Lydian Nadhaswaram’s Bumblebee
“Ladies and gentlemen, today I will be playing The Flight of the Bumblebee.”
With these words, uttered with a charm that made the audience smile and give a rou... Continue Reading...
Features
Rajendra Prasad Jain – A tribute
RP Jain – scholar, teacher, music lover, bon vivant – was one of the most civilised people I have ever known. I use “civilised” in the sense that Anton Chekhov ... Continue Reading...
The Men Turn Three!
After a concert, or a season ends, I always experience a kind of sadness, or emptiness. You leave something behind you, that you have worked so hard for, that h... Continue Reading...
AN INVALUABLE LEGACY
This year, as the NCPA turns 50, we take a look at how a dream became a thriving reality. By Anil Dharker
“One day, perhaps, the NCPA's work may be more import... Continue Reading...
J’ai Fame
Everyone assumed I was meant to do extraordinary things. But it seemed like I was the only one who could see the human inside of me. I faced my own mortality re... Continue Reading...
Can we save classical music?
The current state of classical concerts would be unrecognizable, even enraging, to the performers and audiences of the past centuries. The stifling rules and ri... Continue Reading...
My Introduction to Ravel
One of the biggest inflection points in my life happened at age 22 when I moved to Paris. I had just completed my Masters Degree at the Peabody Conservatory in ... Continue Reading...
Sing For Pleasure Summer School 2018
I have been dabbling with this mystical and underrated phenomenon called ‘Conducting’ since 2006. As a school boy at St. Stanislaus, Bandra, I conducted my scho... Continue Reading...