Music Will Always Be Safe
I have started looking at the story of Subramaniam Academy of Performing Arts (SaPa) as a story in three parts, which...
Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major: Steven Isserlis in Frankfurt
The British cellist, Steven Isserlis, has called Franz Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, “the greatest Classical...
How Music Affects Studying and Concentration
You’ve probably heard that music can help you study, and you’re probably right! Studies have shown that music has beneficial effects on the human mind and body. Music can stimulate both sides of the brain simultaneously, and stimulation to both...
5 Best Symphonies by Women Composers
Museums can be magical places as they collect, preserve, interpret and display objects of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance. Exhibitions...
The Performing Arts Dispatch: Berliner Ensemble
One could not have imagined that the site of a colossal neo-baroque structure, devoid of what fills and nurtures it—...
Post-Covid reflections
Giving Voice Society is so delighted to be starting a new sheaf of live events in India, starting this coming August, very appropriately in Mumbai and Goa – where we first started over 12 years ago. During the necessary two-year break...
5 Tips and Tricks for Discovering Your New Favourite Band
Music is an exquisite thing that unites people and helps us express our feelings without talking. You can just simply...
Valentina Lisitsa in Paris
I was agog in anticipation. Playing to a capacity audience on April 8 at the Theatre de Champs-Élysées, Paris, I had the...