY MS SUBBUALAKSHMI

Keerthana (Kannada: ಕೀರ್ತನೆ; Marathi: कीर्तन; Bengali: কীর্তন; Punjabi: ਕੀਰਤਨ; Hindi: कीर्तन; Telugu: కీర్తన; Tamil: கீர்த்தனை; Sanskrit : Keerthana; Sanskrit for "praise; eulogy"; also Sankeertana) is call-and-response chanting performed in India's bhakthi devotional traditions. A person performing keerthana is known as a kirtankara or, colloquially, a "kirtaneera". Kirtana practice involves chanting hymns or mantras to the accompaniment of instruments such as the harmonium,tablas, the two-headed mrudunga or pakhawaj drum and hand cymbals.

                                         MS SUBBULAKSHMI

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, often considered Asia's Nobel Prize, in 1974 with the citation reading "Exacting purists acknowledge Srimati M. S. Subbulakshmi as the leading exponent of classical and semi-classical songs in the Karnataka tradition of South India.