A. Kanyakumari’s unique year-long Tyagaraja series comes to a close

What does a musician do when the repertoire well before him has run nearly dry? That was the question facing Delhi P. Sunderrajan as he stepped up to deliver the 13th and final concert of the monthly series ‘Ekaika Raga Kritis of Tyagaraja’, curated and launched by violin maestro A. Kanyakumari last June. Over the preceding 12 editions at the Arkay Convention Center, the series had systematically exhausted about a hundred kritis — compositions that are solitary in their ragas — leaving Sunderrajan with very little to choose from. This meant repetition was almost inevitable.