CTU families assembled at the temple at 9:15 AM for the festivities to begin at 9:30 AM.
Utsava Sampradaya Krithis
The festivities were kicked off with a soul-filling rendition of 8 Utsava Sampradaya Krithis by children trained by CTU over the years. This was possible thanks to the cooperation of the Chicago area teachers as well as Smt.Rajeswari Pariti, who is the coach and conductor for this group of children.
CTU USK practice sessions are held regularly in preparation for the Annual Memorial Day Music Festival each year. This year, many children came from the northern suburbs of Illinois as well as Milwaukee, WI to attend the practice sessions as well as the Abhivandanam function.
We acknowledge the effort of these families and invite everyone in their geography to attend the upcoming Memorial Day music festival.
 Hanuman Chalisa
The CTU Utsava Sampradaya Krithis(USK) performance was immediately followed by a rendition of Hanuman Chalisa by the CTU children and adults according to the M.S.Subbalakshmi amma’s style. Chicago area teacher, Smt.Maragatham Sundaresan trained this CTU group on this immortal composition of Hanuman Chalisa over the past few months.
Thanks to the support of an anonymous CTU well-wisher, all the participating children for the Abhivandanam function were given a gift card (expires 31 May 2014) that would help the children make advances in their musical journey.
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.
This was followed by a distribution of Prasadam. CTU acknowledges the offering and support of families who brought Prasadam.
Over the years, CTU has worked to instill a practice of CTU families donating one dollar to the temple when the priests bring the Arathi to the devotees. This has come to be a hallmark of CTU performances at the local temples.
CTU children attending the Abhivandanam function donated at least one dollar to the temple during the Utsava Abhivandanam function.
Scribbles Reminder
Participants in the Abhivandanam function are requested to share their experience attending various CTU activities including the Abhivandanam function and the Memorial Day music festival through their submissions to CTU Scribbles magazine.
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
- Hanuman Chalisa: ctu {DOT} hc {AT} ChicagoTyagarajaUtsavam {DOT} org
| Number | Hanuman Chalisa | Utsava Sampradaya Krithis |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aditya Anand | Parvathi Achari |
| 2 | Shreya Anand | Aditya Anand |
| 3 | Adithi Arunkumar | Shreya Anand |
| 4 | Rithvik Balantrapu | Aparna Ananthakrishnan |
| 5 | Roshni Balantrapu | Anika Ayyalaraju |
| 6 | Bhavyaa Chauhan | Rithvik Balantrapu |
| 7 | Aayushi Chhajed | Roshni Balantrapu |
| 8 | Anketh Chhajed (Tabla) | Aayush Bharadwaj |
| 9 | Abhishek Ganti | Arjun Bharadwaj |
| 10 | Sathvik Ganti | Aayushi Chhajed |
| 11 | Sitara Iyer | Bhavana Dronamraju |
| 12 | Akshar Kota | Meera Dullur |
| 13 | Neeraja Kumar | Sheila Erramilli |
| 14 | Gowri Nadella | Chandra Gangavarapu |
| 15 | Swathi Narasimhan | Kavya Gundlapalli |
| 16 | Rahul Parvathala | Vidya Gundlapalli |
| 17 | Rohan Parvathala | Smriti Ivaturi |
| 18 | Hersh Pathak (Tabla) | Rohan Iyer |
| 19 | Shreya Pattisapu | Sitara Iyer |
| 20 | Siddarth Pattisapu | Ratna Kalluri |
| 21 | Arjaa Raghu | Anushka Katuri |
| 22 | Mukund Rajesh | Akshar Kota |
| 23 | Arjun Ramachandran | Sruthi Kotlo |
| 24 | Shreyas Ramanujan | Sharika Kottapalli |
| 25 | Divya Reddy | Poorna Kumar |
| 26 | Kavya Reddy | Akash Lavu |
| 27 | Akshara Sreedhar | Diya Lavu |
| 28 | Samhitha Subramaniam | Rishi Mahadevan |
| 29 | Kamya Sundaresan | Oviya Muthukumaran |
| 30 | Chetan Velineni | Gowri Nadella |
| 31 | Dhruv Velineni | Preethi Navalpakkam |
| 32 | Balambigai Vengatesan | Sreekeerthi Panchagnula |
| 33 | Raajaganapathy Vengatesan (Tabla) | Nitya Pariti |
| 34 | Shreya Pattisapu | |
| 35 | Siddarth Pattisapu | |
| 36 | Anand Purushothaman | |
| 37 | Anjana Ramachandran | |
| 38 | Arjun Ramachandran | |
| 39 | Aparna Ramakrishnan | |
| 40 | Sameeksha Rao | |
| 41 | Ananya Sampathkumar | |
| 42 | Sahaana Sankaran | |
| 43 | Vandana Sivakumar | |
| 44 | Akshara Sreedhar | |
| 45 | Anika Srinivasan | |
| 46 | Aparna Srinivasan | |
| 47 | Mridula Srivathsan | |
| 48 | Samhita Subramanian | |
| 49 | Krupa Sudheendra | |
| 50 | Prakash Tata | |
| 51 | Santosh Tata | |
| 52 | Sivagangai K Vishvak (Mridangam) | |
| 53 | Ananya Yammanuru |
