Travel Diaries
The Stop-Gaps Choral Ensemble of the Stop-Gaps Cultural Academy, now celebrating it’s 34th year, has had the honour of representing the nation at several festivals and competitions abroad over the last decade. This 2018 tour to the United Kingdom marked the Choir’s seventh tour abroad and it’s
Know Your Composer
The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘reminiscence’ as either ‘a story told about a past event remembered by the narrator’ or ‘a characteristic of one thing that is suggestive of another’. We all love to reminisce: we gain comfort by our efforts to recollect the pleasures of our pasts and to
Music Education
No matter what voice type you are, it’s fair to admit that plenty of your most applause-worthy moments come with high notes. Fast high notes, loud high notes, entire-lungful-of-air high notes – they’re what we’re all waiting to hear. There, I said it. When it comes to producing
Music Education
Good practice techniques are essential for all sections of the examination and involve mindful concentration and clear objectives. A practice plan that aims for maximum success needs to address the following: * WHAT to practise What skills need to be practised, and in what proportion? * WHY we practise Formulating practice objectives.
Features
May 2018 was an exciting month for Bangalore – the première of the Bangalore City Chamber Orchestra (BCCO), a new star on the Indian horizon – an ensemble of young serious musicians, spearheaded by Bangalorean, Arun Rozario – founder-director! I admire Arun – his big dream finally found the light of day only
News
Being India’s only surviving Opera House, we at the Royal Opera House, Mumbai take the title very seriously and, in collaboration with some of our key partners, Avid Learning, Furtados, Giving Voice Society, and Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, Mumbai actively strive to be the champion and keeper of this
News
The Australian World Orchestra reunites for its second tour to India in September 2018 as a highlight of ‘Australia Fest’ – a festival of Australian culture and creativity taking place across the country. Led by Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Alexander Briger AO, the tour sees the Australian World Orchestra return
News
I have been fortunate to spend my whole career performing the great literature of classical music which I’ve loved ever since I was a child. I’ve had wonderful teachers and have tried to pass on their insights to a new generation of students. Any profession that involves a
Music Education
Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbria, Alabama, in the summer of 1880. Nineteen months later, she fell ill (likely with scarlet fever or meningitis) and became deaf and blind. As Helen grew up, she communicated in a rudimentary way with her family, but it became increasingly clear that she’d
Music Education
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert: did the four Viennese school composers know each other? By Manohar Parnerkar The Classical period in Western art music represents the age of Haydn, Mozart, partly of Beethoven, and peripherally of Schubert. Falling between the post-Baroque and the pre-Romantic periods, it roughly dates from 1750
Throwback Thursday
Friday, April 24, 1998, began as a usual day in the life for me. It was an overcast morning in Calcutta, as it tends to be on days when the city is blessed with April showers after days of sweltering heat. I do not remember much from my time at
Interviews
Brahms and Gerald Finzi at first glance make strange bed-fellows but this recital in Pune made it convincing. Baritone Rahul Bharadwaj has a brisk and confident personality eminently suited to the heavy Germanic nature of Brahms’ emotional music. His open-throated voice and forward diction made for an engaging beginning to