LA FEDELTÀ PREMIATA (THE GIFT OF FIDELITY) AT THE ROH, MUMBAI
Those of us present at Mumbai’s century-old Opera House between 1-3 August were lucky enough to be treated to a really...
The Capital City Minstrels UK Tour – With Love, From India (June 1-15, 2018)
We were performing the last song for the evening to a packed hall at St. Mary’s Church in Haddington (Scotland)....
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, hard fact about their practice habits: the slow way is the fast way. Slowness is the magic ingredient that makes the idea of...
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...
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 Peshkar India’s growing appetite for Western classical music has led many to forecast a coming age of rich cultural exchange...
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....