AND THE CHAMBER FESTIVAL PLAYS: ARTIE’S NOVEMBER 2018
DAY ONE Over two evenings in the sultry month of November the NCPA presented high quality and substantial chamber music....
NERDING OUT: WHY YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY CARE WHAT KEY YOUR ARIA IS IN
Singers, how closely do you pay attention to the key signature of the arias you sing? You know how to...
Beethoven’s magnum opus
A brief history of the master’s most spectacular work: Symphony No 9. By Manohar Parnerkar Beethoven’s most celebrated work, Symphony No 9 in D minor, Opus 125, also known as Beethoven’s Ninth, or simply as the Ninth, was revolutionary. In...
CLASSICAL MODERNITY
Sometimes one hears the critique that classical music is no longer compatible with modernity. What “modernity” is supposed to mean...
The Rediscovery of Florence Price
How an African-American composer’s works were saved from destruction. In 2009, Vicki and Darrell Gatwood, of St. Anne, Illinois, were...
The Somerville College, University of Oxford, Choir Tour to India – 2018
Somerville College, University of Oxford, was founded in 1879 to include the excluded, and named in honour of the Scottish mathematician and scientist MarySomerville. It welcomed women when they were barred from the University and was the first non-denominational College in...
Eastward bound
A unique non-denominational and non-religious Oxonian choir is performing this December at the NCPA. By Devanshi Shah In 1879, the charming...
CREATING MUSIC FROM THE WIND: V. AMIRTHAVARSHINI
The first thing babies do when they are born is cry and wail loudly, and this gets their little lungs...