RIVERSIDE: Riverside’s Shri Lakshmi Narayan Mandir offered a delightful program consisting of Sankeerthana followed by Harikatha recitals. Sri Venkateswara Annamacharya Society of America sponsored the program as a part of their 6th Centennial Festival.
The performers included 4 talented artists contracted with the Annamacharya Project, Tirulmala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD). The quartet included vocalist “Ganna Kala Rathna” Vedavyasa Ananda Bhattar, Harikathak Sreevedavyasa Sreeram Bhattar Bhagavathar, violinist Vukkadala Reddy Rajababu, and Maremanda Parimala Ramesh on mridangam.
The program’s Sankeethana and Harikatha in praise of Lord Venkateswara were composed by Sri Tallapa Annamacharya during his long and prolific career. Annamacharya wrote the sankirtanas on palm leaves and later his son Tirumalacharya got them engraved on copper plates.
But for reasons not known, most of these copper plates lay hidden in the Tirumala temple unnoticed until 1922. Ever since the discovery of this lost treasure, Tirumala Tirupati Devastanams (TTD) and other organizations in India are working hard to promote the music and literature of Annamacharya.
SVASA based in Riverside, honors Annamacharya by organizing both the jayanti (birth anniversary) and the vardhanti commemorations annually and also organizes other devotional activities such as spiritual discourses, devotional music recitals, and other devotional services. The group will be touring until September 28.
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