Know Your Composer
We spoke the other day with Indian composer Param Vir, whose recent work, Cave of Luminous Mind, takes the writings of the 11th century Tibetan saint and poet and has created a work about the state of enlightenment. Milarepa’s thoughts on the breath and creating a meditation technique based
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Works by Beethoven, Mozart, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Korngold, and Karl Jenkins to be showcased 13th – 28th September, 2017 | Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, NCPA • Sir Karl Jenkins, the most-performed living composer in the world to perform this season with the International premier of The Universe • Stephen Hough, one of the greatest living
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On Sunday 27th August, there was a concert performance of Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece - Lucrezia Borgia. With a line-up of some of the best singers in the world, this was a three hour long performance. Victor Hugo’s Lucrèce Borgia, performed for the first time on 2 February
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It is not often that Anne-Sophie Mutter appears anywhere in recital. But here she is on my fourth day at the festival in recital with her long time accompanist Lambert Orkis. From start to finish it was clearly proving to be one of the most outstanding concerts of the festival.
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This opera from the late period which includes other masterpieces like Don Carlo and the Requiem Mass represents Verdi at his finest. This has become traditionally music as political propaganda for fascist forces both Italian and German in the early twentieth century. It represents a beacon of fascist racial policy
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While I am familiar enough with the world of the classical guitar, and have earlier reviewed Mr Rupert Boyd’s previous collection of Fantasias on Serenade, I have heard cello music much less frequently and have never actually come across duets between these two instruments before. My first impression when
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It is not often that three of the world’s greatest string players come together to make chamber music. On the 24th of August violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann was joined by viola player Antoine Tamestit and cellist Christian Poltéra. In many ways the string trio formation (also that of two
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There is an air of extreme anticipation in the buzzing little city of Mozart’s birth, Salzburg. The French president is in the city and is expected to be at the concert of the evening of 23rd August. This is a soloist concert in the late evening at the Grosses
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The thought process about “what to do next” with your choir is always fun and inspiring. There are so many factors to be taken into account – difficulty level, language, sacred or secular, acappella or with instruments and so on. In February, we were just finishing our Schubert-concerts, as well as
Music Education
Sixteen million dollars – roughly `104 crore – would be a modest price to pay for a Picasso or a van Gogh, such are the crazy amounts auction houses run up nowadays. That’s probably indicative of the fact that there’s too much money chasing too few paintings. Or less charitably,
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The Sixth iteration of the National Piano Festival / Competition MusiQuest is being held in Pune from November 14 to 19, 2017. Presented in an informal and friendly workshop / masterclass format with unrestricted repertoire choice; participants will have a unique opportunity not only for public performances but to extend their musical
Throwback Thursday
For a musician seeking to gain orchestral experience in India, playing with the Kolkata Youth Orchestra, for their concert at the G.D. Birla Sabhaghar, Kolkata on the evening of the 21st of July, was indeed an enriching experience. The Kolkata Youth Orchestra is a sixty-member strong orchestral ensemble, directed