Sankara Healthcare Foundation Raises $10,000 for Chennai Flood Victims
Sankara Healthcare Foundation, Inc. raised about $10,000 to help Chennai’s flood victims. “New England For Chennai” event was organized at Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough, MA, to raise funds for relief work to Chennai and nearby areas that were affected by the well-known Chennai Floods.
This event was the brainchild of Smitha Krishnan, a young accomplished violinist, who is the student of Delhi Sundarajaran and a PhD student at Tufts. True to its name, this event featured outstanding programs by our New England teachers and senior students. The event proceeded very smoothly; transitions between performances were effortless and managed very effectively by Pavithra Giridharan, the lively MC for the evening.
The central themes for the evening were “Karunai” (Compassion), “Mazai” (Rain) and “Suryam” (Sun), and all the performances were geared around these themes
The evening started off with a soulful invocation, beautifully sung by Vandana Rao in Raag Malkauns.
This was followed by a Veena Recital by our own renowned Vainika Smt. Durga Krishnan and her students, very ably accompanied by Mahalingam Santhanakrishnan (Mali) on the mridangam. They started off with a brilliant rendition of a Ghana Raga Malika – Om Shakti, offering obeisance to Shakti, Ganesha, Muruga, Saraswathi, Krishna and Lakshmi. This was followed by Thyagaraja’s Naajeevadhara, in Bilahari, set to Adi Talam. This song was an appropriate metaphor for relief from death and destruction. The concluding piece was an energetic rendition of the Kalinganardhana thillana in Nagasvaravali where the notes on the veena strings and the mridangam beats mimicked Krishna’s dance on Kalinga.
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