Vidwan Semmangudi Sri R. Srinivasa Iyer Centenary Year Celebration

Dates

Concerts & Events

 Thursday, April 9 , 2009
MAIN CLASSROOM AUDITORIUM
Glory of Pancharathnam
6:30pm - 8:00pm Sri K. R.Saranathan (Vocal)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Sri M. Chandrasekharan (Violin)
Madrimangalam Sri Swaminathan (Mridangam)
Sri Surendar, Toronto (Moharsing)
8:15pm - 9:45pm Dr. Prapancham Sitaram - (Flute)
Smt. Ranjani Ramakrishnan Arun (Violin)
Thanjavur Sri Murugabhupathy (Mridangam)
Cleveland Sri R. Balasubramaniam (Kanjira)
Friday, April 10, 2009
WAETJEN AUDITORIUM
09:00am - 05:00pm Music Competition
06:30pm
NRITHYODBHAVAM
A Major Dance Initiative
A Special Program of Sree Sree Venkateswara Temple of Cleveland
Ticketed Program - $ 15 per Person
Thyagaraja Samarpanam
Presentation by Smt. Vasantha Krishnan of Montreal
Smt. Ananda Prasad (Vocal)
Smt. Vasantha Krishnan(Nattuvangam)
Sri Venkataraman, Dallas, TX(Violin)
Sri Ram Krishnan(Mridangam)
Krishna Smaranam
Presentation by Smt. Kripa Bhaskaran, Milwaukee, WI &
Kumari Jyothsna Haritha, Birmingham, AL
Saturday, April 11, 2009
WAETJEN AUDITORIUM
07:00am Prayer & Worship
07:30am Bhajans by Children
08:00am Pancharathna Kritis
Individual Singing of Thyagaraja Kritis
03:30pm Mridanga Cintamanih
Presentation of the magnum opus of
Umayalpuram Sri K. Sivaraman by Swathi's Sanskriti
04:00pm - 06:30pm Homage to Vidwan Sri Semmangudi Sri R. Srinivasa Iyer
Sustaining Sampradayam Concert by the
Torch Bearers from the Family of Cleveland Festival
06:30pm - 07:00pm
Felicitation function
Prof S. Ramachandran
Vice- Chancellor, University of Madras
Presides
Sri M. S. Gopalakrishnan Sangeetha Rathnakara
Sri A. K. Palanivel Sangeetha Rathnakara
Smt. Suguna Purushothaman Sangeetha Kalasagaram
Sri V. P. & Smt. Shantha Dhananjayan Nrithya Rathnakara
Smt. Parasala Ponnamma Acharya Rathnakara
Sri B. M. Sundaram Seva Rathna
Sri A. Vijayaraghavan of Los Angeles, CA Kala Seva Mani
Smt. Vasantha Krishnan, Montreal Nrithya Seva Mani
Sri Jay Shankar Balan, Detroit, MI Best Teacher Award
Smt. Seetha Rajan Semmangudi Memorial Award
Palai Sri C. K. Ramachandran Semmangudi Memorial Award
Sri V. Subrahmaniam Semmangudi Memorial Award
07:15pm Sri M. S. Gopalakrishnan (Violin)
Dr. M. Narmada (Violin)
Sri. G. Suresh (Violin)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Guruvayoor Sri Dorai (Mridangam)
Sri T. V. Vasan (Ghatam)
  Sunday, April 12, 2009
WAETJEN AUDITORIUM
08:00am - 08:50am Students of Wesleyan University
09:00am - 12:15pm Smt. Sudha Raghunathan (Vocal)
Sri R. K. Shriramkumar (Violin)
Thiruvarur Sri Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)
Sri T. V. Vasan (Ghatam)
12:45pm - 1:45pm Prize Distribution
02:00pm - 04:00pm Kunnakkudi Sri M. Balamuralikrishna (Vocal)
Sri Jaishankar Balan (Violin)
Madrimangalam Sri Swaminathan (Mridangam)
Cleveland Sri R. Balasubramaniam (Kanjira)
04:15pm - 06:15pm Kumari Nisha Rajagopal (Vocal)
Mysore Sri Srikanth (Violin)
Trivandrum Sri Balaji (Mridangam)
Sri A. S. Murali (Ghatam)
06:45pm Ticketed Program
$75, $50, $25 & $15

