NIKITA KOSHKIN: Intermittent Hearings
The celebrated Russian guitarist and composer Nikita Arnoldovich Koshkin (born 1956) needs no introduction to any serious modern classical guitarist....
WHEN WESTERN CHOIRS SING INDIAN MUSIC – PART II
“One reason I love performing non-Western music is because I don’t find non-Western ideas in the music. I find basic...
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 celebrates its 125th anniversary in 2018. The MMA initially comprised an all-European group of musicians and was set up to...
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...
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 as you leave post-secondary education is a solid method of learning your own music. While you still have support from...
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...