Interviews
Director of the Royal Russian Ballet, Anatoliy Kazatskiy talks about his first collaborative project with Navrasa Duende. They are presenting Tchaikovsky’s ‘Swan Lake’ at the Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi from 22 – 24 September 2017. Serenade Team: How did you first get interested in dance? Tell us about
Music Education
Glove puppetry had its origins, it is believed, in China during the 1300s. Later, in the early 1600s, droves of Han Chinese migrants had crossed over to Taiwan and amongst other skills, they had carried this unique art form with them. It was evidently more practical for a puppetry troupe
Reviews
Neck to neck, two great symphony orchestras finished the festival programme on a high note. This was the Berlin Philharmonic (Monday 28th August) and Pittsburg Symphony orchestra (29th August). I took a few days off writing to journey to Italy, the home of opera and then on to Vienna for
News
It is usually said that when one attains the higher being in any performing arts, the artist forgets what exactly is happening in the surroundings and witnesses something beyond the normal, mundane life. In today’s fast paced world, we seldom come across such artists who are not conscious about
Interviews
Music is one aspect which brings people together and keeps them bonded for long periods of time. Such bonding is not just materialistic but grows stronger as it emanates positive vibes throughout. What if such music also has a service aftermath? Tabernacles, a choral singing group from Secunderabad, has the
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Imagine hearing today what the great pianist – composers heard while composing their music or playing it. Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Godowsky, Busoni and many more played a Steinway piano that was built during their life time. It is rare that one can find such a piano today and almost
Music Education
If you don’t recognise the term, you definitely recognise the device. Diegetic music in a show – be it television, film, or even opera – is essentially music that the characters hear as well as the audience. In film and TV, often we realise that music is diegetic because it stops
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
Reviews
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
Reviews
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.
Reviews
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