Sri Gopalakrishna Bharathi's Nandan Charithram Geetha Nrithyam

Sri V. P. Dhananjayan (Nrithyam)
Smt. Shantha Dhananjayan (Nrithyam)
Acharya Rathnakara Smt. Suguna Varadachary (Geetham)
Dr. Premeela Gurumurthy (Geetham)
Smt. S. Sowmya (Geetham)
Smt. Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Geetham)
Sri B. Balasubrahmaniam (Geetham)
Sri K. N. Shashikiran (Geetham)
Sri P. Ganesh (Geetham)
Sri V. Manimaran (Geetham)
Sri R. K. Shreeramkumar (Violin)
Sri R.Thyagarajan (Flute)
Smt. Jayalakshmi Sekhar (Veenai)
Neyveli Sri Narayanan (Mridangam)
Sri Ravi Balasubramaniam (Ghatam)
Toronto Sri Karthik Venkataraman (Kanjeera)
Smt. Subhasri Thanikachalam (Jaya TV) (Anchor)
  Monday, April 13, 2009
MAIN CLASSROOM AUDITORIUM
08:00am - 09:00am School Competition 1
Swaralaya Arts Forum, Houston, TX
09:00am - 10:00am School Competition 2
Trinity Center, San Jose, CA
10:15am - 12:15am Nrithya Pradarshanam
Kumari Malavika Raghunathan (Dance)
Smt. Meenakshi Chitharanjan (Nattuvangam)
Smt. Sudha Raghunathan (Vocal)
Smt. Ranjani Ramakrishnan Arun (Violin)
Sri R. Thyagarajan (Flute)
Thiruvarur Sri Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)
12:45pm - 2:00pm Trichy Sri Ramesh (Vocal)
Sri Jaidevan Nair (Violin)
Neyveli Sri Narayanan (Mridangam)
02:15pm - 03:45pm Smt. Jayalakshmi Sekhar (Veenai)
Trivandrum Sri Balaji (Mridangam)
Cleveland Sri R. Balasubramaniam (Kanjira)
04:00pm - 06:30pm Smt. Parasala Ponnamma (Vocal)
Dr. Bhama Krishnan (Vocal Support)
Sri Jaishankar Balan (Violin)
Madrimangam Sri Swaminathan (Mridangam)
Toronto Sri Karthik Venkataraman (Kanjira)
04:00pm Following Two Programs are Ticketed
$15 per Person covers both
06:45pm Gems from Syama Sastry Sustaining Sampradayam Concert by the
Torch Bearers from the Family of Cleveland Festival
  Tuesday,April 14, 2009
MAIN CLASSROOM AUDITORIUM
08:00am - 08:50am Sri Shyam Murali, Dallas, TX (Saxaphone)
Smt. Priya Hariharan, Denver, CO (Violin)
Sri Bhirav Chandrasekhar (Mridangam)
09:00am - 10:00am Shankar Srinivas (Vocal)
Sri Jay Shankar Balan (Violin)
Sri Ramesh Srinivasan, San Jose, CA (Mridangam)
10:15am - 12:15am Guru Samarpanam
Sri V. Subrahmanyam (Vocal)
Palai Sri . C. K. Ramachandran (Vocal)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Sri M. Chandrasekharan (Violin)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Guruvayoor Sri Dorai (Mridangam)
Madrimangalam Sri Swaminathan (Mridangam)
12:45pm - 01:45pm Kumari Aishwarya Venkataraman (CA) (Vocal)
Sri V. Venkataraman, Los Angeles, CA (Mridangam)
Sri A. S. Murali (Ghatam)
02:00pm - 03:45pm Smt. Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam (Vocal)
Sri Jay Shankar Balan (Violin)
Sri Vijay Ganesh (Mridangam)
04:00pm Following Two Programs are Ticketed
$15 per Person covers both
04:00pm - 06:30pm Mallari and the Temple Pathathi
Sri B. M. Sundaram (Anchor)
Enjikudi Sri E. M. Subramaniam (Nadhaswaram)
