THE OUTPERFORMERS 2018 – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The Asawari Music Foundation (AMF) is a nonprofit organisation that promotes Western musical excellence among children and teens. It was...
The Harmony Chorus – Russia Concert Tour 2018
After a fantastic and intense two months of competing with India’s best singers on Rising Star 2 on Colors TV,...
TICK TOCK, SINGERS! 3 SPOTS TO DITCH THE RUBATO (FOR NOW)
What would opera singers be without their stretchy, malleable tempos? More specifically, where would they be without the unwritten rules – “performance practice”, they’re often called – about when you simply must take some extra time? Opera is no place for heartless...
NIKITA KOSHKIN: Intermittent Hearings
The celebrated Russian guitarist and composer Nikita Arnoldovich Koshkin (born 1956) needs no introduction to any serious modern classical guitarist....
WHEN WESTERN CHOIRS SING INDIAN MUSIC – PART II
“One reason I love performing non-Western music is because I don’t find non-Western ideas in the music. I find basic...
125 years of the Madras Musical Association: an interview with its director, Augustine Paul
The Madras Musical Association (MMA) was founded in 1893 in Chennai (formerly Madras) at St Andrew’s Church in Egmore and celebrates its 125th anniversary in 2018. The MMA initially comprised an all-European group of musicians and was set up to...
Mapping the Musical Genome: The Lassus Family
According to popular legend, Orlande de Lassus, born in 1530 or 1532 in the Franco-Flemish province of Hainaut, was abducted...
CAMERATA IRELAND VISITS MUMBAI – WITH BARRY DOUGLAS
On 24th and 25th April 2018, Tata Theatre audiences at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai had the...