Presenting the BCCO!
May 2018 was an exciting month for Bangalore – the première of the Bangalore City Chamber Orchestra (BCCO), a new star on the Indian horizon – an ensemble of y... Continue Reading...
Features
WHEN WESTERN CHOIRS SING INDIAN MUSIC – PART III
The most common form of popular music in India is film music – songs from the movies, and Sperry has not shied away from adapting this form for choirs. ... Continue Reading...
WHEN WESTERN CHOIRS SING INDIAN MUSIC – PART II
“One reason I love performing non-Western music is because I don’t find non-Western ideas in the music. I find basic human emotions and experiences that I have... Continue Reading...
Opera 101 – the joy of opera
As we all now know, Mumbai has an opera house, and what better in an opera house than lectures on opera? Apart from operas themselves, naturally. Well, hopefull... Continue Reading...
WHEN WESTERN CHOIRS SING INDIAN MUSIC – PART I
The United States of America (the India that Christopher Columbus thought he reached) and the real India lie on diametrically opposite sides of the globe; noon ... Continue Reading...
Maestro José António Abreu (1939-2018)
“From the minute a child is taught how to play an instrument, he’s no longer poor” Many years ago, soon after we had set up Child’s Play India Foundation, a mu... Continue Reading...
‘Beyond the Night Sky’: Music for Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
The death of English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Profe... Continue Reading...
Haydn Baryton Trio Budapest in Kolkata
At Prem Dan It was as extraordinary an event for the Haydn Baryton Trio Budapest as it was for the audience. No one made a move to leave before the concert was... Continue Reading...