Sri T. M. Ramanathan (Nadhaswaram)
Sri Santhirasekaran Gurunathan (Thavil)
Sri Muthukumarasamy Subramanian (Thavil)
06:45pm Sri N. Ravikiran (Chithraveena)
Sri Vishal Sapuram (Chitraveena)
Dr. M Narmadha (Violin)
Dr. Aridwaramangalam Sri A. K. Palanivel (Thavil)
Thiruvarur Sri Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)
  Wednesday,April 15, 2009
MAIN CLASSROOM AUDITORIUM
08:00am - 08:50am Murugan Pancharathnam
Students of Seva Rathna Sri T. N. Bala, PA
09:00am - 10:30am Smt. Jaya Srinivasan (Upanyasam)
10:45am - 12:15pm Classical Approach to Neraval Singing
Sangeetha Rathnakara Sri T. K. Govinda Rao (Vocal)
Sri Jay Shankar Balan (Violin)
Sri Vijay Gopal (Flute)
Thiruvarur Sri Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)
Toronto Sri Surendar (Moharsing)
12:45pm - 01:45pm Kumari Roopa Mahadevan, San Jose, CA (Vocal)
Sri Jayadevan Nair (Violin)
Trivandrum Sri Balaji (Mridangam)
02:00pm - 03:45pm Sri Srikanth Chary (Veena)
Sri Akilesh Sista (Veena)
Neyveli Sri Narayanan (Mridangam)
Sri Vikram Vasudevan (Mridangam)
04:00pm Following Two Programs are Ticketed
$15 per Person covers both
04:00pm - 06:30pm Carnatica Brothers
Sri K. N. Shashikiran (Vocal)
Sri P. Ganesh (Vocal)
Shri R. K. Shriramkumar (Violin)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Guruvayoor Sri Dorai (Mridangam)
Sri Babu (Mridangam)
06:45pm Neyveli Sri Santhanagopalan (Vocal)
Sri S. D. Sridhar (Violin)
Thanjavoor Sri Murugabhupathy (Mridangam)
Sri T. V. Vasan (Ghatam)
  Thursday April 16, 2009
MAIN CLASSROOM AUDITORIUM
08:00am - 08:50am Talent Competition 1
Kum. Kamya & Keerthana Shankar (Vocal)
Sri Sandeep Bharadwaj (Violin)
Sri L. Subramanian (Mridangam)
09:00am - 10:00am Sri A. S. Murali (Vocal)
Sri Jay Shankar Balan (Violin)
Thanjavoor Sri Murugabhoopathy (Mridangam)
10:15am - 12:15pm Smt. Neela Ramgopal (Vocal)
Smt. G. Bharathi (Violin)
Madrimangalam Sri Swaminathan (Mridangam)
12:45pm - 01:45pm Smt. Prarthana Rao (Vocal)
Smt . Ranjani Ramakrishnan Arun (Violin)
Sri Ramesh Srinivasan (CA) (Mridangam)
02:00pm - 03:45pm Smt. Lakshmi Rangarajan (Vocal)
Kumari Subiksha Rangarajan (Vocal Support)
Sri Jay Shankar Balan (Violin)
Sri Vinod Seetharaman (Mridangam)
Sri Saheelan Sinnarajah, Miami, FL (Mridangam)
04:00pm Following Two Programs are Ticketed
$15 per Person covers both
04:00pm - 06:30pm Smt. Seetha Rajan (Vocal)
Kumari Jyothsna (Vocal Support)
Smt. Ranjani Ramakrishnan Arun (Violin)
Thiruvarur Sri Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)
Sri A. S. Murali (Ghatam)
06:45pm Smt. S. Sowmya (Vocal)
Sri R. K. Shriramkumar (Violin)
Neyveli Sri Narayanan (Mridangam)
Toronto Sri Karthik Venkataraman (Kanjira)
  Friday, April 17, 2009
MAIN CLASSROOM AUDITORIUM
08:00am - 09:00am School Competition 3
Anandabhairavi, NJ
09:00am - 10:00am Sri V. K. Manimaran (Vocal)
Sri Jaishankar Balan(Violin)
Thiruvarur Sri Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)
