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The Joy of Learning to Play Music, Part II
A four-part series of reflections on the pleasures and paradoxes of learning to sing or play an instrument....
Music Will Always Be Safe
I have started looking at the story of Subramaniam Academy of Performing Arts (SaPa) as a story in three...
The Joy of Learning to Play Music, Part I
A four-part series of reflections on the pleasures and paradoxes of learning to sing or play an instrument....
Back on stage
The first rehearsals were filled with enthusiasm, with expectation and with a bubbling energy to get started. The...
There Will Always Be Stars in the Sky: The Life and Legacy of Lata Mangeshkar
It was through my mother’s voice that I discovered Lata Mangeshkar’s. My mother would often sing or hum...
Treasuring the Here and Now
A report from Lisbon, Portugal on preparing to record a CD of recent music by Portuguese composers —...
The Other Mozart
1756 was a momentous year for 37-year old Leopold Mozart, fourth violinist at the court of the Prince-Bishop...
The Cellist Priest: Fr. Theodore Mathieson (1913-1994)
Some months ago, I wrote a tribute column to the great Bengali film-maker Satyajit Ray (whose birth centenary...
