Interviews
With a concert debut at the age of 11, at 79, Stephen Kovacevich, has gathered a legion of fans across the world. He is a cerebral musician, deeply thoughtful as a performer, remarkably articulate about the music he loves best, Beethoven and Schubert, particularly their late works, but never pedantic.
Interviews
This year, the Capital City Minstrels (CCM) go silver, with twenty-five years of music-making under their belt. From small beginnings, when a diverse, but like-minded group of people got together to sing, CCM has grown impressively in stature, performing on platforms not only away from their home base of New
Features
The few, grainy, black-and-white photographs date from a century ago. Yet, together with the short ‘sketches’, and a couple of newspaper articles, they tell a compelling tale, and conjure up vivid images of a musician who became a legend in her lifetime, of a prodigious talent that flowered into magnificent
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Pinchas Zukerman needs no introduction, but the sheer breadth and depth of his versatility and contribution to music, does bear recounting. His prodigious talent was recognised by legendary musicians Pablo Casals and Isaac Stern when he was a child in Tel Aviv. Sent to study at New York’s Juilliard
Interviews
The South Asian Symphony Orchestra’s debut performance in India, slated for April 26th, is a significant event, and not just for musical reasons. It has brought the power of music to bind, to heal, and to create a climate of peace and goodwill among nations of the region. Appropriately
Interviews
Diplomat, author, poet and academic, Nirupama Rao has added more hats to the many she already wears, most recently, those of composer and singer. A former Union Foreign Secretary, and Indian ambassador to the US, China and Sri Lanka, Rao has brought her considerable skills in diplomacy to a project