Opera Season 2018
Being India’s only surviving Opera House, we at the Royal Opera House, Mumbai take the title very seriously and, in collaboration with...
THE AUSTRALIAN WORLD ORCHESTRA RETURNS TO INDIA FOR THREE EXTRAORDINARY CONCERTS IN SEPTEMBER 2018!
The Australian World Orchestra reunites for its second tour to India in September 2018 as a highlight of ‘Australia Fest’...
Why did I write my new book, ‘Speaking the Piano’?
I have been fortunate to spend my whole career performing the great literature of classical music which I’ve loved ever since I was a child. I’ve had wonderful teachers and have tried to pass on their insights to a new...
Helen Keller: A Great Lover of Music
Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbria, Alabama, in the summer of 1880. Nineteen months later, she fell ill (likely with...
The Viennese School
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert: did the four Viennese school composers know each other? By Manohar Parnerkar The Classical period...
Music and Memories
Friday, April 24, 1998, began as a usual day in the life for me. It was an overcast morning in Calcutta, as it tends to be on days when the city is blessed with April showers after days of sweltering...
AN ATTRACTIVE RECITAL OF GERMAN AND ENGLISH ART SONG
Brahms and Gerald Finzi at first glance make strange bed-fellows but this recital in Pune made it convincing. Baritone Rahul...
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...