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Govinda Rao at Nada Inbam
Sangeeta
Kalanidhi T.K Govinda Rao performed brilliantly (in place
of Smt R Vedavalli) despite problems with his voice and a
solitary instance of memory lapse while singing shrI kAntimatIm.
After picking up the words from his sishya, he turned around
and very cheerfully told the audience that it was quite some
time since he had practised the kriti "romba kAlamAccu".
One other
interruption was the constant loose contact in the wire of
the electronic Shruti box that he was using. When this happened
the second or third time he slowly rebuked his sishya saying
"adai izhukkAdE sonnENA illiyA?" (I told you not
to tug at it!)
At the
end of the concert, SVK of Naada Inbam thanked Sri TKG for
the wonderful concert and said that he would sing again (since
this one was in place of Smt Vedavalli), in a couple of days
and that Sri TKG could sing whatever kritis were dear to him.
Immediately TKG remarked playfully "pOi sollarAr. En
kiTTE Swati Tirunal Kriti maTTum pADa sOlli-yirundAr".
("He is fibbing. He told me to sing only Swati Tirunal
Kritis")
As
received from Gitanjali Venkataraman
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