Features
Any music-making operates within a context, and it is important to identify the specific context, leading to the visibly active presence of the Western classical guitar in India today. The Pune Guitar Society was founded in March 2015. It is really the culmination of considerable ideation, discussions, and playing and
Interviews
As I was leaving the Tata theatre, I ran into the composer Reena Esmail after her premiere performance of ‘This Love Between Us’. She expressed great pride in seeing the ramparts around the precinct of the NCPA, bearing her name and photograph. Though my heritage is entirely Indian, I come
Reviews
The highlight of the 19 May concert performed by the Staatskapelle Dresden under the direction of Christian Thielemann at the Theatre de Champs Elysées, Paris, was undoubtedly Renée Fleming’s rendition of Strauss’s Four Last Songs. It took on a special poignancy because Ms Fleming is in the process
Know Your Composer
Was Johann Sebastian Bach Western classical music’s “last Asian composer”? The question was raised in Bombay in March at a seminar celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great German composer. The seminar focused on one of Bach’s final works, the famous Art of the Fugue.
Interviews
Nikhil Sardana: What is the history of Musée Musical? When was it established in India and how did your family come about acquiring this business? MH Das: I recollect my father informing me that the owner of Misquith, a Portuguese citizen who was a piano tuner by profession, incurred a
Reviews
In their recent collaboration, Neemrana Music Foundation, along with Embassy of Spain and Instituto De Cervantes presented works by a prominent 20th Spanish composer, Manuel de Falla. The operas that were selected for the Indian audience were Pedros’s Puppet Show (El retablo de Maeso Pedro; 1923) and the 1904
Features
Prelude Music lies deep within his bones. It pulses in each of his cells, tingles down his nerves, races through his veins. It shapes his very breath, his heart, his soul, and it chimes and resounds in every syllable of his name. Ebony and Ivory in Mumbai September 10, 2016
News
It’s going to be a “Grand Night for Singing” with The Capital City Minstrels this May. Celebrating song and music from around the world, the choir will perform at venues in Delhi and at the Lawrence School Sanawar and Kasauli Christ Church on May 14, 17, 18, 20 and
Music Education
Part of the job of the music staff working on an opera is to deliver notes to the singers. Notes, in this context, are basically “things the singer is doing wrong”. If you’re a music staff member with compassion, this process can leave you feeling at best like Toby
Reviews
Out of many Western Musical genres, what is the most special aspect of Jazz? This genre evolves itself for every performance and in that process, innovates by itself and thereby gets better. Perhaps this feature is most unique and gifting for Jazz more than any other World genres in that
Know Your Composer
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1610) should undoubtedly be considered the most significant Spanish composer of his time. He exclusively devoted his life and creative energies to the Catholic Church, and became one of the leading musical figures of the Counter-Reformation. Born around 1548 in the city of Ávila — a medieval
Throwback Thursday
On a cold wintry week in November 2016, top ten prodigious child pianists between the ages of 9 to 14 years selected by the Láng Lǎng International Music Foundation, set forth on a seven-day musical adventure called the Allianz Junior Music Camp. It was a privilege for me to be