THE PRACTICE TIP YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR
Many musicians spend their early years of training – and maybe some of the later years – fighting a cold,...
Trivandrum Academy of Western Music launches in August 2018!
Five music lovers (Satish Kamath, Hari Gopinathan, Jelaja Kumari, Mohammed Bashir and Raju Harilal) have come together to start a...
Good Practice Techniques for Graded Examinations – PART III
Parts 1 and Part 2 covered what, why and how to practise and the final article explores the final stages of examination preparation. When to change the focus of practice Once the initial stages of learning are secure and the...
Ambassadors of India
Symphony Orchestra of India marks UK debut in February 2019 with six-concert tour, including Russian romantic showpieces and Zakir Hussain’s...
Sophia Plowden, Khanum Jan, and Hindustani airs
Among the British Library’s extraordinary collection of materials relating to the history of Indian music in the eighteenth and early...
How did the piano become a Bengali instrument? A documentary has some answers
Subha Das Mollick’s ‘Calcutta Sonata’ looks at how the piano became an integral part of the cultural fabric of Calcutta. “Nobody remembers when the first piano was disembarked from the ships that docked by the shores of the river [in...
Trinity Fest 2018
2018 marked the year when Trinity College London, the international examinations board, reaffirmed its long standing engagement with India. The...
Mapping the Musical Genome: The Gibbons Family
Orlando Gibbons (1572-1625) was born in Oxford, son of a town wait—essentially a town musician whose duties included playing his...