Dear Friends, Madhuryam Is a an organization started by me to promote Karnatic Classical Music . This is a platform created for the upcoming artist and more specifically Talented Artist who are not in the limelight. At present Madhuryam is conducting Quarterly , Chamber Music concerts at my Home #1361, 16th Cross Roopa Nagar which can accommodate about 100 odd Rasikas. Madhuryam has initiated to Identify young talent in Government schools and encourage and support them in a Music career. Arrange Music classes and send them to Music exams. Encourages to pursue a career in Music. Hailing from Andhra and having great Love for Telugu, I am more attracted towards ‘Javali’ . I find it real melodius and Raga Chaya is more evident in a Javali. It is more towards the Sringara Rasa, and as such being given less or NO Prominance in the Katchris in the present age except for a few Vidwans Like T.M.Krishna . Madhuryam is more keen on promoting Javali. Every Musican who performs in this Sabha has to sing/ play a javali not as a tail end piece but in the main part of the Kutcheri. I hope to see one day where Javali is accepted and sung as a Main piece with Ragam, Tanam, Neravu and Kalpana Swara in all the Major Sabhas. Madhuryam has taken the first Bold step towards this conviction. Those interested in Joining hands with us in this endeavor are invited Javali, a musical art form that is an integral part of carnatic music and classical dance forms. “Though 700 to 800 Javalis are available, only 10 to 15 of them are popular. They are a great form of music. Secondly and sadly, they have receded from music concerts surviving only in Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi and therein also with much-reduced importance. Javalis merit intensive study.” Javalis originated around the late 19th or early 20th century. The etymology is debated –– it was either a Kannada term, as a kind of lewd poetry or has Telugu origins indicating a metre with the gait of a horse of ashwagati chandhass. Javali composers belonged to all four southern states but 90 percent of javalis are in Telugu following the belief of carnatic-music composers that Telugu with its nectarine quality and natural mellifluousness is the best vehicle for musical expression. Composers include Dharmapuri Subbaraya, Pattabhiramayya, Tirupathi Narayanaswamy, Swathi Thirunal, and Bangalore Chandrashekhar. Javalis are shringara-oriented, that is love-poems, mostly dealing with unfaithful nayakas (infidel male-lover) and in madhyama or vilamba kaala (medium and slow tempo).Many of them are openly erotic with some even using obscene language accounting for their gradual disappearance from concert platforms as musicians probably felt squeamish about rendering them. The British banned their publication contributing to this trend. So, many publishers went to Yanam and Kakinada -- where the arm of the British law couldnt reach them easily –– to secretly print a few books. The shringara-rasa of javalis gives them great abhinaya potential accounting for their enduring popularity in dance. “The legendary Balasaraswathi and Vempati Chinna Satyam who were abhinaya-masters were great exponents of javalis as is Kalanidhi Narayanan,” .Many javalis have featured in south cinema. The musical merit of the javali is tremendous. They are superbly-crafted; reveal great raga-gyaana illumining the grandeur, nuances, and beauty of the melody; their tempo and words are wonderfully evocative of shringara-rasa, and they offer much scope for manodharma. Popularly employed ragas are desi ones like Pharaj, Senjuruti, Behaag, Hamir Kalyani, and rakthi ragas like Khamas, Mohana, Kapi, Hindustani Kapi and Jhenjhuti. Hope the heyday of the javali will return.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:36:54 +0000
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