J’ai Fame
Everyone assumed I was meant to do extraordinary things. But it seemed like I was the only one who could...
Can we save classical music?
The current state of classical concerts would be unrecognizable, even enraging, to the performers and audiences of the past centuries....
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. It was the much anticipated arrival of the Artie’s Festival for its 22nd edition in the country. Their larger than...
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...
CLASSICAL MODERNITY
Sometimes one hears the critique that classical music is no longer compatible with modernity. What “modernity” is supposed to mean always remains in darkness, as if the very word “modernity” were so obvious in its meaning that any further explanation...
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...