Namovakam to the greatest carnatic vocalist of all times. Feeling blessed to listen to the greatest guru of this Era. Namaste to the lord who gave me birth to listen to her... 🙏🙏🙏
Padmashri. PARASSALA B. PONNAMMAL, has many firsts to her credit. Her music, like her, is pristine. Glowing like some sort of a rare gem, with a quiet and serene dignity in the little street of Valiasala in Thiruvananthapuram, is one of the greatest musicians Indian classical music has ever seen, Smt. Ponnammal. Her biography reads like a list of “firsts.” She was the first female student to enroll in the newly started Swathi Thirunal College of Music in Thiruvananthapuram during the early 1940s. Later she became the first female member of the teaching faculty there. But since all this happened long before the advent of the media frenzy that we have now, she quietly lived her life, largely forgotten by the public, despite having taught music to literally thousands of students over several decades, at institutions ranging from the Cotton Hill Girls High School, Thiruvananthapuram, to the R.L.V.College of Music, Tripunithura. Above all, she was the first woman to sing at the Navarathri Mandapam; opening with the grand Thodi Pada Varnam by Maharaja Swati Tirunal (which has, over the last decade, become one of the most often requested pieces for her) she left the entire gathering mesmerised! The awards have been trickling in, during the past decade or so; the latest being the Padma Shri. In a set-up where many awards seem to be determined more by ‘Whom one knows’ rather than ‘What one knows’, this came as a pleasant surprise, though for most of us who are aware of Ponnammal Teacher’s real worth, we feel that it is too little too late. But the lady herself quietly continues to revel in her vintage Anandabhairavis, Neelambaris and Thodis which are more precious than all the gold in the world. Let us listen to one of her Ragamalika virutham, beginning with 'Sayamkale vananthe', followed by the Irayimman Thampi's composition in Surutti, "Neelavarna Pahimam" FROM: facebook.com/radhakrishnan.murickanattu.5?fref=gs&hc_ref=ARREHtno9U_1byhGhqC5ptfBNS9Y1nyAf3sNkDnCGlaBVzVs04vESDIqaf7h_x2qplI&dti=141974355881198&hc_location=group_dialog
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Namovakam to the greatest carnatic vocalist of all times. Feeling blessed to listen to the greatest guru of this Era. Namaste to the lord who gave me birth to listen to her... 🙏🙏🙏
Padmashri. PARASSALA B. PONNAMMAL, has many firsts to her credit. Her music, like her, is pristine. Glowing like some sort of a rare gem, with a quiet and serene dignity in the little street of Valiasala in Thiruvananthapuram, is one of the greatest musicians Indian classical music has ever seen, Smt. Ponnammal.
Her biography reads like a list of “firsts.” She was the first female student to enroll in the newly started Swathi Thirunal College of Music in Thiruvananthapuram during the early 1940s. Later she became the first female member of the teaching faculty there. But since all this happened long before the advent of the media frenzy that we have now, she quietly lived her life, largely forgotten by the public, despite having taught music to literally thousands of students over several decades, at institutions ranging from the Cotton Hill Girls High School, Thiruvananthapuram, to the R.L.V.College of Music, Tripunithura. Above all, she was the first woman to sing at the Navarathri Mandapam; opening with the grand Thodi Pada Varnam by Maharaja Swati Tirunal (which has, over the last decade, become one of the most often requested pieces for her) she left the entire gathering mesmerised!
The awards have been trickling in, during the past decade or so; the latest being the Padma Shri. In a set-up where many awards seem to be determined more by ‘Whom one knows’ rather than ‘What one knows’, this came as a pleasant surprise, though for most of us who are aware of Ponnammal Teacher’s real worth, we feel that it is too little too late. But the lady herself quietly continues to revel in her vintage Anandabhairavis, Neelambaris and Thodis which are more precious than all the gold in the world.
Let us listen to one of her Ragamalika virutham, beginning with 'Sayamkale vananthe', followed by the Irayimman Thampi's composition in Surutti, "Neelavarna Pahimam"
FROM: facebook.com/radhakrishnan.murickanattu.5?fref=gs&hc_ref=ARREHtno9U_1byhGhqC5ptfBNS9Y1nyAf3sNkDnCGlaBVzVs04vESDIqaf7h_x2qplI&dti=141974355881198&hc_location=group_dialog
nIlavarNa pAhi mam santatam navanIta krSNa pAhi mAm
anupallavi
bAlagOpAla pAla krpAlaya ghrta-mAlAkula nilaya nanda gOpanandana navaghana
caraNam 1
aLikulam bilalantikAmshu miLita lasa-daLaka nikara calada mala maNi kuNDala
lalita mukha gaLita lAlArUSitAkrrtE gaLa kalita dvIpi nakha bharaNa shrI yaduvara
caraNam 2
panka mOcana kELIpatana samaya lagna panka shObhita bhava pankajAsana sEvya
ankurita radana hAsa shobhi vadana kinkiNI maNigaNa kiraNa ranjita sujaghana
caraNam 3
manju nayana yuga manjupari vigaLa bhanjanAncita cEtOhara taramaNi
bandha shinjAna manjIra shrI bhAsura caraNa kanja yugaLa shaurE kamalanAbha jaya jaya