Throwback Thursday
Since its beginning, the NCPA’s performing arts archive has preserved a staggering 6,200 hours of music, 1,250 hours of video recording, 300 hours of folk music and 65 hours of film recordings. By Anil Dharker ‘Archive’ is a wonderfully evocative word, suggesting a civilisation, which values its
Music Education
Even though pianists can boast some level of extraordinary abilities when it comes to being ambidextrous, we too are subject to our natural tendencies to favour our right or left hand. Let’s set aside for a moment what our limb-favouring means for our technique at the piano. Instead, let’
Interviews
Serenade Team: Schönberg and Berg in their atonal music used forms from centuries ago. They incorporated fugues, canons, the sonata form, etc. They always had this organic link with this tradition of centuries in Western art music. Today, with people like Iannis Xenakis or Edgard Varèse (going into more electronic
Reviews
A group of students from the Nottingham Trent University, ranging from 19-22 years, charmed a packed audience at the theatre of the British Council on Wednesday, the 5th of April, 2017. The youngsters are pursuing different courses ranging from Architecture to Geography. Music is simply for the purpose of leisure.
Reviews
Even the second time around this year, Helene Grimaud’s Acqua (Water) concert felt new to the ear, as though refreshed by a spritz of fresh insights. The pieces in the programme are almost all thematically related to water, and intricately interconnected: Luciano Berio’s Wasserklavier was inspired by a
Music Education
Everyone who takes a music exam hopes to achieve a distinction and this needs careful preparation of the supporting tests as well as the pieces. Sight Reading Sight reading is playing or singing a previously unseen piece. Sight reading is tested in practical music exams because it is an important
Reviews
Ton Koopman’s version of Handel’s Messiah at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, was rather different from the ones typically heard all over the Anglo-Saxon world; and it was unusual enough to prompt some detailed research into the musicology of what most classical music lovers think of
Reviews
The Oslo Opera House is a fine example of contemporary architecture, quite a contrast to the opera venues which I have been to in the past. The performance of Bizet’s Carmen too, was far from traditional. The opera tells the story of a woman who breaks the stereotypes of
Interviews
Sebanti Chatterjee: Hello! Tell me a little bit about your journey. I mean how you started playing the instrument. Ahmed Mukhtar: I used to live with my family in the outskirts of Baghdad, which is the capital of Iraq, the big city. There, most of those people, came from the
News
Orchestral Development Workshop by World-renowned American Cellist Avery Waite The Bangalore School of Music’s recently-concluded 15th East West Music and Dance Encounter featuring over a 100 Indian and International Artistes, offered many of the BSM students a valuable opportunity to perform in various concerts at venues across the city.
Reviews
This concert series should have an attached disclaimer: it’s a series that is based on some of the songs sung by the original three tenors – Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras – whose current singers are Carlo Napolitano, Gian Carlo Polizzy and Emil Alekperov, all of whom have moved
Reviews
On 16th March 2017, I found myself sitting at Mumbai’s iconic Tata theatre in ring side seats to watch a fabulous choral evening. Visiting Mumbai from the USA was the Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415. Yale Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir that performs sacred music from the sixteenth