Sri Arjun Narayanan, Los Angeles, CA(Mridangam)
10:15am - 12:15pm Sangeetha Rathnakara Dr. N. Ramani (Flute)
Sri R. Thyagarajan (Flute)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Sri M. Chandrasekharan (Violin)
Madrimangalam Sri Swaminathan (Mridangam)
Sri A. S. Murali (Ghatam)
12:45pm - 01:45pm Smt. Subha Srinivasan, NJ (Vocal)
Sri Jayadevan Nair (Violin)
Sri Arjun Haran, San Jose, CA (Mridangam)
01:50pm - 02:40pm Talent Competition 2
Sri Vikram Raghavan (Vocal)
Sri Guhan Venkataraman (Veenai)
Sri Vivek Chellappa (Mridangam)
02:45pm - 03:45pm Smt. Manasi Prasad (Vocal)
Smt. Ranjani Ramakrishnan Arun (Violin)
Sri Vinod Seetharaman(Mridangam)
04:00pm Following Two Programs are Ticketed
$15 per Person covers both
04:00pm - 06:30pm Smt. Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Vocal)
Smt. Ranjani Ramakrishnan Arun (Violin)
Thiruvarur Sri Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)
Sri A. S. Murali (Ghatam)
06:45pm Sangeetha Rathnakara Sri T. N. Seshagopalan (Vocal)
Sri Jay Shankar Balan (Violin)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Sri Guruvayoor Dorai (Mridangam)
Sri T. V. Vasan (Ghatam)
  Saturday,April 18, 2009
MAIN CLASSROOM AUDITORIUM
08:00am - 09:00pm Talent Competition 3
Kum. Anisha Gururaj (Vocal)
Sri Kamalkiran Vinjamuri(Violin)
Sri Athrey Nadhan (Mridangam)
09:00am - 10:00am Concert by Competition Winner
10:10am - 12:40pm Smt. Suguna Purushothaman (Vocal)
Acharya Rathnakara Smt. Suguna Varadachary (Vocal)
Sri Jayshankar Balan (Violin)
Toronto Sri Gowrishankar (Mridangam)
Sri A. S. Murali (Ghatam)
1:10pm - 2:30pm Sri D. B. Aswin (Vocal)
Sri Jay Shankar Balan (Violin)
Sri Vinod Seetharaman (Mridangam)
02:45pm - 04:15pm Smt. Ranjani Hebbar (Vocal)
Smt. Ranjani Ramakrishnan Arun (Violin)
Dr. Vasudevan Nambhoodri (Mridangam)
04:30pm Following Two Programs are Ticketed
$15 per Person covers both
04:30pm - 06:30pm Surrender Unto Thee Padams & Javalis in the Classical Tradition of Smt. T. Jayamma
Sangeetha Rathnakara (Violin)
Sri M. Chandrasekharan (Vocal)
and daughter Smt. G. Bharathi (Abhinayam)
Madrimangal Sri Swaminathan (Mridangam)
Sri Karthik Venkataraman (Kanjeera)
06:45pm Sri T. M. Krishna (Vocal)
Sri Jay Shankar Balan (Violin)
Trichy Sri Sankaran (Mridangam)
Sri T. V. Vasan (Ghatam)
  Sunday,April 19, 2009
MAIN CLASSROOM AUDITORIUM
08:00am - 09:15am Kumari K. Gayathri (Vocal)
Sri Jayashankar Balan (Violin)
Toronto Sri Surendar (Mridangam)
09:30am - 12:00 Noon Margam - A Journey (Dance)

Nrithya Rathnakara Smt. Rhadha,
Sri Srikanth and Smt. Ashwathi Srikanth with
Dancers from the Dance Workshop

Smt. Savithri Jagannatha Rao (Nattuvangam)
Smt. Manasi Prasad (Vocal)
Smt. Ranjani Ramakrishnan Arun (Violin)
Toronto Surendar (Mridangam)
12:30pm - 01:30pm Kumari Sinthuja Devarajan (Bharathanatyam)
Winner of 2008 Dance Competition
01:45pm - 05:00pm Dance Competition