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I journeyed back to Austria for the last three nights of summer bliss in Europe. The night of September 5th I was to see Mozart’s opera buffa, Le Nozze di Figaro. This masterpiece the fruit of the legendary Lorenzo da Ponte and Mozart collaboration was a rib-tickling roller-coaster ride
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Music should inspire change, make us question and think in a context of diversity that transforms and overwhelms. Inspired by this credo, Akadêmia meets with potential partners all over the world to work together in ways that go beyond concert tours. Our proposals focus on the idea of sharing a
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I journeyed to Torre del Lago for the Puccini festival 2017 to hear La Bohème on 30th August, the last night of the festival. The 63rd Festival Pucciniano featured the Tuscan verismo maestro’s popular works Bohème, Tosca and Butterfly as well as Turandot and La Rondine on the fabled
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Stephen Hough’s piano-playing is enhanced by his work as a composer, writer, painter, cultural blogger, activist, poet, novelist and professor of music. By Karishma Attari Stephen Hough is a British-born, internationally acclaimed pianist, who needs little introduction in classical music circles. His major accolades suggest his mastery of the
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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
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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
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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
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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