Kumar Gandharva's Madhuvanti Composition

Havanur

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Nov 27, 2010, 10:36:16 PM11/27/10

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One Shirish Joshi, author of a very informative biography of Kumar
Gandharva, has been writing a regular column in Kannada about HCMers
and this week has an interesting story about KG and his Madhuvanti
composition. Vasantrao Deshpande, a great admirer of Kumar Gandharva
sent him a letter with a sthayi

main aavoo tore mandarava
paiyya paran deho mohe manabasiya

May I Come to your abode and have the opportunity to touch your feet,
you who are in my heart.

Kuamr Gandharva promptly replied with the antara

arre mero madhaiyya tora ahe re
kahe dharo charan mero manabasiya

My dear idiot, when I am all yours and you are in my heart why do you
need to touch my feet? Later he set the piece to Madhuvanti and added
to his repertoire. It is included in his Anooparagavilas. Kumar
Gandharva was a stickler for ethical conduct and when he was putting
together the book, sent a polite request to Vasantrao asking for
permission to include it in the book. Those who can read Kannada can
enjoy the entire piece

http://www.prajavani.net/Content/Nov282010/weekly20101127214915.asp

Link to KG singing the drut -

http://www.esnips.com/doc/eed61175-a484-437e-8e35-791d87a498f0/Raag---Madhuvanti

Havanur

Vivek Datar

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Nov 27, 2010, 11:24:32 PM11/27/10

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"Havanur" <havan...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> One Shirish Joshi, author of a very informative biography of Kumar
> Gandharva, has been writing a regular column in Kannada about HCMers
> and this week has an interesting story about KG and his Madhuvanti
> composition. Vasantrao Deshpande, a great admirer of Kumar Gandharva
> sent him a letter with a sthayi
>
> main aavoo tore mandarava
> paiyya paran deho mohe manabasiya
>
> May I Come to your abode and have the opportunity to touch your feet,
> you who are in my heart.
>
> Kuamr Gandharva promptly replied with the antara
>
> arre mero madhaiyya tora ahe re
> kahe dharo charan mero manabasiya
>
> My dear idiot, when I am all yours and you are in my heart why do you

Vivek: Where did you see the word "idiot"? Not sure if you interpreted
"Madhaiyya" that way. But "Madhaiyya" means "Mathi", or the home.

Beatiful bandish, though.

-Vivek

C Parthapratim

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Nov 27, 2010, 11:51:45 PM11/27/10

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> http://www.esnips.com/doc/eed61175-a484-437e-8e35-791d87a498f0/Raag--...
>
> Havanur

This is the Bandish he sings there? You sure? I hear "Bairana barakha
ritu aayee" as sthayee, and "Rimjhim rimjhim meha barase" as antara.

C Parthapratim

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Nov 27, 2010, 11:53:38 PM11/27/10

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The Drut doesn't play on my computer, stops at 9:38

Vivek Datar

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Nov 27, 2010, 11:24:32 PM11/27/10

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"Havanur" <havan...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> One Shirish Joshi, author of a very informative biography of Kumar
> Gandharva, has been writing a regular column in Kannada about HCMers
> and this week has an interesting story about KG and his Madhuvanti
> composition. Vasantrao Deshpande, a great admirer of Kumar Gandharva
> sent him a letter with a sthayi
>
> main aavoo tore mandarava
> paiyya paran deho mohe manabasiya
>
> May I Come to your abode and have the opportunity to touch your feet,
> you who are in my heart.
>
> Kuamr Gandharva promptly replied with the antara
>
> arre mero madhaiyya tora ahe re
> kahe dharo charan mero manabasiya
>
> My dear idiot, when I am all yours and you are in my heart why do you

Vivek: Where did you see the word "idiot"? Not sure if you interpreted

"Madhaiyya" that way. But "Madhaiyya" means "Mathi", or the home.

Beatiful bandish, though.

-Vivek

> need to touch my feet? Later he set the piece to Madhuvanti and added

Imnot Apadmashri

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Nov 28, 2010, 12:10:54 AM11/28/10

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On Nov 28, 9:53 am, C Parthapratim <c.parthapra...@gmail.com>
complained:

> The Drut doesn't play on my computer, stops at 9:38

Hit pause, have chai and take the cursor to 18:04 when it has buffered
fully.

DG

C Parthapratim

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Nov 28, 2010, 12:20:05 AM11/28/10

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On Nov 28, 10:10 am, Imnot Apadmashri <imnotapadmas...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Didn't work! :) Anyway, I have downloaded the file and now it plays.
Thanks.

