The Embassy of Switzerland in India and the Blind Relief Association, New Delhi, in collaboration with the Bikaner House, New Delhi present Music in the Dark. The artists Sandro Schneebeli and Max Pizio, from the Italian speaking region of Switzerland, take you through an intense musical experience in a dark room. Date: Wednesday, 1st November 2017 Venue: Bikaner House, Near India Gate, New Delhi Time: 5.00 pm  | 06.45 pm  | 8.30 pm Entry: Entry free. Register to attend: [email protected]. […]

The years 1900 through 1912 could be thought of as the British composer Gustav Holst's (1874-1934) "Sanskrit" period, writing music inspried by ancient Hindu texts and poems. The Rig Veda is a set of over 1000 hymns – singing the praises of the sacred plant soma and gods like Varuna, Agni, and Indra – brought by Indo-European speaking peoples into India somewhere around 1500-1000 B.C. Holst set 14 of these hymns to music in his four groups of Choral Hymns, […]

The years 1900 through 1912 could be thought of as the British composer Gustav Holst's (1874-1934) "Sanskrit" period, writing music inspried by ancient Hindu texts and poems.The Rig Veda is a set of over 1000 hymns – singing the praises of the sacred plant soma and gods like Varuna, Agni, and Indra – brought by Indo-European speaking peoples into India somewhere around 1500-1000 B.C. Holst set 14 of these hymns to music in his four groups of Choral Hymns, which […]