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...
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 distinct and rare opportunity of hearing not one nor two but all five piano concertos by Beethoven. We have to...
A SINGER’S TO-DO LIST: 4 TASKS TO KEEP YOU FOCUSED THIS YEAR
DEVELOP A PLAN FOR DRILLING THE TRICKY BITS IN YOUR MUSIC One of the skills you should take with you...
Opera 101 – the joy of opera
As we all now know, Mumbai has an opera house, and what better in an opera house than lectures on...
WHEN WESTERN CHOIRS SING INDIAN MUSIC – PART I
The United States of America (the India that Christopher Columbus thought he reached) and the real India lie on diametrically opposite sides of the globe; noon here, midnight there. The two lands only had sporadic contact in the distant past....
A Summer Idyll – Continued
My senses had been heightened due to sheer anticipation when I arrived in the Austrian capital. It took me only...
‘Mozart Effect’ – The Myth and Reality
A partly sad, partly bizarre story of how Mozart (1756-91) suffered benign neglect for the better part of the 19th...