Music Lessons for Life
Five graduating students of the SOI Music Academy look back on their seven-year journey and how it has shaped them, inside the classroom, on the stage and out i... Continue Reading...
Throwback Thursday
A journey in milestones
The NCPA celebrates the golden jubilee of its contribution to the cultural life of Mumbai, and India. Chairman Khushroo N. Suntook on his memories of its foundi... Continue Reading...
A Season to Remember
In the 50th year of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI) featured masterworks of the 17th and 18th centurie... Continue Reading...
The Performing Arts Pantheon
A nostalgic look back at the festival of music, dance and drama that was held immediately after the inauguration of the Tata Theatre. A nine-day festival of mu... Continue Reading...
The Performer’s Lab
On the birth of the NCPA’s Experimental Theatre The Tata Iron and Steel Company, in commemoration of its Platinum Jubilee, presented to the NCPA India’s first ... Continue Reading...
The Maharaja of Music
Nikhil Sardana explores the strangely uncelebrated story of an Indian maharaja’s invaluable contribution to Western classical music. The year was 1948. Europe ... Continue Reading...
A Philatelic Salute
India has been in the vanguard of nations that have honoured, through commemorative postage stamps, not only her own great sons and daughters, but also those em... Continue Reading...
The woman pioneer who composed landmark operas in India in defiance of music traditionalists
Shanno Khurana created ‘Sohni Mahiwal’, ‘Jahanara’ and more in the 1960s and ’70s, a time when classical vocal music was staunchly insular. The statuesque youn... Continue Reading...
