A Summer Idyll
The opening bars of Mozart’s Fantasia in D minor are a gateway to an inviting sonic escape. Through the sombre...
ARTIE’S FESTIVAL ENTERS ITS SECOND DECADE
The Artie’s were back with a bang last month, arriving in India for four recitals in Mumbai and Pune as...
Bach’s Holy Dread
The composer has long been seen as a symbol of divine order. But his music has an unruly obsession with God. “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!” The words of the Psalm look...
Aaron Copland
An American Original Growing patriotic and nationalistic fervor had virtually inundated all aspects of European society by the middle of...
How to Play Indian Sitar Raags on a Piano
Composer John Pitts explains the creative process behind the Indian raag compositions for piano solo in his new book “How...
‘Beyond the Night Sky’: Music for Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
The death of English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Professor Stephen Hawking on 14 March shook the world. Last year, to celebrate his 75th birthday, his Cambridge college...
Young Talent on Global Stage
As the students of the NCPA Special Music Training Programme return from their first concert on foreign shores, Marat Bisengaliev...
Swan Lake at the NCPA
A 4 year old girl sits cross-legged on the floor with a photo album nestled in her lap. She pays...