Utsava Abhivandanam heralds 2015 Music Festival

The 2015 Utsava Abhivandanam function was held at the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago, Lemont, IL on Sat, Apr 25, 2015. This function heralded the arrival of this year’s Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam Music Festival during the Memorial Day weekend.

CTU families assembled at the temple at 9:45 AM for the festivities to begin at 10:00 AM.

Utsava Sampradaya Krithis

The festivities were kicked off with a soul-filling rendition of 5 Utsava Sampradaya Krithis by children trained by CTU over the years.  This group was trained by Smt. Rajeswari Pariti for 7 classes from October 2014 to April 2015.

Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam thanks the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago for this unique opportunity for the CTU trained children to perform the Utsava Sampradaya Krithis on this very auspicious occasion.

CTU USK practice sessions are held regularly in preparation for the Annual Memorial Day Music Festival each year.

Nama Ramayanam and Hanuman Chalisa

This was followed by the Nama Ramayanam chanting in perfect unison by CTU trained children and adults. After the Nama Ramayanam chanting, archana was performed for Lord Hanuman followed by the rendition of Hanuman Chalisa by the CTU group of children and adults.

Both groups were trained by Smt. Maragatham Mani Sundaresan over a period of 13 weeks with 8 practice sessions for Nama Ramayanam and 5 for Hanuman Chalisa.

Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam thanks the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago for this opportunity for the CTU trained children to perform the Nama Ramayanam and Hanuman Chalisa.

Thanks to the support of an anonymous CTU well-wisher, all the participating children were given a book that has the Nama Ramayanam and Hanuman Chalisa slokams.

The performance received appreciation from the temple authorities and Utsava Abhivandanam function attendees. All participants received the blessings of Lord Hanuman in the form of the prasadam.

As per the CTU tradition at such performances, several participants put at least one dollar on the Harathi plate.

Vada Mala

The cornerstone of the Abhivandanam function is the Vada Mala offering to Hanuman by the CTU community of well-wishers.

The attendees offered their prayers, Arathi and Vada Mala to Lord Hanuman. The Vadais were distributed to one and all on this festive, joyous occasion.

All Utsava Abhivandanam attendees were served prasadam Lunch prepared by CTU Volunteers.

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Participants

Please find below the children who participated in the festivities in the alphabetical order of their last names.  Please send an e-mail to the appropriate mailing address if there are any changes to be made to this list.

• Utsava Sampradaya Krithis: ctu {DOT} usk {AT} ChicagoTyagarajaUtsavam {DOT} org
• Nama Ramayanam & Hanuman Chalisa: ctu {DOT} hc {AT} ChicagoTyagarajaUtsavam {DOT} org

Num	First	Last	USK	NR	HC
Children
1	Parvathi	Achari		Yes	Yes
2	Asritha	Amaravadi	Yes
3	Srivardhan	Amaravadi	Yes
4	Aditya	Anand		Yes	Yes
5	Ashika	Anand		Yes	Yes
6	Shreya	Anand		Yes	Yes
7	Aparna	Ananthakrishnan	Yes
8	Adithi	Arunkumar	Yes	Yes	Yes
9	Anika	Ayyalaraju	Yes
10	Priyanka	Ayyalaraju	Yes
11	Shambavi	Balachandran	Yes
12	Rithvik	Balantrapu	Yes	Yes	Yes
13	Roshni	Balantrapu	Yes	Yes	Yes
14	Sharada	Baskar		Yes	Yes
15	Bhargav	Chandramouli	Yes
16	Dhivya	Chari			Yes
17	Bhavyaa	Chauhan		Yes	Yes
18	Aayushi	Chhajed	Yes	Yes	Yes
19	Avyakta	Damal
20	Meera	Dullur	Yes
21	Shila	Erramilli	Yes
22	Chandra	Gangavarapu	Yes
23	Abhishek	Ganti	Yes	Yes	Yes
24	Sathvik	Ganti	Yes	Yes	Yes
25	PRATHIBHA	GARLANKA
26	Kirit	Gecka	Yes
27	Smriti	Ivaturi	Yes
28	Karthik	Iyer	Yes	Yes	Yes
29	Rohan	Iyer	Yes
30	Sahana	Iyer	Yes	Yes	Yes
31	Sitara	Iyer	Yes	Yes	Yes
32	Vaibhav	Iyer	Yes
33	Tejaswini	Joshi		Yes	Yes
34	Rathna	Kalluri	Yes
35	Anushka	Katuri	Yes
36	Karthik	Kesavarapu	Yes
37	Akshar	Kota	Yes	Yes	Yes
38	Neeraja	Kumar	Yes	Yes	Yes
39	Poorna	Kumar	Yes
40	Rishi	Mahadevan	Yes	Yes	Yes
41	Abhishek	Misra
42	Monish	Murali	Yes
43	SaarviSita	Mylavarapu	Yes
44	Gowri	Nadella	Yes	Yes	Yes
45	Swathi	Narasimhan		Yes	Yes
46	Vivekanand	Natarajan
47	Mohith	Nellivalasa	Yes
48	Rohith	Nellivalasa	Yes
49	Srisowmya	Panuganti	Yes
50	Divya	Pariti	Yes
51	Kasthuri	Parthiban		Yes	Yes
52	Varun	Patsa		Yes	Yes
53	Shreya	Pattisapu	Yes		Yes
54	Siddharth	Pattisapu	Yes		Yes
55	Rohit	Pisipati
56	Anand	Purushothaman	Yes
57	Arjaa	Raghu	Yes	Yes	Yes
58	Anirudh	Raghuvir	Yes
59	Varun	Rajaram	Yes
60	Vaanathi	Rajasingham			Yes
61	MUKUND	RAJESH		Yes	Yes
62	Shreyas	Ramanujam		Yes	Yes
64	Divya	Reddy		Yes	Yes
65	Kavya	Reddy		Yes	Yes
66	Sridevi	Sampath		Yes	Yes
67	Samhita	Subramanian		Yes	Yes
68	Shweta	Subramanian		Yes	Yes
69	Sumedha	Sundaram	Yes	Yes	Yes
70	Sunanda	Sundaram	Yes	Yes	Yes
71	Kaamya	Sundaresan		Yes	Yes
72	Prakash	Tata	Yes
73	Santosh	Tata	Yes
74	Vennela	Vakati		Yes	Yes
75	Parvathi	Vanamoorthy Achari	Yes
76	Nikitha	Velavan		Yes	Yes
77	Sruthikaa	Velavan		Yes	Yes
78	Balambigai	Vengatesan		Yes	Yes
79	Ananya	Yammanuru	Yes
80	Ankit	Chhajed		Yes	Yes
81	Hersh	Pathak		Yes	Yes
82	Raaja	Vengatesan		Yes	Yes
83	Arjun	Ramachandran		Yes	Yes
Adults
84	Pavithra	Anand		Yes	Yes
85	Jaya	Chauhan		Yes	Yes
86	Asha	Hariprasad		Yes
87	Krishnarao	Hariprasad		Yes
88	Deepasriya	Kumar		Yes	Yes
89	Geeta	Nagarajan		Yes	Yes
90	Gayathri	Ramesh		Yes	Yes
91	Hemalatha	Ranganathan		Yes	Yes
92	Pushpa	Sreedhar		Yes	Yes
93	Indu	Subramanian		Yes	Yes
94	Mani	Sundaresan		Yes	Yes