Vivek Datar

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Nov 27, 2010, 11:24:32 PM11/27/10

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"Havanur" <havan...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> One Shirish Joshi, author of a very informative biography of Kumar
> Gandharva, has been writing a regular column in Kannada about HCMers
> and this week has an interesting story about KG and his Madhuvanti
> composition. Vasantrao Deshpande, a great admirer of Kumar Gandharva
> sent him a letter with a sthayi
>
> main aavoo tore mandarava
> paiyya paran deho mohe manabasiya
>
> May I Come to your abode and have the opportunity to touch your feet,
> you who are in my heart.
>
> Kuamr Gandharva promptly replied with the antara
>
> arre mero madhaiyya tora ahe re
> kahe dharo charan mero manabasiya
>
> My dear idiot, when I am all yours and you are in my heart why do you

Vivek: Where did you see the word "idiot"? Not sure if you interpreted

"Madhaiyya" that way. But "Madhaiyya" means "Mathi", or the home.

Beatiful bandish, though.

-Vivek

> need to touch my feet? Later he set the piece to Madhuvanti and added

Havanur

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Nov 28, 2010, 12:54:20 AM11/28/10

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On Nov 27, 8:24 pm, "Vivek Datar" <vda...@cisco.com> wrote:
> One comment in line....

>
>Where did you see the word "idiot"? Not sure if you interpreted
> "Madhaiyya" that way. But "Madhaiyya" means "Mathi", or the home.
>
> Beatiful bandish, though.
>
> -Vivek

The translation is in the Kannada article, may be he doesn't get it
right. He takes the first part maDhe and interprets it same as
"mooDha".

However your "home" fits into the sentence more comfortably .

Havanur

Vivek Datar

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Nov 27, 2010, 11:24:32 PM11/27/10

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"Havanur" <havan...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> One Shirish Joshi, author of a very informative biography of Kumar
> Gandharva, has been writing a regular column in Kannada about HCMers
> and this week has an interesting story about KG and his Madhuvanti
> composition. Vasantrao Deshpande, a great admirer of Kumar Gandharva
> sent him a letter with a sthayi
>
> main aavoo tore mandarava
> paiyya paran deho mohe manabasiya
>
> May I Come to your abode and have the opportunity to touch your feet,
> you who are in my heart.
>
> Kuamr Gandharva promptly replied with the antara
>
> arre mero madhaiyya tora ahe re
> kahe dharo charan mero manabasiya
>
> My dear idiot, when I am all yours and you are in my heart why do you

Vivek: Where did you see the word "idiot"? Not sure if you interpreted

"Madhaiyya" that way. But "Madhaiyya" means "Mathi", or the home.

Beatiful bandish, though.

-Vivek

> need to touch my feet? Later he set the piece to Madhuvanti and added

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Nov 28, 2010, 3:45:15 AM11/28/10

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Use this link
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5jp2ZJOYtZPNTc1NzZmZGEtMTEzNy00NWNmLWFmNWYtYTYzODU4YmQzMzk1&hl=en&authkey=CM7Q3qML

for the file

Vivek Datar

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Nov 27, 2010, 11:24:32 PM11/27/10

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"Havanur" <havan...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> One Shirish Joshi, author of a very informative biography of Kumar
> Gandharva, has been writing a regular column in Kannada about HCMers
> and this week has an interesting story about KG and his Madhuvanti
> composition. Vasantrao Deshpande, a great admirer of Kumar Gandharva
> sent him a letter with a sthayi
>
> main aavoo tore mandarava
> paiyya paran deho mohe manabasiya
>
> May I Come to your abode and have the opportunity to touch your feet,
> you who are in my heart.
>
> Kuamr Gandharva promptly replied with the antara
>
> arre mero madhaiyya tora ahe re
> kahe dharo charan mero manabasiya
>
> My dear idiot, when I am all yours and you are in my heart why do you

Vivek: Where did you see the word "idiot"? Not sure if you interpreted

"Madhaiyya" that way. But "Madhaiyya" means "Mathi", or the home.

Beatiful bandish, though.

-Vivek

> need to touch my feet? Later he set the piece to Madhuvanti and added

Manohar

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Nov 29, 2010, 6:33:38 AM11/29/10

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On Nov 28, 8:36 am, Havanur <havanur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.esnips.com/doc/eed61175-a484-437e-8e35-791d87a498f0/Raag--...
>
> Havanur

On first death anniversary of Vasantrao. Kumar sang both the
bandishes. Looks like Vasantrao once complained about the lack of
bandishes in Madhuvanti. So Kumar said " Why don't you do it" ( Tu ka
nahi karat )

After composing the Sthai Vasantrao could not complete the Antara and
Kumar composed the Antara.

I will post the clips soon if you like.

MB

Abhay

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Nov 29, 2010, 8:32:03 AM11/29/10

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On Nov 28, 1:45 pm, C Parthapratim <c.parthapra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Use this linkhttps://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5jp2ZJOYtZPNTc1NzZmZGEtMTEzNy00NWNm...
>
> for the file

Many thanks, Partha! Much appreciated!

Warm regards,
Abhay

Manohar

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Dec 17, 2010, 11:34:59 AM12/17/10

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On Nov 28, 8:36 am, Havanur <havanur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.esnips.com/doc/eed61175-a484-437e-8e35-791d87a498f0/Raag--...
>
> Havanur

Here you are it is WMA file

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nj3gm8

Manohar